Strikeforce Middleweight Champion Cung Le will make an appearance on ESPNEWS this afternoon at around 5:10 p.m. ET., talking mixed martial arts with the the “Worldwide Leader In Sports” on the “The Hot List” program.
The champ will more than likely also promote the movies he’s been involved with recently. He’ll be playing Marshall Law in the big screen version of the popular video game “Tekken,” which is done filming and in the production phase.
Le has also been cast in the film, “Fighting” that stars Terrence Howard and will be out sometime this year. In addition, he has a leading role in a science fiction project co-starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. And apparently Le earned the last gig with Quaid and Foster on his acting ability alone.
Pretty impressive.
I doubt this means we’ve seen the last of Cung Le in the Strikeforce cage though. In fact, Frank Shamrock spoke during a conference call today with Elite XC about his plans to take his gold back sooner rather than later.
That’s a rematch everybody would love to see.Hopefully the guys over at “The Hot List” get to the bottom of when we’re going to see the feared striker back in action.
Tune in this afternoon to find out.
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I wonder how long it will take for Cung to fight again?
Aside from Frank, who else is out there that can challenge for the belt???
Kazuo Misake, thats who!
Never heard of him john.
u wouldnt have! lol Watch him fight he is the real deal! “the grabaka hitman”!
A unification match against Robbie Lawler would be cool.
Hopefully this wont be another terrible MMA interview done by ESPN! Like u said, I want them to ask some meaningful questions about his fighting career, and not so much about his movies.
I will watch this interview hoping to find out when I can expect to see Cung Le defend his title. At least ask that question, if not it will just be more meaningless mma coverage by ESPN!
Terrible interview, like when they interviewed Rampage and the first words out of the guys mouth was “Rampage will you howul for us”. Rampage declined, then the interviewer preceded to ask him 2 more time during the interview… ESPN sucks…
exactly
Cung Le has cross over appeal and will be a good embassador for the sport for a long time. The fact that he can go from MMA to acting (and apparently he actually knows how to act) is a good thing because MMA still really lacks that Cross over guy who will make the general public feel like its okay to like these guys and feel like they are not all jus fist flying blood thirsty brawlers like people like John McCain seem to think. To see a guy like Cung Le in MMA who when he fights in the cage actually LOOKS like a martial artist and not some glorified wrestler with bad punching technique really helps the casual fan appreciate the technique aspect more and realize that its skill and not a toughman contest. Anderson Silva does the same and would be a megastar in the US if he could speak English because he is such a technical striker that you can’t help but appreciate it.
I think that Cung Le and Frank Shamrock have the same opportunity that Forrest and Rampage have which is to create one of the most exciting trilogies in MMA history.
I see Frank winning the rematch mainly because he will not play around and will go ahead and take him down this time around.
I would like to see what a guy like Cung Le would do against someone like Matt Lindland.
There already is such a cross over guy who won over tons of casual fans by showing his heart in the ring, not to mention a flare that noone has ever seen before in MMA, of course that may be because of his Pro Wrestling background. The thing is he didn’t fight in the states he fought in Japan for Pride. His name’s Kazushi Sakuraba.
I don’t consider Cung an elite fighter, but he’s entertaining as hell and is usually humble and down-to-earth when he speaks. Too bad he couldn’t get into MMA sooner (he’s in his 30’s now). Hopefully we’ll start seeing more San Shou guys transition into MMA at a younger age. It’s definitely a good base martial art, and something that most fighters will find difficult to prepare for, similar to how fighters have difficulty preparing for Machida’s Shotokan techniques.
aGREED!
Where will MMA be in it’s evolution stage 30 years from today??
We had Royce/Rickson.. We had Vitor/ Sakuraba..Kerr/Coleman..Couture..Wandy…Anderson Silva/ Fedor/Machida.
to see where MMA was.. is ..and will be.. I find it intresting to mention.
Thats a great question phil! I hear that the UFC is planning on invading Japan! Hope this turns out to be true! Because if they do start to take over the Japanese Market, the UFC will have a better chance of landing former Pride stars not signed to the UFC who were GODS in Japan, but not as marketable in the USA like Josh Barnett, Takanori Gomi, Fedor loves fighting in Japan, kid Yammamoto, even Sakuraba for 1 or 2 more fights (Dana White is a HUGE Sakuraba fan)…..It would be a great thing if the UFC can be successful in Japan!
Yep.. but Dana does not like Josh Barrnett even though he is one of the top 5 HW in the world. Sakuraba is that dude.. If any doesn’t know him…watch the he fight with Vitor Belfort.. When Vitor was still the ” Phenom “..Saku came up with the cart wheel guard pass..The jump over guard foot stomp.. And the mongolin double hammer fist cop fro mthe guard. To bad Saku is close to 40 man..cuz he would be a great addition to the 185′rs.
I would lov to see Saku vs Silva/Franklin/Cote/Okami/Alemida/ and more..
Philly: U r forgetting to mention the spinning back kick Sakuraba blasted Vitor’s gut with!
SAKURABA’s destruction of Royler Gracie was one of the most memerable fights in mma history! I loved that fight!
All those fighst for Saku would be great, hell I just want to see him fight someone his own size for ONCE in his stellar Career!
hehe Just about all Saku’s fights are legendary. Fighting Royce Gracie for an hour and a half until Rickson threw in the towel. Then that same night he fights Igor Vochanchean to a draw. Igor outweighing him by 60 lbs or so. Not to mention being a dominant hwt. Like yall said. I just love watching Saku fight!
Cool photo!!
Some Wed. comic relief :
http://www.jokeroo.com/funnyvideos/flip_flop_glue_prank.html
That was great!