Bradshaw is one of my favorite wrestlers and top villains of all all time. He was epic calling matches for Smackdown some months/years ago and I love mixed martial arts. Who hasn’t implimated the clothesline from Hell on a lippy girlfriend or noisy toddler? If this is all true, I ask you why wouldn’t I want to shove a pineapple up my ass in anticipation of this Lords of Pain story.
The Vyper Fight League and Vyper Productions are proud to announce the addition of John “Bradshaw” Layfield, formerly WWE’s “JBL,” and Layfield Energy Company to the VFL product. John Layfield, coming fresh off of his retirement from professional wrestling, will be joining the VFL broadcast team as one of its hosts. Layfield is a former WWE Champion; the longest reigning in Smackdown history, a former broadcaster on WWE Smackdown, regularly appears on Fox News Channel’s The Cost of Freedom, is a best-selling author, and is the president and owner of Layfield Energy Company. John Layfield joins the VFL at its inaugural event, Enter the Vypers Pit, on Friday April 24th, 2009, at 4400 Shepherdsville Road in Louisville, Kentucky.
A separate as these two entities are (pro wrestling and mma) it makes perfect sense for them to overlap. Their fans are used two dumping 60 dollars in the crapper for a PPV (myself included). Their fans both enjoy violence and high impact entertainment. And I am informed by my friends Luke Thomas that Vince McMahon tried to buy Pride FC before it was aquired by the UFC.
Brock Lesnar is arguably the biggest draw in mixed martial arts today. Kurt Angle and Bobby Lashley make headlines all the time in the world of MMA. Tank Abbot, Frank Trigg and Ken Shamrock have had runs in professional wrestling. Clearly Vince and Dana have flirted with each others industry several times in the past, it will be interesting to see if these two titans are gonna dance all night or take each other home. Either way, I’m doing snap kicks in anticipation.
Look, I don’t know if Bobby Lashley is going to be world class MMA fighter. What I do know is he is a champion amateur wrestler, he demolished his first opponent and he’s a mountain of muscle. He’s as big as a brick shithouse. I would not want to face him with 20 people I know and that ray gun from inside the zombie house in Call of Duty. In this clip, Fat Guida decides to talk a bunch of shit at the press conference for his fight with Lashley at the mixed card that Roy Jones Jr. is putting on. Maybe Fat Guida should have talked some shit to the scale that he was weighing in on the Ultimate Fighter last season. That way maybe his tubby ass could have made weight and got a shot to be in the UFC like his much more successful and likable brother. Lashley in the first.
Yahoo’s Steve Cofield is a good egg. It’s always nice to see an interview we conduct here at the Fukerton show up on such a large website. Here is Cofield’s write up on just a few points we hit the interview we conducted with UFC president Dana White:
Many fans are excited to see what former WWE wrestler Bobby Lashley will do with his new mixed martial arts career and if he’ll have a home in the UFC. The comparisons are clearly there with UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar, who exploded to the title after just three professional MMA fights following his wrestling career. Both guys are huge, had very good amateur wrestling careers and have the look that is highly marketable in the fight world. Surprisingly, when TheFukerton.com asked White, who will be the UFC first, Lashley or pro wrestler Kurt Angle, he was pretty definitive about the big guy’s prospects:
“Neither. I don’t know, just because Brock did it doesn’t mean everyone can do it.”
White was also pushed about UFC 100. He said that he’s finally had some time to look at it. He promised a huge card, that will not disappoint but without signed contracts, he’s going to hold off throwing out certain names.
Tip of our hats to Yahoo Sports for the exposure. Check out the interview in its entirety by clicking HERE.
Lashley needed just 41 seconds to make a statement to the mixed martial arts community. He’s no fake wrestler and he’s here to stay. Bobby has always been good to us here at the Fukerton and that’s why we forgive his kids going a little crazy in the background. The former ECW champion tells how he would defeat Brock Lesnar and more in this exclusive interview with the classiest blog on the web.
While this may not be the most impressive opponent, Lashley is going about this thing the right way. His plan is to go 5-0 before stepping up to a major promotion. With his wrestling background and strength, there is no reason this guy could not compete in the watered down UFC heavyweight division. Will he have the success his former colleague Brock Lesnar? Only time will tell. What he is doing is giving himself a shot and mirroring Lesnar’s transition. We here at the Fukerton wish Lashley nothing but the best in his MMA endeavours. He is a class act and deserves everything he receives.
