TFK
05-08-2007, 03:28 PM
http://www.nbcsports.com/ufc/1482439/detail.html
Couture to appear on SI cover
By Mike Chiappetta (http://www.nbcsports.com/columnists/394270/detail.html)
NBCSports.comPosted: May8, 2007, 2:29 pm EDT
At what point does a sport go mainstream? How about when it's best-known fighter graces the cover of the nation's best-known sports magazine?
Randy Couture (http://www.nbcsports.com/ufc/1089768/detail.html), the only five-time champion in UFC history, will appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine at a later date this summer.
SI writer L. Jon Wertheim, a 10-year veteran of the magazine, penned the piece which will dig into the life of the most famous MMA star in the U.S. Couture recently regained the UFC heavyweight championship at the age of 43 years old, defeating Tim Sylvia at UFC 68. The win catapulted him even further into mainstream sports fame, as he appeared on ESPN's "Hot List" following the victory.
Couture also has a biography in the works, co-written with Fight Network writer Loretta Hunt.
Another giant step in the growth of MMA and the UFC in particuliar.
Let's just hope it's an accurate and well written article, and nothing like the ignorant nonsense written by Mike Freeman a week or so back.
TFK
Couture to appear on SI cover
By Mike Chiappetta (http://www.nbcsports.com/columnists/394270/detail.html)
NBCSports.comPosted: May8, 2007, 2:29 pm EDT
At what point does a sport go mainstream? How about when it's best-known fighter graces the cover of the nation's best-known sports magazine?
Randy Couture (http://www.nbcsports.com/ufc/1089768/detail.html), the only five-time champion in UFC history, will appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine at a later date this summer.
SI writer L. Jon Wertheim, a 10-year veteran of the magazine, penned the piece which will dig into the life of the most famous MMA star in the U.S. Couture recently regained the UFC heavyweight championship at the age of 43 years old, defeating Tim Sylvia at UFC 68. The win catapulted him even further into mainstream sports fame, as he appeared on ESPN's "Hot List" following the victory.
Couture also has a biography in the works, co-written with Fight Network writer Loretta Hunt.
Another giant step in the growth of MMA and the UFC in particuliar.
Let's just hope it's an accurate and well written article, and nothing like the ignorant nonsense written by Mike Freeman a week or so back.
TFK