The past, present and future of the UFC, in and out of the cage, will be on display – literally – as attendees of UFC® Fan Expo™, August 27-28 at the John B. Hynes Convention Center in Boston, will get the first look at the Round 5 “Ultimate Collector” Series 4 collectible figurines. Fans can see new standard and Limited Edition sculpts representing seven different UFC personalities, including Royce Gracie, Brock Lesnar, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Cain Velasquez, Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, Dana White (regular only) and Bruce Buffer (Limited Edition only).
Round 5 can be found at Booth No. 2524 on the convention floor. The “Ultimate Collector” Series 4 displays are in addition to the previously announced “3-packs” featuring Buffer, exclusive to Expo in the U.S., and prototypes of its high-detail “Live” series with Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell.
“We are pleased to be introducing our latest series of new figurines to fans at UFC Fan Expo,” said Damon Lau, Round 5 president and co-founder. “There are some completely new athletes, including Royce Gracie and Cain Velasquez, and our first ‘Ultimate Collector’ non-fighters in Dana White and Bruce Buffer.”
“Ultimate Collector” Series 4 is expected at retail in time for the 2010 Holiday season.
Fans will also be able to purchase the new “Ultimate Collector” Series 3 figurines at the Expo, including new representations of Rich Franklin, Anderson Silva, Antonio Nogueira, Diego Sanchez and both UFC and PRIDE versions of Wanderlei Silva.
“Ultimate Collector” Series 1 and 2 are now available at leading retailers across North America, and Series 3 will be available shortly. A list of retailers can be found at www.Round5MMA.com.
After two hugely successful UFC® Fan Expo™ events in Las Vegas, Round 5, a leader in producing mixed martial arts collectible figurines, will give East Coast UFC fans the first chance to experience two significant new collections at the upcoming UFC Fan Expo, August 27-28 at the John B. Hynes Convention Center in Boston. In addition to “3-packs” featuring Bruce Buffer, exclusive to Expo in the U.S., Round 5 will display prototypes of its high-detail “Live” series with Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell.
Round 5 can be found at Booth No. 2524 on the convention floor.
The “3-packs” are enhanced versions of the new Round 5 “Versus” line, distinctly new figurines highlighting battle scenes from great UFC matches, supplemented with a Buffer figure, not available in any other Round 5 Series at mass retailers in the U.S. The three matchups available in limited quantities at the Expo are “Rampage” Jackson vs. Wanderlei Silva (UFC 92), Tito Ortiz vs. Chuck Liddell (UFC 66) and Frank Mir vs. Brock Lesnar (UFC 100).
Bruce Buffer will also sign autographs at the Round 5 booth at the Expo.
Expo attendees will also get the first look at UFC “Live,” highly-detailed, realistic, scaled figure statues, packaged separately. Created with the higher-end collector in mind, these premium figures will measure a full 10 inches and will also come with a UFC-branded display stand. Together, the Couture and Liddell figures, created at a 1/7 scale, complete a battle scene from the epic June 6, 2003, first meeting between the mixed martial arts legends.
“UFC Fan Expo arrives at the perfect time for us to offer the exclusive 3-packs with Bruce Buffer and to show fans and collectors the exciting new figurines coming for the holiday season,” said Damon Lau, Round 5 president and co-founder. “The ‘Live’ line is completely different from anything we have produced, and we are sure that fans will notice and enjoy that distinctive look and feel.”
Fans will also be able to purchase the new “Ultimate Collector” Series 3 figurines at the Expo, including new representations of Rich Franklin, Anderson Silva, Antonio Nogueira, Diego Sanchez and both UFC and PRIDE versions of Wanderlei Silva.
“Ultimate Collector” Series 1 and 2 are now available at leading retailers across North America, and Series 3 will be available shortly. A list of retailers can be found at www.Round5MMA.com.
About Round 5
Round 5 (www.Round5MMA.com), headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada, is the MMA industry’s fastest growing worldwide collectible figure company. Committed to developing intricately detailed figures, Round 5 strives to remain true to the sport of MMA and its personalities.
Round 5 today revealed images of the final production sculpts of six new figurines from “Ultimate Collector” Series 3, depicting popular UFC fighters Rich “Ace” Franklin, Antonio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira, Diego “The Nightmare” Sanchez, Anderson “Spider” Silva and Wanderlei “The Axe Murderer” Silva (UFC and PRIDE versions). Barron Lau, Round 5 CEO and co-founder and Damon Lau, president and co-founder, introduced the images today.
UCS Series 3 is scheduled to be available at retail locations throughout North America in August. Series 1 and 2 can now be found at those stores. Fans can visit www.Round5MMA.com for a full list of outlets.
About Round 5
Round 5 (www.Round5MMA.com), headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada, is the MMA industry’s fastest growing worldwide collectible figure company. Committed to developing intricately detailed figures, Round 5 strives to remain true to the sport of MMA and its personalities.
Round 5, a leader in producing mixed martial arts collectible figurines, will debut prototypes of some of its highly-anticipated “Versus” series at UFC® Fan Expo™, May 28-29 at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. Round 5 can be found at booth No. 1161 on the convention floor.
The “Versus” line, as announced last month, highlights battle scenes from great matchups in MMA history. Additionally, these distinctly new figurines, scheduled to hit retail stores in time for the 2010 Holiday season, will be accompanied by an Octagon™ segment display.
“UFC Fan Expo is a perfect opportunity for us to give devoted UFC and Round 5 fans the first look at the ‘Versus’ series,” said Damon Lau, Round 5 co-founder and president. “We were overwhelmed by the response at last year’s Expo, and we’re pleased to be part of the show again, both to meet Round 5 fans and to introduce more die-hard UFC enthusiasts to our high-quality figurines.”
Included in the “Versus” series are figurine pairs from the following bouts: Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Wanderlei Silva (UFC 92), 12-27-2008; Georges St. Pierre vs. B.J. Penn (UFC 58), 3-4-2006; Frank Mir vs. Brock Lesnar (UFC 100), 7-11-2008; Tito Ortiz vs. Chuck Liddell (UFC 66), 12-30-2006; Ortiz vs. Liddell (TUF 11); Forrest Griffin vs. Stephan Bonnar (“The Ultimate Fighter®” Season Finale), 4-9-2005; and Jackson vs. Silva (PRIDE® 28), 10-31-2004.
In addition to viewing the “Versus” prototypes, fans will be able to purchase figurines in Round 5 “Ultimate Collector” Series 1 and 2, as well as add a Series 2 Limited Edition piece to their collections.
“Ultimate Collector” Series 1 includes figures of Chuck Liddell, Georges St-Pierre, Rashad Evans, Kenny Florian, Clay Guida and Lyoto Machida. Series 2 is comprised of Randy Couture, B.J. Penn, Tito Ortiz, Forrest Griffin, Michael Bisping and “Kimbo” Slice.
“Ultimate Collector” Series 2 is now available in Target stores and will be at other leading retailers across North America in May. A list can be found at www.Round5MMA.com.
About Round 5
Round 5 (www.Round5MMA.com), headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada, is the MMA industry’s fastest growing worldwide collectible figure company. Committed to developing intricately detailed figures, Round 5 strives to remain true to the sport of MMA and its personalities.
Rose McGowan has joined the cast of director Marcus Nispel’s Conan. In the film, she will play the part of an evil half-human/half-witch. McGowan joins the already cast Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Bob Sapp, Leo Howard, Ron Perlman and Said Taghmaoui in the re-imagining of Robert E. Howard’s fabled warrior.
Filming has already begun at Nu Boyana Studios in Sofia, Bulgaria. The film will be released domestically by Lionsgate.
Rachel Nichols has joined the cast of Marcus Nispel’s Conan for Lionsgate Films. Nichols may be most familiar to audiences for her roles in 2009′s big scene adaptation of ‘G.I. Joe’ , where she played Scarlett, as well as her role in JJ Abrams’ ‘Star Trek’.
Nichols will play Tamara who is described as a master martial artist who works as a guard for the queen.
Nichols joins the already cast Jason Momoa, Mickey Rourke, Bob Sapp and Leo Howard in the re-imagining of Robert E. Howard’s fabled warrior.
The film is scheduled to begin shooting in March in Bulgaria.
UFC lightweight champion B.J. Penn is currently broadcasting live footage for his parents home in Hawaii’s Hilo Bay. Hawaii is currently bracing itself for an incoming Tsunami with potentially devastating waves.
Check out the stream below or at B.J. Penn’s official website located www.bjpenn.com.
B.J. Penn is an avid blogger and has a book coming out soon that fans of MMA might be interested in checking out.
‘Why I Fight’ Synopsis: From its humble beginnings twenty years ago, mixed martial arts has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry. Chief among the world′s leading mixed martial arts organizations is the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) which is making its way to the top of the sports food chain, dwarfing boxing and nipping at the heels of the NFL. And fighter-turned-author B.J. “The Prodigy” Penn has been one of the few chosen to lead the greatest fighting generation.
In WHY I FIGHT, the controversial Penn will, for the first time, bring MMA fans into his remote and insular world on the Big Island of Hawaii, where he lives and trains and give them an in-depth look into the complex mind of a man beloved by all peace-loving Hawaiians–who devastatingly imposes his physical will on opponents and then brazenly licks their blood off his gloves.
Penn will recap his journey from his days as a 17-year-old Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu prodigy, street fighter, and reckless party boy in Hilo, through his current status as a celebrity and world class competitor. Along the way he will discuss his controversial views on the UFC, his crazy yet heavily influential family life and how he came to embrace the Hawaiian Warrior spirit, and he will do so with the passion, wry sense of humor, and candor, that has made him one of the most loved, feared, and provocative athletes in the world.
More casting news for Marcus Nispel’s revival of Conan The Barbarian has been released. Latino Review reports that MMA superstar Bob Sapp, the has been cast as Ukafa in Lionsgate’s film.
The character is described as follows: Ukafa is in his 30s-40, very dark-skinned African or African American, massively framed at six-foot-five, gold-toothed, hardened by a lifetime of war, a leader of Kushite Tribemen from the savannahs of Kush. Ukafa is Khalar Singh’s second in command, jealous that Singh’s son, Fariq, will one day be warlord. He obeys his leader but plots the overthrow of his son. He is a mighty warrior and unbeatable in battle—until he comes face to face with Conan.
Mickey Rourke is reportedly in negotiations to play Conan’s father in Lionsgate’s “Conan” movie.
The title role was cast last month when Jason Momoa was hired to star as the hero in the popular franchise. Momoa is a television star who most notable works are “Baywatch Hawaii” and “Stargate Atlantis.” Mickey Rourke has been cast to play Conan father, while Leo Howard (G.I. Joe) has been cast to play a young Conan.
The remake is being directed by Marcus Nispel who recently directed the reboot of Friday The 13th.
The film is scheduled to begin shooting in March in Bulgaria.
After two hugely successful UFC® Fan Expo™ events in Las Vegas, 
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