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Tonight, heavyweight Mark “The Smashing Machine" Kerr makes his return to mixed martial arts in the IFL's Superfight against Mike Whitehead, a contestant from the second season of Spike’s Ultimate Fighter. Kerr, a D-1 NCCA wrestling champion at Syracuse University, brought mayhem and brute force to MMA in the late 1990's and briefly after Y2K. His success came during one of the most violent periods in MMA when there were few rules and regulations. But Kerr is best known as the main subject of an excellent HBO documentary that came out in 2002, appropriately called “The Smashing Machine.” It showed him during a time when his life was as reckless, tortuous and forbidding outside the ring as it was inside it. While Kerr came across as a young man/gladiator with a load of problems, he was eminently likable—and you were pulling for him from the get-go. Not just fans of MMA but anyone who saw the film was left wondering, What ever happened to that guy? Is he alive? Not only is he still with us, he’s doing very well--mentally, emotionally, and physically. And the articulate, personable behemoth says he’s still got some fight left in him, too.
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let's call this one the battle of the head cases
I think mark is just too nice of a guy to fight. Remember in smashing machine he injected lydocaine or some other pain killer in him to help him with getting hit or somethig wtf??? just don't fight then and white head definaterly has peofrmance/confidence issues rememberin tuf when hughes wouldn't even give him water aftr one round because he was so disquested and white head wonder if he had what it took to be a fighter anymore even dana d***head white was shocked. Rwemember on tuf when wite head was yelling at the other guys on his team about training harder/listening to huges then he totally gives up in the fight hmmm maybe he should take his own advice.
No matter what though I still respect and admire mark kerr for what he's done for the sport. -
The real question is whether or not Kerr actually shows up. This wouldn't be the first time he skipped out on his "comeback." But it would screw up more than a single paycheck for him since he is supposedly going to coach an IFL team.Comment
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Well, he showed. Good for him and good for Whitehead for getting the TKO.Comment
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i actualy had free tickets to go to this but I didnt go. Kinda wish I had =oComment
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