10 Hilarious UFC videogame match ups we wish were real
The Ultimate Fighting Championship; the supreme proving ground in the quintessential test of toughness and strategy. The Octagon; the modern day Coliseum, where many enter walking tall, but only a few remain standing when the dust settles.
Sounds like an intro to one of the "Road to the Octagon" videos, right? You can almost hear James Earl Jones' tranquil baritone as the camera cuts across a city skyline and stops at an MMA gym. It then focuses in on a fighter cascading sweat as he hits pads in slow motion, teeth clenched and yelling with every thudding blow. Inspiring, is it not? Indubitably.
But enough of that for now. Let's leave the fighting to the fighters and all that frowny, furrowed brow solemnizing to the man who voiced Mufasa in the Lion King. Check out these EA Sports UFC video game match-ups, for some of which we've actually gone to the heights of nerdiness and analyzed. Absurd? Absolutely, but they're still sure to leave you cackling.
#10 Bruce Lee vs Jackie Chan
As children, more than a few of us martial arts fans would've asked ourselves how this match would've gone down. Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan pioneered the genre of martial arts movies and a lot of today's action stars owe a lot to them. So it's obvious that all bets are off in a hypothetical face-off between the two. But that's not to say that it never happened, at least not a real fight.
Jackie Chan was a stuntman in Bruce Lee's 1973 hit "Enter The Dragon" and also had a place of honor in the butt whooping extravaganza where Lee gets captured. Have a look:
But Jackie Chan was more than just a stuntman for Lee's films. The legend was so impressed with Chan's acting that he befriended him. Jackie Chan recounts how the two went bowling together: