Green Ranger to enter MMA
by Derek.Yang on 03/09/09 at 3:08 pm
Jason David Frank was known as the renegade Green Ranger on the first season of The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and now he will enter the MMA world. The former actor has not really made much of his acting career since the Power Rangers, appearing in a variety of reunion episodes and direct to DVD movies. Could the UFC become the place where D-List celebrities go to get punched and kicked back into the B-List? While it might be easy to assume that this will be a repeat of the Jose Canseco fiasco, the Green Ranger actually has some qualifications under his belt (which happens to be 6th degree black). Frank has been training in Karate since the age of four and received his black belt when he was 12. In 1994, he invented his own fighting style “the way of the fighting fist” (which sounds oddly like some kind of horrific sex act invented by someone who didn’t know how to read the Kamasutra).
All jokes aside, Frank has been training in Muy Thai and MMA since 2006. Since his previous training in Karate lacks ground game, he has worked to rectify that by earning a blue belt in Jiu Jitsu. He’s also been training with UFC lightweight Melvin Guillard.
Frank had the opportunity to fight in 2007 but the fight rules were changed to boxing rules which prompted Frank to opt out because he wanted an MMA event. Fighting in the UFC has been one his dreams and Frank clearly has no false pretenses about it.
“I was supposed to fight in 2007, but it fell through. In truth, I’ve wanted to put the work in until I’m ready,” Frank said in an interview from the Suckerpunch website.”I know I have a target on my back. Everyone is going to want to beat up the Green Ranger.”
What do you guys think? Another Kimbo Slice or the next Brock Lesnar?
-Derek
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