“Hollywood” Hendo

Ignore the ego-stroking backslap/handjob Dana White gives himself by plastering his glowing airbrushed and Photoshopped mug all over the cover of the first issue of the new UFC Magazine like he’s Oprah freakin’ Winfrey. Ignore also the mag’s mostly disposable Maxim-meets-Details content. Real fight magazines have stories about, well, fighting, not jerk-off fighter profiles and bits about sunglasses and face creams (sorry, skin replenishers).

What caught my attention were the Vanity Fair-like photo shoots to promote UFC 100. More specifically, I dig this behind-the -scenes video from the Dan Henderson/Michael Bisping shoot. Why? Well, Hendo looks more like “Hollywood” Dan than he ever has before, like he’s ready for his close-up, very Spartacus/young Kirk Douglas (his stock since TUF season 9 has certainly shot up in my mind), and Bisping doesn’t say a damn word in the video.

Here’s the much-less-interesting, very typical, vaguely homoerotic rap-video-style shoot with Georges St. Pierre and Thiago Alves. Yaaaawwwnnnnn. Their fight better hold a few more surprises.