New York Times (and Real Fighter) contributor Michael Brick has an ace profile of Strikeforce headliner Gina Carano up on the newspaper’s site, and it’s a welcome change from the standard-issue girl fight aesthetic so popular among the men’s magazines.
Carano, writes Brick, grew up the product of a “strict religious upbringing” in the Sodom and Gomorrah nest of Las Vegas and was once hustled out of “Forrest Gump” because of profanity. (It is a little wonder she pursued a career of punching people in the face.) She and opponent Cristiane Santos will split a $200,000 purse on August 15.