Carano’s Sweet Science: Chokes Out Researcher

I am not any particular fan of “sports science” programs, which tend to favor sensationalism over any hard and fast facts. (National Geographic’s “Fight Science” once measured Randy Couture’s lactic acid output during a choke attempt, saw that the levels were actually decreasing -- a physiological near-impossibility -- and more or less deemed him superhuman instead of reaching a more intelligent conclusion: that they screwed up.)

Gina Carano was the latest practice body: She choked out a researcher during a segment of FSN’s “Sports Science” that “measured” Carano’s ability to deliver traumatizing punishment. Following Cristiane Santos’ abuse of a reporter, we can now conclude both women are capable of subduing defenseless dummies. Revelatory.