Lost in Translation

A short, round-headed man wearing a skin-tight shirt and belt with a skull-shaped buckle. A former bouncer and a bellhop at a Boston hotel. He was found guilty of assault and, because he refused to pay the fine, wound up in prison. He became a boxing trainer and fled from the Mafia to Las Vegas, where he had grown up, and opened a boxing gym. (He) now owns a Range Rover, a Ferrari and two Mercedes, but he still has difficulty saying three sentences without the word “fuck” in at least one of them.

How Germans See Brock Lesnar

After reading that you would think you had just read about a person who is part Danny Devito, part Yakuza Drug Lord, and part Tattoo artist. In actuality, those words described the President of the UFC, Dana White. While you wouldn’t expect Germans to embrace someone with such a strong personality (considering their history with tyrants) that’s an awfuly un-conventional way to describe Dana White.

That description, however, was courtesy of a German Writer, Maik Grossekathöfer, who recently wrote an article for a German newspaper about the UFC in which he had some creative descriptions of Dana White and the UFC’s fighters. Grossekathöfer described Heavyweight Champ Brock Lesnar as “a former wrestler from Minnesota, (who) has the neck of a bull and arms as thick as trees.  A tattoo of a sword with drops of blood clinging to its tip bisects his massive chest.”  He also credits blood for the rise of the UFC, “Blood, in the case of the UFC, is anything but a deterrent. In fact, blood and gore are part of the reason that UFC television viewership has been growing so rapidly.”  While this German writer may be a little over the top in his descriptions of the UFC, the UFC needs to make an effort to win over the German media and German fans as they plan to hold their first event in Germany next year, in UFC 99.

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