My BAMMA 8 photos: full gallery can be seen by clicking on the photo.
Other work can be seen at my flickr.com pages
If you google “Ross Pearson” you may see the above photo come up…
Click on it…
Can you see a credit for who took the photo?
No?
Me neither!!!!
ITS MINE!
Long day at work, spent lunch flicking through some old photos and wishing I were somewhere else.
Hmmm… yep I’d much rather be at cage warriors than work!
(Pete Irving vs Nardin Asrih)
I GOT A PHOTO ON THE FRONT COVER OF A BOOK… NOT BAD EH?!
Bloody Revolution: A Journey into UK MMA
In less than two decades, what started out as a cable TV special has developed into a worldwide phenomenon. A major new sport that has revolutionised our ideas about fighting. Critics dismiss the sport as `human cockfighting’, supporters hail it as the sport of the future. Whatever your view, the growth of the sport makes it hard to ignore.
Mick Bower takes the reader deep into the chaotic world of UK MMA. In rundown leisure centres and rowdy nightclubs across the land, committed fighters push themselves to the limit in the ultimate athletic challenge. Shunned by the mainstream media, the sport has promoted itself by any means necessary- embracing the internet and reality TV to get the word out. This bizarre marriage of ancient brutality and modern popular culture has struck a nerve- attracting personalities as diverse as Katie Price and Michael Portillo cage side.
The reader will also encounter the lost art of Lancashire Catch Wrestling, the increasing influence of Luta Livre and the British Muay Thai scene.
UK MMA holds a mirror up to the society that spawned it. Dedication, absurdity, skulduggery, bravery, sex and violence: all in one exhilarating package.
Bloody Revolution tells the real stories behind the tabloid headlines.
Daley Smashes Shirai
My BAMMA 5 photos are up on Sherdog, Check them out….
RESULTS:
Jeremy Petley Frankie Slater Sub (Arm Bar) 0.36 (1)
Costas Doru Liam James Sub (rear naked choke) 2.47 (1)
Tim Newman Diego Vital Split Decision 5.00 (3)
Michael Johnson Paul Cook Unan Decision 5.00 (3)
Jason Ball Peter Duncan KO 2.00 (2)
Lee Cohoon Rob Mills TKO 4.16 (2)
Mohsen Bahari Lee Barnes TKO 0.40 (1)
Claudio Henrique Da Silva Jean Francois Lenogue Sub (rear naked choke) 2.51 (1)
Alex Makhonin Xavier Foupa-Pokam TKO 4.48 (2)
Ricco Rodriguez James McSweeney Unan Decision 5.00 (3)
Paul Daley Yuya Shirai KO (Punches) 1.46 (1)
Link to previous fight nights on: Flickr
Well, I’ve just attempted to sort out some of my photos, Iceland has to be my favourite place for shooting landscapes.
In November the sun was late up & early down, giving amazing light - bonus was I didn’t have to get up early to watch the sun rise & following sunset there was plenty of time for the pub….. Win, win.
Sorry if your not into the whole combat sports thing… this is a tad brutal. I was searching through my old shots & found that this is my most popular photo having 3,762 hits on flickr. Not bad eh? The guy in the white TapouT shorts is Ross Pearson… curently on ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ reality TV show… check it out on Virgin1 Sunday night at 11pm - UK vs the USA - well worth a watch! I’m going with Mr. Smyth to another event on Saturday, hoping for some shots to rival this… Can’t wait!
