Have way too much money and want to throw away $40,000? Mark Coleman is selling two pairs of gloves he wore during the historic 2000 Pride Grand Prix. Check them out at MMACollector.com
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For $40,000, I better get the belt, too!
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I think you could buy Mark Coleman as a man servant for $40,000 a year…
by Jonathan Snowden on Apr 20, 2011 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
he has to feed his daughters
thats what he told me when i met him and asked why he keept fighting
hope he’s alright.
on another note, Kano the original actor from Mortal Kombat is selling his Merch
there goes another one!
you mean the original game?
because Trevor Goddard from the original film died years ago.
by Victor Rodriguez on Apr 20, 2011 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions
I’d want the Hammer House team training facility for that kind of cash
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by StevenGiles on Apr 20, 2011 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
So you want a heavybag and Mark's front porch?
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by Matthew Roth on Apr 20, 2011 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
Man, you and Snowden are cold
I laughed at both comments so I can’t really judge, but damn…
Mark Coleman possesses nothing worth 40K period
Coleman, get that Burger King application out homie…its time
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by SentientAndroid on Apr 20, 2011 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
You know you’re hurting when! I’ll give Coleman 5,000$ to come to my city and roid out on someone of my choosing.
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by LowkickGreed on Apr 20, 2011 2:02 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Thought
Appropriate to comment here :)
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by Bloodsport on Apr 20, 2011 10:45 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Is this a bad sign? 40,000 grand seems like a lot, more like 5-10 grand maybe, Mark Coleman was never that popular. Its not like GSP selling his gloves or something.
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This is just sad.
In the clearing stands a boxer And a fighter by his trade And he carries the reminders Of ev'ry glove that layed him down Or cut him till he cried out In his anger and his shame "I am leaving, I am leaving" But the fighter still remains
by Brian Mayes on Apr 20, 2011 2:20 PM EDT reply actions 9 recs
I don’t agree personally. Its pretty common for sportsmen to sell prized memorabilia later in life
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by StevenGiles on Apr 21, 2011 8:00 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yep. Nothing wrong with that. This is really legit cool and historical stuff, not just some random trash. The asking price still seems a bit high, but good on him for trying.
by Horselover Fat on Apr 21, 2011 9:51 AM EDT up reply actions
Coleman doesn’t exactly look happy in that pic…..sucks that he (probably) would need money this badly. I wonder if this is something we’re going to see more frequently?
It sort of sucks, unlike the NBA or NFL where you’re most likely a) going to be wealthy enough not to care once you retire or b) going to have a position somewhere in the company or as an analyst, the MMA world doesn’t have enough jobs or high enough pay for someone to be able to retire nicely. Only the top fighters will be able to do that.
Also have to remember Coleman started wayyy back in the day when the money wasn’t always guaranteed and it was a much smaller sport. I see this problem getting better, but around this time when a lot of the older guys are retiring it’s gonna get bad. See: Ken Shamrock
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by LowkickGreed on Apr 20, 2011 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions
The sport doesn't always matter
You have plenty of retired players in the NFL, NBA, and MLB that are flat broke. Some of them made a boatload of money and blew it all or made bad investments. Others played in an era that didn’t pay them millions. Bottom line is that the majority of people don’t manage money well.
Shamrock is a different beast. I cant speak for Coleman, but a pretty successful wwe stint and being one of the most recognized names in the sport means the money was there. I believe Frank Shamrock when he says Ken burned though his money, not to mention the bridges he has burned in the process.
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It sort of sucks, unlike the NBA or NFL where you’re most likely a) going to be wealthy enough not to care once you retire
Even for the big three where they are paid huge sums of money they still end up in financial trouble after they retire. The numbers are pretty damn astounding as to how bad it is.
Although salaries have risen steadily during the last three decades, reports from a host of sources (athletes, players’ associations, agents and financial advisers) indicate that:
• By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce.
• Within five years of retirement, an estimated 60% of former NBA players are broke.
• Numerous retired MLB players have been similarly ruined, and the current economic crisis is taking a toll on some active players as well. Last month 10 current and former big leaguers—including outfielders Johnny Damon of the Yankees and Jacoby Ellsbury of the Red Sox and pitchers Mike Pelfrey of the Mets and Scott Eyre of the Phillies—discovered that at least some of their money is tied up in the $8 billion fraud allegedly perpetrated by Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford. Pelfrey told the New York Post that 99% of his fortune is frozen; Eyre admitted last month that he was broke, and the team quickly agreed to advance a portion of his $2 million salary.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1153364/index.htm#ixzz1K6LfGUox
He has been for quite some time.
In the clearing stands a boxer And a fighter by his trade And he carries the reminders Of ev'ry glove that layed him down Or cut him till he cried out In his anger and his shame "I am leaving, I am leaving" But the fighter still remains
Yeah
In his return to the UFC, I think the Couture fight was the only one he could afford to have an actual training camp for. Too bad it was a waste of money because Tompkins came up with the worst gameplan I’ve ever seen in MMA.
I heard for the other ones, he was working out in a gym at a nearby college, if I recall correctly.
This is REALLY sad, and the worst is that he still has to find a way to live the many years he has left, as in some years there will be no way for him to get any cash in MMA
by mmablitzkrieg on Apr 20, 2011 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions
where'd you hear that? do you have a link?
that’s just too bad, he was on top of the mma world some time ago, during the pride days
Maybe he meant 40,000 ¥.
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by spectaa on Apr 20, 2011 2:49 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
yea with $500, you can buy shit ton of weed
did everyone forget that today is 420?
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I was walking in at the same time as him and he said he got paid $2,000 for the appearance. I felt bad.
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by Scott Schroeder on Apr 20, 2011 3:16 PM EDT reply actions
I lol’d.
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by MMArazorback on Apr 20, 2011 4:55 PM EDT up reply actions
I covered it for the local newspaper
So not quite as much.
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by Scott Schroeder on Apr 20, 2011 5:15 PM EDT up reply actions
steroids dried his wallet up
oh well
Fine! I'll go build my own lunar lander, with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the lunar lander and the blackjack.
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Time to get that CV out, buddy.
Although I wonder what kind of job you can get in the real world at his age, where you’ve had a decade of beating people up.
Wrestling coach for an MMA gym, I’d imagine/hope.
by Tedd Welch on Apr 20, 2011 4:45 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
what’s really sad is the amount of jackass comments in this thread regarding a longtime veteran of the sport.
sure he didn’t go out in a blaze of glory, but dude’s been kicking ass (in mma and wrestling) for longer than half of you were alive.
everything dana white says is a complete lie
by slantedwindows on Apr 20, 2011 4:56 PM EDT reply actions 6 recs
For sure, some these comments are despicable. They had to make a fucking rule to keep this guy from winning when he got into the UFC and then despite all odds he came back from a career that was pretty much done to win the 2000 GP. He deserves more respect than he’s getting here. If there ever was a definition of legend in the sport, Mark Coleman is it. If I had 40K to drop on gloves, I would do it. Especially from that GP.
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by exsanguinator on Apr 21, 2011 7:45 AM EDT up reply actions
The sad thing is with his little bit of celebrity he could have made opportunities appear not long ago (chasing a few certifications and teaching military and law enforcement unarmed combatives, Merchandizing, building up his celebrity outside of the ring so that he has a “brand” to push), but now that his career has turned the way it has, that is going to be harder than ever. You dont have to be the best of the best to market yourself (look at Pat Barry, he’s gained a small following and if he plays his cards right could probably walk into a comfortable life, not kush but not struggling).
Guys like Faber have the right idea. He has made himself a training hub for fighters, buying up all the houses on his block and putting fighters up. He has several lucrative business ventures and has done pretty well considering his weight class wasn’t featured on the “BIG SHOW” until recently. He has also got a strong community backing out his way. You have to play all the angles, the charities, community involvement and look to plan for your future today.
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I've recently begun watching Pride FCs from the beginning.
And I saw a fight from like 1999 where Coleman (in his prime, I believe) got tapped out by some Japanese guy who was famous as a pro wrestler (Takada?). I read that Coleman may have taken a dive in this fight. Does anyone have any confirmation on this? And if this is true, why isn’t this a bigger deal? If that happened now in the UFC it’d be an absolute PR disaster.
It’s assumed to be a work and it’s not considered all that huge a deal due to the fact that Pride at that point was a whole different beast, as much shoot pro wrestling as mixed martial arts. Oh and Nobuhiko Takada was the figurehead of Pride at the time.
Here is what Mark Coleman said about that fight:
“It was what it was. I needed to support my family. They guaranteed me another fight after that and I needed that security. It was what it was. I’m going to leave it at that.”
http://www.heavy.com/mma/2010/02/mark-coleman-bottom-line-i-can-still-fight/
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i love Coleman to death.
he’s one of the guys that got me to love MMA back in the day.
that being said, those gloves better be lined with the finest Bolivian coke money can buy for me to shell out $40k.
by Victor Rodriguez on Apr 20, 2011 5:55 PM EDT reply actions
If you have 40K to blow, bet it on UFC fights, and buy them pertty glubs wit your profits.
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