Couture Lands Role In Major Action Movie

MSNBC.com is reporting that former UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight champion Randy Couture has secured a role in the upcoming action flick "The Expendables".

The role was originally written for Wesley Snipes and was reworked for Couture.

Unlike roles given to mma stars in the past, this $60 action movie comes with legitimate star power.

Couture will co-star with Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, and Oscar Award winner Forest Whitaker.  Whitaker plays a cia agent while the other actors play characters in a band of mercenaries.

This is one of 3 movies that 2009 will see Couture in.

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Fight For The Troops Nets $4 Million For Cause

Last week's Fight For The Troops telecast on Spike TV raised over 4 million for The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund.  The fund ultimately seeks to raise $65 million to build a state of the art facility to treat returning veterans suffering from TBI (traumatic brain injury), a prevalent condition resulting from attacks from IED's in the war in Iraq.

$4 million dollars sounds like a drop in the bucket, but during the telecast IFHF President Bill White stated that they had raised much of the need, and that the UFC/Spike TV fundraiser was important to help them break ground.

In addition to the great gesture for a good cause around Christmas, good MMA action, and the monies raised, maybe the biggest contribution of the event was the awareness created as to the extent of the issues that our troops suffer while fighting for us.