Everytime I watch an MMA event, I always compare fighters to video game characters. “Look, that guy looks like Roufus” as Roy “Big Country” Nelson flattens out his opponent with his stomach. While some fighters have the persona to be in a video game, other fighters look exactly like characters from fighting games. Strunger from Sherdog, decided to make renditions of MMA fighters with characters from Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat and below are the results:
Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell as Sub Zero
Wanderlei Silva as Baraka. This is perfect because Silva is vicious everytime he fights.
Gina Carano as Chun Li. To be honest, Carano would look great as any female character.
Below are images inspired from Strunger’s work:
Old school SF 2 player select screen.
The always wise and MMA pioneer Helio Gracie as Gouken
UFC President Dana White doesn’t really look like M. Bison but it’s more about his personality as he takes out every competition there is for MMA supremacy.
Allistair Overeem as Sagat, known for his muay thai
Here’s Overeem throwing a tiger knee!
Strunger also has a Youtube channel dedicated to MMA so make sure to check it out!
Reboot
Aug 10, 2010 -
brock lesnar as goro is awesome and Gina Carano would be good as anything, ANYTHING
Long Rhoads
Aug 13, 2010 -
Fedor always looks high or like he has down-syndrom
jazmine
Aug 15, 2010 -
wow this is a new way for me to think of MMA fighters i absolutely love Mortal Combat!!