Longtime followers of The Ultimate Fighter reality show know that its producers love a bit of drama, whether it be practical jokes raising tempers or abrasive personalities locked into the same house for weeks on end.
The latest season - TUF 15 - will commence on March 9th on FX . As it is airing on a FOX channel and is the first time the show has featured live fights rather than pre-records, it is sure to get more attention than recent seasons have.
But there is also going to be some controversy, and one of the most polarising matters is surely going to be the inclusion of a gay porn star as a cast member.
Dakota Cochrane has an 11-2 professional record which includes a solid win over former WEC champion Jamie Varner. But he also has a sideline as ‘Danny’ and ‘Sean Cody’ in the gay porn industry, which is likely to cause a stir among MMA fans when it hits the forums.. Ooh, any second now.
A post on Middle Easy first flagged up Cochrane’s moonlighting and a quick Google search of his name came up with a website called Queerty, which has him featured in a list of athletes who have become gay porn stars (or gay porn stars who have become athletes, one or the other).
Interesting quote from the Queerty article. Asked about his personal life, Cochrane is quoted as saying “Yes [my girlfriend knows I'm doing gay porn], but she’s not happy about it” - can anyone really blame her?
It does not take a sociology degree to understand that the typical MMA fan - certainly the casual aficionado - is of the loudly heterosexual, Tapout-wearing alpha-posturing variety and so Cochrane’s presence in the TUF line-up is going to cause some outrage and some not very nice epithets being thrown around.
But let us try and encourage a mature approach. Above all, Cochrane is a successful professional fighter who trains with some animals at Premier Combat Center. His training partners include Jason Brilz, Jake Ellenberger, Ryan Jensen and Houston Alexander.
All of them have fought under the UFC banner and as it seems his sideline job has been common knowledge since the middle of last year, they clearly aren’t bothered about his sexuality. That said, he has probably heard one too many jokes about ‘naked rear chokes’ and ‘the third hook’.
Just kidding! This is def weird. One's sexual orientation has little to do with their fighting ability so I'm not going to hold any qualms there, but do I think it is going to do wonders for the UFC's image?
Hell no. The answer would be the same if the porn star happened to be straight.
Well they will have to throw that lil bit of info in to make some drama. I know some one won't want to train with him and thats whats sad. Rolling with a person who does gay porn won't make you gay lol.
It could make some match-ups more fun. If someone were to go to the point where they insulted him for his 'roles' while they're in the house, it would magnify the outcome in an interesting way.
Then again plain fighting without the drama is pretty good too.
The porn star aspect of it is what bothers me. The UFC is trying to be more mainstream and yet they throw this kind of drama causing aspect into their new live show.
I agree. I don't really care about his sexual orientation, but the porn on the side is just a little too far, but then again as long as he stops once he is in the UFC (assuming he wins or gets on post show) then who cares?
Am I the only one who just doesn't give a shit? About the gay part or the porn part? It just seems superfluous.
Though the comment about how hisgirlfriend isn't happy about him doing gay porn concerns me a little. Does he like automatic and stick or does he just drive stick when the pay is right? I'm confused.
Am I the only one who just doesn't give a shit? About the gay part or the porn part? It just seems superfluous.
Though the comment about how hisgirlfriend isn't happy about him doing gay porn concerns me a little. Does he like automatic and stick or does he just drive stick when the pay is right? I'm confused.
Clearly he was hiding it just as Chandella was hiding her photo shoot. The UFC can only do so much. If they knew this they wouldn't have had him on the cast imo. Now that he is on it and the news has been released, I guess they just decided to roll with it.
I don't anticipate any porn stars crossing into MMA in the future lol. War Machine being the exception going the opposite route lol
This all about ratings. "Reality Television" at it's worse. I just hope the guy either loses the in house qualifier or wins a few fights. I would hate if he just beat some scrub to get in then loses the first match of the tournament.
Is he still doing the films? If so, I can understand the UFC taking action.
Otherwise leave him be, how he makes money is down to him and it's his choice so more power to him. We all gotta pay the bills somehow. He's a solid fighter with the most impressive record of all the other LW's.
1st, as long as they don't make me watch gay porn, and as long as the guy fights just like everyone else, I'll be fine.
2nd, if anything this, again, is publicity, free publicity, it's already 4 pages on this forum.
so if anything, they released this info so people talk about the show and promote it by doing so.
again, there's no such thing as bad publicity. With Fox behind all this, don't ever imagine that this whole story was accidentally released by some anonymous source. this is publicity, nothing more, nothing less.
and again, the guy could be a dog molester, as long as he keeps this to himself and fights in the cage, I'll be fine.
I'm certainly not one to judge how others live their lives
Well I personally believe he should be kicked off the show, homosexuality is immoral and he should not be given the chance to spread his liberal hate and infringe upon the american family his beliefs as an inferior human being.
The show is about fighting and the fact that he is even allowed to compete is wrong, I will not watch this season of TUF if he is not removed.
For what? He's not gay (as he is sure to mention his girlfriend in the interview). Hmmmm, if sexual orientation is a protected class in the state in which he is an employee, he could not be fired for being gay. He could, however, likley be fired for participating in porn (gay or straight) or for any reason or no reason at all (assuming he is in an employment at will state.) I think. I'm not an employment lawyer.
Personally, I can't wait to see the drama (this is really out of character for me). It's one thing to mock a guy for perceived homosecuality (TOTALLY not cool). But for a guy who is straight to be kown to have participated in gay porn? Man, I'm thinking it's sort of PC-friendly(ish) opn season on this dude.
I hate this because I guarantee they are going to make big drama out of this in the reality portion of the show.
I always hated TUF anyway...the fights are good but the whole Survivor with fighters bullshit is horrendous.
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