NEWS ABOUT: Street Fights
Street Fights stories: 2 news briefs
YouTube helped fighter Kevin Ferguson pull himself up from homeless to famous
ESPN May 27, 08 11:44 AM CDT
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ESPN takes the measure of Kimbo Slice, streetfighting YouTube star and soon-to-be network TV darling, when mixed martial arts makes its broadcast TV debut Friday."Kimbo combines Mike Tyson's mystique and Mr. T's personality," Dan le Batard writes of the man who hit it big when a video of one of his street brawls racked up 2 million hits on a porn site. He loves to kick ass, but has never been a bully.
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MOVIE REVIEW
Cop flick puts overwrought machismo on display
Metacritic Apr 11, 08 9:59 AM CDT
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Street Kings doesn't get a lot of love from critics, who say it resorts at times to the worst of cop-flick cliches. Keanu Reeves plays a cold-hearted, vodka-swigging LA vice cop who's hunting down his former partner's murderers. And while screenwriter James Ellroy's pulp machismo has worked before, here Reeves comes off "like the host of an infomercial trying to do the impersonation of a badass," writes Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly .
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