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| MMA fighter Angela "Overkill" Hill shows off her yoga skills at the weigh-in for Invicta FC in Las Vegas. | MMA fighter Angela "Overkill" Hill shows off her yoga skills at the weigh-in for Invicta FC in Las Vegas. | ||
| - | Video screenshot by Danny Gallagher/CNET Hill stepped up to the stage at the Tropicana Lounge in her Dhalsim cosplay complete with the Street Fighter's yellow loin cloth and wrist guards, red-striped headpaint and three skulls dangling from her neck. Then she did Dhalsim's victory dance before stepping on the scale and squaring off against her opponent Stephanie Eggnik in Friday's match. Any Street Fighter II player should be familiar with those moves because his "fierce" punch and "roundhouse" kick can stretch to the opposite side of the screen make him a tough opponent to defeat. | + | Video screenshot by Danny Gallagher/CNET Hill stepped up to the stage at the Tropicana Lounge in her Dhalsim cosplay complete with the Street Fighter's yellow loin cloth and wrist guards, [[http://web.imim.mcu.edu.tw/zh-hant/comment/127440|comment-127440]] red-striped headpaint and three skulls dangling from her neck. Then she did Dhalsim's victory dance before stepping on the scale and squaring off against her opponent Stephanie Eggnik in Friday's match. Any Street Fighter II player should be familiar with those moves because his "fierce" punch and "roundhouse" kick can stretch to the opposite side of the screen make him a tough opponent to defeat. |
| MMAFighting.com captured footage of Hill's memorable entrance and posted it on its Instagram account. | MMAFighting.com captured footage of Hill's memorable entrance and posted it on its Instagram account. | ||
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| Rapper Lupe Fiasco beats Street Fighter legend Daigo Umehara at his own game | Rapper Lupe Fiasco beats Street Fighter legend Daigo Umehara at his own game | ||
| - | This moment got a lot of viral traction because you don't see a lot of video game references in sporting events. There have been moments where real life fighters have made the crossover to video games such as when EA Sports first announced that martial arts icon and [[https://www.gaiaonline.com/profiles/underwoodtuttle0/44226945/|https://www.gaiaonline.com/profiles/underwoodtuttle0/44226945/]] movie star Bruce Lee would be available as a DLC character in its first "UFC" game last year and went on to become the game's "most used fighter," according to Gamespot. | + | This moment got a lot of viral traction because you don't see a lot of video game references in sporting events. There have been moments where real life fighters have made the crossover to video games such as when EA Sports first announced that martial arts icon and movie star Bruce Lee would be available as a DLC character in its first "UFC" game last year and went on to become the game's "most used fighter," according to Gamespot. |
| If these moments are any indication of the future of professional fighting, then it's probably only a matter of time before we see a holographic Bruce Lee beat the snot out of Anderson Silva in the real Octagon or a virtual Zangief put a spinning piledriver on Ronda Rousey. | If these moments are any indication of the future of professional fighting, then it's probably only a matter of time before we see a holographic Bruce Lee beat the snot out of Anderson Silva in the real Octagon or a virtual Zangief put a spinning piledriver on Ronda Rousey. | ||
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