Gina Carano and Randy Couture will be among the 30 male and female professional athletes posing nude or semi-nude in ESPN The Magazine's first "Body Issue," which hits newsstands on Oct. 9. Couture's cauliflower ear will be the focus of his spread and Carano will be posing semi-nude in "The Bodies We Want" photo section.
"You really get an idea of everything these guys and gals go through and the toll it takes sometimes," said Sue Hovey, the executive editor of ESPN The Magazine.
"Randy has a very interesting looking ear, known as a cauliflower ear, and I think that when you'll see it, you'll realize that this guy goes through a lot to do what he loves."
Major names from the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, NASCAR, tennis and boxing will also be featured in the special issue, which will be released once a year. And yes, private parts will be strategically covered up.
"These athletes, they were very brave because we were asking to look at some of the more visually vulnerable places on their body," said Gary Belsky, editor in chief of ESPN The Magazine.
Carano hasn't been heard from much since she lost to Cris Cyborg in August. It was announced earlier this month that she will be appearing in Oscar-award winning director Steven Soderbergh's upcoming film, Knockout.
Couture recently lost to Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 102. He is scheduled to face Brandon Vera in the main event of UFC 105 on Nov. 14.
Ever since The Magazine put Chuck Liddell on its cover in May 2007, it has been consistent in shining a bit of the sports spotlight on MMA. Nice to see two of the sport's bigger names featured in this unique issue.
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YESSS!!! More material for us to pleasure ourselves too!!! Thank You Randy!!!
Carano will be posing semi-nude?
That's all I needed to hear.
Get a life man, she's a fighter not a model. YOu comment on how many MMa blogs buddy? Get some respect fatty.
Do I know you?
WTF are U talking about?
Yeah it's not like Gina has ever posed scantily clad for men's magazines or is going into movies right? She's a fighter not involved in any of those things.
By the way I post here and on 1 MMA Blog under a anonymous user name. I don't have the time to constantly roam the internet checking out all the mma blogs and forums to see whose posting what. Unlike yourself.
You tell someone to get a life you might want to practice what you preach.
Great choice SI. Cyborg was the better fighter, but Gina is the "looks" champion without question.
Wait a minute! ALL THE LOSERS got to pose?! This is so wrong! Carano lost big time. She should not be celebrated just so you teenage boys can jerk off to her pics!
everyone loses at least once
I'm not a teenager...um, i mean, I'm not jerking off!
I think this is great. A win or a loss...I think we all just want to see Gina back out there strutting her stuff. (which ever stuff that may be). True fans won't deny that. You go girl...and Welcome back Gina, been missing you. What ever comes after this...try not to stay away too long.
wow. i never saw this comming. but i still like her and respect her. i am just in totally shock right now.