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According to The Guardian, Hardy entered the competition under his real name “Edward,” straying away from his stage name, which is also his middle name.“Everyone recognized him but he was very humble and was happy to take time out for people to take photographs with him,” the spokesperson said, according to The Guardian. “It was a real pleasure to have him compete at our event.”Hardy’s opponent, Danny Appleby, told local media that the actor’s appearance at the event left him “shell-shocked.”“I was shell-shocked,” the veteran athlete said.

Cheng Pei-pei died in the San Francisco Bay area on Thursday. She was 78.The “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” actress had been suffering from a degenerative brain disease, her representatives at Echelon Talent Management confirmed in a statement to People.The Shanghai, China native’s family also spoke out in a Facebook post.“It is with a heavy heart that we announce that the rumors are true.

podcast with computer scientist Lex Fridman, Zuckerberg, 39, declared that beginners have to be willing “to get beaten up a lot” if they want to master the grappling art — in which participants try to best each other using various joint locks and submission holds.“Part of learning is failing,” the social network mogul elaborated. “People who train jiu-jitsu — you need to not have pride.” He claims that part of the problem is that people are less willing to be embarrassed as they grow older.

showed up at the competition on Saturday as an accomplished blue belt in the self-defense discipline.Taking to Instagram on Wednesday following his win, “The Revenant” star revealed he participated in the championship as a part of the global nonprofit organization REORG.“Addiction is difficult and complex stuff to navigate; as is mental health,” Hardy wrote. “Subjects which are both deeply personal for me and extremely close to my heart.”He added, “It is an honor to be able to represent the charity and my team REORG and the great work they do supporting the mental health and well-being of veterans of service, military, and first responders through the therapeutic benefits of Jiu Jitsu and fitness training.” The “Venom” actor said the sport helped him develop “a deeper sense of inner resilience.”“Simple training, for me (as a hobby and a private love) has been fundamentally key to further develop a deeper sense of inner resilience, calm, and well-being,” he explained.

Mortal Kombat” video-game franchise offered a legion of characters for the filmmakers behind the new movie adaptation to choose from. “Mortal Kombat” uses only a small fraction of the game’s super-powered ninjas, brutal assassins and four-armed monsters, but even that was probably enough to tax the celebrity trailer supply in Australia, where the film was shot. In this reboot of the movie franchise that has been dormant since 1997’s “Mortal Kombat: Annihilation,” an MMA fighter (Lewis Tan) competes in a violent tournament to save the Earth.Here’s a guide to some of the kooky characters along for the kombat. This ninja was one of the original avatars created for the 1992 game, and he epitomized what was meant to set it apart: namely,

The director of Nicolas Cage’s new martial-arts movie, “Jiu Jitsu,” says the actor knows what he’s doing.“Nic is trained in jujitsu,” Dimitri Logothetis told Page Six. “He knew an awful lot and did a lot of moves on-camera that were his own that my stunt coordinators laid out.” But he adds, “We didn’t let him do the dangerous stuff.”Logothetis said Cage “worked on the choreography for about a week.