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49 year old American Football Legend, Herschel Walker has put down the pigskin and picked up MMA gear. After an amazing college football career, he was drafted into the NFL in 1985. He quickly became a known player playing for teams like the Dallas Cowboys, the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Giants. His last year playing in the NFL was 1997 and two years later he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
On January 30, 2010, Herschel Walker had his debut Mixed Martial Arts fight following a 12 week training camp at the American Kickboxing Academy. He competes in the heavyweight division and has a style mixture of kickboxing and taekwondo. He is a fifth-degree black belt and utilizes an orthodox stance. He faced opponent Greg Nagy whom he defeated by TKO. He second fight took place on January 29, 2011. He faced Scott Carson and once again came out the victor by again TKO. This left Walker undefeated and anxiously awaiting his next opponent. In an interview about the merging of Strikeforce and UFC did not personally affect his career. He stated that he is looking forward to his next fight and his next victory.

The sport of mix martial arts (MMA) has grown in popularity like no other sport in history, and big names of famous people involved with mix martial arts are also growing. Sylvester Stallone for example has embraced the sport of MMA by helping to bring famous fighters such as Randy Courture into movies. The recent film “Expendables,” was a huge success at the box office and no-doubt fans of MMA bought tickets to see UFC Hall-of-Famer Randy Couture in action. Couture will also appear in “Expendables 2″ already in the works.

Another famous person who is actively involved in the sport of MMA is none other than Steven Seagal, who is 7thdan and Shihan in Aikido. Unlike Stallone, Seagal has hands on involvement in the sport. He has been secretly training a few big named UFC fighters that have produced big wins recently after training with him. Anderson Silva trained with Seagal before his fight with Vitor Belfort in UFC 126, and credited the front kick he used in the fight to Seagal’s training. Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida also trained with Seagal, and Machida also used a similar front kick to win his bout against Randy Couture.