Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – In the days before a film is released to the public, you would imagine that the emotions experienced by the director would be similar to those a prizefighter goes through just before the walk into battle – nervousness, excitement, fear of the unknown.Lexi Alexander, director of The Punisher: War Zone, has admittedly had some nerves in anticipation of Friday’s opening of the film, but as far as the rest of the comparisons to fighting are concerned, this second degree karate black belt and former world kickboxing champ disagrees.

Thomas Gerbasi, WEC – Midway through 2008, if you ran down the list of champions in the WEC, the two considered most likely to still be holding their belts when “jingle bells” started playing around town would have been Urijah Faber and Miguel Torres.