The teensy tiny UFC hall of fame is about to get a little bit bigger: superstar fighter Chuck Liddell and Tapout founder Charles ‘Mask’ Lewis will be inducted this weekend at the UFC Fan Expo. Liddell started his MMA career with the UFC, winning his debut fight against Noe Hernandez at UFC 17 in May of 1998. Five years later he had replaced Tito Ortiz as Dana White’s new best friend and the company’s ace fighter.
While there was speculation that his induction into the Hall of Fame was another nudge by the UFC’s president to push Liddell into retirement, the …read more

Tapout Charles “Mask” Lewis Tribute T-Shirts. Tapout has released new, limited edition Charles “Mask” Lewis Jr. tribute T-shirts. Charles Lewis Jr. Co-founded TapouT MMA clothing line in 1997 that grew in to a behemoth of a company. The Tapout crew love the sport of MMA and have helped many fighters along the way. Mask died in a high-speed car accident on March 11th, 2009. I never knew the guy, but he’ll surely be missed by all MMA fans alike.
I hope nobody looks at these tribute t-shirts as profit from Mask’s death and as a tribute to the man, as I’m …read more

Forrest Griffin Is the poster child for THQ’s upcoming UFC Undisputed game. You can check out pictures of that at THQ.com.
Jason Guida has been named as Ken Shamrock’s replacement at March Badness on March 21st. Ken Shamrock was scheduled to fight Bobby Lashley but was recently suspended for popping positive for 3 banned substances by the California State Athletics Commission after his last fight.
MMA Junkie reports that David Kirby, the other driver involved in the crash that took the life of Tapout founder Charles “Mask Lewis, will indeed be charged with Felony Vehicular Manslaughter as well as his third …read more

The LA Times ran a story on the crash the killed Charles “Mask” Lewis, founder of the Tapout MMA clothing line. It also has pictures from the crash site showing that the car (Ferrari 360 Modena) that Mask and his female passenger where riding in when it struck a pole and was split in half. The other driver, Jeffrey David Kirby is still being held on 2 million dollars bail has had prior traffic violations to include a charge of Driving Under The Influence.
Kirby fled the scene of the accident but was apprehended a short time later. The LA …read more

I’ve wondered about this a few times but never really gave it much thought or looked into it. Today I learned the entire story and you can too. UFC.com published the Story behind the huge clothing line and how "Mask", then known as Charlie Lewis got it off the ground to launch one of the most popular clothing lines among MMA fighters and trainees. Check out this short excerpt and/or go read the story at UFC.Com at the link in the bottom. I have a couple of Tapout T-shirts. Not because I’m a wanna-be fighter or anything. Because I’m …read more

First I would like to introduce myself. My name is Scott. I live in North Carolina but I grew up in Upstate New York. I spent 4 years in the Marine Corps, 6.5 years in the United States Army and 2 in the NC Army National Guard. Now I’m a free man and full time blogger for b5 with two blogs in the Music Channel, one in the Health and Wellness Channel and now one here. My wife, Dexie writes for a bunch of blogs here at b5 as well. WE have a 10 year old boy and a 2 …read more