Cung Le, the Strikeforce Middleweight Champion has been taking time off away from the ring to pursue an acting career and heal injuries. He's been gone for over a year now and his fans are starting to wonder what he's been doing.
Not only has he been acting, but he's been immortalized as an action figure by Round 5 and he's even been training. When will he return to the Strikeforce cage? Read on in my exclusive one-on-one interview with Cung Le.
Mike Leanza (Bleacher Report)- First off, I'd like to thank you for giving me the time to interview you today.
Cung Le- No problem man. Its my pleasure.
Mike Leanza (Bleacher Report)- So one of the reasons I'm interviewing you today is because you just had an action figure released of you by Round 5. Explain what that experience was like.
Cung Le- The whole experience of having your own action figure is an amazing experience. From taking the detailed pictures 360 degrees of your body, the first moldings and the second moldings and then finally to have the action figure, to see it in the packaging and then to open the packaging when you get the action figure, its just amazing.
Mike Leanza (Bleacher Report)- What does it mean to you to have an action figure done by Round 5, they've made figures of guys like Randy Couture, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, and now you. What does that mean to you?
Cung Le- It means alot to me. It means all the hard work that I've put in, y'know I've only got six MMA fights. Alot people only know about my MMA fights, but I've been fighting since 1998. Sanshou Kickboxing, its a really good feeling.
Mike Leanza (Bleacher Report)- Yea, you haven't been in the mixed-martial-arts game that long. What was it like to get the call from the people at Round 5 to be immortalized into an action figure? What was your first reaction to that?
Cung Le- I'm just so grateful, so thankful and its almost like.... you don't even have the right words for it, you're just in shock.
Mike Leanza (Bleacher Report)- How much input did you have, you had two figures done, right?
Cung Le- I mean, they made a limited edition one with the shorts, y'know a matching action figure with just the shorts. The other one was black shorts with gold and the red stripes. It was just amazing.
Mike Leanza (Bleacher Report)- Since taking a break from MMA you've done alot of things. You've had an action figure made, you've worked on a lot of movies. What was this break from MMA to pursue movies like?
Cung Le- Well, on its given me time to recover my elbow injury that I got before the Frank Shamrock fight, and two I've done five movies in the last two years. They're all starting to come out now. I've got a big movie coming out called "Pandorum", it's going to be big.
Everyone likes movies, everyone likes action and guessing whats going to come next but caan't figure it out. It's one of those movies. Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster, its one of those psychological thrillers with action and horro and sci-fi. For me to be on set for two and a half months with actors like Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster was priceless.
Just to be apart of a movie with a great director, Christian Alvert, producers like Jeremy Bolt and Robert Kulzer it was like going to school and getting paid. Next thing you know you've got a movie coming out and you've got the experience, it was amazing.
Mike Leanza (Bleacher Report)- You've made such a big transition from MMA to movies, you had your first major U.S. movie come out this year with "Fighting", and you were just talking about "Pandorum", can we get a little preview of "Tekken" which also comes out this year?
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