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Leon Horne

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Well, I was born and raised just outside of Montreal, Quebec, Canada in the Vaudreuil-Soulange region. I just recently made the move to my nation's capital with my long time girl friend. I graduated from McGill university with a B.Sc. in psychology and am currently working in residential and car insurance sales. I am a die hard sports fan, I watch NFL, NHL, CFL, UFC, Snowboarding, the olympics and both ATP and WTA tennis. I am not a tremendous athlete myself, but I was a competitive swimmer, I pitched in baseball, played water polo, began playing tennis to stay in shape and have been snowboarding for over 10 years. I enjoy commenting on sports and debating issues in the world of sports and am excited at the opportunity to be able to contribute to the Bleacher Report.

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  • Favorite Athletes

    Rafael Nadal, Randy Moss, Saku Koivu, Roger Federer, Marc Bulger the list goes on

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Alouettes, Montreal Expos, St. Louis Rams

  • All Time Sports Moment

    New York Giants dashing the New Enganld Patriots perfect season in the 2007/2008 season

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    New England Patriots vs. Sandiego Charges in 2007/2008 Semi-Finals

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Wayne Gretzky's points Record or Jerry Rice's Career Reception record

  • Ruth or Mays?

    indifferent

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Montana

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Pele

  • Pac 10, Big 12, Big 10, SEC, ACC, or Big East?

    Big East

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  1. Hey Leon,

    I saw your note to Derek, and noticed that you haven't interviewed anyone yet. I have a great chance for you if you would like it...and it's not a high profile guy (yet) either.

    If you can do an interview tomorrow at 4 pm ET with Bellator rising star Lyman Good, could you let me know ASAP? It's a great chance to interview a great fighter, and it'll only increase our good standing with Bellator. Thanks. Oh, and if you need any help, I am available to talk to if you'd like. Just let me know.

    -Nick

  2. Leon -

    I submit interview requests either from me or one of my colleagues over at MMAmania will set up if they already have a relationship w/ a particular manager or PR person. I have done enough interviews now that I have a wealth of e-mails/phone #'s, etc.. of fighters, managers, and their reps so I can keep going back to them if I need to and cut out a lot of middlemen.

    Some of the bigger named fighters will request questions ahead of time but most will simply talk with you either in person or over the phone and answer whatever you want to ask. As far as asking for an interview you should basically just let the contact know who you are and who you write for and what the premise of the interview or your goal with the interview is (like turning it into a featured article or whatever). Then the contact will pick and choose who they want to do interviews with and let you know.

    If there were a few fighters you had in mind I could probably help you out as far as getting contact info or cutting out middlemen so let me know. Have you done any interviewing stuff like this before?

  3. What's up Leon ? This is the craziest sub I've ever seen (apologies if you've already seen it) :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpr9lPqcMDM#

  4. He mate

    wrote a piece which I tried to make my master piece. Could you please cheack it out. Don't be scared of telling me if it is bad

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/200865-painting-my-sports-idol

  5. yeah im done over there..
    boxing is my foray now
    i wanna do my part to try and spark some interest in it
    maybe save it from extinction..lol

  6. my latest, think about it , comment

  7. Leon,

    I would love it if you checked out my latest article, I hope that it gives us all the much needed inspiration.

    "The cradles of eminence part2, the triumph of the human spirit"

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/136570-the-cradles-of-eminence-in-sports-part2-the-triumph-of-the-human-spirit

    enjoy,
    Louie

  8. Hi Leon,

    Thanks for your comment/question regarding Brock Lesnar.

    Think of how many small athletes can do aerial moves such as a shooting star press in fake wrestling. Thousands. Now think of how many 200-300lbs people can. Not many. In fact Lesnar, despite being a genetic freak still nearly killed himself doing that very move.
    That's gravity and physics in action.

    Take a look at lightweight Judo or Sambo:
    Flying armbars left and right. But how often do you see a Heavyweight do a flying armbar? Ever? As one famous Greco wrestler put it: "300lbs men are not suppose to fly thru the air".

    The fastest people are small. Take a look at 145lbs MMA, they are blinding fast. Take a look at Bruce Lee, he was 135lbs.
    As a great Karate World Champ Joe Lewis (heavyweight) once said regarding a demo he did VS Bill Wallace (middleweight) "Demos are stupid. how am I suppose to deal with speed and technique of a smaller fighter without using my power of a heavyweight?!"
    As you can see Joe clearly suggested that his smaller opponent will naturally be a lot faster and more technical, and hence would win unless Joe can use HIS atributes of a heavyweight, namely size (power)

    cheers,

  9. Its that time again. Time for the 3rd edition of B/R MMA rankings. We will be ranking our Top 5 fighters in each division (lightweight-heavyweight) and doing a Top 10 P4P rankings.

    A few notes: For P4P feel free to include fighters from featherweight or bantamweight. A fighter who hasn't fought in over a year he is ineligible. As far as Rich Franklin and Dan Henderson, Franklin will only receive votes at light heavyweight and Dan Henderson will only receive votes at middleweight. If you have any questions about this feel free to ask. Keep in mind that Diego Sanchez is fighting at 155 at UFC 95. I would lean toward voting for him at lightweight (if he is in your top 5) but technically he is still a welterweight so use your best discretion. please email your submissions to chode722@yahoo.com and in your subject line put: your name and B/R MMA rankings. Thanks for taking the time to vote!

  10. Leon..

    the article I am proud of.. my sports hero.. I hope you'll like it..
    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/115123-my-sports-hero-not-kobe-never-was-lebron-just-my-uncle

  11. Hey Leon,

    We are aware of the problem and our engineering team is on the job. It should be fixed shortly.

    Appreciate you bringing this to my attention. Keep up the great work!

    Z

  12. A FELLOW CANADIAN AND AN "EAST COASTER" AT THAT...WELCOME MY MAN!!!

  13. Which fighter has had the best individual year in MMA history? Would love your opinion in my latest...

  14. Brand new B/R MMA rankings are currently being put together by myself and Brian Oswald. We're going even deeper into the writer rankings than last time. The top thirty writers are invited to share there opinion. Were looking for your top five fighters to each division. Meaning a 1-5 for each, lightweight to heavyweight. Finally we need a top 10 P4P list.

    Please send your rankings to chode722@yahoo.com. Thank you for your participation and we'll try and get the rankings posted asap.

  15. Are you a fan or MMA tournaments? please check my newest concept of an article "The Interactive Tournament" and leave your votes. Let your voices be heard and vote for the best fighters.

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/93050-interactive-tournament-lightweight-division-part-1

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