Me and Gina Carano. Freakin' Sweet!!!
Yeah... Who knew a couple of weeks putting up that post about Elite XC I'd end up meeting one of the ladies in the picture on that post? Certainly not me, strangely enough my brother got some scoop from one of his co-workers at the station that Gina Carano (i.e. the face of women's MMA currently and also is Crush on American Gladiators) was going be at the Silver Legacy Casino. Of course my brother the MMA fanboy said I gotta go down there! Thinking that there was gonna be a horrific line and he may want a picture with her, I said heck I'll go down with ya!
Her signing time was 2PM and we got there about 1 and low and behold the line wasn't that long! Score! We were like within the first 10 or 15 people and we dug in for the wait. Gina was a lot shorter than I thought she'd be... Even in stiletto boots. Well we snap some photos and stuff while she's sitting down and waited our turn. When we got up to the front of the line she was very cordial and very nice! She actually took the time and talked to everyone and got up for photos after signing. As always, I had to have a slight akward moment though...
So I went up to talk with her, now I'm used to the talent just signing stuff and handing it to you... Sooo, we just kinda looked at each other for a split second and she asked if I wanted it made out to me? I'm like "Uh, you can make it out to Corrine (My big sister/cousin well more big sister than cousin), she really enjoys watching you on American Gladiators." I'm sure she wasn't quite used to hearing that but she was like "That's cool! So is this for your girl?" I'm like uh no that's my cousin, she lives in Arizona... Upon hearing that she laughed and said "That's really nice of you to get this for her!" So we took our picture together and we said our goodbyes and we left and Adam was ecstatic and you see the result up at the top...
Adam with Gray Maynard... Really cool cat!
Adam with Matt Hughes... He signed a picture for us... LOL
Another cool thing that happened today was after seeing Gina Carrano. I suggested we go to Scheels which is a sporting goods store that just opened here so adam could take a look at the UFC ring display set up, and Adam was like okay... So we walk through the door and I see a sign that Matt Hughes (Former UFC Champ) was signing today at the store! So we head on over to that area and we see that not only was Matt Hughes signing but The Ultimate Fighter participant Gray Maynard was there as well! I was actually more excited that Gray was there than Matt Hughes because I enjoyed watching Gray fight while he was on the show. The line was free flowing pretty good so me and little bro go into the line for some autographs. After we get through the line I asked Adam if he wanted to get a picture with the guys, he was like uh yeah! So little bro went through the line again and we got a couple of cool pics that he can post on his MySpace... LOL! Gray was a really cool cat, he was very cordial and poor guy I don't think many people knew who he was which is a shame because the guy is a great fighter! Matt Hughes was cordial, but kinda looked like he didn't want to be there... Although heck if I were going to Reno to do an autograph session I probably wouldn't want to be there either!!! LOL!!! So overall that experience was good but not as smooth as the Gina Carano experience...
Very interesting day... It was a very cool experience meeting Gina Carano and pure luck that we got to meet Matt Hughes and Gray Maynard! Very cool day indeed!!!
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