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from www.usatoday.com A cast member of The Ultimate Fighter now views his work in gay pornography videos as an error.
Lightweight fighter Dakota Cochrane will be among the 32 competitors appearing next month on the Season 15 premiere of TUF,the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s reality show. But before he went on to win 11 of 13 professional fights, Cochrane performed as “Danny” in gay porn films.
Cochrane spoke about it Tuesday on The MMA Show with Mauro Ranallo:
“Yeah, it’s true. It’s something I did a long time ago. Definitely made a mistake and want to put it in the past. Just trying to move on to bigger and better things now.
“I’ve kind of dealt with this stuff ever since I did it. I am straight, but I obviously did something. I did those movies, and it was for the money.
“People are going to be opinionated. There’s going to be haters and people who don’t really care about it. Those people who don’t really care and actually know me, that’s really what I’m focused on. … Those people that actually care about me as a person know it was a mistake.”
The video work netted about $80,000 total for Cochrane, he told MMAFighting.com. He stopped doing it at his girlfriend’s request after she learned about it, he said.
TUF producers already knew about it because Cochrane mentioned the video work during his audition for the reality show. Although some mixed martial arts websites were buzzing about the information on Tuesday, it isn’t new — a September article on the Queerty.com site mentioned Cochrane as an athlete who has performed in gay porn.
A few fighters have expressed reservations about homosexuals, but UFC executives in the last couple of years have distanced themselves personally from those sentiments.
Whether Cochrane makes it past the season premiere remains to be seen because the program’s fights will air live for the first time. The show will open with bouts to choose 16 men for the rest of the season, so half of the cast will be eliminated in the first episode.
Cochrane’s MMA record suggests he could be one of the survivors. His most recent victory came in September against a former champion of World Extreme Cagefighting, Jamie Varner.
Winners of the show receive long-term contracts with UFC. A number of semifinalists also have had productive careers in the promotion.