Kimo
Leopoldo fue parte del UFC
en su primera etapa y, aparentemente, bastante conocido en los EEUU. Se corrieron
rumores acerca de su muerte por lo que el atleta/actor dio una conferencia de
prensa aclarando los mismos. En vocabulario: gimmick, con la etimología de la palabra.
Kimo Leopoldo (born 4 January 1968) is a retired American mixed martial artist and
actor. He made his MMA
debut at UFC 3 in 1994 losing to Royce Gracie by submission.
Leopoldo was born in Munich to an American father of Irish and Polynesian
descent and a German mother of Jewish descent. Four months after he was born
his family moved to Hawaii. Leopoldo
was a natural athlete growing up, playing football, wrestling, and he also had
an interest in surfing. Leopoldo was
a dominant wrestler at Waianae High School and played on the team that won the
Hawaii High School Athletic Association Championship. Leopoldo was also a very talented middle linebacker in football,
and attended the University of Washington on a partial athletic scholarship,
but he was unprepared for college, and returned to Hawaii shortly after.
Leopoldo has worked since 1996 as an actor in
independent productions. He starred in the direct to video production R.I.O.T.:
The Movie and the films The Process, The Dog Problem, In the Closet, Bullet and
Avengers Grimm.
Kimo
is well known for his Christian beliefs: he sports many religious tattoos, and
entered the arena at UFC 3 carrying a large cross on his back.
Kimo Leopoldo Holds a Press Conference about rumors of his life (2: 48)
I just want to
thank you all for your time, your concern, and allow me the opportunity to disprove (= dispel) rumors, some
reports about my dead earlier today. I was actually woken up at around noon
this morning by my promoter that I was deceased sometime early this morning,
due to a heart failure of some sort. I stand alive here and in person to reassure
my condition and health to friends, family and fans, you know. With deep sorrow
I want to apologize, you know, to my fans and my family. My loved ones who were
affected, hurt, by these rumors, you know.
I also want to
let them know that I had nothing to do. My name, the origin of these rumors was
not by me, by some gimmick that we put
together or something like that. So I want to make sure that they all know that
too, because some who are angry with me.
Right here is
evidence, the proof of the power of the media, the influence the media has and
also that it´s been accountable and responsible with the reporting.
Throughout my
whole career I have been unjustly represented by the media. I´ve been… put
certain labels on me, drug addict, you know. Now they said I’m dead. All these
things are not true but I don’t have the ability to go to every single person
and convince them of the stories. And not just that. They fail to tell the
facts, the truth. The truth of the story. They put their own opinions in there
and that´s not the correct picture. Reading it, you know, the public is not seeing
the truth. What´s really happening, you know.
I actually was
with a friend of mine and I don´t want to give up her name right now but as I said
I was sleeping so I was unaware of any of it until my promoter let me know so I´ve
wanted to come here and straighten it out quickly. The momentum of this is
amazing. It´s bad enough what it is about me but when you do something like
this and it affects loved ones, and my fans and my friends. Now it´s starting
to get to other people. And it´s sad.
Vocabulario
Gimmick: A gimmick is a novel device or idea designed primarily
to attract attention or increase appeal, often with little intrinsic value. Gimmicks are occasionally viewed negatively, but some
seemingly trivial gimmicks of the past have evolved into useful, permanent
features.
The origin of
the term, "gimmick", is uncertain. Etymologists suggest that the term
emerged in the United States in the early twentieth century. The Oxford Dictionary
suggests that it may have originally been a slang term for something that a con
artist or magician manipulated to make appearances different from reality and
gradually changed its meaning to refer to any ‘piece of magicians' apparatus’.
The word itself may be an approximate anagram of the word magic. Another
possible origin is that it may have come into use among the gaming tables,
where it came to refer to "a device used for making a fair game
crooked". The term first appeared in American newspapers in the 1910s and
1920s.
Questions
There are
certain questions we would like to ask Kimo:
Do you have
children?
Have you been
married?
When did you
leave the MMA?
How did you
start in the movie industry?
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