If you like badass babes, you’re going to love Gina Carano. She’s a Strikeforce MMA fighter and she’s starring in “Haywire” which opened this weekend. Check out Bob Westal’s positive review of “Haywire” in our movie channel. Her character in this film will definitely be a candidate if we do another Badass Bracket.

We put together a slideshow of some great photos of Gina from the film. If you have a thing for girls with guns, you’re going to like some of these shots. The first shot is from Gina’s Maxim shoot, so check it out for some other great photos from our friends at Maxim.

We’re fussy about Red Carpet events here at Bullz-Eye central. That’s largely because as a lone, online writer you’re pretty much at the mercy of the publicity gods in terms of who you’re going to meet up with and you never know who that’s going to be. One condition we have is that we get to see the show/movie/what-have-you in question so, if all else fails, we can write about that or at least get a bit of entertainment and free food. In this case, that was a good thing. Not because we didn’t get to talk to anybody interesting, but because Spike TV’s “Guys Choice” presentation, which premieres on the network at 9:00 Eastern/6:00 PDT Friday is not your usual award show.

Right down to the sexy female dancers who liven up the breaks and its highly distinctive award statue, “the Mantlers,” it’s easily the most laid back and honestly silly awards show I’ve seen. It’s also the only award show we know of which contains R-rated profanity in one of its award titles: the “Funniest Motherf*cker” award, this year being given to Jim Carrey. It’s safe the say the show was completely irreverent about everything, except for its commendable commitment to drawing attention to the bravery and sacrifices made by members of our armed forces.

Speaking of Jim Carrey, the famed comic provided a remarkable bit of comedy dealing with the always absolutely never hilarious topic of..oh, Lord, we’d better just leave it alone. You don’t want to know. Carrey himself made it clear that children and other sensitive people were better off not hearing the routine before proceeding with a shocking and explosively funny performance, abetted by the sensitive stylings of violinist Neil Hammond.

More traditionally edgy and hilarious at certain points, but a lot longer, was a marathon bit by faux canine Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, aka comic genius Robert Smigel. The latter merited a bad on-camera review from Sean Penn who between this show and his criticism of Ricky Gervais at Golden Globes, seems to be developing a side career as a real-time award show comedy critic.

Justin Timberlake less controversially proved himself to be, once again, no comic slouch, while promoting the charms of the co-star of his next flick, “Friends with Benefits,” the beautiful and talented Mila Kunis. Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards distinguished himself by simply being alive to pick up his award and being the innately humourous individual he is.

And so it went. I’ll have a few choice quotes from the show at the end of this piece. First, though, let’s talk about the folks we met on the Red Carpet.

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The Third Annual World MMA Awards are on tap for this Wednesday, December 1st, at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. The show, which is presented by Fighters Only Magazine, will be hosted by UFC Hall of Famer Randy “The Natural” Couture and MMA broadcaster Molly Querim.

Each year the MMA Awards honors the best in MMA for the previous 12 months. Fans voted in categories like The Charles “Mask” Lewis Fighter of the Year, Fight of the Year, Submission of the Year, KO of the Year, and many others. Fighters like Anderson Silva, Brock Lesnar, Frankie Edgar, and Jose Aldo are among the top nominees.

The Palms is offering some incredible packages for the event, so book your room and join in the festivities. We’re huge fans of The Palms and we had a great time there recently for the PlayerXT Latina event. The casino should be packed for this event, so it’s the place to be this week if you’re an MMA fan!

Rocktagon MMA recently acquired CageStars, and tonight they have another terrific night of amateur MMA scheduled in Elyria, Ohio. We caught their last event this past summer and it’s must-see for fans of mixed-martial arts. The quality of the competition is excellent, as they put together an excellent roster of amateur fighters.

Doors open at 5 P.M. and fights start at 7 P.M. Click here for tickets and join for an up-close view of this amazing sport.