If stars like Everlast and Laura Prepon dig what you’re doing, you must be on the right track, and the fighters in the UFC can rest assured that as boxing was to Old Hollywood, MMA is to New Hollywood.

“I was watching back in the Dan Severn days and back when Royce Gracie was runnin’ things,” said Grammy-award winning recording artist Everlast. “Every UFC that I’m within a three hour radius of, I’m there. I love it.”

Everlast, the former front man of House of Pain,  produced Jump Around, a virtual anthem for the MMA set.

Most of the star types who are into MMA have been following the sport since 1993.

For a lot of people, it was the mixture of different combat sports styles that made the UFC so intriguing, and having boxing, wrestling, jiu-jitsu, kickboxing, Muay Thai, karate, and judo all in one sport was the key factor that hooked them for life.

Laura Prepon, a familiar face at MMA events, was the star of That 70’s Show and October Road, and she digs the UFC and MMA.

“It’s not just boxing, it’s not just jiu-jitsu, it’s not just kickboxing – it literally is everything in one, and anything can happen,” said Prepon. “I just watched a boxing match a few weeks ago and I just kept wanting them to take each other down and submit each other.”

And we’d very much like to do the same for you, Ms. Prepon.

Sylvester Stallone, unquestionably a boxing guy, he was after all Rocky, says MMA is the new combat sport of choice.

“I think it’s replaced boxing – which breaks my heart – but that’s a fact of life because there’s a certain kind of vitality and competitiveness and a willingness to gamble that a lot of boxers, when they reach a certain echelon, won’t, so yes, I’m a big fan,” said Stallone.

Jason Statham, a member of Britain’s National Diving Squad for ten years, says he appreciates what goes into making a world-class mixed martial artist even more than most.

“I just think they’re the ultimate athletes, in every sense of the word,” said Statham. “These guys are looking at a world of pain and they’ve got to try and have the confidence to overwhelm someone who’s out there to absolutely destroy them and make them pay. So they have to be able to remain calm and fully confident, and be in such physical shape to play that game of human chess. And when it goes to the ground, it is a question of who leaves themselves vulnerable by trying to go for the win, because when you go for the win, at that point you are, in some ways, leaving yourself open for a counter.  They’re the fittest of the fit, and to me, these fighters are the warriors of today, the real gladiators.”

Prepon is all about fighters, and for her, no other sport fills the bill.

“There’s a certain kind of honor and integrity with the fighters, and these guys are machines,” Prepon said.  “I don’t think Kobe Bryant could go three five minute rounds.”