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Combat Sports and the athletes that compete in them are often very closely related to their Hollywood counterparts. Even recently the lives of Micky Ward and Roberto Duran have made their way to the big screen. So when a story about Muay Thai fighters in prison gets documented on a Showtime documentary fight fans should tune in. Prison Fighters premieres on Showtime in  February and if it is as good as the trailer below, movies might follow not long after.

William Peter Blatty 1928-2017 William Peter Blatty, best known for writing The Exorcist (1971) passed away Thursday evening according to the film's director William Friedkin. William Peter Blatty, dear friend and brother who created The Exorcist passed away yesterday — William Friedkin (@WilliamFriedkin) January 13, 2017 The story has made many "top 100" of horror lists and remains one of the scariest films to watch for many horror fans. The story was made into a film, had a few sequels and is the basis for the recent Fox TV show that just completed its first season . Blatty was 89-years-old.

Photo: Edward Carbajal 2016 was a pretty big year for MMA in New York. The ban on MMA was lifted, UFC 205 came to Madison Square Garden and broke records, and on the final days of 2016 WSOF had their most successful event since the promotions launch, also at Madison Square Garden. The event hosted four title fights and all of them were entertaining, days before the event a press conference was held to promote it and below are the face-offs for WSOF 34/WSOF NYC. Check them out here: The prelims aired on NBCSN and the main card was on NBC. The viewership peaked at over a million on New Years Eve, do you think we'll see more early evening or late afternoon MMA cards in 2017? Please share your comments below.

Photo: Netflix The GOAT of binge worthy shows is bringing another original to  +Netflix US & Canada  . Santa Clarita Diet is the latest Netflix show that seems to be a horror/comedy being distributed on the streaming service. It stars Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant as suburban couple that gets hit with some sort of zombie like virus that leads them to resorting to cannibalism. The show is set to debut on February 7 so we will have full review for you soon. Horror and comedy can work well together as most good horrors know not to take themselves too seriously, but can fail when it feels forced. Not all genres work well together and few can match the wit of The Evil Dead or Shaun of the Dead. Be on the lookout for Santa Clarita Diet next month and we will give it a review once we get through it.