{"id":194982,"date":"2016-05-23T14:08:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T21:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=194982"},"modified":"2016-05-23T14:08:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T21:08:45","slug":"paige-vanzant-following-ronda-rouseys-footsteps-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/paige-vanzant\/paige-vanzant-following-ronda-rouseys-footsteps-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige VanZant following in Ronda Rousey&#8217;s footsteps to Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC strawweight <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-paige-vanzant-says-incident-ronda-rousey-little-bit-nonsense2\/\">Paige VanZant<\/a> is captivating a growing fanbase as she competes on Monday night in the finals of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing with the Stars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>VanZant&#8217;s time spent on the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-paige-vanzant-brings-the-cage-to-dancing-with-the-stars-paso-doble-routine\/\">dance show competition<\/a> has opened doors for the 6-2 mixed martial artists as <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2016\/05\/paige-vanzant-ufc-dancing-with-the-stars-joins-kickboxer-retaliation-movie-jean-claude-van-damme-1201761354\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline.com<\/a> reports that VanZant will make her debut on the big screen in <em>Kickboxer: Retaliation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>From Deadline:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>VanZant will play Gamon, a 26-year-old with high-level fighting and shooting skills with some strong criminal connections too. The role was specifically written for VanZant after producers saw her on the ABC dancing competition show this season. \u201cPaige is the up-and-coming darling of the UFC and her star quality shines through on camera,\u201d producer Rob Hickman of Our House Films said in a statement. \u201cShe\u2019s a tremendous asset to the film both as an onscreen talent and as a trainer fighter.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5208950\/\" target=\"_blank\">IMDB<\/a>, <em>Kickboxer: Retaliation<\/em> is dated for 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC strawweight Paige VanZant is captivating a growing fanbase as she competes on Monday night in the finals of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing with the Stars.&#8221; VanZant&#8217;s time spent on the dance show competition has opened doors for the 6-2 mixed martial artists as Deadline.com reports that VanZant will make her debut on the big screen in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54422,"featured_media":138985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10124],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Paige VanZant following in Ronda Rousey&#039;s footsteps to Hollywood | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/paige-vanzant\/paige-vanzant-following-ronda-rouseys-footsteps-hollywood\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Paige VanZant following in Ronda Rousey&#039;s footsteps to Hollywood | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UFC strawweight Paige VanZant is captivating a growing fanbase as she competes on Monday night in the finals of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing with the Stars.&#8221; 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