Halme, a professional boxer by training, achieved fame on the Finnish version of the Gladiators television franchise. He was notorious for his outspoken opinions, and served for one term as a Member ...

Editor’s note: Rick Bassman is a business owner who helps big, mean-looking men (and a few similarly endowed women) find work as professional wrestlers, mixed martial arts fighters and Hollywood ...

Tony Halme was a big, bad man. That's what Randy Couture remembers as he got set to fight the Finnish giant at his UFC debut in August, Ga. way back in 1997. Couture was a winner that night and the ...

The harshly-worded column by journalist-actor Kaarina Hazard was published a few days after his death. It charged the media with hypocrisy in its coverage of Halme, while using derogatory expressions ...