Soap star eyes celebrity MMA event

Actor Mark Lawson, who plays Lt. Brody Lovett on ABC’s “One Life to Live,” is issuing a challenge to other actors:

“I want to take part in a celebrity mixed martial arts tournament,” said the 31-year-old Lawson, who has been on the long-running soap opera for six years. “UFC president Dana White, let’s set this up. I’m a good fighting weight of 175 and I’m ready to take on all comers.”

Lawson has had some experience in the Octagon, with a 1-0 record in a semi-pro fight a few years ago, and he works out almost every day to stay in soap-opera-take-off-my-shirt-all-the-time shape. He had one problem in that fight, though.

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