Tommy Toe Hold talks about Invicta’s Cyborg-Coenen main event and Ronda Rousey
“Let’s do this shit!” Thanks to cartoon satirist Tommy Toe Hold, the catchphrase has joined the small, exclusive pantheon of combat-sports slogans: “Let’s get ready to rumble” and “It’s time.”
Tommy, who keeps his true identity a secret, hosts The Tommy Toe Hold Show on YouTube. Imagine if Cartoon Network devoted six minutes during Adult Swim to the latest mixed-martial-arts news but was heavy on satire, smart dialogue, 1980s and ’90s pop-culture references, cheap production values and F-bombs. Yeah, the only real animation is Tommy’s moving mouth – like a Canadian on South Park – but the athletes and personalities whom he roasts appear as their photo likenesses.
Tommy spends from 16 to 24 hours a week writing, producing and voicing shows for Mondays and Wednesdays (though you’re more likely to be taking Tommy in with your Thursday-morning coffee). And there’s plenty of material, especially after a big UFC pay-per-view with wild finishes, fighters trash talking and big-fight speculation.
“Pretty much as soon as the PPV is over, the show is already finished in my head,” Tommy tells The Pitch. “Then I wait until Wednesday afternoon to actually do something with it, and then the show gets released at 3 a.m.”
