Felice Herrig: I think Cassie Cage from "Mortal Kombat" is 100% me
Every fighter who grew up playing Nintendo, Sega, Playstation or Xbox probably dreamed of one day ending up in a video game.
Count UFC women's strawweight Felice Herrig among those fighters who would be absolutely excited to see her likeness used for a video game creation -- as long as the game makers bothered to ask her first.
Herrig recently took to her Instagram page to express some concern after she was alerted to the new "Mortal Kombat X" that features a character named Cassie Cage, who seems to look an awful lot like her.
After taking a look at the initial images, Herrig started to do some research on the character and the more she found out, the more she was convinced that the makers behind "Mortal Kombat X" definitely used her likeness and even a good part of her personality to create Cassie Cage.
"I don't think it's a coincidence. There's too many factors and components for it just to be a coincidence," Herrig told FOX Sports on Thursday. "There's the images that are the exact same photos I've done in photoshoots and they're the exact same poses used for Cassie Cage's character.
"Not only just the likeness but when you see her finishing move which is blowing the bubble gum and putting it on the guy's face and then her other finishing move is taking a selfie. I definitely believe they used my likeness. I think that Cassie Cage is 100-percent me."
There's a part of Herrig that's honored that a game like "Mortal Kombat" would even consider using her as the basis for a character, but then again, never actually asking her permission just doesn't sit well from a personal or business stand point.
"Who doesn't want to be a bad ass in a video game? Or a superhero in a movie? It's definitely cool and if they would have came to me and said 'hey can we use your image and your likeness in a video game as Cassie Cage?' I would be more excited," Herrig said.
"It's hard to get excited because yeah it's an honor and it's exciting, but they're making a lot of money off that video game."
Herrig is so convinced that "Mortal Kombat" used her likeness for the character that her representatives are looking into some sort of action regarding the video game, which obviously means potential legal action, but she couldn't comment too much right now.
"I've had my people looking into it right now," Herrig said. "So that's probably as much as I can say about it."
