Twilight Starlet Ashley Greene, that girl who played Alice Cullen apparently got in shape through mma training . In an interview from the Vancouver Sun she said: "I get to fight in Eclipse...My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool."

New Moon had a lot of fight scenes and this ultimately prompted the actress to do mma training. She also does Taekwondo although she fears that she would still get beat up in a real fight.

The actress seem pretty serious though and she's training right now for advanced mma. Will we actually see her in a cage soon?

Nonetheless, it is pretty clear that MMA is really gaining popularity in North America and she is not the first celebrity to dive into the mma frenzy.

Shaquille O Neal also trains mma and also alluded to getting into the cage. He also had videos on youtube sparring with Oscar De la Hoya. Meanwhile, DMX, a popular rapper,  even had a fight scheduled but later cancelled due to unknown reasons.

It would be very interesting to see a celebrity to join a season of the Ultimate Fighter or even see Shaq fight against Brock Lesnar or something. I think its only a matter of time until this happens