Content Provided by Fightersonlymag.com WSOF lightweight champion Justin Gaethje might be a Division I All-American wrestler, he still intends on showing off his constantly improving striking skills on Saturday night against Nick Newell at WSOF 11. Gaethje, who wrestled for Northern Colorado but was born and raised in Arizona, has developed an impressive striking…
Content Provided by Zack Miller If you ask 25-year-old Justin Gaethje, he’ll tell you that there isn’t really any secret to his success. From starting on the wrestling mats at the young age of four, to defeating Rich Patishnock in just over a minute to win the World Series of Fighting lightweight championship, it all…
Content Provided by By Chuck Mindenhall ne of the more time-honored ways of conveying an intent to do harm is to say you want to “beat the piss” out of someone. Depending on your taste in flourishes, sometimes there’s an adjective attached for emphasis…such as, “I want to beat the living piss” out of…
July 5th , the day after Independence day, and the continuation of chest swelling, high fiving, all American pride being shown by everyone , in every town in the U.S.A . But on this particular holiday weekend, while there will certainly be MMA events being held all around the country, none of them, and…
Content Provided by: Mark D. Kilburn ringwrap56@gmail.com What a pleasure it was to listen to Trevor Wittman honestly discuss his career and fight philosophies in depth and detail with me over the past several weeks. Trevor neither hides nor obscures the reasons for a successful career, working with, teaching, and coaching, some of today’s…
Content Provided by: Dan Bonnell mass-mma.com “Nick Newell has almost never fought anyone with any kind of grappling skills. So I don’t know what he’s going to do when he can’t take me down.He can’t stop a right hand or a right head kick,” Gaethje said. “That’s what I’m going to throw, over and over.”…
Content Provided by Dwayne Wolff; On Saturday night, Pat Barry made his return to kickboxing at Glory 16 against another hard-hitting heavyweight Zack Mwekassa. It was a short brutal fight that ended with a vicious uppercut that laid Barry out. It was not easy for many to watch and it led to many of them…
Content Provided by : Benjamin Hotchman, Denver Post The boxer’s story is seldom told. Not Mike Alvarado; his story has been splattered on these pages for years — a local boy makes good, and Saturday night he will fight for millions in Inglewood, Calif. But for every “Mile High Mike,” there’s an anonymous gritty face…
