Owings over Gable in 1970 Could Chael Sonnen become the next Larry Owings... who is Larry Owings? Larry Owings is the man who beat Dan Gable in the NCAA finals, Gable's senior year of college, after finishing high school undefeated and go...
For all of you complaining about Rashad Evans' performance against Rampage last weekend, Wake UP! This is MIXED martial arts. People said it was boring, I didn't think so, I was entertained in seeing if he could implement his gameplan, and we all knew what that was, against an angry Rampage. People said they wanted to see Rashad stand in front of Rampage and go toe-to-toe... why the hell would he want to do that? So he could get knocked out? Rashad's not an idiot and he obviously knew that he was facing a guy with plent...
Hello everyone and Merry Christmas, I am home in St. Louis visiting with most of my family. Two of my brothers are not in town because they are visiting their in-laws but not to fear as 3 of my brothers and my sister are all here. The best part about 2 of my older brothers being out of town for this holiday means that I will be able to sit at the adult table today (I am 30 years old and had to sit at the kids table for Thanksgiving when all were in town). I hope you are all having a great time with friends and family and I will continue to feat...
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Vegas- Having misplaced my drivers license I had a temporary one faxed to me from the DMV, turns out Las Vegas rental car places won't accept anything photo copied so I couldn't rent a car. Thanks to Gene Stevens for saving the day by picking me up and brining me to the MMA seminar and expo at the MGM, not to be confused with the UFC fan expo which took place on Friday at Mandalay Bay. I attended both but enjoyed the one at MGM more, even though there wasn't as much going on it was way less crowded and easier to get around. I got a chance to m...
I have attended a number of mma events from California to Florida and in between, and last night in Nashville just reconfirmed something that I have seen on both coasts and in between, complete unappreciation of the sport of mma and the constant booing and criticizing. Now this doesn't come from everyone or even most, but there are plenty of guys sitting up in the stands who "know everything about mma" and they kinda get on my nerves. These are the casual mma fans who don't really get it all the way, they want to see a Stephan Bonnar-Forrest G...
Man where do i start! I took a week off from coaching and I got a chance to head down to Coconut Creek, FL to train at ATT's Headquarters. I lucked up and pretty much everyone was in town. I got a chance to roll, box, or drill with some of the worlds best. I'll try to nutshell this as best i can. My trip started Sunday. I got into town and hung out with an old teammate JP Reese and just kicked back. Monday i went to a local wrestling practice between two rival HS teams (Gibbon and St. Thomas). The tension was high as that thang! It was weird I ...
never fear purefight community...fightshark is here! and the blogging will start...soon. let me try...and the keyword here is try to clear up my thoughts, and i will post my first official blog on purefight.org(the first of VERY many). be on the lookout too, for the relaunch of my website fightshark.com. when the date arrives, y'all will be the first to know. until tommorrow...or the next day, i know you will anxiously be waiting on the edge of your computer room seats to read my blog...FIGHTSHARK!!! :)
Well as promised here is the training session with Din Thomas, Ben Askren, my ATT Missouri squad, and myself. I will make it short and sweet. I know that these blog kind of get a little long. (FYI... DITL Stands for (Day in the Life) Sunday Nov. 2, 2008 "The Pick Up" I got to the airport like 11am to pick up Din . We scooted over to the university i coach at to get a workout in before our wrestle offs. We did some shadow boxing, worked on some head motion, and then got into the workout. I really enjoy workin with Din, his strenghts are my weakn...
October 29, 2008 Hey what the dealio? Just getting back from a trip to Chicago. I had to kill like 4 birds with one stone on the trip. I went down to check out the Overtime School of wrestling, do some recruiting at some local Chicago powerhouses, watch UFC 90, as well as try of for the TUF show. So needless to say it was a long week. IÂll backtrack and give you the play by play on how everything went down. Day 1 October 23, 2008 I left SIUE and hit the road to make a trip to Overtime School of Wrestling in the Chi. Man?it was raining the w...
