Not everyone is on board with Mixed Martial Arts yet, but more and more sports fans are getting accustomed to our sport. With the increased popularity of the sport, it’s becoming mainstream and it’s just getting started. (continue reading…)

Before my last fight, I was trying to buy a house but my lease was expiring shortly before I fought. Instead of signing a new lease, I decided to move back to my parent’s house to avoid rushing to find a house. I put in an offer on a house but it was never accepted and then I fought Jeremy Stephens at Ultimate Fight Night. As everyone knows, I had ACL surgery a month later and have been recovering since. (continue reading…)

I am doing an autograph signing at the Hot Dog Safari at Suffolk Downs this weekend from 12 until 2. The Hot Dog Safari is a cystic fibrosis benefit. It costs $15 ($10 if you buy in advance) and its all you can eat hot dogs. I don’t know about other UFC fighters being there, but I know there will be other athletes and celebrities doing signings as well.   (continue reading…)

Well, last week I talked about how I was flying home to be there for my guys at Untamed. It ended up being a great move and I think it was a nice surprise. With the exception of Gorilla Bob, I don’t think anyone had any idea I was coming home. We even had to guilt-trip my brother into showing up the day before the fight so I could see him as soon as I got home. He had no idea.

We ended up going 4-4 for the night. When you have eight guys fighting, half the guys winning isn’t so bad. I think next time out we will do better, but all of our guys had great fights and, win or lose, should be proud of how they did. As I told my guys, you can’t win them all.

In order to put it all into perspective, I found my very first amateur MMA fight from about six years ago and put it on my YouTube channel. I won’t give away the end, so you can watch it, but it shows that no matter how bad you start out there is always an opportunity to do well down the line.

Dan and I flew to Denver on Sunday night and the flight was luckily pretty uneventful. There was a little bit of turbulence and the flight got in a little late because of snow, but overall it wasn’t too bad. I think Dan watched Juno twice on the flight and was ready to kill himself by the time we landed. JetBlue is usually the way to fly, but the TV stations weren’t working… pretty weak.

Noah picked us up at the airport and we drove to his house in Fort Collins. Along the way all he was talking about was how everything was open until 3 a.m., including all the sub shops and everything else. Apparently Noah didn’t realize it was Sunday, and we deemed him to be a complete liar. Sadly, no subs for us at 1 a.m.. Noah’s house is pretty nice and he has three dogs… Gia, Lilly and Princess. And yes, don’t worry, I gave him a hard time about the names of his dogs.

We went to bed and went training the next morning at Infinite Mixed Martial Arts in Loveland. This is the gym Noah trains at and we met a bunch of the guys that train there and Noah’s trainer, Adam. They have been great to work with and more then accommodating.

We have been getting some great training in while out here and its definitely nice having Dan here to work with. The elevation is definitely different, which is what we expected. It’s not a big difference and shouldn’t be a problem, but I’m glad we got out here early.

Since I came here on Sunday night, I have done around 20 interviews and radio shows. Media for this fight has been ridiculous!

I will check back in next week, thanks for reading.

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