I always get to the airport way early so I don’t miss my flight…. so here I am. My plane is supposed to leave in about an hour, so it shouldn’t be too bad. I am going to Vegas for UFC100 and the UFC Fan Expo. It should be a great time weekend all the way around. I talked with Matt Arroyo earlier this week so I will hopefully meet up with him and get to do some light training. Going to meet up with “Grandpa” Tony Blauer at some point, most likely for some double doubles because we are both fat kids at heart. I talked to Noah Thomas last night too and he is apparently out there for a few days too. (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…)

The fight is past, but I still had all this video footage so we are still putting up the blogs. The internet at the hotel was terrible and I couldnt get it up before the fight.

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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I am going to be getting my ass out of bed early tomorrow morning to go on the Tagg Radio show. I figure I owe them for running the Karo troll live on their show, and its the least I could do.

I will be on somewhere shortly after 630AM Hawaii Time. Thats 930AM for everyone on the West Coast, and 1230PM for everyone back home on the East Coast. You can listen at http://taggradio.com/

I’m going to bed now to be up for it, but check it out.

I did a phone interview with Whoop Ass radio yesterday and talked about my move to Hawaii that is coming up. UFC74 is this weekend and we talked about most of the fights on the card, and a little bit about how I saw each fight going down. Listen to the show to get my UFC74 picks.

Also on the show is Kurt Pelligrino (will be facing Joe Stevenson this weekend). Randy Couture also gives his take for his heavyweight title fight this weekend with local fighter Gabriel “Napao” Gonzaga.

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I will be on Tagg Radio around 12:20 today eastern standard time. Gonna be talking about my upcoming fight with Karo.

You can listen here: http://taggradio.com/