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Well I have been in Arizona for one week now, I am sitting in the wrestling room watching Aaron Simpson prepare for his fight at UFC on August 29, I am up here because I do not have internet at my apartment yet, nor do I have cable so it is a pretty boring time.  The coaching staff has gelled really well so far, both brians (stith and snyder) are awesome so I am really excited to get this team headed in the right direction.  i have also found some gyms to workout at.  Lions Den and Arizona Combat Sports are both wi...

I want to say thanks to my buddies at purefight.com and flowrestling.org for making me this sweet new website.  They do the best work around and who doesnt love all of their videos.  I just moved to Arizona to join the Sun Devil wrestling staff with Shawn Charles, it is awesome down here and our staff is great, I cant wait to start working with the kids to make the team better.  I have another fight coming up on Aug 28 in Des Moines with MaxFightsDM.  I am supposed to have a better opponent this time, I hear h...

I just realized it had been two months since I wrote anything. I got big news this mornign that I got invited to the Abu Dhabi Combat Championships, which is the biggest grappling tourney in the world. I am pumped, but I gotta get real good real fast or I wll get my ankle torn off. It will be in Barcelona on Spet 26. Amateur world disc championships are less than a month away in Kansas City so I am getting excited for that too. Right now I am in Jersey and PA teaching some wrestling. The level of talent out here is jsut amazing, so many good hs...

Well I have found my way to the small port community of Halifax, Nova Scotia. I am here with Mike Chandler helping TJ Grant prepare for his UFC debut. Tj is 13-2 and will make his debut on April 18 against Ryo Chonan, he is a very well rounded mixed martial artist. TJ and his Coach Scott have also been helping me a lot with my Muay Thai, which is one of their sprecialties. I will leave on Wednesday to go back to Columbia and prepare for my next fight which takes place on April 25 at the Patriot Act 2 in Columbia, MO. You can find out more info ...

So just to update everyone, my next fight will be on April 25, I dont have an opponent yet, but the show will be Patriot Act 2. I had a lot of fun promoting the first show with my partners so I am excited to do another one bigger and better. Training is going well, I have started working on my stand up now that I have a Muay Thai coach. NCAA’s are coming up in a week, I am excited to see if the tigers can finally make a big jump. We had a pretty dissapointing Big 12 only winning two titles. Marcus Hoehn was the highlight of my day winning...

Just heard this from my friends at purefight. Purefight.org is proud to announce that they will be bringing you live streaming coverage of The Patriot Act this Saturday February 7th beginning at 8pm. This should be an exciting card with Ben Askren making his mma debut and Din Thomas making his debut at 145. Din is a 10x UFC veteran who should make some noise at 145, also fighitng on the card will be 2x NCAA wrestling all-american Tyron Woodley as well as Kiko France. Two-time NCAA champion, Hodge trophy winner and 2008 Olympian Ben Askren has b...

So if you haven’t heard by now and you likely have I am debuting in the cage on February 7. I don’t know who my opponent is yet, I just had one back out. I think we have another one locked in but nothing is for sure yet. The fights are on Feb 7 at the Holiday Inn Expo center in Columbia, MO. I have been training very hard for my debut, y jiu jitsu is going to new levels and I keep getting better everyday. Great news is we now have a striking coach at ATTMO his name is Lucas Lopes and he is great so far. His english isn’t the b...

Big news everyone I just found out when my first fights will be. I have one planned for Columbia, MO on Feb. 7 in the Headhunters Fight League and my second will be in Miami on Feb 26. I will be fighting 170 in both shows. I don’t have a 100% for sure opponent for either show yet, but I will let you know as soon as possible. Training has been going really well, I head down to coconut creek next week to train at the main ATT facility, I am very excited. Check back soon for details, thanks for the support. 

 Well I figured I would wrap up the whole experience, even though I havent wanted to think about it much lately. Then tell you where the future is going to take me. So I lost, I didnt live up to the guarentees I put forth. I have to keep being reminded that making the Olympics in the first place is a great accomplishment. It isn’t the first time I haven’t lived up to a guarantee I put out and it probably wont be the last. When asked a question I will tell you exactly what I think without pulling any punches and I hope you can a...