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The Most Sobering Moments, Lessons, & Realities of My MMA Career

November 30, 2016 by etchedinadventure

One of my biggest annoyances is when someone calls mixed martial arts “UFC fighting”. I loathe going to a sports bar to watch a UFC event and hearing wannabees who have never been on a mat but are drunk on a bar stool screaming what the fighters on TV should or should not be doing. Here are some of my favorite lines: “I wouldn’t tap to that!” “Oh man! He’s hurt bad!” “He was going out from that one arm choke!” “I’d kick his […]

Categories: Creative Writing, Mixed Martial Arts • Tags: Cagefighting, Creative Writing, Martial Arts, Mixed Martial Arts, MMA, No Holds Barred, Nonfiction, Personal Essay, Ultimate Fighting

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Behind Closed Curtains: The Hard Truths of Mixed Martial Arts

October 13, 2016 by etchedinadventure

Training and competing regularly from ages nineteen to twenty-four, having mixed success in ten amateur and professional bouts, and now on a hiatus in order to pursue education and travel writing, I made plenty of mistakes training, competing, marketing and managing. This is what the average fan doesn’t know and what a rookie competitor like myself learned the hard way through experience firsthand – these are the hard truths of competing in mixed martial arts. What is the most terrifying […]

Categories: Cagefighting, Creative Writing, Mixed Martial Arts • Tags: Cagefighting, Creative Writing, Fighting, Mixed Martial Arts, MMA, Prizefighting

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