Ricardo Funch: "Golden Boy"

(Ludlow, MA) - Gold is a valuable commodity in this world; it is bought and sold in every city across the globe on ever single day of the year. Gold provides value and gold provides worth. Those are three words that are inextricably entwined in the lexicon of mixed martial arts (MMA): gold, value, and worth.
Ricardo Funch knows these terms well. Funch established his value on the MMA open market by fighting for gold in Texas, and proved his worth to 6,000+ Texans and an international online pay-per-view audience. Ricardo Funch is now, truly, "The Golden Boy". Ricardo Funch is now the Xtreme Fight Championship Welterweight Champion!

The Climb Begins Once More

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is where every MMA athlete wants to be. Gabriel Gonzaga achieved this dream in 2005 when the much sought after grappling wunderkind debuted at UFC 56: Full Force against "The Shaman", Kevin Jordan, finishing the heavyweight in the 3rd Round, not with a patented submission, but with a thunderous knockout. Now Gabriel Gonzaga finds himself in the precarious position of fighting for his UFC life.

"Different": Meet Dale Hartt

It is said that it takes a different kind of person to excel in individual sports. American athletes are typically prepared and trained for team sports starting in their youth. What American youth hasn't played Little League or Soccer, teaching them the value of supporting another and the value of working within a group to achieve a common goal? When someone from this background splinters off and excels in individual pursuits they are often referred to as "different". When that person doesn't choose golf or an Olympic sport to earn recognition and instead chooses mixed martial arts well a few other words come to mind. Now when that person forgoes a lucrative career in finance and chooses to train in MMA on the hallowed grounds of Bangor, Maine...that person we simply call "Dale".

Eddie "The Tick" Felix

A Fluke Finds Fame

(Rockland, MA) - The word "fluke" is defined as "an accidental advantage; a stroke of good luck". These hardly seem to be the correct terms used in describing Josh "The Fluke" Grispi as the Rockland, Massachusetts native has more than put in his fair share of hard work, painful training, and challenging mixed martial arts (MMA) matches to hone one of the best skill sets in the featherweight division with World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC). This Sunday, August 3rd, at 9pm EST on the Versus Network Josh Grispi will be trying to prove he represents more of the original definition of the word "fluke", "a barb, or the barbed head, of a harpoon, spear, arrow, or the like."

Coming To America

Mixed Martial Arts attracts a varied audience and even more varied fighters.  Fighters in our own backyard can boast of advanced collegiate degrees; championship athletic pedigrees; and above all strong backs made that way through various physically taxing full time professions.  MMA is so popular now that a lot fighters travel as much two hours one way to train under some of the best coaches in the world.  The passion the sport elicits, some say, puts baseball, basketball, and football to shame.  The dedication it takes to be a champion in MMA has broken more than one would be star.

"I'm Really Not An Athlete At All!"

So says Ben Manseau, the Massachusetts Corrections Officer who moonlights as an up-and-coming Lightweight in New Hampshire's burgeoning mixed martial arts scene for the fight team Team Woo - Miletich Fighting Systems.

 

 
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