Tag: win first mma fight

  • How I Got Started In MMA

    Saturday night, I watched Jon Jones completely dominate Quinton Jackson like I knew he would at my friend Youssef’s house.

    Over the years, Youssef’s been my partner in crime – we skydived (skydove?) together for his Bachelor party, drove 24 hours straight (along with a couple other buddies) to Florida together, he introduced me to BJJ and was my coach at my first BJJ tournament and most recently he was my best man at my wedding, to name a few.

    After my man Youssef got his BJJ blue belt…

    Anyway, there were about 20 of us at his house for the fights and we watched it in his backyard on a huge projector screen sitting around a fire.

    Last week, I emailed him asking him how we actually got started training BJJ because I couldn’t remember.

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