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By: 7 Mma Career Sites | Azzi Training

7 Mma Career Sites | Azzi Training — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:26:21 +0000

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By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:28:49 +0000

Chris, I would recommend you find a MMA school local to you, there should be plenty. Train hard and often. Get some amateur fights, if you do well, then worry about where you need to go to become a professional fighter. You need to know fundamentals before you can build a MMA career plan.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:02:43 +0000

my name is chris im a 20 year old exfootball linemen, i have no fighting experience other than what i have learned on the street. i have power and the will to win, but i have a good amount of weight to shed (i weight 204 and am 6′ tall) i plan to fight out of missouri. i would just like to know where would be the best fighting area for me to start at to become a threat in the cage. also any other beginner advice would be priceless thank you

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 14 May 2011 16:26:06 +0000

I agree, having a mentor is extremely important! Same with good training partners.

By: Andy Jeffreys

Andy Jeffreys — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:39:26 +0000

Having a mentor really helped me develop into such a different overall fighter. Knowing the complexities of training and learning that going 100% everyday will do more harm than good really helped my game alot.

That person being there to guide your every move can be really beneficial, so i would personally say having a mentor is up there with the top tips of developing your amateur mma career.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:26:04 +0000

Jimmy, I would like to thank you for your insight and advice. Believe me we have tried too talk real with mac and I even reminded him of a few months ago when I scouped him up by the windpipe in the kitchen at my 44 yrs of age with nothing but the street as a trainer and I told him that if he was ready for this fight I would not have been allowed to do so, or to get that close! Mac believes his recent trianing is going to be enough unfortunetly! one part of me wants him to get schooled and the other wants to school him myself! he really wants this he says but he’s going to get hurt! even if he gets lucky it will bite him in the tail when he gets home and starts acting like an idiot! Jimmy, you and I know he is getting on the pain trian and there is no way to change his mind! the only saving grace is the doc on mon. telling him that his anckle is not strong enough since he has been in a bledsoe boot since the week before last. jimmy thank you!

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:34:31 +0000

Joe,

Your responsibility as a ring man is to motivate mac. During fight day your job is to make sure your fighter is focused and on point with his weight. During the fight you have to make sure he’s executing the game plan correctly.

Now your responsibility as a brother is to talk him out of the fight. I promise you he will get hurt. I don’t care how much street fighting he’s done, I don’t care how tough he is. Technique will overcome anything. If I was fighting your brother, I would hurt him without a doubt. He’s going to get gassed out in the first round and just get beaten on.

By: joe

joe — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:24:14 +0000

i would like to appolagize for venting in this response forum i guess the question i have so we can get mac in the cage is what, as ringmen are our resposabilities and what does mac need to bring? thanks for any help joe

By: joe

joe — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:17:23 +0000

my 20 yr old brother just asked my brother-inlaw and I to be his ringmen. Niether one of us know what we need to bring or do or what our responsabilities are, in this , his 1st bout and he is an independant!I will call my bro mac! Well, mac has less than 6-months 0f broken up trianing and in that time has done his share of X-box battles, and T-V remote rumbles and has been smoking like a chiminey! Every time I try to get info. from him, I get the same response, “I got it” and if I try to tell him something, it’s ” I know”. In the middle of January, just days after he asked me to be his ringman he blew out his ankle and since then has done nothing to better himself or prepare for this bout! mac also has got no resect anything or anybody including himself! And with that said he needs to stop pressuring our 68 yr old mother who’s got 78% blocked in the heart and a diebetic “help”! JJ @ 774-283-3481

By: Adon Ley

Adon Ley — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:20:17 +0000

I believe I am a great fighter… But I’m expecting to be proven wrong when I actually start training, but I’m pretty sure I’d be able to keep up with the lessons. So far all my lessons have been monkey see monkey do and are applied to my own style and momentum… Problem is that I haven’t gotten into a good 3 round fight. So far I’ve tried fighting with my subconscious self, and he gives me a beating. Unexpected blows and stuff, but I need a mind that isn’t in my mind to fight against to see if my skills are adequate, and once I’m convinced its something to work for, I’ll start my quest to become an MMA fighter.

Thanks for the tips