By: Christina Sears

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After a year of brainstorming and planning Warrior 1 (W1) is digging their hands into the MMA circuit putting on their first show this Saturday at the Robert Guertin Arena in Gatineau Quebec.

W1 president Jack Bateman describes the organization as a “fighter’s promotion” explaining to me that he wants it all to be about the fighters who will be fighting in the organization. He describes the style of the show as Japan meeting North America.

Headlining this weekend’s card is Carlos “The Ronin” Newton, who is a veteran of the cage and is known for his fights in not only the U.F.C but also Pride, and K-1. Carlos at one time was a force to be reckoned with but fell off the fight scene since his fight in October of 2007. This will be Newton’s first time in 13 years fighting in his home country of Canada since his MMA debut in 1996.

“Newton is one of the most naturally gifted fighters on the planet and has the ability to beat any top fighter. He has been at the top of the sport and is hoping to get back to that level.  From talking to Carlos, his main goal is to leave an even bigger legacy” says Alex Caporicci the W1 Matchmaker.

His opponent Nabil “The Thrill” Khatib started fighting in professional mixed martial arts (MMA) when he was 36, and in that time he has fought some tough guys including Gideon Ray who like Newton has the experience fighting within the cage of the UFC.

“Nabil Khatib is a model professional and an asset to any show. Nabil has proved that he is one of the top welterweights in the country and has never shied away from a tough fight. He is a world class striker and is a strong purple belt under BTT Canada’s Fabio Holanda” says Caporicci.

Khatib started fighting professionally in MMA because he felt that it was growing a hundred times faster then kickboxing and like most people he had been following it since the early days of the UFC.

With a record of 8-4, 39 year old Khatib feels he has a good chance of beating Newton he says he doesn’t feel like the underdog for this fight. He says he’s not changing the way he trains because you never know who you’re going to get in the cage, and he likes to be prepared in all aspects.

When Khatib got the call at a chance to fight Carlos Newton he thought to himself “WOW”, and knew fighting a former UFC champion and Pride star would be a good fight for him and “a lot of fun.” Khatib will be the home town kid for this fight, he feels it’s a great opportunity for him to put on a good fight against someone who has been in this sport for a long time and has fought some of the best people. He feels that Newton is very skilled on the ground, and has good hands but doesn’t feel he uses them enough.

“Before he made his MMA debut one of the first things Nabil mentioned to me was that he would one day like to fight a legend like Carlos Newton. I’m happy to say I helped make that happen for him” says Caporicci.

If you haven’t got your tickets just yet you can do so on the Warrior 1 website:

http://www.w1mma.com/

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Edmonton Alberta Canada is home to over seven hundred thousand people, and is known for having one of the largest malls in Canada.

Little did Edmonton know there was a diamond in the rough just waiting to be found, polished, and brought into the public’s eye.

Ryan Ford at first glance can be described as an intimidating guy, with tattoos covering the majority of his body, and his cocky attitude carries into fight interviews and in the ring. But Ford feels you have to be cocky when you’re a fighter you need to be confident.

He’s only been training for a year and nine months and has a record of 8-2.

Ford took his first professional MMA fight with only two and half weeks of training and won by TKO. He knew how to wrestled because he did some of that in school, but his jiu-jitsu was lacking and explained how he worked through it to scored his first win.

Ford did a few amateur boxing fights before that but felt that boxing was to controlled for him and he wanted something more which lead to training with Jason “The Athlete” MacDonald.

With only nine months of training, Ford took on a greater challenge stepping up to the plate accepting a fight with UFC veteran Pete “Secret Weapon” Spratt (18-15-0) at MFC  15. Although some can argue it was a controversial fight Ford stuck to his game plan and finished Spratt in the second round with a rear naked choke.

Ford says that was his biggest fight, and feels that put him “on the map” and says the fight with Spratt was a big “step up” and that’s when people started to notice him.

This past February Ford fought in the main event once again for the Maximum Fighting Championship (MFC) against the Pat “Bam Bam” Healy (20-13-0) who is the only man to ever beat him in his mixed martial arts career so far. After five hard fought rounds Ford came up short losing a split decision against Healy allowing Healy to retain the MFC welter weight title.

After his championship fight with Healy his contract was up for renewal with the MFC. According to a press release from the MFC the owner and president of the organization Mark Pavelich said that Ford discussed financial demands that were “far and above” other fighters in the history of the MFC which included its current champions. Pavelich was quoted as saying those demands were “outrageous.”

The release also quoted Pavelich saying “I would love to re-sign Ryan because we have some very good plans for him but we can’t afford his ego. This is my business – I don’t do anything else except mixed martial arts and put on sold-out shows. I will not go out of business by paying fighters exorbitant amounts of money. Look what happened to the IFL and Elite XC. They paid fighters ridiculous amounts of money and went broke. Look at the number of shows that tried to make a big splash by signing one or two guys to huge contracts. They did one or two shows and were never heard from again.”

The Maximum Fighting Championship is said by its owner to be one of the biggest organizations in North America he says they are not a “one-man show” and they are not a local event.

However, Ford explained he had no problems with Pavelich until reading in that same press release that “Pavelich has personally stuck by Ford during a number of legal issues outside of the ring, virtually taking him under his wing to steer him on a better path. That bond has been frayed but is not broken by the latest contract scuffle.”

That’s when Ford felt it turned into a personal issue, with Pavelich telling people to look into his past, and that he took him under his wing. He said Pavelich can talk about everything all he wants but “its done, they are done” and now they are going to go their own ways.

Ford admits in 2003 he did get into trouble for aggravated assault, but has tried to keep that in the past. He says he goes to schools and talks to youths about being in gangs and how to stay on a good path.

He says he’s got a six month old baby (Bella Tierra Ford) and is about to marry his girlfriend of nine years this August. He says he’s got to much to lose now, fighting and his family has helped him get to where he is today.  He says his family is supportive, and they knew that fighting was the best thing for him to do. He said that they keep him grounded and that fighting doesn’t take much time away from his family.

Ford has signed an exclusive contract with The Fight Club (TFC) in Edmonton, however the contract is only exclusive within Alberta. He says the people who run the TFC have known his dad and his family since he was a kid. His first fight with the TFC will be May 22 2009 in the 170 pound division, his opponent is not yet known. Ford also expressed interest in possibly fighting in the XMMA in Quebec.

Ford says “Expect my game getting a lot better from top to bottom” and he says he expect to “be the champ one day.”

Ford wants all his fans to “Stayed G’d up from the Feet up” and would like to thank his following sponsors:

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By: Christina Sears

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For me, when I’m trying to find a good book on something I love it can be hard. Especially if it’s a sports related book, because when a sport is huge everyone and their mother is writing a book about it, just to make a quick dime. Very few people actually take the time to think outside the box, and really write something that can not only be related to those in the sport but also those who are outside the loop.

In the sports section of any book store you will see a growing number of Mixed Martial Arts books finding their way on the shelves. Instructional books, biographies, auto biographies and the list goes on and on.

One of the Authors of “Fighting for Acceptance Mixed Martial Artists and Violence in American Society” emailed me about his book. I was in the process of writing a story on children in MMA. And to my surprise he and his partner had written a book that not only touched base with youth taking the path of training MMA, or even just Martial Arts but also touch base with who some of these fighters are, and how some of them didn’t grow up with a rugged childhood, it talks about safety issues of the sport, while comparing it to other contact sports.

Of course I was intrigued right away, a book that actually is talking about issues that are brought up in general conversation between people who talk about martial arts or, even some things that I’ve been asked by my family and friends who aren’t really into the sport about the level of violence, and how sometimes it just looks like two guys hugging, and the list can go on and on.

The authors must have spent some time researching before writing their book; they contacted and spoke with some really known fighters, and some who have been in the game since the beginning. Fighters like Frank Trigg, Quinton Jackson, Randy Couture, Jason Miller, Dan Henderson, Travis Lutter and Guy Mezger.

In the first chapter the authors take their readers into the phenomenon which is The Mixed Martial Arts.  Not only that, in the first sentence they managed to peg what people thought when they hear “MMA” when they stated

“When people hear the words next martial arts, ultimate fighting, cage fighting the first thing that often enters their mind is an image of two heavily muscled, enraged men trying to beat each other into oblivion within the confines of a steel cage (pg 3).”

Its true, I’ve been reporting on MMA events for almost three years now, and every time I’m at a show there is always people screaming “rip his head off” or at a bar where you hear it even more and it gets worse like “kick him in the nuts, poke his eyes out.” and believe me that’s not all.

BUT in chapter one the book also discusses how the UFC defines MMA ” as an intense and evolving combat sport in which competitors use interdisciplinary forms of fighting that include jiu jitsu, judo, karate, boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and others to their strategic and tactical advantage in a supervised match (page 9).”

It explains what the people outside the sport don’t know and builds on that. It really opened my eyes to new things, and I’ve been training for eight years now.

Chapter two discusses American acceptance of sports injuries and violence. It talks about injuries in sports like Football, Boxing, University/College and high school sports etc… It talks about the different injuries they can acquire some more severe long term then MMA, and compares them. It doesn’t protect MMA and make it out to be better then any other sport, the authors simply throw the facts on out there on other things to tell the average fan or average person watching the sport that MMA isn’t the only sport that looks violent. And being Canadian, I’ve come to watch a lot of Hockey in my day, especially when I waitress part time. Every time I look up at the screen there is a fight going on in the game, and I never understood why the refs didn’t jump in sooner, they allow the fight to continue and then at some point they jump in? Its stuff like that, that these authors talk about in Chapter two, how other sports are filled with just as much violence that is shown yet sports like boxing, and MMA are the ones scolded as “cock fighting.”

They touch base with the fighters they interview and dedicated a portion of the book to getting to know these fighters. In chapter four they explore the lives of these martial arts fighters, where they came from, how they grew up. A lot of the time people think that some of these fighters do what they do because they grew up hard. Rough neighborhoods, they weren’t the most popular at school and got bullied, or whatever the case may be. And although some fell into that category others just were intrigued by the sport and its competition.

The most intriguing interview I read in relation to some of the topics in chapter four was the one with Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. He talked about how his kid’s school pulled him into the office because they knew he was a professional fighter and tried to give him advice on how to raise his kids. They pre-judged him because he was a fighter.

Another one which was in chapter four was how Guy Mezger explained how he kept his fighting a secret from his mother. Imagine that?

In chapter five they attempt to really get in the heads of these athletes, why do they do what they do? This is a question most people ask. Even I sometimes can’t understand how these men and women fighters can put their bodies through that kind of training, and make the sacrifices they need to.. BUT after reading “Fight for Acceptance” my eyes were opened to so much more.

Chapter six is also quite interesting it talks about MMA’s role in American society. I’m sure some people have said that since now people see this fighting on TV they will go out and start fights and get into trouble. And this book touches base with subjects like that. This chapter talks about the respect and humility in MMA and “traditional” martial arts. As well as the educational responsibility in the mixed martial arts community.

When people see these fights or catch them free on Spike TV I’m sure they often wonder about the safety issues. I know my family has, and it’s always an endless list of questions. The Authors included this in their book. They put out there America’s obsession with violence.

Dan Henderson, who has also fought in Pride FC in Japan, compares Japan to the United States and how they differ on this subject. He states

“I think in Japan, they understand the sport. It’s been a part of their culture for a long time, and they’re much more respectful in Japan than they are in the U.S. You hardly ever hear any booing in Japan. You know, they respect the fighters win or lose. They know that they’re prepared… and you know, that’s the big thing, rather than if there’s a little bit of a lull in the action in the U.S., and the fans start booing. You know, I think that that’s pretty disrespectful to the athletes out there (page 144).”

I thought that was very true and powerful what Henderson said. And the chapter talks about that. It talk about how the rules have changed, and what the fighters think about the rules then compared to now. I had no idea how strongly they felt about this issue. Not only do the authors touch base about the rules evolving in martial arts but they also compare martial arts rules with other contact sports. They also talk about substance use, something that has been recently popping up a lot in MMA.

I thought it was really interesting they dedicated an entire chapter about boxing (Chapter Nine). There is always a rivalry between the sports; some people say MMA killed boxing, other say different. This chapter talks about how it’s a shame these sports are continually fighting each other, when really they are one in the same. It talks about the great people in boxing who helped evolve the sport into the main stream, what critics and people thought about boxing when it first came out, and how it took a long time for boxing to get to where it was. I’ve never really paid attention to boxing, but after reading this chapter I have the up most respect for this sport as I do for MMA.

This book, talks about the common things I’m sure many of these fighters have talked about with family and friends, what people talk about, what parents who’s kids are in the sport talks about. Its not one of those books you will pick up and read for a bit, get bored and put down. It’s a book that you’re going to read and be more intrigued by every chapter. It’s opened my eyes to another level in the MMA world. And I must say its evolved perspective when talking with Martial Artists when I’m covering an event or talking with a fighter.

For me I feel that David T. Mayeda and David E. Ching did an amazing job with their research, making a book that is not only enjoyable for those in the sport but educational. Educational for even the common folk who have flipped through the stations and have seen a few seconds of a UFC fight or those who have friends and family participating professionally in the sport, or even as a hobby.

If you would like to order a copy of “Fighting for Acceptance” for yourself or someone you know you can do so at:

http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Acceptance-Martial-Violence-American/dp/0595478913

And for a little bit more on the book you can check out:

http://mmacademics.angelfire.com

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By: Christina Sears

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Pete and Elaine Duncan own a nutrition shop which is located on Brant Street in Burlington Ontario. Although it isn’t as big as some stores like Herc’s or GNC, Physical Development and Nutrition (PDN) will give you a different experience when buying supplements or proteins.

“We’ve got everything from the latest and greatest in your multiple vitamins, to your minerals right through to your sports specific stuff. Do we carry all the lines? No… we carry what we think works, keeping in mind that everything is different for everyone” says Elaine.

The other store they have recently opened up this past year was PDN’s sister store “Fightware.” And their customers don’t have to go far to get some of the latest Mixed Martial Arts fashions because Pete and Elaine have built a home for their sister store right inside the same building as PDN.

They stumbled over the idea of Fightware after going to a body building show in Vegas a few years back and met some of the MMA fighters there and pretty much taken to the sport around that time.

THEN they realized that there wasn’t really anything in Burlington for MMA apparel so they thought “why not be the first.”

Easier said then done for anyone who has opened a business. They started shopping around with suppliers, finding out who carried what and what was popular.

After much “hymning and hawing” they decided to give renovating Fightware the green light.

“We pretty much let our clients dictate in both stores what we carry. Reason being you can have a tone of merchandise in your store but if nobody wants it… what good is it” says Elaine.

Both stores definitely being able to compliment each other  because there is a commonality between them because if your in the sport weather it be Judo, Jiu Jitsu, Boxing, Wrestling there will always a supplemental side to it.

Elaine believes what makes them different then other MMA stores is that they respond to their customers. She says that again unlike most stores they allow their clients to dictate what they carry and bring in.

“We listen; we kind of pride our self on customer service, so we go a step above and beyond in both locations and in both stores. I think that in itself is a little bit different in a service industry world if there is none it does start to reflect. And the economy the way it is now a days that’s pretty much what one of the key factors that is keeping us a head of the rest” says Elaine.

Anyone who has been to PDN or Fightware will describe it as the “mom and pop shop.”  Pete and Elaine are known to give their customers (new or old) an honest answer, it may not be the answer their clients want to hear but they don’t sugar coat it and let you know right off the bat what works and what won’t. They are very outgoing people who take care of their clients. Clients say they don’t think twice to ask for specific items or special orders because as Pete and Elaine build those orders they have put aside products their clients have specifically asked for.

Recently Fightware hosted its first ever meet and greet. The store had Roger Huerta in to greet his fans, take pictures, and sign autographs. When I asked Elaine how they managed to get Huerta to their location she chuckled and said “that’s our dirty little secret.”

She explains through networking her and her husband got in contact with “The Substance Group” who she described as a great group a guys who she highly recommends to everyone and they made bringing Huerta to Canada and into Fightware possible.

Huerta took the time to meet his fans and greeted everyone introducing himself, with a firm handshake and asking what their name was. Elaine explains that Huerta was supposed to be at their shop for two hours to greet his fans, and that’s exactly what he did. She says that they went over their two hour time limit because Huerta waited to get through every one of his fans and didn’t leave until all of them were greeted.

Elaine explains that in the future they would love to co-permote with other people and get some of the fighters down to Ontario, she says they have strong ties with the Philthy McNasty’s in Burlington which is under new management and they are in talks in doing an event like that at some point.

On fight nights you can always find Pete and Elaine at the Philthy McNasty’s in Burlington, where she explains the people there have been nothing but fantastic to them.

Elaine and Pete say that having a store like Fightware in a community like Burlington where it’s more conservative, they knew that it would be a “hit or miss” process, but they have got a great response for both stores and would like to thank everyone for their support.

You can visit their website at:

http://www.pdnshoppe.ca/

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Canada is known to have some of the best mixed martial arts fans, on top of that reputation it is also home to some of the best fighters in the world.

Chris Horodecki at first glance looks like the shy type who keeps mostly to himself. He doesn’t look very intimidating, with his baby face and his easy going personality. But little does anyone know he’s been fighting since the young age of 14.

Horodecki who is now 21, started training in Karate at age six, then when he was 13 he started wrestling and kickboxing and like every martial artist just fell in love with the sport and decided to mix it all together and compete.

He started training with Shawn Tompkins who is known to some as “the trainer of champions”, a guy who is well known in MMA and now trains fighters out of Xtreme Couture in Vegas. Tompkins owned and ran his own gym in London for many years. Horodecki said that Tompkins did a mini seminar at the Karate school he attended. Right away he loved the way Tompkins taught and liked him as a trainer.

Horodecki jumped right into amateur kickboxing, and has about 30 amateur kickboxing fights, then had is first professional MMA bout at age 14. He remembers his first fight was right outside Chicago. He said he remembers feeling really anxious for this fight, and knew he really wanted to do it and was excited. He felt that just to be in there fighting, especially at a young age was a big step for him.

He was fighting another kid who was young, but he felt that he had one up for the simple fact he was always training with adults, men who were stronger then him and tougher then any opponent he would face in the cage. He was pretty confident and felt that he and his opponent were on two different levels.

Horodecki won his first MMA bout, and even though it was a dream come true he didn’t deny the fact that he had a long way to go.

Being 14 and stepping into a cage I was curious to what his friends and family thought. Horodecki explained to me that his parents didn’t want him doing it full time. But in away they understood it’s what he loves to do plus he never really gave them a chance to be against it, he said they got use to it and they support him the most. His friends were in disbelief because Horodecki is not an aggressive guy at all, and like I said is a pretty laid back person, but he said that everyone now is “rooting” for him!

Horodecki started fighting in TKO and was running through the opponents that stepped up to fight him, winning all three of his bouts in the organization by knock out or TKO. This opened a window for him in the I-F-L.

Bas Rutten’s I-F-L team was looking for another light weight fighter, coming off a win in TKO, Shawn Tompkins recommended Horodecki to Rutten so three weeks after his TKO bout Horodecki found himself fighting in Atlantic City, which is known for its Boxing and MMA.

He won that fight, knocking how his opponent with a high kick, and eyes were opened after that win, people knew Chris Horodecki was going to be a force in the light weight division.

He then went on a seven fight winning streak in the I-F-L before losing to Ryan Schultz by TKO in the first round. Horodecki explained a lot of things went wrong leading up to that fight. The fight he lost was his fifth fight of that year, and he had jumped back into the ring after a hard fought win over Bart Palaszewski at the “World Grand Prix Semi Finals” for the I-F-L. He said that his opponents kept on switching and he felt he burnt himself out, and being sick before the fight doesn’t help either. But he added “no excuses” Schultz caught him on the right night, and says that looking back it was a learning experience.

“Great champs been down and gotten up and they’ve gone on and done bigger, better things” says Horodecki.

Horodecki won his last fight in the I-F-L before the news streamed all over MMA media outlets that the organization was going under and folding. Horodecki said that it “kinda sucked…” he says that the team was pretty close because of the travelling and going all over and he felt bad. But being young means that your open to a world of opportunities, and he wasn’t too worried and knew he would find another home in a different organization it was just a matter of time. And sure enough he landed on the “right ship” and is now with Affliction.

Back home, Horodecki and his two long time training partners and friends Sam Stout and Mark Hominick, decided to open a new and improved gym. He explains when Tompkins was hired by Dan Henderson as a full time MMA/Kickboxing instructor he left Stout, Hominick and himself with his “Team Tompkins” gym, and they “ran ship” while he was gone. But Tompkins came back to still make sure things were in order from time to time, he kept the gym open so they would have a place to train, they didn’t make any profit from it, it was just a place they could go and work out.

Earlier this year Stout, Horodecki, and Hominick got together and had an opportunity “to do it right” and have a facility with their name being branded that they can also be proud of and offer to their home town of London.

With some helpful advice they found a new home for Team Tompkins which was only a third of what they have now allowing them to continue training in the name Shawn Tompkins who opened the door for them and now they want to build from the foundation he firmly set in place.

They wanted the gym to look good and have all the best stuff they could provide for those people coming to train. Inside the Adrenaline Training Centre they have a full size cage, and a full size ring. Weights, and conditioning equipment, hand pads, and high quality wrestling mats.

“Everything is there” says Horodecki.

Fight Planet found a home for its second location within the Adrenaline Training Centre so athletes can get their high end gear and apparel without having to go very far.

But Horodecki does make a point saying that just because they have the new gym, with a new name, doesn’t mean they aren’t with Tompkins, because they still go and train with their coach before every camp.

Adrenaline Training Centre has got a great response from not only the people of London, but also people coming to train as far as Woodstock and Sarnia Ontario. Right now the gym is “booming” and it’s supposed to be the downtime of the year because of the holidays and they are still “going strong.”

“We have top notch instructors in all areas of MMA” says Horodecki.

Talking with Horodecki, I couldn’t believe how busy he’s been keeping between training for his fights, the new gym, and just basic public appearances for different events. Where usually at the age of 21 most people are entering college/university, or in some cases finishing college or university.

He says at one point he was going to school full time to be a paramedic.  But that stopped last year , when he started going only part time. But once the summer hit training and teaching at the gym became too much and he didn’t want to put himself back to a time where he was going on a few hours of sleep at night, and then getting homework done, and training and teaching. He didn’t want to become burnt out again he explained. So he decided that “school will always be there” but fighting is what he’s doing now.

But being young in a sport that is quickly growing could get to some people Horodecki felt that he was brought up in a good environment where his “folks” kept him pretty level headed. He also mentioned that he has great trainers and training partners that will “kick his ass” and keep him level headed as well.

“The second you believe the hype of making yourself better then what you are is when you lose, people start listening to people blowing smoke and they believe it and that’s when your no longer hungry, no longer winning” says Horodecki.

Horodecki talked about the fans and how it’s great to have people supporting you weather they are cheering you on or booing you. He said you need the fans to watch the fights and be intense and excited about the fights and have them talking about it at work.

“I love the fans that support me, I couldn’t do it without them, they motivate me everyday,” says Horodecki.

When you’re a professional athlete you give up so much for your training and hectic schedule. So naturally I was curious about dating, and if he finds it hard to find a girl that will understand.

He said that girls have a hard time understanding, with the crazy schedule, traveling every few weeks, and some girls that he’s dated just couldn’t take it and couldn’t understand. But also mentions that one day he will “find the right chick that will be able to understand the life that they live (as fighters) and what comes with it.”

Sometimes training takes a toll on a person, and they have to have a real drive to keep getting up in the morning and doing what they do everyday. Horodecki says that thinking about an opponent knowing that there is another person that is thinking about beating him motivates him. He also says that he wants to represent his family, friends, training partners, and gym to the fullest and show them the “best Chris Horodecki ever”. Chris says he’s very competitive and wants to win and come out “on top and give it hell everyday.”

Horodecki says without Shawn Tompkins he wouldn’t be where he is today, Tompkins helped him get his foot in the door and started the path for him and had faith in him. He says that Tompkins is like a father and brother to him.

“Chris is one of the most dedicated students I have ever had. He is one of the most dangerous strikers in the sport and has great charisma” says Tompkins.

Scott Paton is another trainer that puts in the time to help make improvements so Horodecki can stay a head of the game.

He also mentions Mark Hominick who was 18 or 19 when Horodecki first started training, Hominick was a guy who was leading the pack, jumping into big fights which only motivated Horodecki to focus so he could try and immolate some of that into himself.

Horodecki shared the opinion of many other fighters in regards to what they wish some of the critics knew before they started criticizing. He said that these athletes have to put in a lot of work and commitment. Some are high end athletes that take their job really seriously and reminds everyone that these aren’t street thugs or “bad asses” they are disciplined athletes that work this as their job. They are out there for the fans.

“Everything is easy from the outside, when the hot lights are on you it’s not that simple.” Says Horodecki.

Watch out for Chris Horodecki in the light weight division in Affliction.

Chris Horodecki wants to thank all his fans, training partners, Bad Boy, and Affliction.

To get a hold of Chris Horodecki check out:

http://www.ncfc.tv

You can also check out the Adrenaline Training Centre in London Ontario Canada at:

http://www.adrenalinemma.ca

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