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The Year in Fight Path, Part I: Pizza delivery guys, poker dealers, rodeo riders and more

BAD MMA News — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 20:05:30 +0000

Rob Font In 2014, we continued to bring you weekly stories of up-and-coming or lesser-known fighters in our weekly Fight Path feature. We featured female wrestling coaches, single fathers of three, near-death survivors, rock guitarists, rodeo riders, Tasmanians, inspirational speakers, former military snipers, poker dealers, another in a line of Gracies, graphic designers, kiteboarders, sonar techs, Eagle Scouts, poets, firefighters and cancer survivors. Here’s a look at the weekly feature’s highlights from the first six months of 2014: NFL vet jump-starts fighting career Chris Dempsey , June 26 While Dempsey was a heavyweight wrestler at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, he had a chance to train with Carlton Haselrig, a former Pitt-Johnston wrestler and NFLer who was starting a fighting career. That stirred Dempsey’s own interest, which led to a 10-1 start before his signing by the UFC following our column. He dropped his “UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs.

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Fight Path: How a workout with an NFL vet led Chris Dempsey to an MMA career

BAD MMA News — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 01:50:40 +0000

Chris Dempsey was a 275-pound heavyweight wrestler when his college coach came to him with an unusual opportunity. Dempsey wrestled at University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, and an alum of the school, Carlton Haselrig, was starting a fighting career in 2008. He was a legendary competitor at Pitt-Johnstown, and he had gone on to an NFL career as an offensive lineman after his college wrestling days. So Dempsey knew plenty about him. He just didn’t know Haselrig’s decision to become a fighter would change his own life so much

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Fight Path: Poker dealer Adam Nash graduating from bar fights to V3Fights bout

BAD MMA News — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:01:25 +0000

Adam Nash had traveled the country with a front-row seat to the winning and losing of fortunes. He had found that job, dealing high-stakes poker tournaments, after working a string of going-nowhere gigs, including even one week as a vacuum cleaner salesman. Once he landed his steadiest job, at a Biloxi, Miss. casino, he got a familiar feeling whenever he would go to a movie.

Fight Path: Poker dealer Adam Nash graduating from bar fights to V3Fights bout – MMA Junkie