Jeff Rexroad was just beginning to build his martial arts skills when, like many other times during his military and civilian careers, he was called to go to a different country. This wa...
Hoping to find connections in the acting world, Katalina Malungahu was on one of her many assignments behind the scenes of the MTV show "Bully Beatdown" almost three years ago. On the s...
Jessica Penne had long been interested in combat sports. Aside from her high school softball and swimming careers, she even once hoped to wrestle, although there were no girls on the high ...
It was about six years ago when Ramiro "Junior" Hernandez checked his messages before bed and found one that would change his life. But there's a funny twist to that story. Hernandez, ...
When Brian Heden first was talked into entering a local mixed-martial-arts event with no training, he was 19 years old and 370 pounds. A former high school wrestler at a powerful small-...
The first time Daniel Pineda saw a live mixed-martial-arts fight, he walked in just in time to see his brother in a bad position. Five years older than Pineda, Jose Santibanez had started...
WEC 51 fighter Nick Pace apologized at the beginning of the conversation. "I might have to ask you to hold on," he said on his 45-minute drive from New Jersey to Brooklyn. "I'll have to p...
While it's easy to picture Lolohea Mahe in a mixed-martial-arts cage, fans may find it harder to imagine the dangerous striker singing in his church choir. But Mahe often joins his family...
Czar Sklavos didn't have to go far to find his first exposure to martial arts and combat sports. Just to the living room, pretty much.
When Joe Heiland finished his college wrestling career, becoming the first member of his small-town family to graduate from college, he knew he wanted to keep competing.