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2011 Fight Core Party!
Fight Core celebrating it’s recent success with it’s new retail partner Aztec Highway.
2011 Starts with a Bang!
Mushin featured on morning news show in Utah. Brandon Kiser and Brian Yamasaki represent Damage Control MMA every Friday Night on 1280 the Zone Sports Radio with their friend Mike Stidham. Recent in studio guests include Jeff Monson and Erik Paulson. The team heads down to LA for CSW Camp 2011 and captures some [...]
2010 – Fight Core’s biggest year to date.
In the above picture: Brandon Melendez (The Ultimate Fighter), Brandon Kiser (Host of Damage Control MMA), Kyacey Uscola (The Ulimate Figher and Bodog), Jake Paul (Gladiator Challenge World Champ), Brian Yamasaki (Host of Damage Control MMA). 2010 – The biggest year in Fight Core history. We stepped up our game by opening a new training [...]
2009 – A big year for Fight Core!
Highlight of Fight Core in 2009 JANUARY Kyacey Uscola heads to Salt Lake City to get acclimated to the higher elevation before his fight with Hank Weiss on Febuary 20th at the Energy Solutions Arena. Brian Yamasaki and Brandon Kiser start working on the Ultimate Combat Experience as guest commentators for the long time friend Mike [...]
The 2010 Fight Core shirt line up is in the works
Stay tuned for the 2010 line up of Fight Core shirts and gear. Yamasaki and I have been everywhere from Puerto Rico to Boise pumping our merchandise and sponsoring fighters, wrestling teams, local musicians and models. The new products will start being released in November 2009.
Brian Yamasaki and Brandon Kiser featured on Hapkido TV
Check out HapkidoTV.com to see Brian and I as we discuss the relationship between MMA and Street Self Defense. It was fun being on the other end of the interview in a show with a format very similar to ours. Basically Allen Hughes of Hapkido TV goes around and interviews people with mucho bad assness [...]
And still the reining Welter Weight Gladiator Challenge Champion
After weeks of drilling fight specific combos, Jake Paul went out and KO’d Lee Doss in 5 seconds using the core technique we built for this fight. A solid training camp was assembled for Jake, Johnny and Jeremy. It brought together the experience of three coaches. Cade Janjira, Brian Yamasaki and Brandon Kiser. Unfortunately for Johnny [...]
Mushin to participate in Mike Stidhams new reality TV vison
Yamasaki and I are stepping out of our comfort zone to participate in the all new ULTIMATE COMBAT EXPERIENCE. The show appears to be moving in a slightly new direction by putting more emphasis on the EXPERIENCE. Fighters audition for the show and are assigned to an MMA Gym where they will be prepared for their MMA fight debut by [...]
Big things happening in the little old Mushin Gym
Mushin Self Defense barely has 1,000 square feet of training space but that hasn’t stopped the Mushin Crew from makin big things happen. The gym has a hard core yet cozy vibe with an old school feel to it. Long before the big chain gyms and MMA Super Centers like Throwdown came to town, Yamasaki and [...]
Introducing the Welter Weight Gladiator Champion – Jake Paul
It was well worth driving 7 hours to Wendover to see Jake Paul defeat Lee Doss in the 2nd round of the Gladiator Challenge Championship. Due to a crash on I-80 West, the drive from Salt Lake to Wendover ended up taking us about seven hours instead of two. We tried 3 different routes. The 1st two were closed [...]
