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We created this Buyers Guide to provide you with fingertip access to every company actively marketing products and services to the Mixed Martial Arts Industry. Our goal is to provide the most accurate and comprehensive Company Directory (Page 14), and listing of Products/Services (Page 33) they deliver.

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CONTENTS Our goal at MMA Business is to help companies in this industry stay ahead of the curve. Our articles are designed to help those who make a living in Mixed Martial Arts grow, expand and succeed long-term. But as this industry grows, how do you know what’s available? Who to go to for your needs? There are a lot of magazines and a lot of ads and a lot of websites and a lot of events you can turn to for those answers. But now, there is also one Annual Resource & Reference Guide you can use year-round... the MMA Business Buyers Guide!

The purpose of creating the Buyers Guide was to provide you with fingertip access to every company actively marketing products and services to the Mixed Martial Arts Industry. Our goal, and it will likely take a couple years to achieve, is to provide the most accurate and comprehensive directory of companies and listing JUNE 2012 • VOLUME 3 No. 3 of products/services in the industry.

The 2012 Buyers Guide is divided into two sections: Company Directory and Products/Services.

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Company Directory: An A to Z listing, with contact information, of all the companies you may want to do business with.

Products/Services: A comprehensive listing of products & services that you may be interested in, by category, with a drop-down list of companies that provide them.

MIXED THOUGHTS “Your Guide to Growth” Whether you are a gym owner, trainer, distributor, promoter, agent, manufacturer, service provider, association, event producer, consultant or industry professional... the 2012 MMA Business Buyers Guide is BUSINESS a resource for you to use in running your business! Check PLAN it out! Use it! Keep it nearby all year long! And, let us know what we can do to make it Innovate even betterand nextAdd year.Value

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MIXED THOUGHTS from the Editor www.MMABusiness.com Vol. 3, No. 3, June 2012

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Your Guide To Growth “People don’t buy products. They buy solutions to problems.” That phrase has been around a while. Or how about this one: “People don’t want to buy drills. They want to buy holes.” Both these marketing quotes are trendy and hot right now, and their point is this: Don’t focus on products as much as the services they provide, or the actions they enhance.

Well, that all sounds good, but in the end, we all like new stuff. You need state-of-the-art products to run a successful gym, whether a new cage, high-tech training dummies or a brand-new hanging bag. Providing your customers with the best training products, facilities and service is the key to long-term success.

It takes more than just re-ordering something when you are out.

The whole process that leads to a good and needed purchase is critical.

Check inventory before it’s low to see what you might need soon. Ask your students what items they would like you to add to your Pro Shop.

Research what you need and find out who offers what you need.

Our 2012 Buyers’ Guide If you are in the Mixed Martial Arts business, you need stuff. Boxing gloves to battling ropes. Billing software to bag racks. And that’s just the Bs. Our 2012 MMA Business Buyers Guide provides you with onestop shopping on all products and services from A to Z. We compiled this first-ever Buyers Guide to help you locate the stuff you need.

In this issue, you’ll find a comprehensive Company Directory, listing all the companies alphabetically that are actively marketing products and services to the MMA industry. You will also find a Products & Services section, with a breakdown by category of all products needed to run a successful MMA business. Looking for a source of custom gis?

How about training and certification services? Need insurance? Or just a source for t-shirts or mats? It’s in here.

How should you use this Buyers Guide? It’s easy. Check out the Products & Services section, find the companies that offer what you are looking for, then turn to the Company Directory to find out how to contact them. Most importantly, keep it at your fingertips all year long! You never know when you might need to find some help with supplements, or with website marketing, or with apparel. And – because it’s our first year producing this guide – let us know how we can make it better for you? If your company isn’t included in this year’s Buyers Guide and if you provide products or services we don’t know about, contact us and let us know. We’ll continue to update the list each year and make it the best and most comprehensive Buyers Guide it can be.

Now, get it out there and upgrade your gym with something new.

Trust me, your students will notice!

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BUSINESS PLAN Innovate and Add Value A concept taught in business school says true entrepreneurs innovate and add value. The counterpart to this is called “different sameness” and it’s often found in the combat sports industry. It’s a failure to innovate or add real value. It’s a business that is very similar to all of its competitors.

For example, the combat sports industry has dozens of apparel brands, most of which deliver the same style and brand message: “I’m an MMA fan who likes flaming tribal skull tattoo designs on my T-shirt.” All these cloned t-shirt brands are fighting for a small portion of the same market because none of them is truly different from the next.

The product itself isn’t the problem. The simple truth is that those brands are likely not going to succeed by doing what everybody else is doing and fighting over the same customers.

Entrepreneurs whose brands forge a new market or reach a new demographic are the ones that often find the greatest success. Rather than doing what everybody else is doing, they find their “blue ocean” and new customers. Truly innovative companies like Apple have generated billions of dollars in revenue with their ingenuity, while competitors are left to divide up the non-Apple consumers with competing versions of the copied products (different sameness).

Sure, you can make money doing what others are doing. However, fortune favors the bold, and consumers favor the innovative brands and their products. Invest your entrepreneurial time and money developing a brand combat sports consumers truly need, not in launching the 500th t-shirt company and struggling to succeed.

Maximize Revenue Streams The following exercise should help combat sports business owners identify the best revenue streams, and also devote resources toward those that are most lucrative.

If your business sells products:

1. Write down all of the places and ways your products are currently sold.

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2. Sort these places and ways into categories (these are you Distribution Channels). They might be “Online Retail,” “Sporting Goods Stores,” and “Events.”

3. Rank these Distribution Channels from most profitable to least profitable for your products – No. 1 being your most profitable channel.

4. Look at your No. 1 ranked channel, and create a list of the top 10 places and/or ways to sell within that channel. For example, if “Online Retail” is your No. 1 channel, you want to identify the top 10 online retailers of products like yours. These are likely your best potential Distribution Channel Partners.

5. Now that you’ve identified your top 10 profit-potential Distribution Channel Partners, devote your time and attention toward landing those accounts.

Make it your mission to pursue those potential partners, and only when that list has been exhausted will you repeat the above process for your No. 2 ranked Distribution Channel, then No. 3, and so on.

If you are in a service business, use the above protocol, but substitute Customer Types for Distribution Channels. Once you’ve identified your most profitable Customer Types (ie, Single Men age 18-34, Children age 4-12, or Women age 35-50) determine the 10 best places and/or ways to reach those customers and devote your resources toward pursuit of those potential best customers.

By identifying your most profitable customer type or distribution partner you’re not only going to have the highest rate of success in terms of conversion, but also prevent much of the loss of time and money that goes into marketing and selling to the wrong customer or partner. Remember, like bullets for a soldier, time and money are invaluable to an entrepreneur.

They’re best used sparingly, especially when you have little time or money to waste.

Dan Greene is a lifelong martial artist, instructor, and a combat sports industry business expert. He’s the Cofounder and CEO of Combat Sports Consulting, LLC, and works with martial arts business owners across the globe.

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Tips & Strategy to Build a Thriving Team Environment Effectively managing your team for success can be a meaningful and impactful success driver for your business – yet it is a component that is often overlooked by small business owners.

At Member Solutions, I head a team of more than 70 people. We are fortunate to enjoy a positive business culture with many healthy employee relationships. This positive environment did not happen overnight though. Our successful culture developed over time as a result of honest and effective strategies, and a purposeful employee management approach.

Bottom line: every organization – whether your business has dozens of employees or just two – can be more successful when enabling team members to achieve more than they reasonably thought they could.

One of my favorite books, “Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers,” by bestselling author and business guru, Patrick Lencioni, covers the three elements that make work miserable. By understanding what makes a job less fulfilling, you can take measures to avoid employee job dissatisfaction and turnover, and create a thriving team environment for your business.

Sign #1: Anonymity Anonymity is when one of your team members concludes that you really don’t care about them as an individual because you make no effort to understand who they are. All people need to be understood and appreciated by someone in authority. Positive community on a strong business platform will yield success.

Sign #2: Irrelevance Irrelevance occurs when team members are unable to connect what they do every day to making a positive, meaningful impact on others and the organization.

Sign #3: No measurement When an employee lacks a scorecard to objectively self-measure how they are doing in a way that their manager recognizes as valuable, that employee is at major risk of job dissatisfaction which makes you at major risk of losing them.

Committed and engaged employees with positive attitudes are necessary for success. Focusing

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your employee management approach on the three signs of job misery is a good basis to fostering a positive professional environment. As business owner and operator, you have the best ability to facilitate positive employee relationships that will yield success for your business and your employees. Here are a few tips to keep in mind: Get to know your employees; understand what is important to them, and appreciate their individual challenges. This will help you motivate more effectively and offer employees the opportunity to trust and confide in you as a person, more than as a boss.

Combine positive company community with a strong business platform, quality service, and a commitment to executing your plan. You’ll achieve something powerful that will drive success.

Let your employees know how their actions impact you, your business and the individuals you serve. When a member comments on their positive experience, pass that along to your team, every time and celebrate that success.

Let your employees know they make the world a better place. Let them know how much they help you. You can’t teach every class, sell every new membership, collect every payment, execute new member acquisition strategies, and be a spouse, parent or healthy human. Your employees need to know that that they enable you to live better and run a successful business, and that you appreciate it.

Find a way to formalize your instructor evaluation based on aggregate student performance. New students, retention of existing students, tuition payments collected, student attendance, and communication to students and parents are another set of regular measurements you can track at the employee level.

Everyone needs a scorecard they can understand, particularly the competitive, athletic type that gravitate to martial arts. With it, employees know that the actions they take are resulting in progress and success. When you enable employees to gauge the results of their actions with measurements that represent critical drivers of success in your business, you provide a critical job satisfaction tool with a powerful business management practice.

Steve Pinado is the CEO of Member Solutions, a leading provider of billing, servicing and business support for membership-based businesses.

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STRIPESMMA During his tenure as editorin-chief of FIGHT! magazine, Donovan Craig was able to visit U.S. troops in Mosul, Iraq in Sept., 2009 to cover “A Fight Night for Heroes,” the first Mixed Martial Arts event held in an active war zone. Living among the troops, Craig quickly recognized their pure passion for the sport – and also their sheer numbers.

“The military was always a big market for us while I was at FIGHT!,” he said.

The relationships Craig forged with military personnel while at FIGHT! paid off.

Before he left the magazine in 2011, Stars and Stripes, the U.S. military’s newspaper, contacted him to see if he would spearhead a new project called Stripes MMA , an insert in the newspaper that would focus on military combatives and MMA. To Craig, the concept made perfect sense. The latest iteration of military combatives – the unarmed system of hand-to-hand fighting taught to all soldiers – incorporates Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. In that way, every soldier is taught Mixed Martial Arts, and therefore, is more likely to want to see it, read about it and follow it, Craig said.

The first issue of Stripes MMA ran in the early spring, with Tim Kennedy, a Strikeforce middleweight and U.S. Army green beret, featured on the cover. Inside was the first of what Craig said will be a regular column by former UFC multipletime champion Randy Couture, who served in the U.S. Army for about six years in the 1980s. Craig said Couture was happy to oblige when approached about the column, because he credits the military with helping to hone the confidence and leadership skills that helped him become a successful MMA fighter.

Craig said he sees many MMA writers and publications as “basically unpaid PR people for Dana White. In the long run, that only hurts the sport … I’ve always felt you should cover the whole sport.” In addition to the sport of MMA, Stripes MMA will focus a great deal on military combatives, including its techniques and championships, Craig said. “I’m very excited about this project … We want to show the soldiers that we understand MMA and the military aspect of it.” – Ted Czech 10

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DREAM ENDS

MMA-Japan.com recently reported that Dream, a leading fight promotion in Japan, is “no longer a going business.” The website earlier reported on Dream’s cancelling a fight scheduled for July. A more recent update reported Bibiano Fernandes, Dream Bantamweight Champion, has signed with the UFC and will fight July 21 at UFC 149.

Other MMA news sites recently reported the departure of many Dream staff members. Dream was formed in February 2008, and crowned some of MMA’s best as its champions, including Gegard Mousasi, Shinya Aoki, and Fernandes.

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Twenty-six-year-old Dustin Jenson tapped out of his fight in RingWars event May 18 in Rapid City, South Dakota. He then watched the next two fights before going to the locker room area, where he suffered a seizure, according to his motherin-law Violet Schieman. Emergency Medical Technicians transported the fighter to the Rapid City Regional Hospital.”

A report in the Rapid City Journal said that Jenson had increased pressure on his brain and doctors put him in a medically induced coma before surgery was performed to relieve pressure. He was declared dead May 24 and was taken off life support the next day.

Jenson, of Sturgis, S.D., was a husband and father.

It’s unclear if activity during the fight triggered the seizure. South Dakota is one of several states that currently does not regulate MA fighting.

Civic center general manager Brian Maliske said he was unsure how or if the death would affect the scheduling of future MMA events at the civic center.

“Obviously, if it is connected to the injury here, then we will have to look at and see how it would affect us and what we want to do into the future,” he said.

Florian Taps Kenny Florian announced his retirement from Mixed Martial Arts, tapping out on a nine-year career that included 12 UFC victories.

“It probably wasn’t until the last couple of months where I really saw it (retirement) as a viable option.

When you’ve fought as long as I have and trained a long as I have, you become what you do, and that’s all you know,” he said in a UFC.com interview.

Florian will focus on running the Florian Martial Arts Center, his school in Brookline, Mass., as well as on his broadcasting career with Fuel TV and FX. “Right now, I have so many other opportunities coming my way. When I look at it, I’ve had a great career. Now it’s time to pursue other things,” Florian told ESPN.

GOING TO DISNEYLAND

The 2012 Origins International Martial Arts Festival is scheduled August 1719, 2012 in Anaheim, Calif. The annual event includes a variety of tournaments and training seminars, plus the Masters Showcase hosted by Disneyland Sports. For registration info, visit www. originsevents.com

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iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii The Mixed Martial Arts industry is vibrant, growing and ever-changing.

New companies, new products and new technology are the norm.

Our goal at MMA Business is to help companies in this industry stay ahead of the curve. Our articles are designed to help those who make a living in Mixed Martial Arts grow, expand and succeed long-term. But as this industry grows, how do you know what’s available? Who to go to for your needs? There are a lot of magazines and a lot of ads and a lot of websites and a lot of events you can turn to for those answers. But now, there is also one Annual Resource & Reference Guide you can use year-round... the MMA Business Buyers Guide!

We created this Buyers Guide to provide you with fingertip access to every company actively marketing products and services to the Mixed Martial Arts Industry. Our goal, and it will likely take a couple years to achieve, is to provide the most accurate and comprehensive directory of companies and listing of products/ services in the industry.

The 2012 Buyers Guide is divided into two sections: Company Directory and Products/Services.

Company Directory: An A to Z listing, with contact information, of all the companies you may want to do business with.

Products/Services: A comprehensive listing of products & services that you may be interested in, by category, with a drop-down list of companies that provide them.

Whether you are a gym owner, trainer, distributor, promoter, agent, manufacturer, service provider, association, event producer, consultant or industry professional... the 2012 MMA Business Buyers Guide is a resource for you to use in running your business. Check it out. Use it. Keep it nearby all year long! And, let us know what we can do to make it even better next year.

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company directory A ABC Financial 8320 Arkansas, #107 N. Little Rock, AK 72120 Action A, Inc. 7692 Garden Grove Blvd.

Westminster, CA 92683 ADX Apparel Inc. 24661 Del Prado Dana Point, CA 92629 Advanced Sports Labs 3101 West 25th Street, Suite #102 Cleveland, OH 44109 Adaptive Martial Arts Association PO Box 225 Pittsford, VT 05763

American Fighter – Damage Wear, Inc. 9795 Laurel Glen Drive Loveland, OH 45140 American Insurance Alliance PO Box 459 Barnhart, MO 63012 American Top Team 4631 Johnson Road Suite 1 Coconut Creek, FL 33073 Applied Nutriceuticals, Inc. 8112 Statesville Road Ste. G Charlotte, NC 28269 Aries Fight Gear 1838 Route 7A, PO Box 195 Shaftsbury, VT 05262

Affiliated Acceptance Corporation P.O. Box 790001 Sunrise Beach, MO 65079 Affliction Clothing 1799 Apollo Ct Seal Beach, CA 90740 All Brands Vending 8040 University Blvd.

Des Moines, IA 50325 America’s Best Martial Arts Business 5960 Parker Rd Ste 236 Plano, TX 75093

ASF International 640 Plaza Drive, Suite 300 Highlands Ranch, CO 80129 800-227-3859 www.asfinternational.com See Ad on Page 19 ATAMA Kimonos 2539 W. 237th Street, Suite F Torrance, CA 90505 Athletic Body Care 19360 Rinaldi St., Suite 433 Northridge, CA 91326 Atomic Athletic 500 Lehman Ave., #21 Bowling Green, OH 43402

B Bad Boy International 2411 Second Avenue San Diego, CA 92101

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Bas Rutten MMA System 880 Hampshire Rd., Suite X Westlake Village, CA 91361 Battle Pass Ticket Biscuit LLC 300 Riverside Parkway East Birmingham, AL 35244 Battleskinz P.O. Box 24 St. Clairsville, OH 43950 Best Sports PO Box 39506 Mississauga, ON Canada L5G 1H0 Beyond The Cage 546 Norwest 77th St. Boca Raton, FL 33487 Big Ass Fans 2425 Merchant Street Lexington, KY 40511

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Cage Fitness 3662 Avalon Park East Blvd, Suite 201 Orlando, FL 32828 877-650-2243 www.cagefitness.com See Ad on Page 29 Cageside MMA 1408 Christian Ave., Suite C Durham, NC 27705 919-800-3805 www.cagesidemma.com BioNutrional Reseach Group, Inc. 20311 Irvine Avenue, Suite E2 Newport Beach, CA 92660 Bloodfist 15555 Main Street, Suite D4 #161 Hesperia, CA 92345 Bodybuilding.com 2026 S. Silverstone Way Meridian, ID 83642 Brain-Pad, Inc. 322 Fayette St. Conshohocken, PA 19428 Brass Knuckle Therapy 23 Gold Finch Drive Wasaga Beach, ON Canada L9Z 3B6 BJJ Mart 2165 San Diego Ave., #106 San Diego, CA 92110 Blink Visuals 650 222nd Ave. Somerset, WI 54025 612-741-3048 www.blinkvisuals.com

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BOES, Inc. Canadian Distributor: Ring To Cage 35 Seapark Drive, Unit 9 St. Catharines, ON Canada L2M 6S5 Budo Videos 7495 Anaconda Ave. Garden Grove, CA 92841 Burn Machine, LLC 26305 Glendale Redford, MI 48239

Caged Steel 725 W. Freeport Street Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 74012

Century Martial Arts 1000 Century Blvd.

Oklahoma City, OK 73110 800-626-2787 www.CenturyMartialArts.com See Ad on Pages 26-27 Champion Nutrition 1301 Sawgrass Corporate Parkway Sunrise, FL 33323

Burn With Kearns 940 High Street, Suite 302 Westwood, MA 02090 508-541-3281 www.burnwithkearns.com See Ad on Page 37 B.Y. Group Ltd 85 Scarsdale Rd. #104 Toronto ON Canada M3B2R2

ChampionsWay Canada Headquarters Office 110 – 980 West 1st Street North Vancouver, BC Canada V7P 3N4 Champion Sports Equipment 109-21 117th Street, Suite 2F South Ozone Park, NY 11420 CKO Kickboxing 900 Madison Street Hoboken, NJ 07030

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Cutman4Hire 240 Quintard Street, #88 Chula Vista, CA 91911

Combat Sports Consulting 13046 Racetrack Rd., #235 Tampa, FL 33626

CytoSport 4795 Industrial Way Benicia, CA 94510

Combat Sports International 14865 W. 105th Street Lenexa, KS 66215

D Dale Shirley Photography 214 Jo Drive Los Gatos, CA 95302 407-827-8278 www.daleshirley.com Datsusara MMA 828 Carmel Avenue Albany, CA 94706

Competitive ACE Namman Muay 951 Brickell Ave, Ste 105 Miami, FL 33131 Conquest MMA 3809 Carnegie Drive Oceanside, CA 92057 CrossCore, Inc. 1191 Huntington Drive, #16 Duarte, CA 91010 Crossfire Media Group 7680 Monterey St., #206 Gilroy, CA 95020 Cryogel 1815 Flower Street Glendale, CA 91201 CSW Training Erik Paulson 4080 N. Palm St., #801 Fullerton, CA 92835

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company directory Driven, Inc. 1628 Plaza Loop Boise, ID 83687

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Epic Nutrition P.O. Box 1639 Juniper, FL 33468-1639

Demi Barbito Training P.O. Box 1071 Paso Robles, CA 97447

Eternal Unltd.

7171 Evan Drive Sebastopol, CA 95427

Destroy Athletics LLC 2 Rivers Ridge Rd. Old Saybrook, CT O6475

Europa Sports Products, Inc. 11401 Granite Street, Suite H Charlotte, NC 28273

Dethrone Royalty Box 7308 Burlingame, CA 94001

Everlast Cross Conditioner XV 15820 Euclid Ave. Chino, CA 91708

Dollamur 4709 South Edgewood Terrace Fort Worth, TX 76119

Everlast Worldwide 183 Madison Avenue, Suite 1701 New York, NY 10016

Do or Die Apparel 1053 S. Coast Highway 101 Encinitas, CA 92924

Evolution Insurance 8722 South Harrison Street Sandy, UT 84070

Dragon Door – Russian Kettlebells PO Box 4381 St. Paul, MN 55104

EZ Flex Sport Mats 7450 Whitehall Street Richland, TX 76118

Drako Sports Suite 3-9670 188 St. Unit 4 Vancouver BC Canada V4N3M2

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4Q2 Fightwear P.O. Box 124 East Meadow, NY 11554 516-833-5167 www.4Q2fightwear.com See Ad on Page 30 FC Online Marketing 3601 Hempstead Turnpike, Suite 503 Levittown, NY 11756 Fairtex 2044 Old Middlefield Way Mountain View, CA 94043 Fight Chix, Inc. 6S010 Steeple Run Drive, Unit 1A Naperville, IL 60540 Fightdentist, LLC 7260 South Cimarron Road, Suite 150 Las Vegas, NV 89113 Fight It Out 155 Fleet St. Portsmouth, NH 03801 603-766-1959 www.fightitout.com

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company directory Fightco 597 Mantua Blvd.

Sewell, NJ 08080

Forte Creative Media 8936 Spanish Ridge Ave., Suite 100 Las Vegas, NV 89148

Get Rung 2251 N. 32nd St. #14 Mesa, AZ 85213

FIGHT! Magazine 1200 Lake Hearn Drive, Suite 450 Atlanta, GA 30319

Fight Summit 1745 Merrick Avenue, Suite 5 Merrick, NY 11566 516-377-5909 www.fightsummit.com See Ad on Page 45 Fighters Dream LLC 2 Rivers Edge Road Old Saybrook, CT 06475 Fighters Market 501 Silverside Rd, Suite 105 Wilmington, DE 19809

Fighter’s Only Magazine i2 Media Ltd 200 Portland Road Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne UK NE2 1DJ Fit to Fight 1122 E. Hudson Blvd.

Gastonia, NC 28054 Fitness Anywhere, Inc – TRX 1660 Pacific Avenue San Francisco, CA 94109 Fizogen Precision Technologies, Inc. 3133 Fortune Way, Suite 4 Wellington, FL 33414 Focusmaster Fitness 44 Biscayne Blvd.

Troy, NY 12182

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Gaspari Nutrition 575 Prospect St., Suite 230 Lakewood, NJ 08701

Fuji Sports 1 Lincoln Plaza, #16B New York, NY 10023 800-757-7686 www.fujisports.com See Ad on Page 43 Full Contact Sports 18-1391 St James St. Winnipeg MB Canada R3H0Z1 Function First 3974 Dove St. San Diego, CA 92103 Fuse Marketing PO Box 4509 Burlington, VT 05406-4509

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ATOS Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu 4425 Convoy St. #216 San Diego, CA 92111

Gameness Fight Company 1545 Capital Dr. Suite 106 Carrollton, TX 75006 888-405-6056 www.gameness.com See Ad on Page 5 Gamma Enterprises 113 Alder St. W. Babylon, NY 11704

Gi Nutrition PO Box 453 Allendale, NJ 07401 GLC Direct P.O. Box 106 Paris, KY 40362 Gladiator c/o Sport Guard International 3451 West Allegheny Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19132 Go Figure, Inc. 8524 Hwy. 6 North, Suite 310 Houston, TX 77095 Gopher Performance 2525 Lemond St. SW Owatonna, MN 55060 Gorilla Fight Gear 104 Regent Ave E Winnipeg MB Canada R3C5G2

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Gracie Mag United States Inc. 28 Riverside Avenue, Apt. 2e Red Bank, NJ 07701 www.graciemag.com See Ad on Page 49

Hayabusa 745 Development Drive, Suite 2/3 Kingston, ON Canada K7M 4W6

House of Pain P.O Box 333 911 West Highway Drive Fate, TX 75132

Head Blade, Inc. 3623 Eastham Drive Culver City, CA 90232

Hyperwear 2210 Denton Dr., Ste. 103 Austin, TX 78758

Grapple Grip PO Box 6417 San Pedro, CA 90734

Grapplers Quest PO Box 4505 Wayne, NJ 07474 973-248-6266 www.grapplersquest.com See Ad on Page 47 GrapplingX Grappling Experience LLC 30033 Technology Drive Suite 101 Temecula, CA 92563 Greatmats 117 Industrial Avenue Milltown, WI 54858 Grizzly Fight Gloves 460 Bingeman’s Center Drive Kitchener, ON Canada N2B 3X9 Gut Check, Inc. 19 Lonsdale Drive South Plainfield, NJ 07080 Gymboss P.O. Box 303 St. Clair, MI 48079

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Jiu-Jitsu Magazine, Recon Media 3857 Schaefer Avenue, Unit D Chino, CA 91710

ICE Training P.O. Box 752 Mays Landing, NJ 08330

Jugular, Inc. 18685 Main Street, Suite 101 Huntington Beach, CA 92648

IFMMA 18812 Cabral Street Canyon County, CA 91351

Juke Performance 28025 Dorothy Drive, #102 Agoura Hills, CA 91301

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Jackrabbit Technologies P.O. Box 31421 Charlotte, NC 28231

K & K Insurance 1712 Magnavox Way Fort Wayne, IN 56804

Jaco Athletics, LLC 624 S. Military Trail Deerfield Beach, FL 33442

Kamagon Fitness 7715 E. 111th St., #119 Tulsa, OK 74133

JAKKS Pacific, Inc. 21749 Baker Parkway Walnut, CA 91789

Karateinsurance.com PO Box 1927 Castle Rock, CO 80104

Jimmy Pedro 12 Cameron Way Methuen, MA 01844 800-510-4026 www.JimmyPedro.com

Kennedy Industries, Inc. 935 Horsham Road Horsham, PA 19044

MKimonos 172 South Norwinden Drive Springfield, PA 19064

KettleBell Concepts 349 5th Ave., 7th Floor New York, NY 10016

Mancino Mats 4700 Wissahickon Ave. Building E, Suite 109 Philadelphia, PA 19144

Kicksite 4745 W. 136th Street Leawood, KS 66224 Klenz Towel 47185 Wild Clover Circle, Suite 200 Sioux Falls, SD 57107 Kontact Sports 1545 Le Corbusier Laval, Quebec Canada H7S2K6 Kovar Systems 7520 Fair Oaks Blvd.

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Martial Arts Group 767 South State Road 7 Suite 15 Margate, FL 33068 Martial Arts Industry Association 1000 Century Blvd.

Oklahoma City, OK 73110 Martial Arts Marketing Network 10532 N. Port Washington Rd. Suite 2 Mequon, WI 53092 Mass Suit 28025 Dorothy Drive, Ste. 102 Agoura Hills, CA 91301

MindBody 4051 Broad Street, Suite 220 San Luis Obispo, CA 93101 888-212-0024 www.mindbody.com/aka See Ad on Page 32

MMA Worldwide 5252 Orange Ave., Suite 109 Cypress, CA 90638 MMA World Expo 150 W. 51st Street, Suite 1219 New York, NY 10019

Matguard U.S.A. 81 Oak Hill Road Red Bank, NJ 07701

Member Solutions 330 S. Warminster Road, Suite 358 Hatboro, PA 19040 888-277-4409 www.membersolutions.com See Ad on Page 2

MMA Fighter Connect 788 Princeton Lane Westfield, Indiana 46074

Metal Mulisha 5 Jenner St., Suite 180 Irvine, CA 92618

Mixed Martial Arts Conditioning Assn 30245 Tomas Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688 877-348-6692 www.MMACA.net See Ad on Page 39

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company directory NCFC Fight Management 690 Carlsbad Village Drive, Suite 103 Carlsbad, CA 92008

Ouano International 11664 National Blvd. PMB #313 Los Angeles, CA 90064-3854

Next Level Formulations 11465 I-70 Frontage Road N. Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

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Newbreed 3197 SW McMullen St. Port St. Lucie, FL 34953 Nishime Karate Dojo, Inc. Bigger Classes 7012 Harrison Ave., #1 Cincinnati, OH 45247 www.BiggerClasses.com

MusclePharm 610 Washington Ave Carlstadt NJ 07072-2902

N NAGA - North American Grappling Association 36 Saner Road Marlborough, CT 06447 NASM 1750 E. Northrop Blvd, Suite 200 Chandler, AZ 85286

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Paradigm Sports Management 17461 Derian Ave. Suite 108 Irvine, CA 92614 Paradise Warrior US Tour 18254 Rosita Street Tarzana, CA 91356

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Pedro’s Judo Center 19 New Salem Street Wakefield, MA 01880 781-245-0644 www.JimmyPedro.com

Ocean View Publishing, LLC 72 Patricia Ann Drive Tilton, OH 03276

Performance Equity Partners 19450 97th Ave. Mokena, IL 60448

One Merit Badges 850 Taraval St. San Francisco, CA 94116

The Pit 1106 E. Grand Ave. Suite C Arroyo Grande, CA 93420

Otomix 747 Glasgow Ave Inglewood, CA 90301

POWER Fight Gear (Power Punch) 2400 E. Main Street, Suite 103-304 St. Charles, IL 60174

Norberts Athletic Products P.O. Box 1890 San Pedro, CA 90733-1890

Monster Rings & Cages 1020 Cable Court P. O. Box 728 Lawrenceburg, KY 40342 502-839-6335 www.monsterringsandcages.com See Ad on Page 41

Paladin Press 7077 Winchester Circle Boulder, CO 80301

OTM Fight Shop 5402 Commercial Drive Huntington Beach, CA 92649

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Power Systems 5700 Casey Drive Knoxville, TN 37909 800-321-6975 www.power-systems.com See Ad on Page 21

Punishment Athletics 15561 Product Lane, #D11 Huntington Beach, CA 92649

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Realm Muay Thai & MMA Academy 2785 Mansfield Drive Courtenay, BC Canada V9N 2M2 Reid Fight Wear P.O. Box 332 Northumberland, PA 17857 Reign Full Contact Gear 733 Nicol St. Naniamo BC Canada V9R4V2

Q5 Combat PO Box 547 Rockport, ME O4856

Premier Fighter 77 West Washington St. Suite 1720 Chicago, IL 60602

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Rage Fitness 4995 Lima Street Denver, CO 80239

RepMaxx 9255 Creekside Lane Modesto, CA 95357 855-737-6299 www.repmaxx.com See Ad on Page 25

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company directory Sport Guard International 3451 Allegheny Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19132

Request A Test 8803 Brecksville Rd., Suite 7-130 Brecksville, OH 44141 Resilite Sports Products 200 Point Township Drive Northumberland, PA 17857 Respect Your Universe Inc. (RYU) 5940 South Rainbow Boulevard Las Vegas, Nevada 89118

RioFightWear 8987 E. Tanque Verde, #309-301 Tucson, AZ 85749 800-764-1171 www.riofightwear.com See Ad on Page 35 Rival Boxing 9810 Rue Saint Urbain Montreal, QC Canada H3L2T2

REVGear Sports 15073 Keswick Street Van Nuys, CA 91405 800-767-8288 www.revgear.com See Ad on Page 17 Ringstar, Inc. (fighting shoes) 3533 Highstar Rd. Boynton Beach, FL 33426

S Shock Doctor 3300 Fernbrook Lane, Suite 250 Minneapolis, MN 55447 Sick Gear 4064 Lincoln Ave. #290 Chicago, IL 60618 Skin Industries 4495 W. Reno Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89118

Ring To Cage 27A Poplar Street East Rutherford, NJ 07073 866-666-0074 www.ringtocage.com See Ad on Page 36

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SPEC Series Training Shorts Inspirit USA Shuichi Nishide 4237 LaSalle Ave. Culver City, CA 90232 Spider Guard Supreme Athletic Wear, LLC 7825 Wedgefield Drive Indianapolis, IN 46217

Sports Instructional Holdings, LLC – MMA Faestro 8600 Eagle Creek Parkway Savage, MN 55378 Sports Management Global 6480 Alburtis Road Macungie, PA 16082 Sprawl 641 McKnight Reading PA 19601 SSP Nutrition 6 Park Avenue Rutherford, NJ 07070 StaphAseptic c/o Tec Laboratories, Inc. 7100 Tec Lab Way SW Albany, NY 97321 Street Wise Fightwear P.O. Box 714 Fayetteville, NY 13066

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Tapout Magazine 5252 Orange Ave. Suite 109 Cypress, CA 90630 TapouT 100 W. 33rd Street, Suite 1007 New York, NY 10001 The Landreau Group 3212 Hennepin Ave. South Minneapolis, MN 55408

The Mat Warehouse 8650 Upland Lane North Maple Grove, MN 55311 888-501-6150 www.TheMatWarehouse See Ad on Page 38 Throwdown Industries 92 Argonaut, Ste. 100 Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 Thrown Bombs Athletic Company 2340 Olympia Drive Tecumseh, ON Canada N0R2L0 Thunder Fight Gear 1730 Costa Del Sol Boca Raton, FL 33433

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Turtle Press P.O. Box 34010 Sante Fe, NM 87594-4010

Up-Rev, Inc 2885 Electronics Drive, Suite D13 Melbourne, FL 32935

21st Century Leasing Box 7289 San Diego, CA 92167

USP Labs 10761 King William Dr. Dallas, TX 75220

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Topline MMA Canadian Distributor: Triumph United & Kicksite 2529 St. Clair Ave. Windsor, ON Canada N9E 4L9 226-344-6662 www.toplinemma.com

UFC – Zuffa, LLC 2960 W Sahara, Suite 200 Las Vegas, NV 89102 Ultimate MMA Magazine Beckett Media/Action Pursuit Group 265 S. Anita Drive Suite 120 Orange, CA 97868

Totiro-USA 2413 W. Algonquin Road #234 Algonquin, IL 60102-9402

Ultimate Sandbag Training Henkin Fitness Systems 735 Gelding Drive, Suite 4 Scottsdale, AZ 85260

Trinity Sports Group (Neuro Impact) 2004 Ventura, Suite 250 Plano, TX 75093 972-867-7600 www.neuroimpact.net See Ad on Page 15

Ultimate Nutrition 21 Hyde Road, PO Box 643 Farmington, CT 06034 Unbreakable Mouthpieces 15165 7th Street Victorville, CA 92392

Triumph United 1837 S. Coast Hwy Oceanside, CA 92054

Under-Gi 14850 Chardon Windsor Road Chardon, OH 44024

Tuff-N-Uff Productions 9811 Charleston Blvd., Ste. 2-643 Las Vegas, NV 89117

Unique Publications c/o APG Media Private label custom athletic P.O. Box 15159 apparel for Martial Arts, MMA, Sports, and FitnessNorth Hollywood, CA 91615-9268 www.tufgearsolutions.com

TufGear Solutions 2037 Harrison Street Hollywood, FL 33020 954-647-0818 www.tufgearsolutions.com See Ad on Page 23 Rashguards

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VersaClimber Heart Rate, Inc. 1411 E. Wilshire Ave. Santa Ana, CA 92705 800-237-2271 www.versaclimber.com See Ad on Page 51 Victory MMA & Fitness 3666 Midway Dr. San Diego, CA 92110 VonZipper 121 Waterworks Way Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92618 Vulkan Fight Company 7495 Anaconda Ave. Garden Grove, CA 92841

W WARHEAD 4734 De Colombey St. Leonard, QC Canada H1RE1 Warriors International 5532 E. La Palma Ave Anaheim, CA 92807 Website Masters 2500 Regency Parkway Suite 118 Cary, NC 27518 Weight Vest 2108 West Highway 33 Rexburg, ID 83440

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Woodland Hills, CA 91367 World Martial Arts Academy 1000 Cave Springs Blvd.

St. Peters, MO 63376 Wrap Wrench 2960 Main Street Irvine, CA 92614

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PRODUCTS/SERVICES APPAREL Action A, Inc. ADX Apparel Affliction Clothing American Fighter Aries Fight Gear Bad Boy International Bloodfist Brass Knuckle Therapy Caged Steel Cageside Century Martial Arts Clinch Gear Combat Sports Int’l.

Conquest MMA Destroy Athletics Dethrone Royalty Do or Die Apparel Drako Sports Driven Inc. Eosin Panther Everlast Fight Chix Fight It Out Fuji Sports Gameness House of Pain Jaco Clothing Kontact Sports Martial Arts Embroidery Metal Mulisha Modern Gladiator Fight Gear One Merit Badges Otomix Premier Fighter Proma USA Punishment Athletics Ranger Up Reid Fight Wear Reign Full Contact Gear Respect Your Universe Ring to Cage RioFightWear Revgear Rival Boxing Savage Sports Inc Skin Industries Sprawl Streetwise Fightwear Submit Gear Tapout

Throwdown Industries Throwin’ Bombs Title Boxing/Title MMA Triumph United Vulkan Fight Gear Warhead Wear Warrior International Xtreme Couture BOOKS/ VIDEOS/COLLECTABLES BJJ Mart Beyond the Cage Bodybuilding.com Budo Videos Burn With Kearns Jimmy Pedro MMA Fighter Connect MMA Vault Ocean View Publishing Paladin Press Thunder Fight Gear Title Boxing/Title MMA Turtle Press Unique Publications CLEANING PRODUCTS Gym/Mat cleaners Kennedy Industries Matguard USA Zebra EVENTS & EVENT PRODUCERS Fight Summit MA Super Show MMA World Expo Tuff N Uff Productions UAE Wrestling, Judo & Jiu-Jitsu UFC – Zuffa UWC MMA White Chocolate Management Tournaments and Promoters Grappler’s Quest GrapplingX MMA World Expo NAGA Tuff N Uff Productions UAE Wrestling, Judo & Jiu-Jitsu

UFC - Zuffa Tickets Battle Pass Ticket FACILITIES EQUIPMENT Cages & Rings Century Martial Arts Combat Sports Int’l.

Everlast Kontact Sports Monster Rings & Cages Rival Boxing Throwdown Industries Title Boxing/Title MMA Zebra Mats, Pads & Flooring Century Martial Arts Champion Sports Equipment Dollamur EZ Flex Sports Mats Fairtex Get Rung Great Mats Kontact Sports Mancino Mats Norberts Proma USA Rage Fitness Resilite Revgear Swain The Mat Warehouse Title Boxing/MMA Zebra Bag Racks Combat Sports Int’l.

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PRODUCTS/SERVICES Ceiling Fans Big Ass Fans Misc.

Beyond The Cage Combat Sports Int’l.

Everlast Wrap Wrench FIGHT/TRAINING GEAR Footwear Century Martial Arts Combat Sports Int’l.

Everlast Kontact Sports Otomix Proma USA Ringstar Advantage Rival Boxing Title Boxing/MMA 4Q2 Fightwear Gis ATAMA Kimonos Century Martial Arts Combat Sports Int’l.

Do Or Die - Hyperfly Fuji Sports Gameness Kontact Sports MKimonos New Breed Gear Ouano Proma USA Revgear Ring to Cage RioFightWear Sick Gear Title Boxing/MMA Totiro-US TufGear Solutions Gloves & Handwraps Aries Fight Gear Bad Boy International

BY Group Caged Steel Cageside MMA Century Martial Arts Combat Sports Int’l.

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Conquest MMA Drako Sports Everlast Fight It Out Fightco Gameness Gopher Performance Grizzly Fitness Kontact Sports Ouano Power Punch Gloves Proma USA Reign Full Contact Gear RevGear Ring to Cage RioFightWear Rival Boxing Savage Sports Inc. Throwdown Industries Thunder Fight Gear Title Boxing/MMA Totiro-USA Triumph United Tufgear Warrior International Mouthguards Fightdentist Gladiator Kontact Sports Shock Doctor Sport Guard International Tapout Totiro-USA Unbreakable Mouthpieces Pads Aries Fight Gear Bad Boy International Brain-Pad, Inc.

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Drako Sports Everlast Gameness Gopher Performance Kontact Sports Proma USA

Revgear Ringstar Advantage Ring to Cage RioFightWear Rival Boxing Throwdown Industries Title Boxing/MMA Totiro-USA TufGear Solutions Warrior International Rash Guards Caged Steel Cageside MMA Century Martial Arts Clinch Gear Combat Sports Int’l.

Conquest MMA Destroy Athletics Drako Sports Everlast Fightco Fight It Out Fuji Sports Gameness Gut Check Jaco Clothing Kontact Sports Modern Gladiator Fight Gear New Breed Gear Ouano Proma USA Revgear Ring to Cage RioFightWear Savage Sports Inc. Sick Gear Tapout Throwdown Industries Title Boxing/MMA Totiro-USA Triumph United TufGear Solutions UniSkin Shorts Action A, Inc. Bad Boy International Cageside MMA Century Martial Arts Clinch Gear Combat Sports Int’l.

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Evolution Insurance K & K Insurance Karate Insurance Markel Insurance Martial Arts Group, Inc. The Landreau Group Westpoint Insurance Group

Franchise, ProShop CKO Kickboxing OTM Fight Shop Victory MMA & Fitness Title Boxing/MMA

MARKETING SERVICES Business Development America’s Best Martial Arts Business ASF International Combat Sports Consulting Fuse Marketing Gotham Direct Inc. Kovar’s Systems Lloyd Irvin Martial Arts Martial Arts Industry Association Martial Arts Management Group Martial Arts Marketing Network Member Services MindBody Mixed Martial Arts Conditioning Assn Nishime Karate Dojo Premier Management Group Sports Management Global

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Affiliated Acceptance Corporation ASF International Champions Way Go Figure Inc. Jack Rabbit Dojo Martial Arts Organizer Member Solutions MindBody Side Kick Billing

Liniments Competitive Ace (Namman Muay) Cryogel Sweet Sweat

Testing Services Advanced Sports Labs Request-a-Test

PERSONAL CARE Cleaners/soap Athletic Body Care Defense Soap Kennedy Industries Manumission Skin Care Revgear Ring to Cage Swift Distributions

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PUBLICATIONS Gracie Mag Fight Fighters Only Jiu Jitsu Magazine MMA Worldwide

TapouT Magazine Ultimate MMA Magazine ENERGY DRINKS Jugular Xyience SUPPLEMENTS/NUTRITION BioNutritional Research Group Bodybuilding.com BSN Century Martial Arts Champion Nutrition CytoSport Eight Ball Nutrition Epic Nutrition Europa Sports Fizogen Precision Technologies Gamma Enterprises Gaspari Nutrition

iiiiiiiiii Gi Nutrition GLC Direct GX Supplements MusclePharm Next Level Formulations Q5 Combat Six Star Muscle SSP Nutrition Title Boxing/MMA Trinity Sports Group Ultimate Nutrition USP Labs Xyience Nutrition Services PR Cole TRAINING PROGRAMS/ ASSOCIATIONS Adaptive Martial Arts Association American Top Team Bas Rutten MMA Black Belt Principles Burn With Kearns Cage Fitness

Demi Barbito Fight Like A Girl Fit to Fight Kru Muay Thai Function First ICE Training IFMMA Kettlebell Concepts Kovar’s Systems Krav Maga Worldwide Lloyd Irvin’s Martial Arts Marchtaler Group Mixed Martial Arts Conditioning Assn NASM.org Paradise Warrior Seminars Pedro’s Judo Center Pedro Sauer The Pit Powerful Words Steve Turk Training TapouT Research & Development The Center Mixed Martial Arts Tiger Rock Martial Arts International Tom Patire Group Victory Taekwondo Chung Do Kwan Website Masters

World Martial Arts Information Center World Martial Arts Academy Certifications Burn with Kearns Cutman4Hire Mixed Martial Arts Conditioning Assn NASM.org Premier Management Group TRAINING & FITNESS EQUIPMENT Century Martial Arts Everlast Function First Gopher Performance Hyperwear Kontact Sports Mass Suit Power Systems Rage Fitness RepMaxx Rival Boxing VersaClimber

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purchase of Strikeforce, along with UFC President Dana White’s long-standing view of women’s MMA – he believes the current landscape of fighters is not deep enough in any In the weeks leading up to Invicta Fighting Championships’ weight division to warrant fights in the UFC – caused wideinaugural card on April 28 in Kansas City – featuring only spread panic among WMMA fighters, Knapp said. female fighters – social networking site Twitter blew up “The wheels started clicking and turning,” Knapp said. with people talking about the event, from legendIn terms of weight divisions, the only ary MMA fighters to the newest fans joining in. The two not seen by fans were 135 and 145 results were astonishing: the free stream of the event pounds. There was a healthy stable, on Invicta’s website garnered nearly 250,000 views. however, of talented and eager fighters Owner Shannon Knapp said it was a combinaat some of the lighter weight classes. tion of her time spent in the MMA industry, the “It was like, somebody needs to get in professional reputation she had developed along the here, roll up their sleeves and fight the way, and the fact that a women-only promotion was fight,” she said.

Knapp said she knows building a brand doesn’t happen overnight, but she’s confident Invicta can become the new major league for WMMA. Preparation for the second event, to be held July 28 and featuring a main event of Shayna Baszler versus Sara McMann, began during the first event’s broadcast, with a live interview of Baszler and McMann in the arena.

In terms of pay, Knapp said Invicta’s purses are equivalent to what fighters would be making at Strikeforce or Bellator. Offering them far more money would not help in the long run if the fan base is not large enough, she said. “The market value for female fights is different,” she said. “There should be a growth that can support itself. If they can sell tickets, then that’s what should drive up market value.”

Knapp said she’s confident that, in time, she will build Invicta as a brand, and that bigger sponsors and possibly a TV deal will come. For now, Invicta 2 will be shown just like the first show – free for viewers on its website. “Showing that this wasn’t a fluke, I think, puts me in a much better position in terms of negotiation,” + Winning the main event at Invicta 1, Dutch Fighter Marloes Coenen called out Strikeforce she said. “It just brings me, and the promotion, Champ Ronda Rousey for a potential bout. the credibility to make a statement that we are long overdue in the sport. for real and that an alliance with us would not be a bad thing.”

Then there was the sale of Strikeforce to Zuffa, the UFC’s Knapp worked for several prominent MMA promotions parent company, in March 2011. Strikeforce had become the over the past decade, including the IFL, WFA, King of the major league of Women’s Mixed Martial Arts over the past Cage and Affliction. They called her “The Cleaner” befew years, featuring such prominent fighters as Gina Carano, cause she knew how to fix situations that had devolved into Christiane “Cyborg” Santos and Marloes Coenen. But the disarray, she said. – Ted Czech

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Like a Jon Jones spinning back-elbow, RYU Performance And when it comes to fight sponsorship, the Portland, Apparel came out of nowhere and made a huge impact on Oregon-based RYU’s philosophy is to be selective. “We the MMA clothing scene. Seemingly before many people don’t just tag any fighter … sometimes it’s only one fighter,” had heard of the brand, RYU was a UFC sponsor with a Rocky Bice, RYU brand ambassador. “Do they fit into the logo in the octagon and several sponsored fighters com- world of what we’re trying to project, which is to bring back peting at UFC events this spring. It all prompts the ques- honor and respect to Mixed Martial Arts.” For UFC 146: Dos tions: What’s RYU, and what kind of power is behind such Santos vs. Mir, RYU sponsored two fighters, Jamie Varner an impressive push? and Darren Elkins. But before doing so, the company really A Google search will first lead you to the much more got to know the two fighters, “to find out who they are as a popular Ryu, the leading character in the Street Fighter vid- person … some people, they’re just not RYU material. I’m eo game series, who looks surprisingly like Lyoto Machida. not saying that in a bad way, they’re just not our style.” That No, this is RYU – all caps – which stands for Respect Varner and Elkins were underdogs in their respective fights wasn’t a factor. “It was about who they are,” Bice said.

The company is working its acronym into action, getting involved in charities like the Knockout Bullying campaign.

“It’s about doing the right thing, doing something that inspires, doing something positive,” Bice said.

Equally important is the clothing itself – RYU’s “Wakizashi” fight shorts have a diagonal front closure that prevents bunching, and the rubberized symbols on the inside of the waist become slightly adhesive when exposed to moisture, creating a snug fit, Bice said. The shorts retail for $98, and many of the company’s tee shirts retail for $38, keeping them at the high end of the category.

A publicly traded company (OTC: RYUN), RYU files financial statements with the Securities Exchange Commission. Its most recent filing gave this company overview: “We have generated limited revenues to date and during the quarter ended March 31, 2012. As a result, we continue to depend upon funding from various sources to continue operations and + RYU’s brand-building efforts are beginning with an aggressive campaign that has placed the company logo inside the UFC Octagon. to implement our growth strategy.”

Your Universe. RYU has a fairly unique partnership with the The company’s stock traded as high as $2.53 last July, and UFC – it is one of three companies (Tapout and Monster hit a recent low of $0.86 in early June 2012. RYU will launch being the other two) with the ability to sponsor athletes in its women’s apparel line this fall, and has plans to expand organizations outside of the UFC. RYU has branched out both men’s and women’s product offerings for spring 2013, to other sports, including baseball – sponsoring Boston Red according to the SEC filing. – Ted Czech

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YOURGYM NAME: Leading Edge Martial Arts LOCATION: Allentown & Bethlehem, PA OWNER: Rob Wetmore YEARS IN BUSINESS: 12 DISCIPLINES: Non-Competitive Mixed Martial Arts, Grappling and Cage Fitness. For both Adults and Children Leading Edge Martial Arts recently celebrated its 12th anniversary. Recording revenue growth and business success in each of those 12 years, Leading Edge is an MMA business worth watching.

Rob Wetmore opened Leading Edge Karate in 2000 in nearby Emmaus, Pennsylvania. In the 2,000-square-foot business, Sensei Wetmore taught his own unique mix of martial arts. After a few years, he learned that both the size and the name were holding him back.

In 2004, he moved Leading Edge to Allentown and a building with more than three times the square footage. And shortly after that, he dropped “Karate” for “Martial Arts.”

“The name ‘Karate’ was simply limiting us.” Wetmore says that “non-competition-based Mixed Martial Arts incorporates Karate, Taekwondo, kickboxing, Muay Thai, Judo, Jiu Jitsu, and other things. “Before ‘I trained’ in a number of eclectic systems and in a variety of arts, picking up what I can here and there.”

He also received business training along the way. “I learned how to be a professional in this industry from my mentor and long-time friend Mark Glazier.”

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a practical self-defense system with no limitations based on style or tradition.

But I still wanted to teach it in a traditional environment.” Leading Edge students still wear gis for most training, and Wetmore says they’re taught the same discipline and respect as in any traditional martial arts environment.

“But it’s done without ego,” said Wetmore. “There is no instructor worship, no ‘master’ titles. Yes, we still have belts and graduations, but we do both gi and no-gi ‘t-shirt’ training. It’s still a structured curriculum.”

The Field of Dreams Approach Besides eschewing traditional limits, Wetmore also built Leading Edge around the principle of No Sales Pressure. “We’re a no-contract school,” said Wetmore.

“No pressure. No sales pitches. So many schools want to lock people into longterm agreements. We don’t do that.”

Member retention? “It’s fantastic.”

Wetmore recounts stories of working at other martial arts schools and asking parents of youth members to step into the office and talk. “People would always say, ‘Hide your wallet.’ But we don’t do that. When we ask a member for a talk, we really want to just talk about their training or their kids. In the end, we have to be more accountable because our member experience might be only as good as the last class we taught.”

If you build it, will they come?

Simply, yes. Leading Edge opened a second facility in November 2010 in nearby Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Allentown school has grown to 500 members, and the newer Bethlehem gym is at 200 members.

It’s About Students Just as for most business owners, mar-

tial arts is a lifestyle for Wetmore. But it’s not a lifestyle built around earning ranks and showcasing his training.

“These schools are about the students,” he said, “not about me or any instructor. We’re here to improve their lives and to serve them.”

Wetmore’s quick to credit the success of Leading Edge to “the amazing staff we have assembled.” He said, “The staff all care about the students and the school, and this contributes tremendously to the professional and positive atmosphere. Wetmore’s partner in the Bethlehem location is Joe Kortbawi, and the two have been teaching together since the early 90s.

The Right Programming Business philosophy is one thing, but Wetmore knows you need the right programming to succeed in martial arts. “We had cardio kickboxing since the day we opened in 2000,” said Wetmore. He described it as “an extra program,” one that made just enough money to pay instructors. But it didn’t improve business, and was more of a burden.

“We started Cage Fitness late in 2010,” he said, “and we found the crossover class that can boost business. The martial arts students love the quick cardio. And the new Cage Fitness students are slowly getting into martial arts.” It turned his “fitness” program around, from a flat line to a very profitable business element.

“We don’t spend a lot of money on marketing,” said Wetmore. “Sure, member retention is an issue for every school, especially leading into summer months.

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World Jiu-Jitsu Expo The World Jiu-Jitsu Expo received more news coverage for what didn’t happen at the event than for what did happen. That’s a shame.

Promoted by Renzo Gracie, this firstever event took place at the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, Calif., May 12, 2012. Exhibitors, industry professionals, fans and Jiu-Jitsu athletes showed up in big numbers for this day-long event. But when Nick Diaz failed to show for his headline Superfight bout, the media focused its attention on that drama, forgetting all the good things that 46

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MMA Business magazine was there to cover what the rest of the media neglected. The expo included Jiu-Jitsu training seminars lead by World Champion Andre Galvao and others. It included a full day of competition, and several companies exhibited and sold their products to eager fans. Above are some highlights.

OUTSIDE THE OCTAGON Be In the Marketplace MMA training has changed. MMA fighting has changed. And maybe more than anything in the last 10 years, the MMA marketplace has changed – and that can be a great thing for all of us. An overall explosion of Mixed Martial Arts has created big business opportunities. But only if you’re all in.

This issue of MMA Business includes a huge directory of service providers plus product manufacturers and distributors. If such a directory had existed even five years ago – and it didn’t, until MMA Business created it now – it would have been far smaller. And this growth occurred mostly during a recession. Think what this industry will do in a growing economy?

How Did We Get Here?

I’m not going to simply rehash recent MMA history here, but it’s interesting to look at how far the industry has come, and in such a short time. Ten years ago, few American parents took their kids to Jiu-Jitsu classes. Mixed Martial Arts training was a private endeavor. It was unusual to find a kickboxing class in a martial arts dojo. And you wouldn’t find MMA gloves at Target stores.

Still, good training was happening, and martial arts professionals were running good businesses all across the country, changing people’s lives with traditional training sought out by the niche of those interested.

What happened? Companies like Tapout created a desire and delivered goods to fulfill it. In 2002, Zuffa promoted UFC 40 (Ortiz vs. Shamrock) and marketed the fight and the fighters like never before.

And as more people began talking about MMA, interest in products and services grew quickly.

Today, large-scale training centers combine Mixed Martial Arts with traditional fitness in class settings open to everyone. I mean everyone. Signs boasting “MMA Training” are visible on many street corners.

Sporting goods stores everywhere – at least the ones that want to remain profitable – sell some sort of MMA training gear. More and more companies from “mainstream” sports, fitness and retail are getting into the MMA industry. It happened that fast.

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Change scares people, even growth-oriented change. If you make apparel, you could fear the potential threat of a big competitor like Nike entering your market. Or if you own a gym, you could worry about a massive UFC Gym opening down the street. If you’re an agent, the thought of IMG Worldwide getting into MMA might scare you.

Or you could celebrate the growth potential of big companies coming into MMA. Their participation will draw even more attention to the sport and give all of us greater opportunities.

Meanwhile, the current opportunities should keep us all busy enough to sideline any worrying for some time. Look at the good things that are happening now, new products and services created by companies busy growing.

You used to just see simple sporting goods remarketed to MMA prospects. Now you see companies like Hayabusa creating focused products, and delivering advancements in both the comfort and safety of training gear.

Look at ideas like high-altitude training gear and masks. This type of “extreme” training equipment used to be out of reach for most athletes. But with assistance from MMA fighters like Sean Sherk, the Elevation training mask is changing fitness. Or even “simple” products like rash guards are now receiving high-tech treatment to aid in cooling and inhibit bacteria growth. Jaco Clothing is one such company pushing the envelope with products like this.

The key to success now in this business is to differentiate your products to make your brand stand out. Like a fighter, keep improving. Don’t fear a bigger opponent. Outsmart them and take advantage of the opportunity to just be in the cage.

Jimmy Pedro has earned two Olympic Bronze medals, and was Judo World Champion at 73 kg in 1999. He is active as a USA Judo national team coach and as owner of the Pedro Judo Center. Now as a vice president for Zebra, a leading provider of facility equipment for martial arts and MMA businesses nationwide, Pedro has a wealth of experience in the industry.

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