Published by Jean NDoye on May 23rd, 2013
Jean N’Doye blogs for Your MMA ahead of his bantamweight fight with Steve McCombe at Cage Warriors 55. Here Jean talks about his training and preparations for CWFC 55 at Crossfight gym in Paris.
I’m training now at Crossfight with head coach Fernand Lopez and partners like Norman Paraisy, Christian M’Pumbu, Nayeb Hezam, Seydina Seck, Faycal Hucin and a lot of great fighters. I’m working on my ground game with Nicolas Renier who won the last ADCC Europe at 66kg, and my Muay thaï with Guillaume Kerner.
(Jean on the attack at Cage Warriors. Image via Cage Warriors/Dolly Clew)
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Published by Jean NDoye on May 21st, 2013
Jean N’Doye blogs for Your MMA ahead of his bantamweight fight with Steve McCombe at Cage Warriors 55. Here Jean introduces himself, and gives a little background on his life and his career.
Hi Your MMA, I’m Jean N’Doye, competing for Cage Warriors (6-1 MMA and 2-1 in CWFC).
(Jean in action at Cage Warriors. Courtesy of Cage Warriors/Dolly Clew)
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Published by Brian Adams on May 16th, 2013
Brian Adams (@BigBri1SCS) is head coach of at Gym 01 in Portsmouth, and has allowed us to use his following write ups as blog articles right here at YourMMA.tv. Training some of Europe’s top fighters and being a former competitor himself, Bri gives some insights on what it’s like inside the trenches of a successful MMA fight team.
(Coach Brian Adams and UFC flyweight Phil Harris)
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and I don’t want to list just the negatives about coaching. Let me be clear, the positives by far outweigh them or I wouldn’t do it. The problem with coaching though is the negatives shape much of what I do as a coach, and the reasons why I often make the decisions I take.
Now I wish coaching was all about having fun and joking around but, in all honesty, when it comes to coaching in the gym and coaching fighters for competition there is a massive difference.
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Published by Jay Furness on April 25th, 2013
Given that it is a huge part of any brand these days, it interests me to know the hows, whys, dos and don’ts of the pretty broad playing field of social media. Marketing your brand (in my case, Your MMA) on these mediums can bring great results, and there is no better feedback than from the fans directly. It’s taken over many conventional ways of drawing attention, hits, and all that good stuff to what you’re doing.
So, when I saw this blog by Ingrained Media this morning entitled ‘As Real As It Gets, Except on Twitter’, it certainly piqued my interest. The blog describes many of the UFC’s biggest hitters, and their percentage of ‘fake’, ‘inactive’ and ‘active’ followers.
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Published by Brian Adams on April 24th, 2013
Brian Adams (@BigBri1SCS) is head coach of at Gym 01 in Portsmouth, and has allowed us to use his following write ups as blog articles right here at YourMMA.tv. Training some of Europe’s top fighters and being a former competitor himself, Bri gives some insights on what it’s like inside the trenches of a successful MMA fight team.
(Image via Cage Warriors/Dolly Clew)
Being a team mate, what does it mean?
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Published by Jim Alers on April 4th, 2013
Hello to all the YourMMA.tv readers out there that have been following my blog. First I would like to take a minute to thank you for giving interest in my career and reading about my life as a fighter. So, this is it everyone, the last and final week of training. Every fighter knows that this is the hardest week of the whole training camp. My body has been pushed to its limits for the past eight weeks, my mind has been racing with ideas on how the fight is going to play out and my stomach has shrunk to probably the size of an apple.
Training during this week is tough because in my mind I feel that I am ready for the fight already. I wish that I could just get in the cage and fight today, that’s how ready I feel. All the preparation has been done and I am in the best shape that I can be in for this featherweight title fight. I have been talking about how this fight is the only thing on my mind and that when I sleep I even dream about the fight.
Well that has all changed. Yes, the fight is still the main focus of my life right now but I have a big announcement to make that will change my life forever. I know that this will be better than winning any world title but we will get to that later.
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Published by Jim Alers on March 29th, 2013
I’m back everyone! I hope you guys missed me. So we are a little more than two weeks out from the most important fight of my life and I cannot be more anxious for that day to come already. Training has been going great and I feel that I am getting sharper and sharper.
The last time I wrote I was just getting back from a trip to Roufus Sports where I trained and learned from some high level coaches and fighters like Ben Askren, Anthony Pettis and Duke Roufus himself. I brought a lot of what I learned back to my training camp here in Florida and I feel that it has taken my game to a whole new level. There will be many new exciting techniques that I will be show casing in my fight.
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Published by Jim Alers on March 19th, 2013
“If people are not laughing at your goals then they are not big enough.”
I am Jim “The Beast” Alers, number one contender for the Cage Warriors featherweight title. I earned this status by winning my last two Cage Warriors fights, finishing two very tough opponents; one by submission and one by TKO. So now I am now 9-1 and fighting for the title on April 13th in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Published by Jack Mason on March 6th, 2013
So I’m a couple of days late getting this blog out because I’ve just completed the penultimate week of fight camp for Cage Warriors 52 in London on 9th March.
In my opinion the penultimate week is probably the toughest week of fight camp. Not only are you training intensely and getting your last sparring rounds in, you are also starting to really restrict what you eat and really worrying about making weight. Add to that the stress of interview commitments, ticket sales (and rounding up all the ticket money), a full-time day job, daily house work and girlfriend duties, you can probably imagine how foul a mood I was in by the weekend!
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Published by Jack Mason on February 24th, 2013
OK, so I started off the week on a big high after attending the UFC last Saturday night at Wembley. I tagged along with the Bigslow and the Maguire brothers,who’d been given ringside seats which were fantastic. I couldn’t help but feel a bit nostalgic about the old Cage Rage days when the show was at its height at Wembley a few years back.
If I’m honest the show wasn’t all that different and was maybe a bit less exciting at some points. I’ve not been to many events that can beat the atmosphere that was in that stadium when Rob Broughton turned the tide after a horrendous beating for 3 rounds and went on to put away James Thompson in devastating fashion at an old Cage Rage event
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