Roufusport: Building Champions
Special to Chicago’s MMA You are who you hang around with. This old adage is true across the board and no different when it comes to your MMA training. Your choice of coach can define your skillset and ambitions for yourself as an MMA competitor, that’s why all of today’s top contenders and champions choose …...
Five Questions with UFC’s Dan Downes
When Jonathan Brookins pulled out of his TUF finale fight with Jeremy Stephens, Chicago’s Dan Downes stepped up to take the fight on short notice. Downes and Roufusport teammate Anthony Pettis will both be fighting at the event, and Downes was kind enough to answer a few pre-fight questions. You tweeted that you were in …...
DAN DOWNES FIGHTING AT NAFC: MAYHEM
The UFC is soon to have Strikeforce fighters inside their Octagon, so why can’t a UFC fighter find himself a bout in an outside promotion? Such is the case of Chicago’s Dan “Danny Boy” Downes, the UFC lightweight that trains out of Roufusport in Milwaukee. When we spoke to Downes in February on our pilot …...
ROUFUSPORT NAMED AMERICA’S TOP MMA GYM
Versus.com put together a March Madness-like bracket filled with some of America’s best MMA gyms. Then it was up to the fans to vote, and Roufusport came out on top, crowned “America’s Top MMA Gym”. Roufusport beat out Cesar Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in the finals for the honor. The Milwaukee-based fight gym also...
ROUFUSPORT UP FOR AMERICA’S TOP GYM
Versus has been running their own version of MMA “March Madness”, asking readers and viewers to vote for America’s best MMA gym. It’s down the final 2 in the tourney. The contenders: – Cesar Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy, the home of Jake Shields, Gilbert Melendez and the Brothers Diaz – Roufusport, the...
INSIDE ROUFUSPORT WITH ANTHONY PETTIS
Duke Roufus and the Roufusport Fight Club are getting a lot of press and props lately. Pat Barry recently just beat Joey Beltran at UFC Fight For the Troops. Anthony “Showtime” Pettis had the “Kick Heard ‘Round the World” and Danny “Danny Boy” Downes roughed up Tiequan Zhang. Inside MMA on HDNet recently visited...
MAURO RANALLO INTERVIEWS DUKE ROUFUS
Mauro Ranallo has a great interview here with renowned MMA trainer Duke Roufus. Some of the Roufus-trained fighters will be on the card at North American Fighting Championship’s “Bad Blood”, which takes place next Wednesday in Milwaukee....
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