When it comes to today’s choice in fight entertainment, more and more Americans are turning to mixed martial arts. MMA is the fastest growing sport in the United States, combining boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, jiu jitsu, karate and all other types of martial arts. MMA requires skill and determination, stamina and fearlessness.
It’s odd how quickly the sport of MMA has changed, and how perceptions have shifted so dramatically. I got in on the ground floor of this crazy train, having seen an ad for UFC 1 in one of several karate publications I read as a young martial artist. I had entered the world of karate as a boy, partially to be more like my older brother, but primarily because I always wanted to kick people’s asses. Mike Tyson having begun to fade into “Bolivian” at the time, guys like Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal were the new bad asses of our era, and if you wanted to lay an ass kicking on schoolyard thugs, you needed a black belt ASAP.
Legacy Fighting Championship is doing just that for their July 16th bout taking place at the Houston Arena Theater in Houston, Texas. The promotion is giving fans a great and unique opportunity to pick the next opponent for Jason David Frank when he steps into the cage for only his second professional bout.
In between rehabbing and training for his upcoming fight on February19th with Chris Rose Frank sat down to talk with MMA Valor. During my interview we talk martial arts, training partners, his debut, upcoming fight and his clothing line “Jesus didn’t tap”.
We are all so addicted to MMA that when there is nothing new on we find ourselves searching YouTube for fight videos.
