FITNHB's newest and youngest professional cagefighter, Ray Borg, will be making his professional debut at King of the Cage: Ignite, which takes place this Saturday, August 11, 2012, at Buffalo Thunder Resort Casino, just north of Santa Fe, NM. Borg will be facing Gene Perez (3-2 of Perez Fighting Systems, and 1-0 as a professional boxer); all of Perez's wins have come by KO/TKO, both losses by submission. Originally from Tucson, AZ, Borg moved to Tucumcari as a teenager, where he got his first taste of MMA when he began training at Cullum Ground Fighting. He trained there throughout high school, learning everything he could from the Cullum brothers, training every day, five days...

Certain gyms just seem to personify certain individuals. Case in point: undefeated lightweight prospect Tyler Hellenbrand enters his Madtown Throwdown 28 bout against Jimmy Kim with the same determination and desire as many of the Chosen Few predecessors before him. After spending a few months at Trainers Elite in Madison in the early stages of his training, Hellenbrand instantly noticed that in order to reach his potential he would have to find a facility that stressed competitiveness. After one session at Chosen Few he was hooked. "I started training at Chosen Few around two years ago and right away I fell in love with all the guys and the gym," Hellenbrand told US Combat Sport...

Small local fight gyms always have a knack for generating some of the hardest working talents the sport of MMA has to offer. With far less accessories, big lights, and being small in numbers the physical aspects have not halted the grind in each fighter's training. Based in Bremeton, Washington, Hybrid MMA is gym whose warriors have been making a major statement in their battles throughout the northwest fight scene. In the second portion of this two-part gym feature series USCS Reporter Monta Wiley introduces another great athlete that this gym has produced. Competitive by nature and dedicated to his craft Brock Gorang's passion for MMA has given him the essential tools that driv...

While the transition to fighting came easy for Jake Shields, his road to the top of the sport was anything but. For over ten years, Jake fought around the world in various mixed martial arts promotions and competed in hundreds of grappling tournaments, before finally signing with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. While he has dealt with an immense amount of adversity to get to this level of the sport - being broke, not having insurance, and raising a daughter as a single father - he has attributed his ability to succeed and overcome these obstacles to the strength and loyalty of his team around him. It is commonplace in mixed martial arts for fighters to switch gyms and change affiliatio...

Jake Shields doesn't care what people think about him. Throughout his whole life, Shields has been criticized. He has learned to not only take this criticism in stride, but allowed it to create an unbreakable level of self-belief. While the positivity of his loyal teammates at Caesar Gracie Jiu-Jitsu motivates Shields to train hard, it is truly the criticism of his detractors that gets him out of bed in the morning. It always has been. Growing up as a lifelong vegetarian, Shields was always told he couldn't be successful, as he recalls, "All throughout high school and college everyone told me I couldn't be an athlete, so I wanted to prove them wrong." Prove them wr...