One month in the past, thrice Olympian and retired UFC veteran Mark O. Madsen introduced the launch of his personal MMA group referred to as Dominance Combating Championships with its first occasion confirmed for the twenty first of September in Okay.B. Hallen in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Now Madsen is able to unveil the primary notable title for the published group, who will likely be guiding viewers via the occasion. Olympic gold medalist and former two-division UFC Champion Henry Cejudo will convey his deep data of fight sports activities to the sales space as commentator.
“Triple C” has reached the head of freestyle wrestling and MMA as a competitor, he’s coached the likes of Jon Jones, Demetrious Johnson, and Zhang Weili, he’s co-hosting The Pound 4 Pound Podcast, out there on YouTube and throughout all audio platforms, with former UFC Champion Kamaru Usman, and he’s additionally commentated for Khabib Nurmagomedov’s MMA promotion Eagle Combating Championships, so the viewers for DFC 01 will with out query be in good palms:
“What I convey to the commentating group is my credentials, my expertise, and my honesty. I’m an individual that’s trustworthy. I don’t take sides. I need to be sure that, that I’m giving the fitting assessments, and that I’m being as truthful as I presumably can. To me it’s all truthful sport. Whether or not you’re a wrestler, a muay thai fighter or a jiu-jitsu world champion, it doesn’t matter, I’ll sit there and inform the reality. There’s lots of business guys in there [the sport] that simply need to be good guys, however not all followers are all the time going to love you. We’ve got to provide correct assessments.”
Cejudo is worked up in regards to the first Dominance FC occasion, however he additionally has excessive hopes for the promotion’s future:
“I feel the sky is the restrict. What Mark is doing, he’s transitioning from Olympian to former UFC fighter, and now he’s changing into a promoter. He’s going to have the ability to give alternatives to so many European skills, and [Dominance FC] will change into the Mecca and the house to lots of fighters from Europe, and presumably a feeder to the UFC.”
As beforehand introduced the Greco-Roman wrestling standout Rajbek Bisultanov will likely be making his skilled MMA debut at Dominance FC 01. Cejudo is aware of all in regards to the transition from the wrestling mats to the cage and provided some recommendation to the Chechen-born Dane, as he enters this new chapter of his profession:
“My fundamental focus, once I began out preventing, was to essentially get the strategies down, perceive the hanging sport, and that was, what I used to be capable of do. So, once I did that, it made every thing a lot simpler, as a result of I already had the wrestling down, after which, once I added boxing to it, I used to be capable of give attention to MMA as an entire. You must take what wrestling has confirmed you, the expertise and the data that wrestling has taught you thru the years. It’s undoubtedly a course of, however for [Rajbek Bisultanov], the secret is, he already has one of the best base, and that’s referred to as wrestling.”
In closing, “Triple C” elaborated on how his relationship with Madsen happened within the first place:
“I’d recognized of Mark via wrestling for fairly a while. His title would typically come up within the American Greco-Roman circles, as a result of he was beating our greatest man, and he was actually good, however Mark would have his method with him each single time. However then Mark got here to the UFC, he signed with Ali Abdelaziz. I’d by no means actually had an opportunity to get to know him earlier than then, however then we met up when Mike Tyson had his occasion [AEW Dynamite], and ever since then we turned mates. As a two-division champ, I attempted to information him via every thing we had been doing for MMA. That’s how our relationship began. Then he moved out to Phoenix, to the fitness center that I educated at, [Fight Ready], and I used to be simply capable of assist him as a lot as I presumably may along with his combat [against Clay Guida] and along with his preventing type.”
Roberto Villa is the CEO, Founder, Government Author, Senior Editor of FightBook MMA. Has a ardour for Fight Sports activities and in addition a podcast host for Sitting Ringside. He’s additionally a former MMA fighter and Kickboxer.
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