This week we bring you an interview with Jeff Monson. Jeff has been a member of ATT since the start of it and had over 80 professional MMA fights. Along side of his MMA career Jeff was known for taking time to step on the mat for some amazing grappling matches.

We talk about:

His early wrestling career

How winning 1999 ADCC changed his career path

Overcoming some setbacks with wrestling

Cutting weight as a wrestler

His thoughts about cutting weight as a high school wrestler

He discussed some up’s and down’s in his mma career fighting in the ufc

His plans for opening up some martial arts schools

He describes his fight with Fedor Emelianenko in Russia

Getting his leg broke in his fight with Fedor

Visiting kids with cancer in Russian hospitals

He describes his experience on dancing with the stars

Doing nogi worlds

His plans for retiring from competitive grappling

What it was like in the early days of American Top Team

His thoughts on PED in MMA and BJJ

Keys to a long career in MMA

Links:

Quote of the week: “We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.” Dan Gable

Article of the week: Your Training Partners Are NOT Your Opponents

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