A pro fight after a year of training? Yeah , that’s really gonna raise the bar for the sport.
More context, please.
I will have a guess. Another reality tv show where they take ordinary joes and train them for the real deadly of the MMA.
Personally you could do a local show in a year easy.
sorry, the text seems to be gone: " Hemmings House Pictures holds its second round of public auditions Sunday, November 20, 2011 for an up-coming documentary TV series called “Cubicle to the Cage.” The series–to air nationally on HD network radX in 2013–will be shot entirely in the Maritimes. It follows everyday men and women on a life-changing journey to become professional mixed martial artists (MMA). “It’s bound to be an exciting, sometimes impossible, adventure for these folks. They won’t know what’s hit them when they come up against me,” says Peter Martel, lead trainer for “Cubicle to the Cage” and owner of TitansMMA + Boxing. “When they fall down, I’ll make them get up. Bleeding, bones broken. It doesn’t matter. This will be the hardest, but most rewarding thing they’ve ever done. And when it’s over–when they’re standing in the cage to fight their first professional fight–it’ll be a good day.”
Martel hopes the series will fatten up the talent pool for MMA in the region, while raising the profile for the sport in general. “We’re giving opportunities to Maritimers,” he says of the series, which provides free training and access to equipment for a whole year.
Fit or unfit; stay-at-home parents or regular nine-to-fivers; entrepreneurial-types or red-eyed students. All are welcome to audition, provided they haven’t been in a professional fight to date. Select trainees will be thrust kicking, screaming and bleeding into the grueling and often dangerous world of a professional mixed martial artist.
Camera crews will track the day-to-day of the cast, as they realign their priorities and redefine their relationships in favour of becoming a professional athlete. Long gone are late mornings in bed, lazy coffee breaks and fast food. Focus will shift to an exacting nutrition program and rigorous training in wrestling, boxing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and Muay Thai.
At the end of the 12-month program, trainees will step into a cage for their first professional fight before a televised audience. This event marks the culmination of a year of physical, emotional and spiritual sacrifice."
And amateur fight after a year, perhaps. But pro? I dunno…
So are the people in the show going to be training full time? Or do they have to fit the training around their work? Because that would make a lot of difference.
Releasing a handful of untrained office dwellers will “fatten up” the local talent pool? Do the contestants fight each other for their pro debut, or is he going to try to hunt down stiffs?
Someone let me know when this comes out, lol.
Why can’t something like this be happening near me? I’m just the kind of jerk who’d get in on it.
[QUOTE=ermghoti;2633877]Releasing a handful of untrained office dwellers will “fatten up” the local talent pool? Do the contestants fight each other for their pro debut, or is he going to try to hunt down stiffs?[/QUOTE]
They’re gonna hunt fat people? Is that legal?
There is tryouts so either they will cull the vegatables from the start or let them though for the LOL factor.
Dont know about America but in Aus a pro fight is not that much different from an Ammie anyway. (Dependant on your match up)
And you wouldnt match these guys up with UFC contenders. You would match them with similar skill levels.
ha i found the ‘fattening up’ of the talent pool quip a little curious too. Ammy rules vary greatly up here in the great white nort’. Dunno if a stiff with a year of training should be taking a pro fight, but hey, it’s their show. The promo is not-terrible…
[video=vimeo;9130435]http://vimeo.com/9130435[/video]
tryouts.