Epi 212 Jeff Monson is Always Getting Better and Helping Others

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:

• Jeff Monson dancing with the stars
• Jeff Monson on Facebook
• Jeff Monson on Twittwer

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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