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    Josh Barnett, Hayato "Mach" Sakurai and Rich Franklin have all called it home at one time or another. "I was 17 years old, and I walked in the door and I saw Maurice Smith sparring someone, U.S. muay Thai champion Curtis Schuster [and] boxer Kim Messer ... Legendary muay Thai instructor Huru Shuminishi came up to us and said to me and my brother, ‘You guys have the body of a Porsche, but you don’t know how to drive it. I will show you how to drive that car.’ As an angry 17-year-old kid, that’s what I wanted to hear." The Birth of ACS Mainly testing themselves in kickboxing and Pankration tournaments prior to their involvement in MMA, the Lally brothers received their big break when they were asked to live and train at the Super Tiger gym in Japan while they competed inside the Shooto organization. Full Article at Sherdog.com
    I was 17 years old, and I walked in the door and I saw Maurice Smith sparring someone, U.S. muay Thai champion Curtis Schuster [and] boxer Kim Messer ... Legendary muay Thai instructor Huru Shuminishi came up to us and said to me and my brother, ‘You guys have the body of a Porsche, but you don’t know how to drive it. I will show you how to drive that car.’ As an angry 17-year-old kid, that’s what I wanted to hear.
    SOURCE: Sherdog.com 2 months ago
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  1. So we started our own gym ... Todd came up with the name Arizona Combat Sports, and we buried it in downtown Tempe off by the train tracks. It was a 1,500-square-foot shack. After a year and half, it became 2,500 square feet, but Danny had to go back home to be with his family.
    SOURCE: Sherdog.com 2 months ago
  2. Jesse Forbes would go in there to help them wrestle, and they liked what he had ... They came over here to check us out, and it’s been money ever since. Honestly, I credit Jesse Forbes with all the ASU guys.
    SOURCE: Sherdog.com 2 months ago
  3. I came down here with Danny Bennett, a muay Thai world champion, and looked in on a couple of the gyms down here and realized they didn’t know what they were doing ... I was fresh off [the] Abu Dhabi [Submission Wrestling World Championships], and Danny was fresh off his Super Brawl win over Jay R. Palm...
    SOURCE: Sherdog.com 2 months ago

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