Why I Fight

Why I Fight

Hyder Amil is an up-and-coming young fighter training out of Gil Melendez's El Nino training center. Here he shares with us, how he got involved in MMA and fell in love with the sport.  

Why I Fight

I fight due to a culmination of reasons- mixed martial arts or mma is the combination of my passion for creativity, discipline, health, self-defense, competition and is also great way to relieve stress. MMA allows one to have unrestricted self-expression that other sports cannot achieve. Fighting or mixed martial arts seemed like a natural transition for me.

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Pat Curran Regains Bellator Featherweight Belt -Wearing Diamond

Pat Curran Regains Bellator Featherweight Belt -Wearing Diamond

Bellator 112 in Hammond, IND. on Friday March 14 2014  saw some good Welterweight Tournament fights on the card but the most anticipated bout was surely the Featherweight Championship rematch between Pat Curran and the man who took his belt, Daniel Straus. We all have seen the skill, determination and deadly accuracy that that made Pat a champion....
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Team Diamond Visits Tim Kennedy at the Fort Bragg Army Combatives Invitational

Team Diamond Visits Tim Kennedy at the Fort Bragg Army Combatives Invitational

Team Diamond's own Eric Fletter was privileged to attend the Fort Bragg Army Combatives Invitational and watch the competition as well as learn from UFC fighter and US Army Sniper Tim Kennedy.

Eric took some great pictures of the event and 10% of Gross Sales from all Combatives Team orders following the event will be donated to the Wounded Warrior Project. This is a great cause. Please check them out and donate! 

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UFC's James Krause introduced to Diamond by Joe Rogan

UFC's James Krause introduced to Diamond by Joe Rogan

If you saw UFC's Fight For the Troops a few weeks ago, you no doubt remember the bizarre fight between Lightweights James Krause and Bobby Green. Green kicked Krause low twice in the first round prompting referee, Big John McCarthy to take a point from Green. Then late in the round Green throws another kick that instantly drops Krause. Some confusion ensues as Big John waves off the fight. Will this be a disqualification win for Krause? A No-Contest? McCarthy then rules the kick legal and awards Green the victory via TKO. 
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Fightshark Mark Miller

Fightshark Mark Miller

If you said you had a tougher life than Mark "Fightshark" Miller or overcame more with any comparable strength and determination, let's just say I'd be pretty skeptical. Once upon a time, Mark was considered to be the future of American kickboxers. He was a rising star. Then things went bad and then from bad to worse. He was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect and was told he needed open heart surgery to replace his aortic valve. Soon after his surgery, he lost his father, mother and brother one after another. But Mark was determined to compete again despite the open heart surgery, an eight year lay-off, the horrific personal tragedies and the fact that by combat sports standards, Mark was not a young man. 

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Diamond MMA in April FIGHT! Magazine

Diamond MMA in April FIGHT! Magazine

We've had Major League ball players wear our athlete protection compression shorts-jock strap combo, but we always get a kick when someone in the space we started in, MMA, enjoys our product. While he's not a fighter, Gilbert Melendez Sr. rocked our strongman t-shirt in the April issue of FIGHT! Magazine, featuring his son, Strikeforce lightweight champion and elite UFC 155-pounder Gilbert Melendez on the cover. Thanks to the Melendez family for all their support and for Gilbert's action in the cage. Don't forget to check out the great story by Steven Marrocco. 
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