Can The Internet Be Trusted to Make Important Career Decisions For Young MMA Fighters?
Recently Fight Magazine launched a contest on their website where they choose an amateur or low-level pro fighter and send him off to Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas for some personal training time with Shawn Tompkins (naturally the lucky winner will live in Shawn’s “fighter house” while he’s there, presumably playing a lot of Xbox with Chris Horodecki). They’ve narrowed it down to four finalists and are opening it up for a reader vote to choose the winner. Looking at the video entries and the resumes, it seems like there’s one guy who could probably do the most with a week at Xtreme Couture, and it’s Drew Dober. Dude is 6-0 as a pro and is 20 years old, which only serves to remind us that a) our lives are wasting away, and b) this sport is going to change drastically when kids who have been doing MMA since they were fourteen begin to take over. Dober’s youth and promise make him seem like the best choice. But if we’ve learned anything about the way the internet works, it’s that there is n
