The conclusion to North Dakota State Athletic Commissioner Chad Kurl’s “My One Fight.”
I flew into Davenport Iowa on Thursday, 26 hours before the weigh in. I was about 5 pounds overweight and stopped eating before I got on the flight. The first four pounds were easy to lose, the last one was a nightmare. I [...]

After some time off, North Dakota State Athletic Commissioner Chad Kurle is back to fill us in on his training and the results of his first Mixed Martial Arts fight.
Where to begin. First, apologies to anyone who was reading my blog for the first 10 weeks. I could try to come up with a [...]

The following is a guest post by Chad Kurle, the North Dakota State Athletic Commissioner.
Well, doesn’t time sure fly…Let me start off by wishing everyone a belated Happy Thanksgiving. That was my original excuse for putting off writing my weekly blog.
Training for weeks seven and eight was non-existent, with the exception of making it to [...]

The following is a guest post by Chad Kurle, the North Dakota State Athletic Commissioner.
I am moving better this week. I spent one whole day just stretching at Crossfit and that seemed to help a bit. I didn’t realize that stretching was supposed to make you sore, but sure enough the next day I had [...]

The following is a guest post by Chad Kurle, the North Dakota State Athletic Commissioner.

This week isn’t shaping up to be any better than the last. I can’t seem to get any better. This back injury has seriously limited my range of motion. MMA has definitely suffered. I am only shadow boxing and lightly hitting [...]

The Following is a guest post by Chad Kurle, the North Dakota State Athletic Commissioner.
Week Two
One thing you have to understand about this blog is that there is about a 10 day lag from the time the week wraps up to the time the post is published. It is really strange for me.
Week two starts [...]

Inauspicious Beginnings
I am seriously thinking that I am going to use Johnny Cash’s song “Hurt” as my entrance theme… It seems appropriate.
This week was my first official week of  training for the fight, and quite honestly, I am not off to the best of starts.  One of the guys at the gym has a fight [...]

Beer is both the greatest invention and the cause of some of the worst ideas known to man.
In September of 2007, an amateur event was held in Cincinnati Ohio. Four of the fights that night involved fighters who were also members of the MMA Underground forums. These fights were scheduled as a result of a [...]