The Arena Blog

Good article from the Examiner on the recent Amateur MMA Fights held by Epic Fighting on Friday Jan. 20th. As usual, Arena Amateur MMA standouts Dale Malensek Jr. and Kyle Kleinschmidt won, with Kleinschmidt winning Fight of the Night honors. For a full report, go to: http://www.examiner.com/boxing-in-san-diego/results-from-epic-fighting-10-january-20-2012

On Saturday Dec. 17, The Arena held it’s first Jiu Jitsu Promotions. Although The Arena has offered an outstanding No Gi Jiu Jitsu program for years, the gym recently included Gi Jiu Jitsu into it’s program and now offers 11 Gi classes a week to compliment its 12 No Gi classes, for a total of [...]

An outstanding interview with Arena teammate / Women’s Muay Thai coach Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos, as well as Arena MMA Coach Jeff Clark, was just released in the Military Press. In the article, reporter Jim Wyatt interviewed both to discover what makes Cris Cyborg the best female fighter in MMA today. For a full read, go [...]

The Arena’s MMA Team had an outstanding showing at Strikeforce, held Saturday December 17 at the San Diego Sports Arena (now known as the Valley View Casino Center). Local favorite KJ Noons, trained by Arena coaches Jeff Clark, Pat Speight, and Vince Salvador, slugged it out for 3 rounds with a game Billy Evangelista in [...]

The Arena, our Pro MMA Team, and Strikeforce was just featured in San Diego Locals’ favorite magazine “Revolt”. The article detailed how The Arena was preparing MMA fighters KJ Noons and Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos for their fights in Strikeforce held at The San Diego Sports Arena (now called the Valley View Casino Center). The magazine [...]