Mixed martial arts has hit the mainstream and there are gyms springing up all over the place, meaning that aspiring young fighters generally don’t have to look very far in order to find somewhere suitable to train. When former UFC middleweight champion and current ONE FC vice president Rich Franklin was starting out things were very different and without an experienced trainer to teach him or YouTube videos to learn from was forced to take a DIY approach to studying the sport. “We did not have a gym to train in so my friends and I trained in a shed in the back yard that was built for housing lawn equipment. We emptied out the shed, threw down some cheap carpet, and used that as our facility.
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