When you hear former Brigham Young University defensive end Jan Jorgensen describing the sheer excitement and violence of bulldozing a quarterback, you start to understand why MMA eventually appealed to him. You also understand the motivation that sparked a successful collegiate career and earned him a share of the Mountain West Conference’s record for career sacks. Like many other fighters from MMA’s heavier weight classes, the 29-year-old undefeated heavyweight, who headlines tonight’s RFA 16 event on AXS TV (10 p.m. ET), found enough similarities between the gridiron and the cage to quench his thirst for “controlled aggression.” Like a knockout – he’s got four of them in seven career wins – Jorgensen loved racking up sacks. “The sacks are what every defensive end should be all about,” Jorgensen, who’s now a football TV analyst and talk-radio host, told MMAjunkie Radio. “If you’re playing defensive end and you don’t like sacking the quarterback, you’re playing the wrong position
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MWC sacks leader Jan Jorgensen bringing same aggression to tonight’s RFA 16 headliner – MMA Junkie