http://mmajunkie.com/news/14658/con...maynards-long-road-to-saturdays-mma-debut.mma This time, Kyle Maynard left home and made his way to Auburn, Ala., a week early. Two years ago, when he almost made his amateur mixed-martial-arts debut, Maynard held a greater concern about all his fight meant and how much it was despised in the MMA community. He had been home in Suwanee, Ga., where his MMA interest began more than two years before as a high school senior. But too many people didn't want him to fight. They didn't like the idea of an accomplished high school wrestler who was born with no arms or legs below the elbows or knees with an awesomely inspirational personal story participating in an Atlanta amateur event. The Georgia body that sanctions such events didn't like the idea either, so officials denied Maynard a license to fight, and the issue went dormant. Until recently. With another push made mostly on his own behalf, Maynard is scheduled to make his delayed amateur MMA debut on Saturday at Auburn Fight Night at the Auburn Covered Arena in Auburn, Ala. The fight's announcement caused major ripples in the international MMA consciousness and reopened the debate about Maynard's place in MMA. Maynard has tried to avoid that debate this time, changing his Internet home page away from the number of MMA websites he reads daily and moving his training camp to Auburn instead of Georgia. Still, he's surprised his fight has caused such uproar, and this time he's not reading about it. "With the Internet being an open, anonymous forum, people feel like they can say anything, things they probably wouldn't say to my face," Maynard told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) on Tuesday. "That doesn't really surprise me as much. How does this work exactly? The guy has no arms no legs and is 3 foot tall?
what the ****. ok props to the guy to follow his dream, but hell, even an autistic person who is angry and who cant see would kill the poor guy.
I don't see a good end to this at all. Quite different in wrestling where one is forced to engage the other opponent but, it's a very different proposition trying to defend against strikes from 8 parts on the body and not having limbs of your own to defend. I have this young mans book and he is a an inspiration but he needs to realize there is a limit to what someone can do in his position. He stated in his book he wanted to be an Army RANGER and while that is admirable it seems his fierce will has skewed his sense of reality.
wow, well at least he can't get armbar'd or leglocked. One concern is his ability to defend the rear naked choke. Me personally I would just kick him in the face and call it a night. honestly though, I would hate to be the guy that is forced to fight him. People would be calling him the "cripple killer" for the rest of his life.
Hm, I can't see that going too well. It's pretty unfair for a trained mma guy to fight him. but how would he do against an untrained guy like me for example? could he submit me or even ko me?
Apparently the guy has won over 150 wrestling matches and did quite well in BJJ. I woulod assume that since he is fighting he has already had some sort of sparring sessions. Also, he played full contact tackle football. I think he knows by this point what he is getting himself into, I like the rest of you am a little curious about how he is going to protect himself, but I am sure he and his trainers have some sort of game plan.
I've been thinking about this, and I wanna see it. Why not? The dude does have stumps, maybe they are long enough for defense? Maybe it'll be better I mean he won't have to worry about armbars like i said before and if they put gloves on his stumps with a little grip and he knows alittle bjj maybe he can sink in chokes with his smaller limbs? Who knows how this could turn out either way, I'll watch it.
Apparently, Maynard lost his MMA debut. The word punching bag comes to mind. That said - I have to give the guy props. Never let something like a physical handicap stand in the way of your dreams - even if your dream is to get punched in the face by a guy with full length arms.
