What happened to Gladiator Challenge? It used to put on decent fights and had many young up and comers.from all over. I went and watched it tonight in Rancho Mirage at Agua Caliente Casino. What a horrible card. Very little actual skills used in most of the fights. It honestly seemed closer to Felony Fights than legit MMA. A few of the fighter were obviouly picked up off of the streets. They had a poor Mexican dude who was all tatt'd up and looked like he was fresh off of the yard. He had no real corner, except for his wife and two very young(maybe 4 and 6 years old) kids to corner him. He somehow made it to the 2nd round and though he was stopped on strikes, he got out without getting hurt. It was really sad and difficult to watch. I don't mind seeing someone get KTFO'd, as long as its evenly matched. Another guy literally looked like he just had chemo treatments. I actually left before the final fight. They probably had close to 25 fights, and could easily have done without 15 of them. I definatley won't attend another of their shows.
They do bring in guys off the streets to fight pro. All on these Native lands to avoid the AC. Has happened for years, check the records of the opponents of name people to fight there.
Fuck them, my first fight was with them and they put me as pro and I lost so now I got that loss on my record for good. I had no training and paid some guy 20$ to wrap my hands and corner.
It was so bad. I honestly felt bad for a few of the guys that fought. They had zero means to defend themselves. It was just lucky for them that their opponents weren't too much better. I was honestly sad after a couple of them. One kid walked around flexing and mugging to the crowd after he stopped his guy in the 2nd round. He was too stupid to realize he should be ashamed of himself. Train for a couple years to learn to fight, and fighting on even terms for a full round with a guy who was only fighting out of desperation to pick up a $100 or so. Gladiator Challenge should be shut down. Its honestly worse than a toughman contest now you would see in some honkytonk bar.
I remember when Gladiator Challenge put on great fights, sad to hear its gone down hill
It's gotten pretty bad. I used to work for a gym that partnered up with them and some of the shit they said was disturbing. They just prefer brawls and said there always has to be a victim. The Williams brothers are only after cash.
My first 3 pro fights were under them.
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If this is who I think it is, he scored a huge KO with a nice hook. It was actually one of the legit fights that happened.
I've cornered many gladiator challenges at Saboba casino and have seen so many "tough guys" as mentioned taken out of the crowd to fight.
Just as bad as Xplode Fight Series.
MMA Playwright -Huckaba on the card, always funny seeing the pics of him with his cornrows hair.

Huckaba ducked the mighty Quinn ^^^
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Huckaba ducked the mighty Quinn ^^^
Too many times have I gone to the GC fights at Thunder Valley casino and seen a pro fighter be matched up with one of the four guys from the cage setup crew. Ridiculous how many champions they have in each weight class, also they do these "super fight" belts.
It use to be more legit fighters but since the partnership with KOTC stopped both of then seem to have lost quality.