I just listened to Don Frye on JRE - He said he had warehouse fights before the UFC? Anyone know about these?

He said he fought in NHB warehouse fights before the ufc. Does anyone know what exactly and where and who he fought? I can’t find any record of it online.

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Don and Dan Severn have been doing a podcast. You could always send him the question and see if he answers it on the show.

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There was a show called Atlanta Pit Fights or something. Frye, Jeremy Horn, and I think Scott Ferrozo were in it. It was put on by the same guys who did the Martial Arts Reality Superfighting (MARS) event.

If was just guys fighting on mats spread out on the floor with people holding kick pads placed around the mats.

There was grainy old video of some of the matches floating around for years but now they seem to have disappeared from the internet.

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Don’t know about Don Frye’s fights. But unless I been lied to, Karo Parisyan used to fight at some kind of not really sanctioned or legal NHB warehouse fights when he was 16. I remembered that now that you started this thread, so that kind of thing Don talked about was definitely a real thing.

I know they were all over on the west coast. Diaz bros were doing shit early.

Any info on stuff like this in Midwest area in 90s?

I remember one of our wrestling coaches doing some form of shoot fighting and conditioning w us quite a bit. Don’t remember the event names tho

I remember some fights taking place in a circus ring. It was a different time back then. Probably still is in some places of the country

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There used to be one on YouTube it had don frye and Scott ferrozzo fighting different people, it looked like it was in a regular training place at a strip mall or something like that, there were mats covering the floor and you could see cars driving by outside

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There was this one dude who drove around doing it for money, had a sidekick with him named Clyde. Had a lot of success but none of the videos were in HD back then.

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Previous life?

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People were fighting nhb in Reno parking garages and basements for money in the 80s.

Before the smartphone era, they would have needed one of these to record the fight.

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It’s called “Atlanta underground” but sometimes called “extreme pitfighting”. Yeah pretty sure Frye is in it.
Have VHS tape in my attic.
It’s decent.
But half the event a wrestler has a boxer in a headlock & neither know what to do & with no time limit it goes on and on.
Lots of blood tho. Forget fryes fight but I thinking just him tossing a guy down & taping him.
Wrestlers did well but it was funny watching them try to tap out of shape karate guys with stuff like grape vines cause an Americana or armtriangle was rare secret knowledge in the olden days.
Basically it’s ufc 2 in a warehouse only crappier.
It’s been 25 years since I saw it so could be wrong bout something facts

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Old thread with more details, no video anymore, though.

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Upload that thing man!

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Mid 90s. 94/95. Maybe

I also remember seeing fights without the cage just straight up in the circus ring, circus canvas.

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I believe I have this somewhere in the library. No shit.

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I remember those. A guy name Lionheart was ruining guys back then.

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I saw him at the first submission grappling tournament I ever did. I was 14. One of tge guys at my gym armbarred him and got the arm fully extended. Then Frye just curled his arm and got out. He won that tournament. This was in Tucson, AZ

A month or two later I saw him corner Severn, then compete in the next UFC.

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I remember one on a battleship…lots of big names but all very Hush Hush.

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I thought the implication was that this was NHB before the UFC even began. But some of your timelines make it seem like it was before and after (it very well could have been both) but I’m mostly interested in NHB fights before the UFC began.