Dusk was falling when Black Blade and Big Cheese strode into the middle of the ring and touched gloves. They were scheduled to go five rounds, three minutes each, before the evening was through.
“I personally was gonna drop the Big Cheese fight and the Black Blade fight,” said Damian Gutierrez, founder of Backyard Squabbles. “Both of these guys’ opponents didn’t show up. But we matched them up because of the beef they had going on.” That violence is part of what prompted him to start Backyard Squabbles in the first place; the fight club’s motto is “Guns down, squabble up.”
Albert Marion usually wakes up very early in the morning to squeeze in cardio and conditioning before he goes to work. A fighter who calls himself Golden Boy Matt, left, finds a spot in the corner of the backyard and warms up for his fight with the help of a friend.MMA fighter Granndaddy, in the backyard ring, aspires to take his fighting to the next level.
“I don’t mind getting hit,” he said. “When I get hit, it feels like a blessing. It’s like God is telling me, ‘You’re here,’ you know?”
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