ATT’s Roger Krahl TKO’s FFA’s Efrain Ruiz

Friday night, ATT Sunrise had an outstanding showing at the Revolution fight card held in Miami, Florida.

ATT Sunrise Head instructor Roger Krahl TKO’d FFA striking coach Efrain Ruiz in round one!
Roger dropped Efrain with a straigh right and then followed up with strikes until the ref stopped the bout late in round one.  Great to see Roger performing so well in additon to running his academy along with his charity work.

Also from ATT Sunrise, David Zitnick TKO’d FFA top student student Enricco Cocco 4:18 of round one.

Solid wins by Roger and David!
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MIKE BROWN DEFEATS WEC CHAMPION URIAH FABER!!

Man, what a night!!

Mike pulled off one of the biggest upsets in mma by beating an incredible champion in Uriah.

Everyone on our team knows how tough Mike Brown is, and to watch him pull it off on the biggest stage, in the biggest fight of his life , is truly an amazing experience to be a a part of. It is a a little clicheish, but this could not have happened to a nicer guy. If you know Mike and been around him you know what I’m talking about. Mike has put his life into fighting, and his body has all the battle scars to prove it. We are all just so happy for him. 

I know everyone has been asking, Mike tore the cartilage in his ribs, not sure exactly at what point he did this in the fight, and not sure he even knows.

Much respect to Uriah Faber, who is a great great fighter and champion. Uriah and his camp are true class acts. He deserves a lot of credit for what he has achieved as champ and has our utmost repsect. 

Also, need to congratulate Carmelo Marrero. He stepped up short notice and gutted out a hard fought win over a very tough Steve Steinbeiss. We knew going in Steve has very good stand up and comes from a tough camp. Nice win for Carmelo who hung tough and pulled out the win. Congrats buddy!

And to Rafie Dias, who despite losing showed tremendous heart. Rafie was another guy who stepped up on a weeks notice to fight up a weight. Rafie showed he has the skills and heart, and hope he gets his chance to prove it at 145#’s. Keep your head up!

Mike put everthing he had into this fight. Dreams do come true!! We did it Mike Brown!!!

Mike didn’t get a chance but I know he wanted to thank his main sponsors TAPOUT and CHAMPION NUTRITION.  Those guys really stepped up for him and he is thankful!

We are proud of all our fighters performance!  Way to represent guys!

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OLYMPIC WRESTLER JOINS AMERICAN TOP TEAM!

Olympian and 2x NCAA Champion Ben Askren has officially joined American Top Team!

We are very excited that Ben has joined our team and we look forward to working with this outstanding athlete. Ben already has a great (wrestling) base from which to work from and has taken to BJJ very quickly.  He will head down to the main academy in Coconut Creek, FL. mid December to train with us, and also be training out of ATT Missouri with Wade Rome and crew of monsters.  He has a very bright MMA career ahead of him

Welcome to the family Ben!
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ATT 3-0 & Tournamanet Champion in WVR Segoku MMA in Japan!

ATT’s Santiago Sengoku Middleweight Tournament Champion!

2008-11-01

Jorge “Jorginho” Santiago went to Japan with his eye on another Grand Prix Tournament Championship and he delivered!

Jorge first took on Sayir Baradurzada. Jorge ended this fight quick with a beautiful rolling heel hook to end the bout at 1:10 into the fight!

Jorge then prepared to face Kazuhiro Nakamura in the finals later that night.

Nakamura was up the first two rounds controlling the fight, but round three saw Jorge come out agressive. Jorge established his jab and then landed a big overhand right that dropped his opponent. Jorge quickly went in for the finish as he dropped heavy strikes on Nakamura untilt he ref put a stop to this one at 49 seconds into round three!

Jorge walks away as Sengoku Middleweight Grand Prix Tournament Champion!

Jorginho is on a tremendous streak staying undefeated in ’07 and ’08 and reeling off 8 straight wins and finishing every one of them. Inspiring performance by Jorginho!

Also on the card competing was Jorge “Gamebred” Masvidal. Jorge was fighting a lightweight tournament reserve match against Seung Hwan Bang where he used his superior stand up skills to win a unanimous decision. Keep your eye on this exciting 155# as we  have some big things planned for ’09!

Also, great job by El Tigre who works with Jorge on his stand-up out of Young Tigers Gym in Miami.

Great job guys – way to represent!

WWE Star Joins American Top Team!

Former WWE Champion Bobby Lashley has officially signed and joined American Top Team.

Bobby started training with us a week ago and decided this is where he needed to be to take the next step in his burgeoning MMA career. Bobby comes to us with a great background in amateur wrestling where he was a mulitple NAIA National Wrestling Champion. Of course, most people know of him because of his time spent with the pro wrestling organization WWE and ECW.

Bobby is serious about the sport of MMA and will dedicate himself to being the best he possibly can.
We look forward to working with Bobby to bring out his full potential. 

Welcome to the team!!
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Another UFC Fighter Joins American Top Team!

American Top Team is please to add another talented UFC fighter to our team.

Mark has been training with us and will continue right thru to his fight at UFC 91 where he faces Alvin Robinson.  Mark is an awesome talent and we look forward to working with him.

Best of luck to Mark and welcome to the family

ATT’s Thiago “Pitbull” Alves Front Cover Unrestricted Magazine!

Great news, as one of our own Thiago “Pitbull” Alves makes the front cover of South Florida’s Unrestricted magazine. Fresh off Thiago’s spectacular KO win over UFC legend Matt Hughes, Unrestricted decided to do a story on Pitbull and splash him on the front cover. Unrestricted covers the local professional and college teams such as the Miami Dolphins, Panthers, Heat, and Marlins so it’s a great statement to his success that he makes the cover.

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American Top Team 2-0 in Costa Rica MMA

Congrats to Rodrigo “Baga” Ramos and  Ira on their wins this weekend in Costa Rica.

This was “Baga’s” pro debut and he did an outstanding job finishing his opponent by rear naked choke 2:40 of round one!  Ira followed up with a first round submission too by katagatme 4:10 of the first round.

Awesome showing by ATT!

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AMERICAN TOP TEAM WINS NAGA INTERNATIONAL GRAPPLING TOURNAMENT (FLORIDA)

 American Top Team wins NAGA International Grappling Tournament in Florida.

ATT took FIRST place in the Adult NO-GI with 2080 points, FIRST place in Adult Gi 1380  points, and FIRST place in the Kids and teens divisions with 3150 points!!

Incredible job by ALL our students who stepped up and competed. We are extremly proud of their performance throughout this 2 day event.

Congrats to all our instructors who are some of the best in the biz. They did a super job preparing our students for competition, and to the parents who also play a big part in the success of our kids and teens programs.

Congrats Guys!
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ATT’s Thiago “Pitbull” Alves Defeats Former UFC Champion Matt Hughes!!!

Thiago put on a tremendous performance over the greatest welterweight Champion in UFC history. 

Despite suffering a bad ankle sprain approx. 10 days out of the most important fight of his career, Thaigo was able to put that behind him and take out Matt Hughes with a flying knee in the second round. Pitbull looked very strong in the opening round stuffing Matts takedown attempts and landing solid strikes from on top. When he did get taken down he was able to avoid any damage whatsoever from the former champ. Round 2 saw Pitbull on the attack landing a beautiful flying knee follwed by stiikes on his downed opponent before referee Herb Dean jumped in to stop the contest at 1:02 of round 2. 

In his post fight speech, Pitbull asked President Dana White for the right to fight for the title! After taking out top ranked Karo Parysisan and now former Champ Matt Hughes it looks like the next step for him.

It must be said that our team has a tremendous amount of respect for Matt Hughes and all that he has accomplished in this sport. He was a great Champion for many years and it was an honor for us to compete aginst him in the main event. Thanks to Matt for taking the fight. He is a champion all the way.

Fianlly, Big Congrats to Thiago on the biggest win of his career. He trained like a madman in preperation for this fight and we are so happy that everything worked out for him. CONGRATS PITBULL WE ARE ALL SO PROUD OF YOU!!! ATT!!!!!

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