Westside MMA Blog

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Aug 19, 2022 3 min read

Never too old to learn new tricks

Here we have Mr Jim who drives an hour each way to get to Westside MA and has more rounds sparring logged than most fighters, all at 72 years young! Chuck Thompson came in the gym and lost around 100lbs, fought mma past 40 yes old, and sneaks away from work at lunch time on Tuesday's just to punch M

Jan 26, 2024 3 min read

Bringing Jiujitsu to Bryant, AR

Exciting news, our Brazilian Jiu Jitsu program is spreading its wings to Bryant, AR to better serve our Saline County members. We should be open for business the last week of February! ....

Dec 13, 2022 3 min read

Jacob and Zack win their super fights at Summit Grappling in Memphis

Congrats to our guys who have not only both lost a ton of weight with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu here at Westside MMA, they have both also won their super fights! Jacob had a tough match but got the finish with 1 second left! Zach dominated his match with positional superiority by taking the back, the most

Dec 13, 2022 3 min read

Gold and Silver medals at No Gi Worlds this weekend

Westside MMA's Wrestling coach Dylan Johnson followed his Gold medal performance at Pans this year with a silver medal at Worlds. Almost finishing his final match with an armbar. Dylan made great strides this year with the help of his coaches Sean Ross with Ross Strength and Speed, Ataide Rafael who

Dec 13, 2022 3 min read

Little Rock MMA Fighter gets the finish & Bonus in the UFC

TJ Brown, a home grown MMA fighter out of Arkansas picked up the UFC's performance bonus in his 6th fight with the organization. TJ is a veteran of over 30 MMA fights, has experience in Boxing, Kickboxing and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. A true testament to what can happen when you are resilient. We're extr

Nov 29, 2022 3 min read

Little Rock MMA and Jiu JItsu fighters will compete in the UFC Dec 10th

Both Downtown TJ Brown and Bryce Thug Nasty Mitchell will be representing Westside MMA at the UFC in 2 weeks. Not only are both Arkansans fighting on the same show but they are both under dogs!? This is going to make for a great night for Arkansas. Be sure to tune in and enjoy these two home grown f

Sep 8, 2022 3 min read

Med student places 3rd at Masters worlds

Katherine Hart decided to sign up for worlds even though she hadn't been able to train much with her school schedule at UAMS. In 7 weeks she dropped 7 pounds using a variation of the keto diet and trained extensively with her husband Roli Delgado and her coach Ataide here at Westside. All three of h

Aug 22, 2022 3 min read

Little Rock Jiu Jitsu and Wrestling coaches close our Absolute tournament

Little Rock was the lucky host of the professional grappling show Summit Grappling and two of our instructors here at Westside MMA closed out the absolute division after winning their super fights by submissions. Dylan teaches the Monday night wrestling practices and Ataide covers most of the Jiu Ji

May 4, 2021 3 min read

TJ Brown wins first UFC fight from Westside MMA

Little Rock and Westside MMA's own TJ Brown wins an exciting fight at the UFC this weekend. What an amazing performance from our kids martial arts coach here. We are all super proud of TJ and he was back in teaching our kids the very next week! ....

Mar 22, 2019 3 min read

Join us for the best Kids Martial Arts in Little Rock

<br/>Welcome To Our New Website! We’re Proud To Serve Little Rock with Kids Martial Arts!<br/> At Westside MMA, we are working hard to go above and beyond for every person who walks through our doors. And you could be next!<br/> We are offering Little Rock a hands-on approach to Kids Martial A

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