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(CYRUS) WELCOME TO MMA INSIDE THE CAGE. YOUR ONE AND ONLY SOURCE FOR EVERYTHING MIXED MARTIAL ARTS. IM YOUR HOST CYRUS
FEES AND NEXT TO ME, HE IS THE HUMAN TORCH OF MIXED MARTIAL
ARTS, CASEY OXENDINE. (CASEY) WELL ITS FUNNY YOU SHOULD SAY THAT CYRUS BECAUSE MIXED MARTIAL ARTS AND MMA INSIDE THE CAGE
IS ON FIRE ACROSS THE WORLD AND ACROSS THE UNIVERSE RIGHT NOW. (CYRUS) WELL YOU CERTAINLY ARE FLAMING CASEY. (CASEY)
WELL YOU KNOW, I KNEW YOU WOULD SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT SO AS A PRECAUTION, I BROUGHT MYSELF A LITTLE BACKUP HERE, JUST TO
MAKE SURE THAT THINGS DONT GET UH HOT! (CYRUS) WHY DID YOU BRING THAT? YOU KNOW WITH THE PUNCH OF THE WEEK COMING UP, I
KNOW THAT THAT FIRE EXTINGUSIHER IS GOING TO GO UPSIDE MY HEAD. (CASEY) MAN, DONT EVEN WORRY ABOUT THIS. THIS IS FOR
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS ONLY. YOU KNOW, HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE MOVIE BACKDRAFT BEFORE? (CYRUS) YEAH, KURT RUSSELL GOOD
MOVIE.(CASEY) THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS AT ALL. (CYRUS) ALRIGHT.. TONIGHT, YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS, ITS ALL
FIGHTS ALL NIGHT. WE GOT A FIGHT STRAIGHT OUT OF CALI WE GOT THE NEW RUSSIAN SENSATION, GERON GUGUHNIS VEELY FROM M1
GLOBAL AND WE HAVE WWE TUFF ENOUGH STAR JERIMIAH "BIG RIG" RIGGS IN ACTION TONIGHT. NOT TO MENTION WE HAVE A SPECIAL
GUEST AS WELL. ITS A JAMMED PACKED SHOW PARTNER, AND IM LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. OUR GUEST TONIGHT, HE IS THE OWNER
PROPRITOR AND HEAD TRAINED OF KINGSPORT TIGER ROCK ACADEMY IN KINGSPORT, TN SHAWN LEE RUEFER. WELCOME TO THE SHOW SHAWN.
(SHAWN) THANKS CYRUS, THANKS CASEY. (CYRUS) WELL ITS GREAT TO HAVE YOU ON THE SHOW, YOUVE BEEN A GREAT SPONSOR FOR US AND
WEVE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING YOU ON THE SHOW TO TALK A LITTLE BIT. LETS TALK ABOUT YOU A LITTLE BIT, LETS TALK ABOUT
YOUR CREDENTIALS. WHEN DID YOU GET STARTED IN MARTIAL ARTS? (SHAWN) I STARTED TRAINING IN ABOUT 1998 WITH MASTER SCOTT
EVEREST OUT OF JOHNSON CITY, TN. HIS PLACE IS LOCATED NEXT TO THE MELLOW MUSHROOM SO I STARTED THERE AND TAUGHT FOR HIM FOR
SEVERAL YEARS. IVE RAN CLUBS HERE IN KINGSPORT AT THE OLD BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB, I ALSO RAN BEESUM HALL FOR THE CITY OF
JOHNSON CITY AND EVERYTHING AND ABOUT A YEAR AGO, I DECIDED TO OPEN UP MY OWN SCHOOL HERE AND SO WE GOT STARTED AND WERE
SITTING ABOUT 60 SOMETHING STUDENTS RIGHT NOW. (CASEY) WELL I WAS GONA SAY, THE OTHER THING ABOUT SHAWN, WHEN I FIRST MET
HIM, HE HAD JUST STARTED GETTING INTO TAE KWON DO BUT WHAT HE HAD PREVIOUSLY WAS A WRESTLING BACKGROUND RIGHT? YOU WENT TO
MORRISTOWN WEST? (SHAWN) I WENT TO MORRISTOWN EAST AND I WRESTLED FOR JEFF PRICE AT JEFF COUNTY WHEN HE JUST FIRST
STARTED. FROM THERE, I WENT ON TO WRESTLE AT UTC FOR A LITTLE BIT THEN I TRAVELED AROUND WITH JAMES HAGEN AND WE HAD SOME
JUNIOR OLYMPIC MATCHES AND FREESTYLE TOURNAMENTS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.. WE GOT TO GO TO A COUPLE OF NAGAS, GOT TO
ROLL WITH JEFF MUNSEN UP THERE IN NEW JERSEY... YEAH THATS A BIG GUY.. IN HIGH SCHOOL I GOT TO GO TO CARSON NEWMAN AND
WRESTLE SOME AND WRESTLED WITH SHONEY CARTER AND THEN WE ALSO, ANOTHER UFC VET, WAYLON LOWE, WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL
HE WAS IN A MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAM COMING UP. SO IVE GOT TO BE ON THE MAP IN EITHER WRESTLING OR GRAPHLING WITH SOME UFC
GUYS AND ITS WORKED WONDERS. (CYRUS) THATS FANTASTIC! AND WHAT RANK ARE YOU NOW IN TAE KWON DO? (SHAWN) UH TAE KWON DO
IM A FOURTH DEGREE AND WE GOT ABOUT 18 BLACK BELTS AT OUR SCHOOL. WERE REAL HEAVY IN OUR BLACK BELT DIVISION AND
EVERYTHING. AND WE GOT OUR FIRST MMA FIGHT COMING UP HERE SOON WITH BIG JOHN HERNMONE. (CYRUS) WELL SHAWN, WERE GONA
TALK MORE ABOUT YOUR SCHOOL AND JOHN HERNHOME AT CAGE BRAWL COMING UP AFTER THE BREAK BUT RIGHT NOW WEVE REACHED OUT TO
PROMOTIONS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND ALL OVER THE WORLD TO FIND THE BEST FIGHTS, THE BEST KNOCK OUTS TO SHOW ON ALL
FIGHTS ALL NIGHT HERE ON MMA INSIDE THE CAGE. A FRIEND OF MINE, DAVID MELTSER OUT OF CALIFORNIA RUNS THE COMBAT FIGHT
LEAGUE AND HE GAVE US SOME GOOD STUFF. ITS YOUR FIRST FIGHT OF ALL FIGHTS TONIGHT AND IT CONTAINS YOUR MMA INSIDE THE
CAGE PUNCH OF THE WEEK! (CASEY) HEY WHATS GOING ON? (SHAWN) CASEY, CASEY THERES A FIRE OVER HERE! (CASEY) THERES NOT A FIRE....
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(CYRUS) WELCOME BACK TO MMA INSIDE THE CAGE. ALL FIGHTS, ALL NIGHT! CYRUS FEES ALONGSIDE, CASEY OXENDINE AND SHWAN LEE
RUEFER FROM THE KINGSPORT TIGER ROCK ACADEMY. SHAWN LETS TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT YOUR SCHOOL. UM YOUR LOCATED IN
KINGSPORT, YOUR ONE OF JUST A FEW MARTIAL ARTS SCHOOLS IN THE CITY. TALK ABOUT WHAT MAKES YOUR SCHOOL DIFFERENT THAN ALL
THESE OTHER SCHOOLS. (SHAWN) WELL WE HAVE OVER 300 SCHOOLS NATIONWIDE, WE HAVE 2 REGIONAL TOURNAMENTS AND A WORLD
TOURNAMENT EVER YEAR. MY PROGRAM CONSISTS OF A TIGER CUBS PROGRAM WHICH IS AGES 3, 4, AND 5. WE HAVE A JUNIOR TAE KWON
DO PROGRAM WHICH IS AGES 6-12 AND WE HAVE AN ADULT PROGRAM WHICH IS AGES 13 AND UP. WE ALSO HAVE A CONSODER PROGRAM
WHICH IS A 30 MINUTE CARDIO CLASS FOR PEOPLE NOT INTERESTED IN MARTIAL ARTS. WE HAVE A HANDS CLASS WHICH IS BOXING WHICH
ME AND JAY PAIGE TEACH AND THEN WE HAVE A GRAPHLING PROGRAM THAT WE DO 6 DAYS A WEEK, 3 DAYS IN A GEE AND 3 DAYS IN NO
GEE. (CYRUS) YOU ACTUALLY HAVE HENER GRAYSEE COMING TO YOUR SCHOOL FOR A SPECIAL SEMINAR. TALK ABOUT THAT. (SHAWN) WELL I
MET HIS BROTHER UP AT TOMMY WELLS PLACE AT A SEMINAR AND ASKED HIM TO COME INTO MINE AND HE SAID HE WOULD BUT
UNFORTUNATLY HES GOT CALLED OUT TO THE UFC IN CANADA TO CORNER SOMEBODY SO HE CONTACTED ME AND TOLD ME THAT HENER
WOULD BE COMING IN HIS PLACE. SO ITS GOING TO BE ON JUNE 11TH FROM 5-7 AND ITS GOING TO BE A TRIANGLE FOCUS SEMINAR AND
GUARD HOW TO DEFEND IT AND HOW TO FINISH THOSE KINDS OF THINGS WITH IT AND TIGHTING UP THE GUARD. (CYRUS) VERY
EXCITING TO GET ONE OF THE GRACY BROTHERS IN THE TRI CITIES CASEY. (CASEY) IT IS MAN AND ITS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL GRACIES
THE OFFSPRING OF THE ORIGINAL GRACY, HORION AND HOICE, THEIR ACTUALLY HOICES NEPHEWS AND THEYVE KIND OF TAKEN THAT
TORRENCE ACADEMY, WHAT THEY ORIGINALLY STARTED WITH CAUSE THAT WAS THE FIRST GRACY JIU JITSU CLUB IN AMERICA IM PRETTY
SURE, AND THEYVE KIND OF TAKEN IT TO THE NEXT GENERATION AND ITS GOING TO BE AN EXCELLENT SEMINAR. (CYRUS) LETS TALK ABOUT
JOHN HERNHOME REAL QUICK FIGHTING AT CAGE BRAWL ITS ON JULY 8TH AT MEADOWVIEW IN KINGSPORT. HES ONE OF YOUR GUYS, HE GOES
TO YOUR SCHOOL, YOUVE BEEN TRAINING HIM, TALK ABOUT HIS FIGHT UP AGAINST STEVEN FLANNIGAN. YOU HAVE TO BE EXCITED ABOUT
THAT. (SHAWN) WE ARE ITS OUR FIRST MMA FIGHT AND WERE REALLY EXCITED FOR JOHN. HES HAD A LITTLE LAY OFF AND EVERYTHING HES
2-0 AND SO WERE EXPECTING IT TO BE A REAL BATTLE WE KNOW THAT STEVEN LIKES TO STAND AND *** AND EVERYTHING AND SO DOES
JOHN. WERE GETTING SOME GOOD TRAINING IN WITH HIM AND JAY AND WE GOT HIM OVER AT CASEYS TRAINING THERE AND GETTING USED TO
THE CAGE AND EVERYTHING SO WERE REALLY EXCITING. (CYRUS) CASEY YOUVE SEEN HIM IN ACTION, HIS BEEN TRAINING WITH THE
MASTER BLASTER. (CASEY) HE HAS UH YESTERDAY WE HAD THE OPEN TRAINING AND SO JOHN CAME IN AND MASTER BLASTER CAME IN AND
THEY BANGED, IT WAS GOOD YEAH.. IF YOU CAN EQUATE THAT TO THE FLANNIGAN MASTER BLASTER FIGHT, I THINK YOUR GONA SEE ALOT OF
FIREWORKS. I PROBABLY COULDVE SOLD TICKETS TO THAT SESSION YESTERDAY. (CYRUS) THAT IS CAGE BRAWL 6, MEADOWVIEW
CONVENTION CENTER, JULY 8TH GO GET YOUR TICKETS. ITS TIME TO GET TO OUR SECOND FIGHT OF THE NIGHT VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS
ONE M1 GLOAL WHICH CAN BE CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BIGGEST MMA OPERATIONS IN THE WORLD AND OF COURSE EUROPE, THE HOME OF
FEDOR MELIANAKORE HAS A NEW CROWN JEWEL HIS NAME IS GEROM GUGUNISVELY. HES THE NUMBER ONE RATED HEAVYWEIGHT PROSPECT IN
THE WORLD TODAY. HES THEIR HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION AND THIS GUY IS 11-0 MAN, ALL SUBMISSIONS, HES AMAZING THEIR BUILDING HIM
UP TO MAYBE BEING THE NEXT PHADORE CAUSE YOU KNOW PHADORE IS MAYBE ON HIS WAY OUT, GEROM CAN STEP IN. WHAT DO YOU THINK
ABOUT THAT CASEY? (CASEY) WELL I DEFINANTLY THINK HIS NAME IS JUST AS HARD TO PRONOUNCE AS PHADORES.. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT,
THE GUY LOOKS VERY VERY TUFF HE IS REALLY SLATED TO BE THE REAL DEAL AND IM EXCITED TO SEE HOW THAT UNFOLDS. THOSE
RUSSIANS ARE TUFF INDIVIDUALS. (CYRUS) YOU GOT THAT RIGHT! WERE GONA TAKE A LOOK AT THAT RIGHT NOW, OF COURSE GERO
MAKING HIS SHOWTIME DEBUT ON SATURDAY JULY 8TH. ITS OUR SECOND FIGHT OF THE NIGHT IT IS INDED GEROM AGAINST MAXEM
GRISHUM FROM M1 CHALLENGE 23, THIS IS MMA INSIDE THE CAGE. ALL FIGHTS, ALL NIGHT.
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(CYRUS) WELCOME BACK TO MMA INSIDE THE CAGE! ALL FIGHTS, ALL NIGHT. CYRUS FEES, CASEY OXENDINE,AND SHAWN LEE RUEFER STILL
IN THE PROGRAM WITH US. NOW WEVE SEEN 2 EXCITING FIGHTS ALREADY SO HOW CAN WE POSSIBILY FOLLOW THAT UP, WELL OUR MAIN
EVENT TONIGHT WILL FEATURE A GUY THAT HAS CROSSED OVER TO THE WORLD OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING AND HAS BECOME A NATIONAL
STAR. IM TALKING OF COURSE ABOUT THE STAR OF WWE TUFF ENOUGH JERIMIAH RIGGS. NOW JERIMAH OF COURSE IS NO STRANGER TO THE
PUBLIC. THIS GUY HAS BEEN A ULTIMATE FIGHTER AND HE WAS A FINALIST ON VH1S DAISY OF LOVE, HES BEEN EVERYWHERE. THIS GUY
HAS A REAL STAR QUALITY ABOUT HIM CASEY. (CASEY) I LOVE THAT GUY MAN, WE HUNG OUT WITH HIM UP AT THE LAST SPORT FIGHT X
SHOW. HE WAS THERE AND WAS FIGHTING ERIC SLOGAN, HE HAD A TOUGH FIGHT WITH SLOGAN, THEN HE GETS ON THE MIC AFTER THE
FIGHT AND BLOWS IT UP MAN. (CYRUS) I WAS THERE, I WAS ACTUALLY DELIVERING THE INTERVIEW, THE POST FIGHT INTERVIEW.
HE TOOK US ALL BY SUPRISE, HE CUT THIS CRAZY PROMO, YOULL JUST HAVE TO SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT....NOW THAT WAS ACTUALLY
[BIG RIG] ID LIKE TO THANK THE COMMUNITY YOU GUYS ARE GREAT!
I LOVE THE BOO'S, BOO ALL YOU WANT. BUT I PROMISE YOUR OLD
LADY AIN'T BOOING. THE ONLY BOO HOOING GOING ON IS WHEN I'M
BEHIND HER AND SHE IS FEELING THE BIG RIG ALL NIGHT LONG BABY.
[CASEY] JERIMIAH BIG RIG RIGGS.. WHAT A VICTORY AND WHAT A SPEECH TO FOLLOW.
RIGHT HERE AT SPORT FIGHT X AND WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.
NOW THAT WAS ACTUALLY RIGHT BEFORE HE GOT CALLED UP TO TUFF ENOUGH, SO IT WAS QUITE A PROMO FOR THE FANS. HAVE YOU EVER
SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THAT SHAWN? SOMEONE JUST BREAKING IT DOWN ON A POST FIGHT INTERVIEW. (SHAWN) NOT AT ALL. HES JUST A
CHARACTER, I MEAN YOU CAN SEE ON TUFF ENOUGH JUST HOW MUCH OF A CHARACTER HE IS AND ALOT OF PEOPLE THINK HE SHOULD HAVE
BEEN IN THE FINALS.. HE HAS RAW TALENT. (CYRUS) HES A FANTASTIC ATHLETE AND YOULL SEE RIGHT HERE CAUSE WE JUST
HAPPEN TO HAVE ONE OF JEREMIAH RIGGS FINEST MMA OUTINGS. THIS ONE AGAINST GEORGE OILER AND GEORGE OILER IS NO JOKE. THIS
DUDE IS A REALLY GOOD FIGHTER THAT RIGGS IS GOING UP AGAINST. (CASEY) SOLID ATHLETE MAN, FORMALLY FROM GEORGE E JEALS CAMP,
HE WENT OUT THERE AND RIGGS LOOKED REALLY GOOD. (CYRUS) HE ABSOLUTLY DID LETS TAKE A LOOK RIGHT NOW. LETS SEE THE BIG
RIG ROLL ON OUR MMA INSIDE THE CAGE, MAIN EVENT OF THE WEEK.
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(CYRUS) WELL ITS TIME TO WRAP UP ANOTHER EPISODE OF MMA INSIDE THE CAGE, ALL FIGHTS ALL NIGHT. A BIG THANKS TO OUR
GUEST TONIGHT SHAWN LEE RUEFER WITH THE KINGSPORT TIGER ROCK ACADEMY WHATS THE WEBSITE AND HOW CAN THEY GET AHOLD OF YOU?
(SHAWN) WWW.TIGERROCKMARTIALARTS .COM OR THEY CAN GIVE US A CALL AT 423-245-9400. (CYRUS) WELL TH ANK YOU FOR BEING ON THE
SHOW SHAWN. NEXT WEEK WE PREVIEW CAGE BRAWL NUMBER 6 THE BIG EVENT GOING DOWN JULY 8TH AT THE MEADOWVIEW CONVENTION CENTER
IN KINGSPORT, TN AND CASEY YOU HAD ONE MORE THING YOU WANTED TO ADD HERE AT THE TAIL END OF THE SHOW. (CASEY) YEAH AND
THIS IS ON A SERIOUS NOTE TOO, A VERY VERY CLOSE FRIEND OF OURS LARRY PLASENS WHICH IS OF COURSE THE FATHER OF DEVON
PLASENS WHOSE FOUGHT ALL OVER THE SOUTH HES OUT OF KNOXVILLE.. IVE KNOWN LARRY FOR ALOT OF YEARS AND WE JUST
LOST HIM TO CANCER A FEW WEEKS BACK AND WE JUST REALLY MISS
HIM AND WANTED TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO HIM AND HIS FAMILY AND LET HIM KNOW HOW MUCH WE MISS HIM. (CYRUS) ABSOLUTLY. AND
ALSO IF YOUD LIKE TO BECOME A FAN OF THE SHOW YOU CAN GO TO FACEBOOK.COM/MMAINSIDETHECAGE. IM CYRUS FEES. (CASEY) IM
CASEY OXENDINE. (CYRUS) AND WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK, INSIDE THE CAGE.
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