Liberty’s Dylan Bowker spoke with Teddy Ash ahead of his light-heavyweight title bid against Jared McComb at Unified MMA 33.
We discussed the mentality heading into his first career rematch, the streak he’s built up in Unified MMA leading into this title fight (2:28), going into this title match having already gone 25 minutes in a prior championship bout (3:28), keeping focused on the task at hand and not looking too far ahead (4:43), wanting to emphatically win in this rematch after initially beating Jared via split decision (5:04), training at Complete Fitness and Martial Arts with guys like Tanner Boser (5:47), his Fort McMurray home burning down and then taking up CF&MA on a free voucher offer they had for evacuees from the blaze (6:58), his last performance KOing Victor Valimaki and having to block out of his mind the fact that he admired Victor as a fighter (9:25), love for extreme sports where he can hit the motor hard (11:57), his body morphing over the years from being a Heavyweight football player to a light-heavyweight/ middleweight MMA fighter (12:24), 205lbs being his ideal weight division (14:02), the lessons taken from getting a win in front of your hometown audience and conversely what one learns from losing at home (15:00), training with Miles Anstead and becoming good friends with him after they fought (16:45), being cool with training to any genre of music besides country (17:42), and more!