Jackson's Submission Fighting

MMA Training Associations|teamname=Jackson’s Submission Fighting cite web
url=http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news?slug=ki-gregjackson050707&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
title=Beating business, by Kevin Iole
year=2007
accessdate=2007-09-07
publisher=Yahoo! Sports] cite web
url=http://sports.espn.go.com/extra/mma/news/story?id=2881293
title=Liddell-Jackson II headlines strong UFC card/Keith Jardine vs. Houston Alexander
year=2007
accessdate=2007-09-07
publisher=ESPN/Sherdog] cite web
url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/03/23/mixed.martial/
title=Hard lessons: Ultimate Fighting star uses peers as punching bags
year=2007
accessdate=2007-09-07
publisher=SI.com]

imagesize = 250px
founder=Greg Jackson
owners=
record= 108 W 28 L (79%)
trainers=Greg Jackson
dateestablished=1992
titleholders=Georges St. Pierre Welterweight Champion (UFC 2008) convert|170|lb|kg st|abbr=on|lk=on
fmrtitleholders=
topfighters=Georges St. Pierre (UFC)
Karo Parisyan (UFC)
Nate Marquardt (UFC)
Keith Jardine (UFC)
Rashad Evans (UFC)
David Loiseau (UFC)
Joey Villasenor (EliteXC)
Julie Kedzie (Bodog Fight)
schoollocations=flagicon|USA Albuquerque, New Mexico
website= [http://www.jacksons.tv/mma Jackson’s Submission Fighting official website] |

Jackson's Submission Fighting is a mixed martial arts training camp run by Greg Jackson. The camp is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sherdog.com reports that fighters from Jackson's camp have a win percentage of 79%. cite web|url=http://www.sherdog.com/stats/fightstats.asp?stats_page=teamwinrecords_ratio.asp|title=BEST TEAM RECORDS] . Sherdog. September 15, 2007|accessdate=2007-09-15] To this day, the camp has produced ten world champions. Notable fighters include Keith Jardine, Rashad Evans, and former King of Pancrase Nathan Marquardt. Recently, UFC welterweight champion, Georges St. Pierre, began training at the facility.

History

Greg Jackson was born in Washington, D.C. and moved to New Mexico at the age of 2. He grew up in a family of wrestlers. [Jim Jackson (father) Illinois State Champion 95 lbs 1966 http://www.ihsa.org/activity/wr/records/ybych1.htm Matt Jackson (brother) New Mexico State Champion 125 lbs 1994] Due to the rough neighborhood in which he was brought up, Jackson began training in martial arts at a young age.Fact|date=September 2007 After several years, Jackson, seeking more out of his training, found a way to combine basic judo locks with wrestling and Strike (attack) to create his own unique style of martial arts and self-defense which he called Gaidojutsu.Fact|date=September 2007

Jackson continued to develop new techniques after watching the first UFC and began training kickboxing under five-time kickboxing champion Michael Winkeljohn, creating a more complete training regimen.Fact|date=September 2007

Notable fighters

*Georges St. Pierre - (UFC Welterweight champion)
*Rashad Evans - ("The Ultimate Fighter 2" heavyweight winner)
*Keith Jardine - ("The Ultimate Fighter 2" contestant)
*David Loiseau - (UFC, Elite XC veteran)
*Jason MacDonald - (UFC veteran)
*Nate Marquardt - (former King of Pancrase; UFC veteran)
*Joey Villasenor - (PRIDE, Elite XC veteran)
*Julie Kedzie - (Elite XC, BodogFIGHT veteran)
*Roger Huerta - (UFC lightweight fighter)
*Kyle Noke - (EliteXC, Warriors Realm)
*Leonard Garcia - (WEC, UFC)
*Karo Parisyan - (UFC Veteran)
*Brandon Gatewood - (Muay Thai practitioner)

Former fighter

*Diego Sanchez - ("The Ultimate Fighter" middleweight winner)cite web
url=http://www.ufcdaily.com/2007/08/08/diego-sanchez-leaves-jacksons-submission-fighting/
title=Diego Sanchez leaves Jackson's Submission Fighting to go and train with the rugrats down on skidrow due to him being such a sockie bubba
year=2007
accessdate=2007-09-07
publisher=UFC Daily] cite web
url=http://mrsunshinevegas.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/diego-sanchez/
title=DIEGO SANCHEZ FINALLY EXPLAINS GREG JACKSON SPLIT
year=2007
accessdate=2007-09-08
publisher="Mr. Sunshine" Steve Cofield and CBSSports.com’s Sam Caplan]

External links

* [http://www.jacksonsmma.com/ Official website]
* [http://jacksons-mixed-martial-arts.gymdb.com/ Jacksons MMA on the GymDb]

References