You Do NOT Have to Be a Division-1 Wrestler or Boxing Title-holder for Team Lloyd Irvin to Make You into a Successful Fighter!

Every coach likes to claim a successful stable of fighters - it's a testament to their abilities as a trainer. In order to achieve this, they will pick and choose specific athletes with pre-existing skills. Their entire team consists of fighters that gained most of their skills elsewhere. What does this say about their coaching ability?

In an article published in Ultimate Grappling magazine (now Ultimate MMA), Lloyd Irvin stated that anyone can take a great athlete and make them into a fighter BUT very few people can take the average student and do the same thing. If you look at a few of the case studies on the side, you'll notice that Team Lloyd Irvin's top competitors come from very modest athletic backgrounds. We are not taking former NFL players, D-1 Wrestling All-Americans, and professional boxers and turning them into fighters - we are taking business people, teachers, accountants, NORMAL people and developing them into the professional athletes.

The philosophy of "Combat Athletics for Everyone" is a fundamental tenet of Team Lloyd Irvin. We will work to develop ANYONE and EVERYONE into a top Jiu Jitsu or MMA competitor. Guys like Mike Fowler and Mike Easton are proof that we CAN and DO develop casual students into WORLD CLASS fighters (something that most gyms have not turned even their top "recruits" into).