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Mick Maynard Reacts to Henry Cejudo News on Inside MMA

Following the news today of Olympic gold medalist and former Legacy FC fighter Henry Cejudo dropping out of his scheduled fight at UFC 177, AXS TV’s INSIDE MMA caught up with Legacy FC President Mick Maynard to capture his reaction to the news. During the interview with series hosts Kenny Rice and Bas Rutten, Maynard expresses his concern for the young fighter’s career and questions Cejudo’s commitment to the sport.

Maynard’s interview, which was taped live on site at AXS TV FIGHTS: LEGACY FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP 34 from the Horseshoe Tunica Hotel and Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, is available here:

Also on tonight’s show, Bellator President Scott Coker sat down with Rice and Rutten on the AXS TV balcony at L.A. Live in Los Angeles. In this clip, Coker discusses Bellator’s release of newly signed UFC fighter Eddie Alvarez and the future of the Bellator women’s division:

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The line outside Hurricane Harry’s for Lonestar Beatdown | Photo by Mike, Texas MMA Photographer

  Legacy Promoter Mick Maynard Talks About His Earliest Days Promoting Mixed Martial Arts Here In Texas

  HOUSTON, TX, July 17, 2013 - Houston-based Legacy Fighting Championship recently released an insightful video profile on their origins as a promotion dating back to 2006 when they promoted their very first events under the guise of the name Lonestar Beatdown in College Station, TX.

In the video, promoter Mick Maynard talks a little bit about those days long past – when the sport was barely emerging following the legalization of the unified rules of mixed martial arts in Texas less than a year earlier.

“It was 2006 so MMA wasn’t anywhere near as popular as it is today. I put together a Lonestar Beatdown promotion because I wanted a way to promote our newspaper and it (MMA) seemed to be our demographic,” said Maynard who initially ran his first events as a means to promote the newspaper business he owned and managed for Texas A&M students called Maroon Weekly.

Mick goes on to talk about the 16×16 square cage used for those first events – a cage where you as a fighter could almost literally meet your opponent at center-cage in just a few steps.

As a person who helped put that cage together for the first time, this writer can attest that it was equally as hard to construct as it was to fight in but luckily for everyone involved, Legacy has continued to evolve throughout the years to where it is now as a world-class promotion – that is still based here in Texas.