“Official Xtreme Couture MMA Training Centers are now being opened with qualified owners nationwide. There are currently locations in Wellington, FL, Lombard, IL, Independence, MO, and Centereach, NY with another opening in late May in Toronto, ON, Canada.

Randy and fellow fighting legend Bas Rutten co-own yet another MMA training center called Legends MMA which is located in Hollywood, California."

Here’s another snip from the press release to answer your question Macho…

Cheers.

This is the first one in Canada

It’s good business, for sure. What I worry about is students overpaying to be in over-crowded classes. I’m sure the instructors are well-qualified, but they only have two eyes.

how did you like working out at the pit? any comments? just curious…

All bar fights should be fist fights, I don’t think you will get a lot of “street cred” if you try to put a guy in a triangle choke.

haha…although if it were me, I would probably give a try to Silva’s Muay Thai clinch. If I recall it seems to be really effective ;)

I’m only about 20 minutes away myself.

If Couture’s place is that close, I’d advise you to move before your property value drops.

I believe Bas is only a partner in Legends…

toronto doesn’t get Bas and Couture. We just get the Couture name. We get Bocek, Hominick, and Horodecki.

i just read that aleks e. vs buentello is signed and that they signed little nog, but nothing about arlovski? what gives? i read before that they might be having another press conference on the 22nd. maybee then everything will be finalized.

I might go.

That’s a very good price. The only thing I worry about franchise gyms particularly MMA gyms – too large might not mean you get the attention as other clubs/schools because the student instructor/ratio is way off i.e. 50 students to 1 instructor. Having said that then how can you focus on improving technical skills. Also, granted they may have some named instructors that have fought in UFC, IFL etc but that doesn’t necessarily equate to good fighter = good instructor. Things you need to worry about. I don’t doubt they do have the best facility to date in terms of the resources available to you – fitness facility, ring etc. But if you intend to improve your skills with a high student to instructor then it may take much longer than with a ratio of 20 to 1. Also, I’m sure the price will significantly increase to possibly $150/month for 1 year. Now who could really afford that – students (I don’t think so), you look at the target audience of MMA and they are generally 20 – 35 years old. So while this may good ($99) for the start I’m sure they will feel it in the pocket book later and are forced not to continue due to financial reasons. I think this would definitely work for those who can swallow that monthly bill along with those who have medium to strong technical skills as a foundation. But for the beginner , they may not benefit as much.