(Submitted: Ben Leece)Ī main point of focus for the two owners was both legality and safety. “He’s the logistical one.”īen Leece, the co-founder of Benny’s Fight Club, said he started the club after posting farce fights on his Instagram. “There wouldn’t be fight club without, it’d still be a joke,” Leece said.
LEGALITY OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS FIGHTING PRO
Granter told Leece they could make their club their high school senior business project and turn it into something more than a pro league farce with merchandise. He would post satire versions of Ultimate Fighting Championship face-offs on his Instagram account, but the idea of turning the club into a full-fledged combat organization didn’t come until fall in their senior year of high school. “ would wrestle each other in my yard, where we’d always argue over who had won and out of that came this idea of the fight club.” But Ben Leece and Christian Granter made their dream of friendly competitive combat a reality, starting Benny’s Fight Club, a mixed martial arts club.
(Submitted: Christian Granter)Ī fight club isn’t the first place that comes to mind when thinking of camaraderie. Ben Leece and Christian Granter made their dream of friendly competitive combat a reality after two years, starting Benny's Fight Club.