Team Kaobon formerly known as Fighters and Fitness is a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

 team from Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. The team is known for being the training camp of multiple English lightweight

Lightweight (MMA)

The lightweight division in mixed martial arts can refer to a number of different weight classes:* The UFC & Strikeforce lightweight division with upper limit at 155 lb...

 fighters based in the Ultimate Fighting Championships - the top MMA organisation - as well as domestically.

Fighters

The following fighters are amongst those currently based at Team Kaobon
Mark Scanlon

Mark Scanlon (fighter)

Mark Scanlon is an English professional mixed martial artist who competes in the welterweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2006, Scanlon competed in English promotions; most frequently for Cage Gladiators, before signing with the Ultimate Fighting Championship in October...

 - Current UFC fighter Mark Adams

Mark Adams (fighter)

Mark Adams is an English professional mixed martial artist who competes in the featherweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2008, Adams has mostly fought in England, winning the BAMMA Featherweight title.-Background:...

 - BAMMA veteran and BAMMA Featherweight champion Terry Etim

Terry Etim

Terence Lee "Terry" Etim is an English mixed martial artist and Thai boxer who trains with Team Kaobon and RFT. He is trained by Colin Heron and Marcelo Brigadeiro...

 - Current UFC fighter Eugene Fadiora

Eugene Fadiora

Eugene Fadiora is an English mixed martial artist, who fights at Welterweight and Middleweight.-Biography:...

 - BAMMA veteran Paul Kelly - UFC veteran Paul Sass

Paul sass

Paul Sass is an English mixed martial artist. He lives in Liverpool, training with Next Generation MMA and Team Kaobon.-Early career:Sass' professional MMA record stands at 12-0, with 8 of the victories by triangle choke...

 - Current UFC fighter and holder of 7 consecutive triangle choke victories Mick Sinclair - domestic veteran Rob Sinclair - BAMMA veteran and BAMMA Lightweight champion Martin Stapleton - former contestant on The Ultimate Fighter: US vs. UK

The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom

The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom is the ninth installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter. It began production in January 2009, and began airing on Spike on April 1, 2009. The season featured Lightweight fighters ...

 Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor (fighter)

Paul Simon Taylor is an English mixed martial artist from Walsall. He stands 6'0" and weighs . He has fought regularly for Ultimate Fighting Championship. He holds notable wins over Jess Liaudin and Gabe Ruediger....

 - UFC veteran Oriol Gaset - Botnia Punishment Lightweight champion Chris Stringer - Cage Wars veteran

Coaches

The following individuals currently coach at Team Kaobon
Colin Heron - Managing director and head coach

• • Heron established Team Kaobon in 1992, which now holds three gyms. Heron is also the first trainer to produce Muay Thai
    Muay Thai
    Muay Thai is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. It is similar to other Indochinese kickboxing systems, namely pradal serey from Cambodia, tomoi from Malaysia, lethwei from Myanmar and muay Lao from Laos...
    
     champions in each weight class. Marcelo Brigadeiro - Luta Livre coach
  • Brigadeiro is a Luta Livre black belt who shares time between Team Kaobon and RFT in Brazil. Brigadeiro has won the Brazilian National Championship of Submission three times and the Rio de Janeiro State Championship of Submission seven times. Shane Rigby &   Mike Grundy - Wrestling coach
  • Rigby has competed in multiple wrestling and judo competitions, won a silver medal at two Commonwealth Games
    Commonwealth Games
    The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years....
    
     and was a member of the Great Britain Olympic Wrestling team.
  • Grundy was on the Olympic team for Beijing Olympics 2008, 2 Times British senior champion and was ranked 12th in the World championships Denmark 2009 Andy Aspinall - Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coach
  • Aspinall holds a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and a 2nd degree black belt in Japanese Jiu-Jitsu. Juddas Clottey - brother of top-level professional boxer Joshua Clottey
    Joshua Clottey
    Joshua Clottey is a Ghanaian professional boxer. Born in Accra, Ghana, Clottey now lives in the Bronx, New York. He is the former IBF welterweight champion. He's also the brother of veteran boxers Judas Clottey and Emmanuel Clottey....
    
    . Won 45 of his 59 professional boxing fights and has trained many world-known boxers.