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Team Rough House 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 the East Midlands

East Midlands

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, England

England

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. Based in Nottingham

Nottingham

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and Leicester

Leicester

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, the team is known for producing well respected welterweight

Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system...

fighters. Although each fighter follows their own personal regime, everyone attends the weekly squad sessions.

The most prominent members of Team Rough House are Ultimate Fighting Championship

Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is the largest mixed martial arts promotion company in the world that hosts most of the top-ranked fighters in the sport...

fighters Dan Hardy

Dan Hardy

Dan Hardy is an English professional mixed martial artist who competes in the welterweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2004, Hardy fought in various promotions such as Cage Force and Cage Warriors before signing a contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship in 2008. He was...

, Paul Daley

Paul Daley

Paul Daley is an English professional mixed martial artist who has fought for EliteXC, Cage Rage, Strikeforce, BAMMA, Maximum Fighting Championship, Cage Warriors, Shark Fights, Impact FC, Pancrase and the Ultimate Fighting Championship...

, Andre Winner

Andre Winner

Andre Winner is an English professional mixed martial artist. He was a cast member of Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom, reaching the final. Winner is also a member of Team Rough House. He holds notable wins over Jeff Lawson, Rolando Delgado and Rafaello...

, Ross Pearson

Ross Pearson

Ross Pearson is an English professional mixed martial artist from Sunderland. He is the lightweight division winner of The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom and is a member of Team Rough House.-Background:...

, Nick Osipczak

Nick Osipczak

Nicholas Dominic Osipczak is an English professional mixed martial artist. He is a cast member of Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom. He is also a known practitioner of Sanshou and Kung Fu, and is a member of Team Rough House.-Background:Nick attended high school at...

, Bellator fighter Jim Wallhead

Jim Wallhead

Jim Wallhead is an English professional mixed martial artist, based in Leicestershire, England, who competes in the welterweight division. Wallhead's background is in Judo, where he holds a Black Belt having trained under Olympic silver medallist Neil Adams...

and The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom
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 ...

cast member Dean Amasinger.

History

Rough House was established in the early 1990s by Paul Daley

Paul Daley

and Matt Howell. They competed in one of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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s first MMA events, the KSBO, where they met Dan Hardy

Dan Hardy

and coach Nathan Leverton. After Daley and Howell had great success on the amateur circuit, they decided to turn professional and made regular visits to the United States

United States

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to seek out the best training. On their return, the team grew as Andre Winner, Jim Wallhead and Dean Amasinger all joined.

Fighters trained at Team Rough House

Dean Amasinger Paul Daley

Paul Daley

Dan Hardy

Lee Livingstone Nick Osipczak

Nick Osipczak

Ross Pearson

Tengiz Tedoradze Jim Wallhead

Jim Wallhead

Andre Winner

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History

Fighters trained at Team Rough House

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