How many five year olds?

Fighting at 125 sounds pretty tough cuting wise, what do you walk around at, how tall are you?

Whats the big thing separating a ufc class fighter from you? Is mostly physical, techincal or mental stuff?

How big part does marketability play in a fighters career as opposed to merits in the ring/cage?

Best of luck!

GL to you Terrence, I remember you from the old RGP days. Your last fight was awesome, keep up the good work and GL!

Full tilt did tons of sponsoring

Couple questions....are you on twitter? Also, what is your primary fighting background - kickboxing, Muay Thai, etc?

Do you have a website?

Thanks in advance -

TDA

Terrence Chan UFC Bantamweight Champ 2014

go get 'em!

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Quick google search found more info.....good info at the fight website.

http://www.battlefieldfl.com/

@tchanpoker on twitter

Best of luck man!

TDA

What's your walking around weight?

Considering that you're Terrence Chan, not Johnny Chan, how do you think Johnny Chan would do in the ring?

1) i like your tattoo

2) how will you do in a bar fight against a 6'2" 220 lb dude with no fighting experience

glglgl saturday

Ill be watching and rooting for you

I'm 31 (32 in December). I think I'm a pretty big longshot to make one of the bigger organizations. Right now those 125ers would beat me easily. I guess my goal is to continue the process and get as good as I can. If that leads me to a big show, then awesome.

I wish I could! I asked for some video, but promoter says "we don't have it ready". Some people in attendance said he was winning his fight before he lost it. Other than that, you know as much as I do.

The Vogue on Granville St in downtown Vancouver. Pretty cool venue.

Never done a 1RM but I imagine something like 180? I dunno, I don't really lift weights. I can see from my personal log the last time I lifted weights was October 4 where I did 5x5 sets and the last set was 155.

This is a pretty weak copout, but I almost never read fiction

Fully trained? I'm gonna go with the rottweiler.

This is a good one to end on a cliffhanger because it's the first one where I don't know the answer - I'd have to sit down and really think about it.

Gotta go ride the bike for about 45 minutes and fulfill various family/social obligations for the night -- will come back for more about midnight. Keep 'em coming!

Good luck Terrence, would love to be there and watch but I'm on the other end of the country. I love what you're doing, keep following your passions and crushing!

Go and watch UFC 1 & 2 highlights.

You could probably make this 6'7 and 300 pounds and OP would still have no problem whatsoever.

where are you fighting out of?

are you fighting anyone from carlson gracie mma maple ridge (my sons new gym)

I seen the battlefield fights at the convention center a month or two ago, awesome

good luck!

Best of luck. Much admiration for this. Would like to 2nd the question about MMA background: Muay Thai, wrestling etc?

glgl man beat that ass!

In your experience being around fighters how would you rate their intelligence in general?

Please don't take this question the wrong way, but what percentage of fighters would you say are gay? I say this because I know a lot of female fighters are openly lesbian, so I was wondering if there are many gay male fighters around-(I know Shad Smith is gay, but I have to feel there are a lot more closet ones).

Went to BFL 18 and it was exhausting. Waaaayyyyy too long, hopefully this card has less fights on it.

GL. I had a kickboxing match in the Vogue, it's an interesting venue for fights.

If you're talking about actual successful fighters, not just any idiot who has taken a couple classes, wears Tapout gear and picks fights at clubs, then the average is almost certainly above the population average.

It's unfortunate that The Ultimate Fighter has created a bad image for the mixed martial artist.

Terrence I posted your OP in EDF MMA where the most serious MMA is discussed on 2+2. GL

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/79...l#post35862155

Man, so that is really tough. I'll make some estimates:

$9000 on monthly academy fees
$1500 on privates/seminars
$800 on tournament entries
$1500 on travel
$500 on DVDs
$2000 on equipment (includes random **** like medical tape for your fingers)
$2000 on physiotherapy, medical, massages etc

So that's like 25kish? I tried to err on the side of higher rather than lower these numbers and yet I figure I'm way undershooting it. There's so much I'm probably forgetting, like I hurt my knee a couple years ago, not bad enough for surgery but I still had to have an MRI which I paid like $800 out of pocket for. I'd guess the real number is higher. And as you said there is all the costs of food and supplement and eating the grass-fed pastured organic beef instead of the ground chuck in the bargain bin. (btw I am an anomaly on that; most fighters eat like **** when they aren't cutting weight, even high level pros)

These are obviously way higher than a typical guy, obviously for a lot of my martial arts career I was playing pretty big and doing well. Also like I travel a lot so I bounce around a few different gyms; if I stayed in one place I could get a deal on like a 3-year package.

So for a second opinion, I asked my cousin, who is the perfect person to ask because he's been training about as long as me and is an accountant. He put it at about 20k.

In a given fight, skill matters more than heart, for sure. Heart is only going to matter when the skill is close, right? That's not to diminish the importance of heart though, because of the following.

Training MMA is really hard. Just showing up 4-5 days a week to the gym, getting pounded on, going through camp. This is where heart is a really big deal. You definitely see a lot of people get broken in the gym. You see far more people simply disappear. Now maybe they have good reasons; money, family issues, busy with work, whatever. But the guy who really loves this **** will find a way. The heart to push through in training -- and sometimes, just to show up for training -- is imo the biggest role "heart" plays. So heart in one particular fight? doesn't necessarily mean that much. But in a career? It's maybe the most important thing.

You know, I totally knew that too, and realized it like 5 minutes after I posted. But I figured too many people are on NVG for me to have changed it at that point.

I have lifted all of 10 times since the end of the WSOP. I only really lift weights when I'm not able to train (e.g. I'm in a hotel in a poker tournament somewhere, or I have like a shoulder injury but I can still do squats).

Lifting weights is just really CNS-taxing and it's hard to do that *and* train really hard in MMA class. And I choose to dedicate most of my taxing stuff to actual skill development because I have so much to learn. I think weight lifting (and other S&C stuff like plyometrics etc) is probably really important at the higher levels but at my level, skills win fights, so I try to develop more sport-specific skills instead of just getting stronger.

Plus I find lifting super boring, personally. No offence to those who take it seriously though.

A horse-size duck would freak the **** out of me, so clearly the 100 duck sized horses. I could just punt them around.

FTP did a ton of sponsoring of MMA fighters. I think UB sponsored Bellator as well. And if you've watched the last few months of UFC you may have noticed "Ultimate Poker" on the mat (Stations-affiliated poker site that got a NV gaming license). As for Stars themselves, well, you'd have to ask them. Maybe they don't feel it fits their image, idk.

I've never put on (added) weight for a fight. Do you mean cutting weight?

I've always thought the answer to the 5yos question was "as many up to the point where you physically can't breathe or would collapse under their weight".

NFC but I would bet yes!

- I walk around 138-140. I'm like 5'6.5" or so (only short guys know to within a half inch, lol). It's a tough cut but I'm doing it very intelligently and I'm always very strict on my diet. It's more of a pervasive low-level hunger and low energy levels rather than the "omg I want to die" that you see with a lot of fighters. Of course, ask me on Friday and I may sing a different tune.

- I suspect technical skill is the biggest, then athleticism. I won't understate "mental stuff" because see my comments re "heart" above but really I'm probably a lot more mentally tuned in overall than your typical MMA fighter given pro poker background.

- A lot. See Carano, Gina. That said, if you just keep winning, that'll do fine. Anderson Silva really wasn't the most popular guy when he burst on the scene and won the title, but after he just kept blowing people out of the water, he became pretty marketable.


@tchanpoker and terrencechanpoker.com for your web-stalking needs.

My first martial art when I was a kid was wing chun kung fu, which I use none of. I then started doing a little Muay Thai in my adult life, then found BJJ. But now most people would say my BJJ is better than my MT so it depends what you consider "background".

fyp

He'd be paying me rent in Euro.

Given that bars are confined spaces with lots of chaos, he would be a favourite to win the first 10-20 seconds of the fight. But if he doesn't seriously incapacitate me in that time, after that 20 seconds or so he will lose very very badly. If it's a fair fight (i.e. no suckerpunches, no buddies, no weapons) I would make myself like 90-95%.

Universal MMA in downtown Vancouver BC. When I'm in Hong Kong I train with Team Grips Hong Kong.

I believe my opponent trains with the Marinos brothers in North Vancouver, at least that's what I heard. Nice to see local fans!

Smarter than the average population, not as smart as typical poker players though.

Dunno, never encountered one myself. I really don't know, because I have the worst gaydar ever. I've probably said "really, he's gay?" to my social circle more than anyone you know. But yeah, never encountered an openly gay fighter. Of course it's a macho sport so men would be hesitant to come out. For obvious reasons it's not as stigmatizing for a woman to come out in this sport. Sorry for the crappy answer, but I have no idea.

Way fewer. Also I think they make extra matches and just plan for some to get cancelled, since some always do.

If you wanted to train someone to become an MMA fighter from childhood but could only teach him one discipline for the first 6-8 years of training, would it be wrestling, bjj, or muay thai?

Are there more than 20 people in the world that are favorites over Roy Nelson in MMA rules style combat?

Really enjoy your MMA related twitter posts, gl in the fight

are you at all concerned about how rigorous mma training/fighting will impact your future health/longevity?