Luke Stewart Wins Inside MMA Award

Our good friend Luke Stewart has just received a Bazzie award from Inside MMA for the best tattoo in Mixed Martial Arts. The broadcast team from Inside MMA visited Luke at his San Francisco tattoo parlor, Seventh Son Tattoo, to present him with the award. The Bazzie awards episode of Inside MMA aired on HDNet this past Friday, December 26th.

Luke Stewart is a highly decorated Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Blackbelt, and one of the fastest rising stars in MMA. He is currently one of the Top Welterweights fighting for Strikeforce.

Luke is based out of San Francisco and is a partner in Seventh Son Tattoo located at 1017 Howard Street in the SOMA district. He is also a regular contributor to the FDM brand. For more on Luke's fight career and Seventh Son Tattoo visit www.lukestewart.tv

Check your local listings for Inside MMA on HDNet. Or visit www.hd.net

Dustin Akbari Rolls At PFC 10

It took Dustin Akbari only 1:35 to improve his record to an undefeated 3-0. Saturday night the young FDM phoneme quickly defeated Bill Theofanopoulos by TKO at PFC 10. As the bell sounded to start the first round, both fighters moved forward and engaged each other at center ring. Almost immediately Dustin took his opponent down. Once the fight hit the ground, Theofanopoulos was clearly in deep water. Akbari easily controlled the fight from the top position, and unleashed a steady stream of punches and elbows that forced the ref to stop the action at 1:35 of the first round.

FDM would like to congratulate our good friend Dustin "Prince" Akbari on another extremely impressive performance. We know he is looking toward the future with poise, and excitement. That first championship belt is coming fast…

Sanchez Takes Gold In Rio

Our man Matt Sanchez just returned from Brazil where he recently took gold at the Rio International Grappling Open. Matt Sanchez is the 62kg representative of the US National Team, and he was able to run his division in Rio with an aggressive and highly technical style. Matt defeated several talented black belts en route to the gold medal.

Matt is an FDM sponsored athlete, and a good friend of the company. Following a very successful wrestling career at Cal State Bakersfield Matt made the move to Sacramento to train with Urijah Faber's team at Ultimate Fitness. Matt has transitioned beautifully to submission grappling, winning several prestigious tournaments and quickly earning a place on the US National Team. With such a strong foundation and a tough camp to support him, we're looking for Matt to make a successful transition to MMA very soon. Keep an eye out for our man in the Bantamweight division. He's coming…

Jake Shields Takes The Mic For Elite XC

With Mayhem off to DREAM our man Jake Shields stepped up to take the mic for Pro Elite at EliteXC Primetime. Jake, powered by his new FDM Launch Series T-Shirt, took the post like a true pro. Shields was on hand throughout the entire event to interview the winning fighters moments after they exited the cage. It was a great perspective for the fans to see, and Jake was able to give the Pro Elite audience access that is usually reserved for the insiders back stage. Expect to see more of Jake behind the mic at EliteXC, as the CBS executive in attendance appreciated having the promotion’s golden boy adding his thoughts to the fights throughout the evening. To see Jake in action head to www.proelite.com, or Youtube.com, keyword proelite. The man is multifaceted. Look for Jake to take the EliteXC welterweight title in September.

FDM Sponsored Dustin Akbari Impresses

FDM is proud to sponsor Dustin “Prince” Akbari, and proud to have been ringside Thursday watching our friend unleash a devastating beating at PFC 8. The young phenom improved to an undefeated 2-0, and made a big impression on everyone in attendance.

For those of you unfamiliar with Akbari, he is a longtime student of Cassio Werneck, and training partner of #1 ranked Featherweight Urijah Faber. Dustin fights out of Ultimate Fitness in Sacramento, California. The “Prince” has long impressed everyone he has trained or competed with. We’ll all be hearing a lot more about him soon.

Thursday night was a great second step in a career we expect to be extraordinary. Dustin is a truly gifted phenom possessing a high level of technical prowess, combined with a very aggressive, unrelenting style. He possesses all of the intangibles needed to reach the highest levels of the MMA world. Please join us in congratulating our friend. We are all excited to see what’s next for Dustin, and to watch his ascent.

FDM Launches!

With a little help from a lot of good friends, we are pleased to release the first offering from the FDM brand. We’d like to thank everyone who helped us, and who motivated us to get out and launch the new line. We would especially like to thank our friends Jake Shields and Gilbert Melendez for collaborating with us on the first release of t-shirts. Both Jake and Gilbert were involved in the creative process from the beginning, and we would not have been able to release such strong designs without them. We are happy to sponsor both talented fighters.

We are extremely excited about the coming weeks and months at FDM. We hope that you enjoy our products, and share our enthusiasm for MMA and design. We are very happy with the four t-shirts we are launching with, and also excited about what we have planned for the next release later this year.

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