{"id":404,"date":"2007-04-04T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2007\/04\/04\/jason-medina-still-fighting-for-his-people\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T12:26:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T17:26:33","slug":"jason-medina-still-fighting-for-his-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/jason-medina-still-fighting-for-his-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Medina Still Fighting for His People"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jasonmedina\"<\/a>Inside Ekim\u2019s along 1st Ave. in Silvis, you can find kids learning karate, ladies exercising, and guys like Jason Medina teaching and training the next generation of Mixed Martial Arts fighters.\u00a0 Jason Medina, 38, first got into Mixed Martial Arts in early 1997 when he watched a show with a couple of his buddies who told him he could not do MMA; it was a challenge for him and so he did it.\u00a0 He went from 202 Lbs to 172 and then
\n entered his first tournament which he won even though he was injured.\u00a0 He says that he never took it that serious but he kept on fighting.\u00a0 His record as an amateur was 4-0 and then he turned pro and began training with former UFC champion Pat Miletich.\u00a0 Then opportunities came and Medina got to fight around the country and eventually had the opportunity to fight Frank Trigg, one of the best fighters in the world.\u00a0 He took the fight within one days notice even though he had not trained in two months.\u00a0 The outcome didn\u2019t go in his favor but it was one of his high points of his career.
\n\u201cI\u2019m a pioneer on my way out,\u201d says Medina, \u201cthis is a young man\u2019s sport.\u201d
\nMedina says that he figures he still has about a year-and-a-half of fighting still left in him.\u00a0 He now concentrates on helping the next generation of fighters whether it\u2019s by training with them or by simply offering advice.
\nAt the gym he excuses himself from our conversation and greets a new face that is just sitting there as if waiting for someone, later he does the same and says \u201clet me help out this Mexican kid here.\u201d
\nHe comes back and asks himself what he can do for \u201cmi gente\u201d or his people. That is what Medina wants to do, help out his people.
\n\u201cI can spar with them; some guys are afraid to work out because they don\u2019t know anyone and don\u2019t want to get beat up.\u201d\u00a0 Medina says.\u00a0 \u201cIf they can learn from my past, getting in trouble with the law, if they can learn in a positive environment.\u201d
\nBut Medina will not just do it for anyone, \u201cThey got to show me some corazon, got to show me some heart.\u00a0 We need more Mexicans coming here and working together instead of all this gang stuff.\u201d
\nEven though he learned a lot from fighting in the streets of Moline\u2019s west end where he grew up, his discipline was cultivated through boxing and wrestling.\u00a0 He was an amateur boxer in the 8th grade.\u00a0 He then joined wrestling in high school from 9th grade to 12th where he made it to state his last two years there.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t expect to get into fighting until he saw MMA and figured that with his fighting background he could easily get into MMA.
\nToday he trains with his good friends Kenny Nyquist and Mike Smith.\u00a0 He trains regularly with Nyquist who still has a long future in fighting ahead of him.\u00a0 He also says he is at the gym to help anybody that wants to better his or herself.
\n\u201cAnyone who wants to better themselves.\u00a0 Whether its weight wise, mentally; I want to be a positive impact,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Medina said.<\/p>\n

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