The line outside Hurricane Harry’s for Lonestar Beatdown | Photo by Mike, Texas MMA Photographer
Legacy Promoter Mick Maynard Talks About His Earliest Days Promoting Mixed Martial Arts Here In Texas
HOUSTON, TX, July 17, 2013 – Houston-based Legacy Fighting Championship recently released an insightful video profile on their origins as a promotion dating back to 2006 when they promoted their very first events under the guise of the name Lonestar Beatdown in College Station, TX.
In the video, promoter Mick Maynard talks a little bit about those days long past – when the sport was barely emerging following the legalization of the unified rules of mixed martial arts in Texas less than a year earlier.
“It was 2006 so MMA wasn’t anywhere near as popular as it is today. I put together a Lonestar Beatdown promotion because I wanted a way to promote our newspaper and it (MMA) seemed to be our demographic,” said Maynard who initially ran his first events as a means to promote the newspaper business he owned and managed for Texas A&M students called Maroon Weekly.
Mick goes on to talk about the 16×16 square cage used for those first events – a cage where you as a fighter could almost literally meet your opponent at center-cage in just a few steps.
As a person who helped put that cage together for the first time, this writer can attest that it was equally as hard to construct that first few times as it was to fight in but luckily for everyone involved, Legacy has continued to evolve throughout the years to where it is now – a world-class promotion still heavily-rooted here in Texas.
For more on the Legacy Fighting Championship, visit their newly redesigned website here.
Here some photos along with the video celebrating Legacy Fighting Championship’s early days here in Texas as Lonestar Beatown.
Texas Throwback: Lonestar Beatdown
