My first pro mma fight

[Chris Patton]

In September of 2007 I was talked into fighting a pro mma fight by my trainer after only having 2 amateur fights. Anyway I had just purchased Master Eddie's Mastering the RubberGuard book about a month earlier and started playing around with the system. I now know I made a bunch of mistakes in my rubberguard since I have been properly trained by Master Eddie, Brandon McCagren, Sean Bollinger, and Jeremy Fields on how to do the rubberguard correctly. Also I know the fight wass very sloppy. I only had 1 more professional fight after this one because I had a stroke a year later and was paralyzed on my left side for 4 months and had to learn how to walk and talk again. I have been cleared by the dr to train again since the beginning of the year and I have been making the most of it. I have started training at alliance in tallahasse fl and I have been trying to go to as many 10th planet seminars as possible. I hope to start a 10th planet hotbox end of this year or beginning next year and try as hard as possible to become a 10th planet instructor and open up a 10th planet school in South Georgia.

[Hector Ramos]

Nice triangle

[Chris Patton]

I had a congenital heart defect that had been undetected all my life called ASD (atrial septal defect) which is a hole in atrial wall. A blot clot passed through which usually gets filtered by the lungs but because I had a hole it went through it and passed into my brain, thus causing a stroke. I still have a very small hole but the dr's have said that it has closed up significantly and as long as I take aspirin everyday I should be fine. This isn't too uncommon of an occurrence, it happened to pro bowler Teddy Bruschi of the New England Patriots1

[Will Thaxton]

very nice. keep up the hard work.

[Joshua Jarboe]

Wow, that was fun to watch! You're awfully defensive about winning your first pro mma fight in < 50 seconds. lol

[AJ Camacho]

Have you ever been choked out? I ask because from what I have read about vascular chokes, people with congenital heart issues are more apt to die from them.

Congratulations with working back from that stroke. I can't imagine how difficult that would be.

[Chris Patton]

I have been choked out before no problems, I use to be very stubborn when I was a noob and wouldn't tap out! Recovery wasn't great but Im very stubborn as I said before and I recovered very quickly ( so say the doctors and physical therapists however I disagree it seemed forever). Jiu jitsu and stand up have been harder than relearning to walk because I had lost a lot of the muscle memory and my reflexes werent quite what they were before and I had some residual weakness and some peripheral vision issues.

[enkiCF5F]

chris dude. I'm glad I learned that about you. you are definetly a warrior. I can't wait to train with you again

[Jesse Bell]

Awesome fight. You fucked that boy up with the rubber guard.

[Chris Patton]

chris dude. I'm glad I learned that about you. you are definetly a warrior. I can't wait to train with you again

Jeremy is was great seeing you again too, I really enjoyed the Bollinger/Fields seminar you hosted in Penscacola and it was an honor being able to learn with you in Mobile AL. I look forward to seeing you again in Orlando at the Herzog Seminar!