For a lot of fighters, the looming chance of getting their child on the identical day of their struggle would end in them most certainly selecting a distinct card to struggle on. However, when a championship alternative calls, the mixed pressures of fatherhood looming together with an opportunity at climbing a pedestal in your profession is what desires are crafted from.
“If I’m mendacity, I’d be flying once I say that the stress is certainly on”, Amarius Taylor stated.
Preventing out of Clinigan Martial Arts in Yuba Metropolis, CA, Amarius Taylor is a featherweight MMA prospect that sits at 4-2 thus far in his beginner profession. Most not too long ago coming off a first-round knockout over Mikey Seely (2-2) at A1 Fight 19, Taylor will now look to tackle California’s ”king” of the featherweight division in Ramon “El Toro” Cornejo for the A1 Fight Newbie Featherweight Championship on September sixth for A1 Fight 24.
Cornejo, the 8-2 prospect coaching out of Castro MMA in Tracy, California, is a champion throughout varied organizations within the golden state, with the matchup presumably being a teaser of who can change into a high featherweight prospect main into their skilled careers.
Though the long run is vibrant now for the 530’s featherweight prospect, Taylor can be no stranger to having to construct again from the bottom up.
Beginning off his beginner MMA profession 0-2, Amarius Taylor started his profession in a manner that no fighter envisions. Shedding again to again choices at 559 Fights in 2022, Taylor determined to struggle a little bit nearer to house in his subsequent bout, hoping a shorter distance to journey and being nearer to house would support in notching his first win.
The layoff and “home-field” benefit resulted in not solely the aforementioned win, however a second-round physician stoppage. This might start a 4 struggle unbeaten streak for the 22-year-old Clinigan Martial Arts mainstay, together with two wins through knockout or technical knockout and one through unanimous choice.
Taylor’s return to the Exhausting Rock Sacramento shall be sentimental for varied causes, not solely because of its earlier good tidings together with his knockout at A1 Fight 19 in March, but additionally as soon as beforehand employed the 4-2 featherweight prospect as a safety guard.
Regardless of the shared pressures of acquainted faces being within the venue, a nearly-due pregnant spouse watching his struggle or the possibility to change into a champion, Taylor says his profession in MMA is fueled by a bigger goal.
“That belt (I stroll out to the fights with) is my grandpa’s”, he defined. “He handed away a little bit earlier than my first KO… I really feel him each time I get in that cage. I do know he’s watching me. ”
Don’t miss Amarius Taylor get into the cage subsequent as he shall be taking up Ramon Cornejo for the beginner A1 Fight Featherweight Championship at A1 Fight 24 on Sept. 6. Taylor’s struggle would be the final struggle on the prelims (as of Aug. 15), subsequently his struggle shall be broadcasted dwell on the A1 Fight YouTube together with the remainder of the preliminary card, which is able to begin at 5 PM.
