If you're reading this, you have rawesomeade running through your veins. We've thrown that imaginary product around for over a year now, but there will be a day when you can walk into your local Wal-Mart and pick it up from the energy drink aisle. If Steven Seagal can do it, so can we. Actually, that statement should be: 'If Steven Seagal can do it, there's no way in hell we can do it without accidentally breaking our neck - or have Stevan Seagal intentionally break our neck for thinking we can do what he can do'. That's too long of an idiom to remember, so maybe we'll hold off on introducing 'Rawesomeade' to the beverage market. However, now that MMA is being inserted into Wal-Marts, perhaps it really is time to introduce a drinkable version of 'rawesome' to the American market.

A place called The Center in Oklahoma is now nestled comfortably inside a Wal-Mart, which essentially means you can work on your sprawl while your mother's holiday pictures are being developed in the photography department. While The Center has multiple locations across the country, it appears that their El Reno, Oklahoma establishment is the first mixed martial arts gym that is housed entirely inside of a Wal-Mart. If you're in the area, you can try a class out for free with a promise that 'you'll want to be a member forever'. Here are a few pictures of the establishment via The UG. Let's just hope these guys are using Dollamur Mats.

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+5 # Guest 2011-03-01 11:55

Great for moms - just have the kids watch people beat each other up while they shop. Win-win.

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-1 # aint.that.a.kick.in.the.head 2011-03-02 07:35

Swipe your Wal Mart card moms for more points and savings.

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+13 # This Guy 2011-03-01 11:57

Anyone else think that mma has jumped the shark?

Mc mma gyms now have a corporate sponser.

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+12 # Guest 2011-03-01 12:00

They still have Netzero? wow

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+4 # Guest 2011-03-01 12:55

Yeah, it's only $9.95 a month now.

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+7 # Guest 2011-03-01 12:05

WOW! We don't have to hope, it looks like those actually ARE Dollamur Mats!

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-1 # Cheebo 2011-03-02 03:08

Check the ads at the top of the page.
That was the most shameless plug I've ever experienced Zeus, shame on you >:(

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+10 # Guest 2011-03-01 12:08

the dude in the red TapouT shirt is a cookie-cutter MMA douche at walmart and now has died and gone to heaven. He can talk crap and live off of ding dongs 24/7

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+4 # aint.that.a.kick.in.the.head 2011-03-02 07:38

This is going to be a part of one of those "16 and pregnant" MTV shows where the white trash girlfriend talks about WALLY WORLD and her aspiring fighter baby daddy

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+7 # Guest 2011-03-01 12:14

I'm not from Oklahoma, but I'm stationed there. Yeesh. McDojoisms at their finest.

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+2 # Hambone1981 2011-03-01 12:18

As an Oklahoman(Oklah oma City = slighty less redneck!), I'm not real sure how to feel about this...

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+3 # Dr. Frasier Crane-kick 2011-03-01 12:25

its hard to consider it a MMA gym if you can get a double big mac supersized in the lobby.

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+2 # Guest 2011-03-01 12:33

Ahh these MMA McDojos these days. Always full of out of shape guys in Tapout shirts doing random conditioning drills. I never see any BJJ, Muay Thai, or boxing going on in them.

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+12 # Guest 2011-03-01 12:34

I guess Walmart's new slogan can be "Save money. Live better. Train with tapout douche bags who will try to guillotine you when you have them in side control.

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+10 # Guest 2011-03-01 12:57

Well, if he does, just shoulder (Von Flue) choke him.

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+8 # KidShowtime 2011-03-01 12:35

I was literally saying to myself, 'great.. now fat guys in tapout shirts are going to tell all their friends that they train UFC at Wal-Mart'

and then it happened. Picture #3

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+2 # Guest 2011-03-01 12:39

Even the kid in Pic #3 is wondering what the hell is going on.

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0 # Guest 2011-03-01 12:51

Not the best people to have as examples really, considering they look like flesh coloured bowling balls.

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+2 # Guest 2011-03-01 12:58

According to the thread on the UG, the one dude is Dee Burchfield. His Sherdog fighter page has him at 0-1 for submitting to strikes in only 77 seconds.

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+1 # Guest 2011-03-01 14:55

Someone on the UG thread linked to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwZ9MgkmQyg

If you haven't read the thread on the UG, you should. There is some unscripted comedy gold when Shane Carwin chimes in.

http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/mma.cfm?go=forum.posts&forum=1&thread=1782286&page=5

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+1 # Guest 2011-03-01 12:59

I researched it more (They have a facebook page).

It's as bad, if not worse as it seems. All they are doing is working out with grappling dummies, and striking knockoff wavemasters. The sad thing is the head instructors affiliated are pretty legit (Ricardo FREAKING Liborio for pete sake), but it's like they didn't put things together the right way. Sad really.

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+2 # Guest 2011-03-01 13:22

I live in Oklahoma. Apparently they have their "students" watch training videos instead of actually teaching.

But MMA isn't all bad. We just got an American Top Team gym and Justin Raider trains right down the street from where I live.

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-4 # Guest 2011-03-01 13:22

I meant MMA in Oklahoma isn't all bad.

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+6 # Guest 2011-03-01 13:57

This is disgusting.
Phil B NYBA

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+3 # Guest 2011-03-01 14:52

The best thing about this article is that it follows a post about Black House.

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+3 # Guest 2011-03-01 14:52

Also I'm lucky to live in San Jose because there will never be nothing like this here.

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-3 # Guest 2011-03-01 15:08

*Never be anything

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+9 # Guest 2011-03-01 15:35

I'm going to open up a gym in a pizza place and call it "NYBA's Pizza and punches".
Phil B NYBA

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0 # Guest 2011-03-01 16:13

don't know about this, kinda crazy!

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+2 # boloblack 2011-03-01 16:35

All you hooligan kids better not try and steal from your local Walmarts anymore. I expect that you'll get your ass handed to you by the greeter on your way out.

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+10 # merlin 2011-03-01 17:44

Is this where James Toney learned mma?

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0 # Capone 2011-03-02 07:36

Quoting merlin:

Is this where James Toney learned mma?

Quoting merlin:

Is this where James Toney learned mma?

Only the side check kick and then he had to leave cos he got hungry.

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0 # Guest 2011-03-01 17:54

This will NOT be what Fast and the Furious was to the Import Racing Scene...not gonna happen...side note I hope they teach that kid at the bottom some humbleness...lo oks like he's ready for TUF 40...

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0 # Guest 2011-03-01 18:16

that little kid in the last pic looks pretty alpha

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+5 # Guest 2011-03-01 18:28

Zeus always cracks me up but these comments are making me smile too. The Tapout douche comments are priceless.

Does anyone else think that MMA got completely hosed on style? I mean.. surfers have that laid back beach look, Golfers have decent shirts.. Tennis shorts look hot on women, and even curling has something going on. How did MMA get stuck with skulls, fleur de lys, swords and other whacky shit? We got hosed.

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+2 # Guest 2011-03-02 09:44

Dude, golf pants are the epitome of anti-style.

It could be worse. At least it's not hipsters.

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+1 # Guest 2011-03-01 18:49

You know you're at a world-class gym when fat, bald guys in cargo shorts and hangin' around in their Sports Store special Everlast wanna-be mma gloves.

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+1 # ligeia420 2011-03-01 19:42

These are the future fighters of THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER!!!

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+3 # juice lee 2011-03-01 20:33

I'm not suprised, because in the future (post ufc/wal-mart merger) after they've conquered ever legal business in the world wal-mart will go up against international drug rings and undercut the cartels with their everyday low prices

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+2 # Sambro 2011-03-01 22:42

I hope Walmart becomes the next big MMA promoter.

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+4 # Guest 2011-03-02 09:45

Me too cuz then I could definitely afford cage side seats.

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+1 # dro 2011-03-02 02:58

Being from Oklahoma I would like to say, this doesn't surprise me at all.

This seems like one of the many things Oklahomans would be interested in along with meth-amphetamin e, farm animals getting it on , and hating other races.

This Wal-mart MMA gym will benefit any person who has an interest in any of the above.

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+5 # dro 2011-03-02 03:12

Which reminds me, I think I'm going to go to Texas to train porn at Warmachines gym.

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0 # aint.that.a.kick.in.the.head 2011-03-02 07:34

I dont know where to start with this...

Guy walks into Wal Mart and does a pre class checklist...Tap out shirt check, 5 hour energy drink check, post work out recovery frozen dinner check.

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0 # Guest 2011-03-02 08:52

great, now i can train at the same place I buy my toilet paper and beef jerky :)

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+1 # Guest 2011-03-02 09:24

I'm all for people getting into the sport even if we have to stoop to this. I've seen the Gi time and time again convert tough guy newb douchebags into normal citizens.

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-1 # Guest 2011-03-02 09:32

why not just beat on the greeters and tellers while you're in there....i'm kidding, but seriously training in wal-mart?

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0 # Guest 2011-03-02 12:55

UFC 127 fights up @ http://bit.ly/fdVcWU

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0 # Guest 2011-03-02 14:38

HAHAHA! I love how they wear 5oz gloves for training. Dead give away for a douchebag tough guy newbie who will NEVER come back after sparring

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+1 # Guest 2011-03-02 20:10

Fat guy in the Tapout shirt tells the whole story.

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0 # Guest 2011-03-04 19:33

its just a martial arts school that is renting out available space. I've seen walmarts with banks, nail shops, video stores, restaurants, gamestops, arcades, tanning salons, and a host of other shops. The pics are kinda funny, but w/e. Might be a good way for some kids to get to train.

and i do hope the big boys in the tapout shirts aren't the coaches.

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0 # Guest 2011-03-14 08:01

Who wants a staph infection? Come on down!

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