The Checkmat Minneapolis team traveled to Las Vegas last week for the 2016 American Nationals. Professor Karen Antunes won Gold in both Gi and No - Gi Women's Black Belt Featherweight division! Mayko Araujo took 3rd place in his Men's…
Maggie has been taking classes at The Cellar Gym since November 2015 with the goal of learning self-defense. She is a green belt in karate and a grey/white belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Maggie comes to class almost everyday and…
The Cellar Gym's Nate Richardson and Coach Chris Cichon (along with 4 other Team USA fighters from across the country) traveled to Serbia to compete in a Serbia vs USA Kickboxing event last week. USA had a strong showing and…
This weekend, Saturday, June 25th was The Cellar Gym's bi-annual Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Belt testing. This was the first group belt promotion since Professor Mayko and Karen arrived last year. It was a great event and we had many students…
The Cellar Gym had 11 competitors travel to the largest Muay Thai Touranment in North America,TBA-SA Muay Thai Classic, this last weekend. The team headed down to Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday, June 16th for weigh ins. All the fighters…
Karen Antunes made her way onto the podium at the 2016 IBJJf World Championships last weekend and won the Bronze medal. Karen had tough competition and lost her semi-final match to World Champion, Mackenzie Dern. Their match ended in a…
Congratulations to Tommy Talarico who is The Cellar Gym's "Student of the Week"! Tommy is an Orange belt in karate and wants to be a black belt someday. Tommy is a great listener and always has his hand raised when…
Competition at the 2016 IBJJF World Championships are complete and we are very proud of all our Cellar Gym/CheckMat competitors! This was the first Worlds tournament for many on our team and they did awesome! We won some great matches…
Nate "The Natural" Richards wins his fight via 1st round TKO! Nate was the main event for the Warrior's Xtreme Kickboxing Event on Saturday night and he put on a great show! After multiple knockdowns, his opponents coach threw in…
Antonio Dvorak headlined the Warrior's Xtreme Kickboxing Event last night. He won with a 3rd round TKO! Antonio came out with impressive combinations and landed some devastating leg kicks. He knocked down his opponent several times before the Referee ended…