The Cellar Gym's brown and black belt athletes competed on Saturday and Sunday at the IBJJF Pan Ams in Irvine, CA. Lemmy Sturua and Dave Margraf both competed on Saturday while Mayko Araujo and Karen Antunes finished up the tournament…
The Cellar Gym and Checkmat Minneapolis had a fantastic showing with 8 competitors at the IBJJF Pan Ams in Irvine, CA this past weekend. Ethan Baumann, Michelle Donovan and Kaitlin Youwer competed on Thursday and Kevin Skadsheim competed on Friday.…
Kelly Block and Brook Kabanuk took part in the Unite and Fight Police, Fire, Emergency Charity Event on Saturday, March 12th. This event was Brook Kabanuk's amateur boxing debut which he won by 2nd round TKO. Kelly Block also had an excellent performance but…
Richard Abraham picked up a huge win Friday night in Chicago, IL when he defeated Poland's Pawel Jedrzejczyk during the Glory Superfight Series at Glory 27. The fight was televised live on UFC Fight Pass and also shown on CBS…
It was a big weekend for our Youth Martial Arts program. Many of our karate students competed in the 2016 Twin cities Rumble tournament located in Andover, MN. Students were able to compete in both form and sparring and faced off against…
It was a big weekend for The Cellar Gym's BJJ competition team as our Head BJJ Coach, Mayko Araujo Borges won Gold at the IBJJF Houston Open, Blue Belt Ethan Baumann took home Silver, and Brown Belt Dave Margraf won…
Pam "Bam" Sorenson improved her professional MMA record to 2-0 on Saturday night when she picked up a big win against Nico Montano from New Mexico. The fight took place at Northern Lights Casino in Walker, MN under the banner…
Congratulations to Nate "The Natural" Richardson on picking up a big win last night at Legacy Fights 51 from the Grand Casino Hinckley! It was a great scrap and an exciting fight for all the fans in attendance and watching…
Pam "Bam" Sorenson wins her professional MMA debut at King of the Cage! Pam controlled all three rounds of action and put on a highly technical display of Muay Thai. Congratulations Pam Bam!
The Cellar Gym/CheckMat Minneapolis is returning home from the IBJJF No-Gi World Championships with Gold and Bronze! This was the very first time The Cellar had sent a team to compete at IBJJF Worlds and it was a great success!…