{"id":389481,"date":"2010-03-04T16:20:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-225907:1"},"modified":"2010-03-04T16:20:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:20:13","slug":"baseball-player-jayson-werth-also-beard-owner-and-mma-promoter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/389481","title":{"rendered":"Baseball player Jayson Werth also beard-owner and MMA promoter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"8\" src=\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_mma_experts__17\/ept_sports_mma_experts-526846811-1267737298.jpg?ymSbbxCDwqhIxdgG\" \/>It turns out that Shane Victorino isn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/blog\/cagewriter\/post\/The-biggest-UFC-fan-in-Philly-is-a-Phillie?urn=mma,180662\" >the only member<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/phi\/\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> to get involved with MMA. Jayson Werth <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/blog\/big_league_stew\/post\/Answer-Man-Jayson-Werth-talks-heritage-MMA-and?urn=mlb,225833\" >told Yahoo! Sports&#8217; own Dave Brown<\/a> that he owns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalcitycagewars.com\/\" >Capital City Cage Wars<\/a>, a promotion out of central Illinois.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>JW: I actually have a very small, modest company back home and we put on pro and amateur MMA fights. Capital City Cage Wars. It&#8217;s a couple years old. It&#8217;s a minor success. It&#8217;s more for entertainment purposes.<\/p>\n<p>DB: Wait &#8230; your own your personal MMA minor league?<\/p>\n<p>JW: We&#8217;ve got a large venue &mdash; we bring upwards of 2,000 people. We have two or three fighters already in the UFC (including Matt Hughes, a nine-time World Welterweight Champion). It&#8217;s actually really cool, because I don&#8217;t have to go anywhere to see MMA, UFC-style fights. I can watch them, basically, in my back yard. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With Werth&#8217;s schedule, it might be difficult to get to many bouts, so why not go ahead and buy a promotion? He made it to UFC 101, which started<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/blog\/cagewriter\/post\/Phillies-will-hustle-over-after-their-game-versu?urn=mma,181670\" > not long after a game ended for the Phillies,<\/a> but having your own MMA promotion makes things much more convenient.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Shane Victorino isn&#8217;t the only member of the Philadelphia Phillies to get involved with MMA. Jayson Werth told Yahoo! Sports&#8217; own Dave Brown that he owns Capital City Cage Wars, a promotion out of central Illinois. JW: I actually have a very small, modest company back home and we put on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}