“I started muay thai at 6 years old at Master Sken’s in Stockport” explains Menga, “My mum took me and we had to get two buses from Salford to Stockport, twice a week for classes and I had loads of junior interclubs all padded with with massive gloves on.” So how did a small kid from inner city Salford, the grandson of a famous Italian Opera Singer no less, end up with a perfect pro MMA record after 11 fights and his eyes focused firmly on the UFC? Manchester Muay Thai Early YearsĦ year old Champion in the making Pietro Menga with Master Sken Kaewpadung I would get smashed up and down the mat off guys twice my weight every session, it was pretty tough.” Most of my training at Atherton wasn’t that enjoyable. I became mentally very tough training with these guys. Coach Darren Morris would invite me to train with them and would go in for one of his fresh rounds, striking only, the downside was I got hit by some of those big right hands often. “I used to spar with Cahoon because I had good stand up. “I didn't even know it was MMA, I only realised it was this MMA thing when I saw Paul on the TV knock out Elivs Sinosic with a massive right cross on Cage Rage,” explains the Salford flyweight.īefore that he just saw it all as “training”, admits Menga who still owns the familiar yellow Cage Rage MMA gloves Cahoon used that night. When most 16 years olds are playing football in school, Pietro Menga was regularly sparring with big hitting KO merchant Paul “Boom Boom” Cahoon at Atherton Submission Wrestling. The 26 year old rising star of the UK MMA Pietro ‘Pitbull' Menga now wants a piece of the UFC action and after 18 years of training and competing has his goals set firmly on the Flyweight division of the biggest promotion in MMA. Menga hunted for the sub throughout which eluded him this time against the tough Bulgarian and it went to the judges for a unanimous points win. This time the Bulgarian found too tough a test in the Salford Pitbull, and was already looking beat up after the first round and almost getting himself KO’d with a knee to the jaw from Menga in the second. Kichukov was 13-1 before his clash with Menga, winning his last 7 fights in a row with the last 6 of these not going the distance. Its three days since winning the FCC European Flyweight Belt defeating the top ranked BULGARIAN Sotir Kichukov at another packed FCC event at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton England. Pietro Menga - The Making of a Mixed Martial Artist Can Flyweight MMA Fighter Pietro Menga be the next big thing? We look back on 18 years of Martial Arts Training and finds the “Pitbull” was training in MMA for years without even realising it. Half Italian half English and born and raised in Salford, England.
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