About
“I have standards to uphold. I didn't come home to be average.”
USMC Sergeant · 0331 Machine Gunner · 3 Afghanistan Deployments
UFC Alumni · Bellator Alumni · Pro Record 15–6
Act One
Kyle enlisted in the Marine Corps out of high school. He served as a 0331 machine gunner with three combat deployments to Afghanistan: 2008 with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment in Helmand Province; 2010 with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit; and again in 2011 and 2013 with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment.
The Helmand deployment cost his unit twenty Marines killed in action.
What he brought home from those tours wasn't a story. It was a standard.
Act Two
Kyle started training MMA between deployments and went pro after leaving the Corps as a Sergeant. He compiled a 15–6 professional record across the UFC, Bellator, and the LFA — seven knockouts, three submissions, two appearances in the UFC octagon, a Bellator card in Paris in 2022.
Twenty-one professional fights teaches you what works under real pressure. It also teaches you what doesn't — which is most of what civilians and even most professionals are taught.
Act Three
Now Kyle teaches what survived. Defensive tactics in Phoenix — for civilians who want skills that hold up under stress, for law-enforcement and security professionals who need techniques drilled the way they're actually used, for corporate teams that need realistic awareness training, and for individuals working one-on-one to build the kind of capability that doesn't disappear the moment the heart rate spikes.
No LARP. No fitness theater. No nine-step techniques that fall apart at full resistance. Just what works.
Lineage
Trained at Arizona Combat Sports (Tempe) and MMA Lab (Glendale). Brown belt instructor in the Marine Corps before turning professional. Currently teaching out of Arizona Combat Sports, Tempe.
