{"id":7533,"date":"2011-01-19T12:37:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=7533"},"modified":"2015-09-25T13:33:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:33:22","slug":"brock-wrestling-alumnus-achieves-dream-of-fighting-in-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/01\/brock-wrestling-alumnus-achieves-dream-of-fighting-in-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock wrestling alumnus achieves dream of fighting in UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7534\" style=\"width: 496px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7534\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?attachment_id=7534\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7534\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7534   \" title=\"UFC 124: Matthew Riddle and Brock grad, Sean Pierson (BBA '01)\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ufc124-matthew-riddle-sean-pierson.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: MMAJunkie.com\" width=\"486\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UFC 124: Matthew Riddle and Brock grad, Sean Pierson (BBA &#39;01). Photo credit: MMAJunkie.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This past December, Brock Business graduate and former Badgers wrestler, Sean Pierson (BBA \u201901), made his UFC debut at the Bell Centre in Montreal. A Brock Press article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.brockpress.com\/media\/storage\/paper384\/news\/2011\/01\/11\/Sports\/From-Brock.To.The.Ufc-3968203.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">From Brock to the UFC<\/a>&#8216;, \u00a0details the 10-year journey he undertook to get there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>From Brock to the UFC<br \/>\nThe Brock Press<br \/>\nJan. 11, 2011<br \/>\nWritten by Anthony Debartolo<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s December 12, 2010 and Sean Pierson is tired, bruised, and &#8211; as the cuts on his face suggest &#8211; beat-up. Now to some these feelings of utter discomfort would signify meanings of defeat and discontent. However, to 34-year-old Sean Pierson these battle wounds indicate the complete opposite, serving as symbolic reminders that he is finally living-out his boyhood dream.<\/p>\n<p>On December 11, 2010, former Brock graduate Sean Pierson made his Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) debut at UFC 124. Fighting in his first ever UFC tilt, the Toronto native admits that the experience was definitely a nerve-wrenching one.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the article, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.brockpress.com\/media\/storage\/paper384\/news\/2011\/01\/11\/Sports\/From-Brock.To.The.Ufc-3968203.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">brockpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Business graduate and former Badgers wrestler, Sean Pierson (BBA &#8217;01), made his UFC debut at the Bell Centre in Montreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119],"tags":[3333,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7533"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8594,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533\/revisions\/8594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}