{"id":8103,"date":"2011-02-10T13:35:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T18:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=8103"},"modified":"2015-09-25T13:31:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:31:41","slug":"comedian-ufc-fighter-open-new-on-campus-dollar-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/02\/comedian-ufc-fighter-open-new-on-campus-dollar-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian, UFC fighter open new on-campus dollar store"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8104\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8104\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8104 \" title=\"Sean Pierson\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dollarstore2.jpg\" alt=\"Sean Pierson poses with a student at the dollar store opening.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Pierson poses with a student at the dollar store opening.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An ultimate fighter and the host of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverychannel.ca\/Showpage.aspx?sid=12767\" target=\"_blank\">Cash Cab Canada<\/a> provided brisk business for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.busu.net\" target=\"_blank\">Brock University Students\u2019 Union<\/a>\u2019s official on-campus dollar store opening Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Pierson, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ultimate Fighting Championship<\/a> (UFC) welterweight and Brock graduate, and Adam Growe, host of the Discovery Channel\u2019s Cash Cab Canada, were on hand on Feb. 9 to sign autographs and pose for photos. The General Brock Dollar Store is located in the Thistle complex next to Scotiabank.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot, 170 lb. Pierson graduated from Brock with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 2001. He worked at Dell Computers as an account manager for about nine years before climbing into the ring.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 11, the 34-year-old Pierson (11-4-0 all-time) realized a dream by winning his debut match at UFC 124 in Montreal, after he was called in to replace an injured fighter. The Pickering native will meet American Brian Foster (17-5-0) in UFC 131 on April 30 in Toronto, the first-ever UFC event in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UFC coming to Ontario is huge. It opens up sponsorships and the number of events. It\u2019s just going to explode in the province,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me personally, it means I can finally fight in front of my friends, fans and family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attending Brock as a student athlete set Pierson up for his post-university life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gained a sense of discipline and a strong work ethic while I was here. Wrestling (for the Badgers) set up my UFC career,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Growe, 43, is a Canadian comedian and licensed Toronto cab driver in addition to host of Cash Cab Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople love the unexpected element,\u201d said Growe of the success of the show where unsuspecting people enter the Cash Cab as passengers expecting a normal taxi ride, only to discover they&#8217;re instant contestants on a science-themed game show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey enjoy having the chance to win money with friends. Even winning a few hundred dollars feels like winning a million dollars to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Growe will be back in March (date to be determined) for an evening of standup comedy and trivia games at Isaac&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8105\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8105\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8105 \" title=\"Adam Growe and Sohail Ahmed\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dollarstore.jpg\" alt=\"Adam Growe and Sohail Ahmed\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Growe, left, and Sohail Ahmed, president of the Brock University Students&#39; Union, cut the ribbon on the new store.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ultimate fighter and the host of Cash Cab Canada provided brisk business for the Brock University Students\u2019 Union\u2019s official on-campus dollar store opening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,3,1],"tags":[3333,3327,133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8107,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103\/revisions\/8107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}