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I've been posting blogs by two PA fighters, Derek Leyrer and Jim Hettes, originally posted on MMAMelee, a great MMA social networking site. Leyrer and Hettes spent about a month training Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone. Here's a little teaser video of what's in store on Saturday.

Two PA boys, Jim Hettes from Gracie NEPA in Scranton and Derek Leyrer of the Fight Firm and Balance Studios in Philadelphia are helping Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone prepare for his upcoming WEC fight against Ben Henderson for the interim lightweight championship on Oct. 10. here is their blog on MMA Melee:

Everyone from the Tapout house just got back from our Amarillo road trip over the weekend. Friday we started the trip after meeting up with Skyskrape and Punkass on the tapout bus. The trip was about four hours which wasn't bad cuz cerrone and garcia's bus is pimped out with flat screens, xboxs and what not.

Saturday we woke up and went to the signing right away. It was cool being a part of their entourage watching people's reactions, cool to think of what could be one day. After the signing Saturday afternoon we all headed over to this gym in Amarillo and got it in before we headed to the fights. Funny part of the weekend was the bet between Bobby and Kris over the Michigan, Notre Dame game.. loser drank the six J aka Diesel Full (jimbean, jameson jose, jack, johnny walker, jeager) he was fucked up.

The fights were good there were a bunch of first round knock outs Don Frye got beat the first round... then we headed over to the midnight rodeo and got wrecked everybody was letting loose they had some crazy drink called kryptonite, it got u cross eyed. Sunday we were up again at another signing and back on the road as soon as we were done. All and all it was a great experience a lot of fun and its cool to see how Cowboy and Garcia live but it's good to be back at the house getting ready to train.

------ JHET's Mini Blog

A couple things that derek doesnt tell u guys. First off the funniest part of the weekend was when a couple of people went up to him and thought he was Sean Sherk and asked for an autograph. The fights were great, really good action and after that we went to a badass Honky Tonk bar called the Midnight Rodeo ( o ya its as badass as it sounds). You gotta see Kris McCray cut a rug, all I'm sayin is if fighting doesn't work out for him ( which it will) he has a mean career in professional dancing. His stanky leg is damn near perfected. Overall another great time, Cowboy, Leonard, Punkass and Skrape all walkin throughout the mall with us and made us feel like celebrities. Good to b back, got my ear drained today (Cowboy is a technician with that ) and back to another great week of training.

Leyrer's blog entry for 9/8 from mmamelee.com:
"so today we got two practices in one at greg jacksons gym in the morning and one at albuquerque kickboxing in the afternoon. at greg jacksons we went over footwork most defensive movent and finished off with some rolling. greg jackson himself taught the class and in general he seemed like a really friendly guy. there wre people from all over florida, cali, philly.. etc.. u name it so there is a lot of different talent and technique going through the gym. anyway after that we stopped in at some mexican foodmart which had badass ricemilk.. its funny to see how these guys eat i thought they would all be really rigid with their diet but the really eat whatever they want.. cowboy is impressively over 6 feet tall and weighs 162 at the moment and on top of that still rolls like a beast. most of the rest afternoon was spent relaxing and dicking around on the computer maybe some video games until we headed over to ABQ kickboxing for some for rolling and sparring. it was another great training session we all rolled until we couldnt anymore due to cramps i myself have dropped back down from 187 to 180 since i arrived. the rest of the night got crazy with cauliflower ear abuse, Halo 3 throw downs and mystery drinks (pickle juice, vodka, hot sauces, pepper and i dont know what else) we ended up staying awake till 3ish.. good times."

I was checking out MMA Melee, an MMA social networking site, (originating out of PA, but open to anyone, I'm sure) when I came across some blogs by a guy named Derek Leyrer.

Leyrer, it seems, is helping Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone prepare for his upcoming WEC fight against Ben Henderson for the interim lightweight championship on Oct. 10.

Here's Leyrer's blog from 9/7:
"So it's 11:57pm Saturday in Albuquerque and our second day with Donald Cerrone and his crew. we had a pretty easy day today we slept in later after a late night out with the cowboy. around 5pm we headed over to Albuquerque Kickboxing and rolled some bjj with all the guys. long story short everyone is a great match and there are a lot of hammers here.. im looking forward to some great training.. my last match i rolled with the cowboy and enjoyed the tough roll getting armbarred wasnt too bad either. after an hour and half training session we came back to the house cleaned up and rolled to the movies in the cowboy/tapout bus.. watched gamer (whatever) now we are winding it down and getting ready for tomorrow."