John “The Mulatto Mauler” Malhow

Posted at Monday, August 18th, 2008 By: WildFury
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Mahlow Strikes a Knee to the Chest

Mahlow Strikes a Knee to the Chest

A couple of weeks ago I went to Back Alley Brawl (a Left Hook Production) and met XTREME FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP’S Lightweight Champion John Malhow. Malhow was gracious enough to let me have an interview with him the following week.

Twenty eight year old John Malhow is a native of Detroit, Michigan. He currently lives in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Since moving to Ft. Lauderdale, John is training with American Top Team.

John started training in Jiujitsu at the age of nineteen with a Machado Jiujitsu affiliate east west martial arts. He then went on to train with Team Mash and UFC/ Pride fighter James Lee. One year later at the age of twenty, Malhow was fighting at the pro level. He would fight in venues such as King Of The Cage, Gladiators Challenge and many more.

John took a two year layoff after sustaining an orbital injury. The doctors suggested that he shouldn’t fight anymore so he moved to St. Augustine Florida to get away. Malhow did a little bit of training and teaching as well when he stayed in St. Augustine. The competitive fire never left John. As matter of fact, the itch to compete had returned to John and it was driving him crazy. John decided to go to Jacksonville and have his eye checked out by a specialist. The specialist said his eye was fine and there was no reason he shouldn’t be fighting. John worked his way in slowly by competing in amateur events. A few months later he was back in the MMA scene.

I asked John what made him get into the Mixed Martial Arts. Malhow said he was the kid in school who got tossed into the lockers and garbage cans. He went to Blockbuster and rented tapes of UFC fights. Back then Royce Gracie was the Champion. John was amazed how Gracie dominated every challenger no matter how big the opponent was. Jon decided to take up Jiu-Jitsu. His days of getting thrown into lockers and garbage cans were over.

John won the XFC lightweight championship open title from Eben Oroz on June 28th at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa FL. I asked John who would he like to fight next. His answer was Mark Bocheck. John fought Bocheck a while ago in Canada. He took the fight in just a two weeks notice. He did not prepare himself properly for the fight. John also did not realize Bocheck was a phenomenal fighter. He went into the fight blindly not knowing anything about Bocheck and got beaten badly. Now that John is training with American Top Team he feels he is at a higher level and will have by far, a better fight against top fighters like Mark Bocheck.

I asked John what he thought about amateur MMA coming to Florida. He thinks it’s great as long as they regulate it correctly and the right people run the program.

When John is not training or fighting he enjoys snorkeling and motorcycle riding.

John’s future plans besides fighting is to become a police officer. He will be enrolling into the police academy in February.
John wants to stress, especially to the young crowd, that just because you know how to do an arm bar and wear a tap out shirt doesn’t mean you are an MMA fighter. You have to train hard, have a lot of heart, and give one hundred and ten percent. You need to give it your all even when you are in the worst case scenario. An example that John gives is kids stealing at Walmart while wearing MMA apparel. That is sending the wrong message and giving Mixed Martial Arts a bad image.

If you would like to visit John you can visit him at American Top Team of Sunrise. 5357 Nob Hill Road Sunrise, FL 33351 or you can log on to www.attwolfpack.com .

John will also be at the Dania Card show at Dania Jai-Alai on Sunday September 7, 2008 from 1:00 P:M to 3:00 P:M. Besides signing autographs, John will be conducting a thirty minute seminar. For more information call (954) 696-5774 or log on to www.daniascardshow.com .

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