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Hello everyone once again and welcome to the final installment of the Court McGee Ultimate Fight Night 25 Camp Blog and Diary brought to you by the best place on the internet to buy supplements, Feel-It Nutrition.

This week was pretty hectic to say the least but as you all know already, it had a great ending, lol. I am so glad to be able to write this blog post to all of you after a win, it's an amazing feeling especially after going so long without fighting to come out on top and uninjured. My hand held up really well which I was a little worried about but the Pit Master did an amazing job wrapping me up that it felt great and really held up well. I had a great warm up in the dressing room which was really a good environment since I had my teammates Clay Harvison, Jorge Lopez, and Jake Shields all sharing the dressing room with me, it was very comforting and exactly what I needed to focus. The whole night I watched as the guys left the dressing room and came back with their heads down, first Jorge who lost a close one and then Clay who got submitted in the second round, it was tough because I've known these guys for a long time, then it was my turn.

We walked out to the staging area and walked to the cage, I was focused but nervous as well, all the little butterflies came back and those feelings I hadn't felt since last October came back to remind me what it felt like to compete on the biggest stage in MMA. The fight started out a little dull but that's to be expected when both guys have the same game plan to counter punch, only problem with a counter punch game plan is someone has to punch first, but when we decided to punch it got really interesting really quick. I didn't even see the punch that caught me and sent me into the cage, the flying knee that followed didn't even register since I was still dazed from the punch, luckily he pinned me against the cage and I was able to get my wits back a little, at that point I knew I had to do something. I was pretty sure I'd won the first two rounds but with the judging the way it is you never know. I started trying to get him looking up so I could take him down and thats ultimately what did the trick. I threw a few punches and was able to finish my shots and take him down twice, the first one I still wasn't all there but on strictly instinct I finished the shot and mounted, I felt the elbows landing on his face hard before he was able to stand back up. The second takedown was started off a single leg but I was able to drag him down right into a guillotine choke that would have finished him if I had 5 more seconds on the clock. I watched the tape, it wasn't even the choke itself that was doing the damage, it was me pushing his face into my side, he couldn't breath. I thought he tapped and so did Joe Rogan but coming out with a win after a long layoff with no major injuries is good enough for me, but Fight of the Night Bonus would have been nice though, lol.

Well everyone, if you've been following this blog all camp I'm sorry to say this is the last one for a week or so but I think I earned a little vacation so I'm going to take it.

Thank you again to Jim Pizner, Sonie Giesen, Alex Alleman, and everyone at Feel-It Nutrition for making not only my recovery possible but for making this win possible as well, I couldn't have done it without you all and like I said, this win was for you.

Court "The Crusher" McGee.

Hello and welcome once again everybody to the Official Court McGee Training Camp Blog and Diary brought to you by the Presidents of Protein, the Duke of the Diet, the Sultan of Supplements, Feel-It Nutrition!

This week has been hectic to say the least but it's also been a great reminder of why I missed it so much while I was hurt. The buzz surrounding fight week is electric, it's really very exciting. There is so much going on and so many people around it's hard to contain your excitement, the actual event contains it's own excitement but the days leading up to it are just as action filled.

I arrived in New Orleans on Tuesday and really didn't do to much since that day is usually dedicated to travel so there isn't anything scheduled for that day but I think it's one of the best days of the week, it's an opportunity to greet the other fighters and camps in the same way you'd greet an old friend you haven't seen in a while, it's a great day for getting that camaraderie back after being gone for so long.

Thursday we had the open work out which was really cool, I hit mitts with my coach John John Hackleman which was cool, did a bunch of interviews and stuff but the really cool thing was where they held the open work outs. The place is called the New Orleans Health Club, it's the longest standing gym in the United States, it's been there since the 1800's.

Friday was the weigh in's and thanks to my awesome sponsors at Sweet Sweat and Feel-It Nutrition I made weight no problem and actually for the second time, came in under, 184 1/2. The weigh in's were awesome! I've been hanging out with my teammates mostly, Jake Shields, Gilbert Melendez, Clay Harvison, Danny Gunn, and of course our coaches John Hackleman, Jason Mertlich, and Tariq Azim. The weigh in's finished up great and everyone made weight so that was good, now it's fight day an I'm feeling more ready then I ever have. A lot of people forget that my son was born 3 weeks before my last fight and was in the New Born ICU for weeks after so my focus wasn't there as much as I would have liked, add to that my knees were not surgically repaired yet, I was not exactly at 100% but thats why this fight I feel even better.

I will be back tomorrow to share with you the results and my thought on the fight no matter what the outcome so please be sure and check back here tomorrow for more recounts of the days events, wish me luck!

Thank you so much once again to my incredibly supportive sponsor Feel-It Nutrition for supporting me for the past year, I could not have made it through the time I was injured without you, this fight is for you Jim, Sonie, Alex and the rest of the crew who has been with me through the good times and the bad, you are all great people.

Hey everyone and welcome once again to the official Court McGee training blog and fight camp diary brought to you by The Sultans of Supplements Feel-It Nutrition! (see what I did there)

I arrived in New Orleans yesterday with my coaches eager to get this week started, fight week is really exciting especially this one since it's been so long since I was a part of one. It was everything I remembered walking into the lobby of the hotel, running into other fighters that I hadn't seen in a long time, talking shop and stuff, it's really cool to get back into the swing of things and the commraderie is one of the things I missed the most.

After that it was all settling in and checking my weight, which is awesome by the way thanks to Sweet Sweat and the awesome supplements I get at Feel-It Nutrition, I think thats one of the biggest points I always try to make, not only do I endorse the products, but do actually use them. I've always had a line drawn in the sand when it came to endorsing products, if I don't use it or if it's something I don't believe in then I won't tell other people that I have or that I do, thats why I believe I'm so blessed to have
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I've also been doing tons of interviews already this week, it's funny because after I won the show I was doing interviews for months then I was booked to fight not long after so the interviews and opportunities really never stopped, that was of course until after the fight and I broke my hand, then they all stopped for nearly 8 months. It's funny how quickly things come and go.

Thats all I have time for this time but watch as the days get closer to the fight, I'll be posting more often and make sure to keep everyone posted on whats going on.

Thanks again for reading everyone and thanks again to my awesomely supportive sponsor Feel-It Nutrition for supporting me for the past 8 months during my injury, this fight is for you.

Hello and welcome once again to the Court McGee training blog and Training Camp Diary brought to you by the greatest online location to buy the best supplements available Feel-It Nutrition!

Today was another great day of training but busy busy busy as the Pit Master has shown up to help me out through my last week of camp. I love it when Hackleman comes out to Utah to train me himself while I'm getting ready, he's really the perfect combination of levity and hard training which is cool. He makes the workouts fun and funny but tough as can be. One of the other things I love about him is he doesn't expect us to do anything he wouldn't jump in and do himself, at 51 years old that's something you don't see very often, my agent is 34 and he gets tired just watching us! He's a little bit overweight, oh who am I kidding, A LOTTA bit!

I am taking the time in between work outs to write this today because I wanted to say a little about a person who has become a great training partner and teammate and always seems to get a bad wrap and for the life of me I cannot understand why, Nick Diaz.

I've known Nick for a while now and the one thing I can say about him is he is the definition of tough, gritty, hard working, and an all around good person, that's why I cant stand to see people say bad things about him or about his attitude or that he doesn't show up to press conferences or whatever, the guys is a great friend and teammate and he has always been nice to everyone we've run into or trained with. The one thing I can say about Nick is that the public perception of him is so far from the true Nick Diaz I know that it's not even funny. He's a great person and a great friend and I wish him the best of luck with this whole situation.

Thanks again everyone for reading my training blog, I'm of to my second training session of the day!

Thank you again for reading everyone and be sure to buy your supplements at Feel-It Nutrition so we can hang out at my fight!

Hello again everyone and thanks again for checking out my official training blog and camp diary brought to you by the Sultan of Supplements, Feel-It Nutrition! Remember some luck winner is going to get 2 free tickets to Ultimate Fight Night 25 in New Orleans Louisiana for my fight! Your automatically entered every time you buy supplements from at Feel-It Nutrition.

Labor Day is a great time of year in Utah, the weather is beautiful, perfect for all of the great outdoor activities available to the people in Utah, camping, boating, fishing, getting punched in the face....well, maybe that's just an activity that my teammates and I enjoy.

While the 3 day weekend usually signals everyone to relax for a few days, unfortunately my job doesn't allow me the same luxury. This week is my last before I stop all of my contact drills and sparring and focus solely on my conditioning so I am really trying to make them count. I'm working really hard and with tons of sparring and cross pit workouts and also pushing the dreaded prowler which for those of you that don't know is a weighted sled that is probably the most dreaded thing I have to do every workout.

I can say one thing though, I feel better then I ever have before, the last time I felt like this was befor my fight with Kris McCray, I didn't even feel this good before my last fight with Ryan Jensen. That fight was a little different though, my son crew was only 2 weeks old and had spent every minute since his birth in the New Born ICU. My focus wasn't there leading up to that fight but I was able to push through and come out on top. I'm really anxious for this fight though, mostly because it will be my first time fighting since my knee was repaired and man does it feel better, it feels better then it did before I got hurt so I'm even more excited to see what I can do now that I'm at 100%.

I'll be off to New Orleans next week for the first time in my life, my family is coming with me which makes this time special to me. I have so little time to spend with my wife and my boys during camp, it's an even bigger reward for me to have the time to spend with them after the fight, they are the reason why I subject myself to this torture in the first place.

Thank you again to all of you for reading my training diary and for supporting me and Feel-It Nutrition, we all appreciate it very much and thank you for being the best fans in the world.

Hello everyone and welcome back to my Official Training Blog and Camp Diary brought to you by the most amazing sponsor in MMA, Feel-It Nutrition! Be sure and check back regularly for updated posts and be sure to pick up your supplements on Feel-It Nutrition.com because every purchase gives you the opportunity to win 2 tickets to my fight September 17th!

The last 24 hours have been really weird, not for me so much but for one of my teammates, Clay Harvison. You may have heard by now but his opponent DeMarques Johnson has had to pull out of the fight due to injury, a problem that I've caused a few people of late.

I feel bad for Clay and any fighter who has to go through a last minute change like this, it's never a good thing. You spend countless hours training and game planning and watching tape just to get a call out of nowhere saying that it was all for nothing, it's a little heartbreaking at first but injuries are an unfortunate and all to often reality we're all faced with in this industry, I mean look at me, I went through one stretch in my career where I fought 7 times in 12 months to being out for nearly a year.

In this instance it was even more strange in that his replacement is someone who I also fought before, Seth Basczynski. Seth and I were on the same season of TUF and we actually fought to get into the house. I'm happy to see Seth, who I remained friends with after the show, get his chance but it's a little bitter sweet to have it be against one of my training partners and team mates. I'll wish the both of them the best in this fight since that's all I can do as a friend of both, I'm sure it's going to be an awesome fight.

Training is wrapping up and we're in the last few days of hard training before I start to switch to recovery mode and stop the contact drills so I don't get injured in the last few days. This is where the conditioning training and the repetition drills take center stage which is good because that's where I think I always have an advantage, that and I feel better then I did before my last fight which is a good sign.

Thanks everyone for reading my training blog again, be sure and enter to win the tickets and hopefully I'll see you in New Orleans! Thanks again to Feel-It Nutrition for all their support not only through this camp but throughout the time that I've been lucky enough to have them on my side. They really are more then a sponsor to me, this fight is for them for being so patient and supportive!

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the Court McGee Training blog brought to you by my awesome kick ass sponsor Feel-It Nutrition! Be sure and enter to win two tickets to my fight September 17th in New Orleans! Every purchase from now until then is a chance to win!

Great training, great nutrition, and hard focus are what makes a great training camp but the thing that is always the most important in a camp, training partners. If you don't have top level opponents to train with on a daily basis then your not really challenging yourself, it's so important to have great training partners that I think it's probably the most important thing in an entire camp and I consider myself very luck to have great fighters to train with every day like Ramsey Nijem, Clay Harvison, Brock Jardine, and the rest of The Pit Elevated Fight Team. They are a big reason for the successes I've had in my career.

They have been beating me up non stop since camp started which is great, now it's just a matter of taking all of that out on my opponent September 17th, I'm more then ready to do it too. After going so long without a fight to say I'm itching to get back in there is an understatement.

Every day while I was recovering from my broken hand I was constantly presented with little nuances of the process that I didn't know I enjoyed until they were gone, the process of getting my focus, the taping up my hands extra tight because I'm in camp and going hard every minute, the simple camaraderie with my teammates after we spent 2 hours beating each other senseless, it may sound crazy to people reading this but even the pain and anguish of training hard every day becomes something you long for when you cant have it for a time. Working out, eating right, and supplementation are all a part of my life now, part of my job, I thank god for every day he gives me the opportunity to better myself and improve my families place in the world.

Thank you again everyone for reading my training blog/diary, and a big thanks to Feel-It Nutrition for giving me the opportunity to share this with you, i consider it a real honor to talk with you all on the regular.

Check back soon as I will be writing at least 3 times per week leading up to the fight!

Hey everyone, I'm excited to write to you today in another installment of the Court McGee Training Camp Blog brought to you by Feel-It Nutrition.

Training has been going really well so far, lots of tough training and sparring but I'm loving every minute of it. You never realize how much you love the actual training part until you can't do it for a while. It wasn't easy for me to take so much time off especially after fighting 7 times in a year at one stretch, training has become a huge part of my life so much so that it became my job.

The boys are looking great so far, one of my training partners Clay Harvison will be fighting the same night with me, he's actually fighting someone I know very well because I fought him as well, DeMarques Johnson. Clay is tough and this fight is going to be a good one to watch, I can't wait. I don't know what I like more, fighting myself or watching the guys who I train with fight, even though they're similar, the feelings they bring to bare couldn't be more different. When I'm fighting I don't think about the training or how many people are watching or the pressure that comes from fighting in the UFC, I'm reacting more then anything. But when one of my teammates fights I get more in to it because I can see what their doing because of my viewpoint and I sometimes forget that they cant and I get frustrated because I want them to succeed, it's good to see them win but until they actually do, I'm a wreck.

One of the most important days in my families short history happened today, it was awesome! I took my son Isaac to his first day of preschool! He's growing so fast I can't believe it sometimes. I spoke to my agent Gary before I dropped him off and he said the same thing, "It seems like only yesterday I was dropping my daughter at her first day of preschool, she just started 3rd grade this past Wednesday" Where does the time go.

While the time flies by I cant help but think "Thank God I'm here to see these milestones", to experience and be a part of these important times in my families lives. I have to thank the UFC and my sponsors for supporting me in my career, especially when I think about how I could be installing a shower in someones house or snaking a toilet right now if it hadn't been for them. For those of you that don't know, I was a plumber before I was cast on the Ultimate Fighter.

Well thats all I have for today, I'll be sure and write back tomorrow since we've got some team mates fighting in Vegas, I can't wait to see how they do.

Thanks again everyone for reading my blog everyone and thanks again to Feel-It Nutrition for all their support.

Welcome everyone to my first installment of my training blog around my Ultimate Fight Night 25 fight with Dong Yi Yang. I am going to be updating it on the regular to keep everyone up on what I'm doing as far as my training, strength and conditioning, and of course nutrition. Thanks to Feel-It Nutrition I'm able to bring this to you all, I really appreciate the opportunity I have been given to share with you all whats going on with me.

As far as it goes currently I'm almost completely finished with my medical requirements, as some of you may know the process of getting the medicals is lengthy but necessary and I'm taking my last test today, the dreaded eye exam but after that I should be good to go for September 17th. It's been really good to have all of my training partners in town to help me out for this event, Brock Jardine, Clay Harvison, Ramsey Nijem, and of course my awesome teammates at the Pit in San Luis Obispo.

I'll be updating the blog again in the next day or two so keep checking back to see what me and the team are up to.

Thanks for reading everyone, and thanks to my awesome sponsors, Sweet Sweat, EFX Performance, Tapout, Affliction, Revgear, The Gun Store, Rev Wheels, Flagship Financial, and Feel It Nutrition.

Hi again everybody, and thanks for coming back to read my new blog post. Some really exciting things have been happening of late and I'm happy that my amazingly supportive sponsor Feel-It Nutrition provides me the opportunity to bring it to you! If your not getting your supplements from Feel-It Nutrition then your not Feeling It! lol.

Great week of training for me and the guys on the team, our coach and friend, the world famous Pit Master John Hackleman has been here getting me ready for my fight with Dong Yi Yang September 17th at UFC Fight Night 25 in New Orleans, you might have seen the commercials that Bud Light has been doing about it.

I'm really happy to have him here with us, everyone loves him because he's hilarious and a really outgoing person but also a really great coach and technical trainer, he's been able to turn the lessons on how to create punching power in small areas and how to avoid take downs into an art form, just look at Chuck Liddell and you would have to agree. We've created a really good relationship with John, not the typical coach / students relationship, we've really connected with John really quickly, me, Ramsey, Brock, even Jason our head coach, we've all taken to John like you wouldn't believe. He truly is a great person, a great coach, and a great friend and mentor. Here's a pic of us the other day at practice.

We were able to get his room finished in time also, one of the rooms in our new house was designated before we even moved in as "The Pit Masters Lair", it even says so on the door.

I mentioned a little about this last week before the rush came but at this point it's been all over the place and I'm glad but a little worried at the same time. As you may have heard or seen, the ESPN story about my teammate Rad Martinez started airing and the response has been really positive for Rad, there has been a huge outpouring of support for Rad and tons of media coverage around him lately, he was even able to parlay this into a contract with Bellator where he'll enter into a stacked Featherweight division. Bellator has some of the best 145Lb fighters in the world like Marlon Sandro, Ronnie Mann, Pat Curran and Joe Warren, tough competitors in a stacked division. It may seem like a case of "Too much too fast" but Rad is tough, I'm sure the people helping him make the decisions are looking out for him and they only have his best interests in mind, I'm sure he'll do well and I support him 100%.

Check back and see whats going on with me and the boys and more cool promotions we're going to be doing as my fight gets closer. Take care everyone and thanks again to Feel-It Nutrition for their great support!