Logan Storley and Ryan Bader"I went to school at the University of Minnesota, so I'm going to have a lot of friends and family there again and I'm excited to represent for the Gophers," Storley told MMAweekly.com. "The next day after, they have their first opening (wrestling) dual this season, so it's going be a big weekend for both me and the team, and I'm excited for both of us to get wins."
In sizing up his second opponent Hummel, Storley said, "This is his pro debut, but I think he had 13 amateur fights, so he's coming in there with a lot of experience. Obviously I have to use my wrestling, which I think I have some of the best in MMA, and I'm going to use that to my advantage, but I've been working on my boxing and my hands are getting a lot better.
"I'm just ready to go in there and do whatever I have to do to win the fight."
Marc "the Pummel" Hummel is 7-7 in his amateur MMA career. In analyzing Storley, his first pro opponent, for the Brainerd Dispatch
, Hummel said, "He's new to MMA, but I can game plan for his wrestling. As far as him game planning for me, I like having that unpredictability. I've been doing this a while. I have videos out there of my amateur fights, but it's completely different now that I've started training with (MMA veterans) Brock Larson and Rob Nelson (of Brainerd and Crosslake) a lot more as well as getting much stricter with my diet."
The paper reported that a number of Storley's prospective opponents for RFA 32 backed out when they learned they'd be facing the former Minnesota mat star who was a six-time South Dakota state champ at Webster High School, the same alma mater as Brock Lesnar, NCAA heavyweight champ for the Golden Gophers in 2000 who went on to fame and fortune in both UFC and WWE.
"There's all this national hype that he never got his national championship in wrestling so now he's going for a UFC run," Hummel continued. "He's very early on in his career. He's 1-0, he finished the (first) guy pretty easily. We know he will be strong, we know he will be tough, we're just going to make it our best effort."
Prior to launching his amateur MMA career in 2011, Hummel was a five-sport letterwinner at Pequot Lakes High School in Minnesota, where he wrestled for one season.
The Dispatch reported that the Storley-Hummel match is a swing bout that could be part of a live national broadcast on AXS TV; it will be replayed later that night on Fight Network.
"If (the rest of the fights are) going too quick, then they're going to get our fight on," Hummel explained. "If the fights are going long and they're really good matchups going into the second and third rounds, then they might end up pushing us to the very last fight. That's what a swing bout is. It all depends on how the other fights are going."
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