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Most people have heard the phrase that culture starts from the top down. Many studies throughout time have proven that culture, which stems from its leadership, touches every aspect of a business. A good culture can have a profound effect a business’s level of success and a negative culture can also be part of a company’s demise.

Culture is often closely associated with employee satisfaction, increased productivity, creativity and more and a positive culture usually translates to a positive influence on the profitability of a company.

For a boxing gym, all of that rings true, but it is much more than that.

Even if the gym has the best trainers in the world, all the latest and greatest in equipment and more, what separates a good gym from a great gym is...

David Delapaz grew up in Vista, CA, and has lived there for his entire 15 years of life. While he played football as a kid, he used to watch muay thai fights with his dad and fell in love with the sport at a very young age. “Muay thai was always so much more interesting to me,” he says, when comparing it to other sports or activities.

He began his training at a very young age (around 4 years old). In terms of the number of fights he has done; it is so many at this point, he lost count a while ago.

Delapaz has a great record thus far—completing and winning in tournaments like the 2019 US Muay Thai Open WEST Championships, the USMTO West 2018 in Phoenix and in 2019, the TBA Classic Muay Thai World Expo. In the later, he beat out a very tough Canadian opponent who went on to win the gold medal in last year’s IFMA Muay Thai Official World Championship...

Born and raised in Chandler, AZ, Keith Eckert did not grow up wanting to be a muay thai fighter. While he always loved boxing as a kid (and watched pay-per-view fights with his family) muay thai wasn’t something he discovered until much later in life.

But that’s not to say he wasn’t extremely athletic. He attended the Naval Academy in Annapolis, where he was a division 1 wrestler. He also played other sports as a kid and eventually started adventure racing and running ultramarathons in 2016.

Eckert’s first was a long run was roughly 50 miles up Santiago Peak in Orange County, CA. From there, he ran multiple 100-mile races in...