![]() When most 16 years olds are playing football in school, Pietro Menga was regularly sparring with big hitting KO merchant Paul “Boom Boom” Cahoon at Atherton Submission Wrestling. The 26 year old rising star of the UK MMA Pietro ‘Pitbull' Menga now wants a piece of the UFC action and after 18 years of training and competing has his goals set firmly on the Flyweight division of the biggest promotion in MMA. Menga hunted for the sub throughout which eluded him this time against the tough Bulgarian and it went to the judges for a unanimous points win. ![]() This time the Bulgarian found too tough a test in the Salford Pitbull, and was already looking beat up after the first round and almost getting himself KO’d with a knee to the jaw from Menga in the second. Kichukov was 13-1 before his clash with Menga, winning his last 7 fights in a row with the last 6 of these not going the distance. Its three days since winning the FCC European Flyweight Belt defeating the top ranked BULGARIAN Sotir Kichukov at another packed FCC event at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton England. ![]() Pietro Menga - The Making of a Mixed Martial Artist Can Flyweight MMA Fighter Pietro Menga be the next big thing? We look back on 18 years of Martial Arts Training and finds the “Pitbull” was training in MMA for years without even realising it. Half Italian half English and born and raised in Salford, England.
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