Hanger Games

Hangry (han-gree) adj. a state of anger caused by lack of food; hunger causing a negative change in emotional state. I’m J.R. and this is my fight fam. A look into the real life of local MMA fighters in the Midwest and our crazy lives.

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Behind the Scenes Video clips of Midwest Championship Fighting 9 St Paddy's Beatdown.  J.R. traveled out to North Platte with MMA fighters Dwight Joseph and Justin Weaver to watch them both compete for a title belt at the D&N Event Center. We all got a kick out of watching Kolby Howell and Ryan MacDonald take their infamous selfie at weigh ins.  Dwight found a great restaurant on yelp for us to eat at post weigh ins called Baileys where we ran into my previous manager from Wilderness Ridge, David Berry and didn't realize it was his restaurant. We enjoyed an amazing meal and great service.  We had some fun grocery shopping and visiting Jordan and Crystal Vigil at Da Buzz coffee shop in the mall and checked out their clothing line Operation Clothing.  We took home two belts Sunday! Sorry I forgot to turn my ipad and film landscape! Duh. Rookie mistake haha

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Interview with Amateur Boxer Mitch Mundell training out of Menefee's Boxing Club.

Ok so OBVIOUSLY I'm an amateur at this blog, video and editing thing so I apologize off the start for the background noise and my terrible editing skills, but I loved Mitch's story, his personality, and the rawness of the interview, so I had to post it. I filmed on my ipad, so I had no audio equipment and had a lot of technical difficulties, it's quieter at first but gets louder, so bare with me and I hope you enjoy his story.  

I met Mitch through MMA fighter Nathan Maas and just the few things I heard from him had me interested in who he was. There was something I was instantly drawn to, thinking this guy must have an interesting story.  I sat down with him at Menefee's Boxing Club where he is training for his first Amateur boxing match to get his story. 

This is the very short version as the interview was an hour long.  Turns out Mitch is a great talker! I will be posting more videos from the interview along with the full version as there's a lot of great content to share.  Next time I'll film without the background noise, and I had to edit quite a bit to get the first video short but wanted to get it posted.  Thanks for checking it out.

Mitch talks about his first introduction to MMA and boxing, living in California, his surf competition in Hawaii, working with his peers at Unrivaled Sports Performance, turning a new page in life, the technical aspects of fighting, breaking his bad street fighting habits, working with Tony Menefee, and his upcoming first amateur boxing match. 

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Here is the finished music video for "Destination Anywhere" by Emeka filmed by Dry Rain Films featuring MMA fighters Justin Weaver and Nathan Maas and Nebraska Knockout J.R.

What happens on a Tuesday night in Lincoln? I get a text message from Kriha saying he could use a fighter for some scenes for a music video and of course Justin Weaver knows how to roll with the punches so to speak. So here we are filming on Wednesday night at Menefee's Boxing Club.   

Justin plays the "fighter that gets clean" role (bless his heart for letting me throw him into things to help out my friends) I even got a small role as "the girlfriend" (this must be my destined music video role lol) Oh and thanks to Tower Robinson for letting us interrupt his Dexter viewing to shoot at their house too. Nathan Maas is featured as well and coordinated us filming at Tony Menefee's boxing gym. I enjoyed getting to briefly meet Emeka Nwankwo the artist behind it all, he seemed really down to earth and suggested some filming area at Parrish studios so you'll get to see some local art work as well. I think this piece is Ben Jones?? Ben can you confirm? This was fun getting to collaborate on and I love working under last minute pressure, things come together well. Great job by Justin Wieczorek and James Michael Kriha of filming and directing, I think they'll be a great team. We had fun laughing about Justin snorting the powdered sugar they brought over. You know Nebraska holds some great talent, and the great thing about this state is you get to be unique and do things your way and stay true to your roots while chasing your dream. Support your local talent any way you can. Please check into Dry Rain Films for your filming needs.  I met James Kriha through the modeling network and did a photo shoot with him and instantly became a fan of not only his quirky personality but amazing talent. We collaborated on gathering people together for the Uprise Brand video.  He has done numerous music videos for Lincoln's local talent Trev Taylor.

Justin Weaver was training for an upcoming Amateur Lightweight title fight against Anthony Cox at Midwest Championship Fighting (MCF9) March 15th in North Platte, Nebraska at the D & N Center, which he won the belt.

Nathan Maas was training for his upcoming fight against Grant Dawson at Resurrection Fighting Alliance (RFA) at Pershing Center in Lincoln, Nebraska March 7th.  Some of the fights were televised nationally on AXS TV. He lost but is training for his next fight.

Special thanks to Tony Menefee for allowing us to film at his Boxing Gym

Menefee's Boxing Club

Emeka's Music page

Justin Magnum Weaver

J.R. Henggeler

Dry Rain Films

James Kriha

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More photos from behind the scenes of filming "Destination Anywhere" music video with Kriha Productions

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I'm J.R. and this is my fight fam. A look into the real life of local MMA fighters in the Midwest and our crazy lives.

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Behind the Scenes Shots from the filming of "Destination Anywhere" music video.