All Elbows caught up with “Mayhem” Miller during his training for the upcoming Strikeforce Middleweight Title fight versus Jake Shields in Chicago this Saturday (on CBS!). Miller has spent a lot of time in the spotlight for Bully Beatdown on MTV and perhaps a lot of fans forgot he is a real MMA fighter too. Mayhem discusses that and how this fight is the most important of his career, culminating after ten years of training and mental preparation.
UFC being in LA derailed our plans (as well as a giant hard drive failure) for bigger things but we hope you enjoy this little insight into Jason “Mayhem” Miller’s preparation for the Strikeforce Middleweight Belt. Don’t forget to tune in Saturday night on CBS for some amazing and free MMA.
Credits:
Shot & Cut by E. Casey Leydon
Music: “Pilgrim” by Mean Season
Thanks to Indecision Records
Title graphic & photo by Esther Lin
**Also, many many apologies to Jake Shields, whom we shot photos and videos of and edited this awesome piece to hype up his side of this title match on CBS. However, as I’d mentioned in a few other posts, we had a catastrophic RAID failure taking all of our footage (years of work) with it. Casey filmed Mayhem after the data crash and we were lucky to find a bit of Jake Shields footage sitting on a drive we use to move files. However, it’s pretty unfair we were unable to make an awesome video for Jake, especially since the Gracie Academy was kind enough to let us shoot on their premises and Jake lent us his valuable training time for an interview. So, we here at All Elbows would like to apologize, and as soon as we come up with the cash to get our drive out of the repair shop (repair will be two weeks, bummer), we hope to post something — or use it for another bout. We also lost a completed piece we did with Brett Rogers that had yet to be uploaded, so it’s been a sad sad time for us.
Kam Kaimuloa
I am constantly amazed by the quality of the videos Casey pumps out. Well done. I want more of Mo.
Nov 02, 2009 @ 12:36 pm
Emma May
Fantastic video, Casey!
Really sorry about the technological implosion. That must have sucked so bad! ;(
Nov 02, 2009 @ 3:33 pm
Aidan
loved the “man on fire” quote. Mayhem is about to paint his masterpiece.
Nov 02, 2009 @ 3:42 pm
Jessica
Sad indeed. Sorry for your loss. But…rad video. Besos.
Nov 02, 2009 @ 7:17 pm
Kevin Vickers
Great work, as always guys! I absolutely love the style you guys bring to the sport. Truly inspiring.
Sucks about the hardware, nothing can be more disheartening than losing all of your hard work like that.
Nov 02, 2009 @ 10:20 pm
Narcisist
Always great work as usual, I was glad to find Esther on Twitter the other day. We always look forward to seeing your pictures, they are awesome.
Nov 02, 2009 @ 10:59 pm
Phantom Street Artist
Jake Sheilds is one of the greatest threats of the MMA world, Few know how dedicated he is to the sport in representing a great fight athlete. He deserves all the media recognition and great production value that All Elbows, Casey and Esther respectively produce!!
Much props!!
Nov 03, 2009 @ 8:37 am
Becca
Great piece! Fantastic job. This fight is bigger than the headliner for me.
Nov 03, 2009 @ 10:48 am
Chris
Excellent video!!!!
Nov 03, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
lily
Excellent video!!!! Mayhem is about to paint his masterpiece.
Nov 05, 2009 @ 11:34 am
Laura
Excellent video!!!! Mayhem is about to paint his masterpiece all over Jake Sheilds.
Nov 05, 2009 @ 11:36 am