Legacy Fighting Championships middleweight titleholder Andrew Craig had a football background in a football state – without even a wrestling team at his Texas high school – when a close cousin traveled to Brazil to learn jiu-jitsu.
The cousin returned well-trained and looking to teach. He set up in his garage, grabbed about 10 students and began an enterprise that is now housed in two several-thousand-square-foot facilities.
In the early days, Craig was a beginning student, and his cousin, Travis Tooke, was a beginning teacher. It was, at first, miserable.