To know Jose Vega and a commitment to mixed martial arts that has landed
him in the upcoming Bellator Fighting Championships season-three
bantamweight tournament, you have to know Knob Noster, Mo.
The Missouri city is 60 miles east of Kansas City and named for two
hills northeast of town, which are called knobs. The population of about
2,500 lives near a U.S. Air Force base, and Vega describes it as a
quiet, comfortable place to set his roots.
The town that he shortens to “the Knob” when talking about it is his
adopted hometown, and he wants to be successful because of it – not in
spite of it.