About two decades ago, Lee Mein listened to his brother tell him stories
about a trip from Canada to California and the forms of martial arts he
learned there.
Lee, whose son Jordan would one day become a skilled MMA fighter, liked
what he heard. He traveled to California himself to learn these methods
of fighting, and he wanted to bring them to Canada.
The trips resulted in a long-standing Canadian martial-arts gym, a
promotion run by Lee that recently held its 49th show, and two fighting
careers in the Mein family. Jordan now headlines Friday’s theScore Fighting Series event.