Any combat sports fan of a certain age in Ames, Iowa knows who Kyven Gadson is. Any wrestler in Ames, Iowa knows what Myriad Submission Fighting was. Introduce the two, add a flood and you’ve got yourself a vision of a powerhouse MMA gym.
“In 2022, I stepped away from Team USA Wrestling and was looking to keep myself active,” Gadson recalls. “I followed Jake [Bower’s] gym on socials, so I popped over to a class and started doing some rolling. From there me and [Bower] kept communicating, talking about things, then we started having conversations about me coaching wrestling then becoming partners, trying to build out the MMA gym.