A large driving force for stepping into the cage was raising money for the Stroke Association, after the impact of his mother’s stroke.<\/p>\n
“She didn’t get anywhere near enough help. With her being a single parent, we all had to get separated,” Shaw said.<\/p>\n
“My younger brother and sister went into foster care and I ended up in residential care because I was being naughty, so I was classed as high risk.”<\/p>\n
Seven years later, Shaw said his mother had still not fully recovered.<\/p>\n
“There’s still an issue with her one leg and her arm,” he said.<\/p>\n
“She really lost her confidence and it was difficult to build herself back up.<\/p>\n
“There just isn’t enough readily available care, and I do not want other families to have to go through this, so I wanted to do something small to help and raise some funds for them.”<\/p>\n
Ultra Events has so far raised \u00a343m for charity, with the next Ultra MMA event taking place in Stoke-on-Trent on Saturday 18 July. <\/p>\n
Participants are given eight weeks of free professional training before a showcase event in front of spectators.<\/p>\n
Training began this week at Stoke Combat Academy in Hanley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large driving force for stepping into the cage was raising money for the Stroke Association, after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-765269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}