{"id":66546,"date":"2025-11-23T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/66546\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:50:13","slug":"long-beach-gym-fighting-chance-uses-mma-as-form-of-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/66546\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach gym, fighting chance, uses MMA as form of therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week\u2019s \u201cIn Focus SoCal,\u201d host Tanya meets Chase Gibson, a professional MMA fighter who founded Fighting Chance after his brother Cooper died of an overdose.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting Chance uses MMA as a form of therapy and is focused on empowering individuals struggling to overcome life\u2019s challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Send us your thoughts to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/ca\/southern-california\/in-focus\/2025\/11\/21\/mailto:InFocusSoCal@charter.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">InFocusSoCal@<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/stories\/2023\/12\/18\/y\/charter.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charter.com<\/a>\u00a0and watch at 11 a.m. on Saturdays and 9 a.m. on Sundays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s \u201cIn Focus SoCal,\u201d host Tanya meets Chase Gibson, a professional MMA fighter who founded Fighting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[39624,7,18373,18374,131,133,132,5996],"class_list":["post-66546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-app-in-focus","tag-california","tag-in-focus","tag-in-focus-staff","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}