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JULIE KEDZIE and Writing Merging A LOOK AT THE LIFE OF the Worlds MMA GROUNDBREAKER of Fighting JULIE KEDZIE and Writing BY GIGIE HALL PHOTO BY TIM SCHOON / UNIVERSITY OF IOWA OF UNIVERSITY / SCHOON TIM BY PHOTO TRAVEL WITH PURPOSE 22 COLLiDE GRADUATE HOTELS SPRING 2019 23 JULIE KEDZIE LEADS AN MMA CLASS AT ICOR BOXING OWA CITY is known for two seemingly fighting career until her retirement in 2013. But disparate things: wrestling and writing. How before she was an MMA champ, Julie earned an this Midwest city became a haven for both undergraduate degree in English, a passion she athletes and academics is a mystery, but if returned to after the fighting ended. After getting there’s any one person that embodies this pieces published on platforms like Vice and Sports Iunlikely pairing, it is Julie Kedzie. An early pioneer Illustrated, Julie applied for graduate school and in women’s MMA (mixed martial arts), Julie was accepted to both Columbia and Iowa City. entered the sport at a time when the dominant With a legendary writing culture and literary culture asserted that women just couldn’t fight. history, Iowa City was Julie’s pick, and she is now More importantly, the base assumption was that in the final stretch of her MFA program. Teaching audiences wouldn’t be interested. Both of these both rhetoric and MMA in Iowa City, Julie has theories have since been disproven, thanks in combined the city’s most treasured mediums. By large part to Julie’s participation in the first female writing about what she loves most, Julie has stayed MMA event ever to be aired live on television. connected to a sport that will forever be imprinted While she was defeated in that fight against Gina by her legacy. Carano, Julie put it best when she said, “It changed Amid her busy schedule as a teacher, student and the way people saw female fighters, it changed our commentator for Invicta FC, Julie made time to place in the world.” Later nicknamed “Fireball” chat about her history with MMA, how the sport for her charisma and brawling fighting style in the has evolved and the unexpected crossover between ring, Julie would go on to have a successful pro fighting and writing. PHOTO BY TIM SCHOON / UNIVERSITY OF IOWA OF UNIVERSITY / SCHOON TIM BY PHOTO TRAVEL WITH PURPOSE 24 COLLiDE Can you describe how you got into MMA, what out,” and he put in this tape called Hook n' Shoot though the UFC had said no way, they are terrible. about it attracted you? Revolution and it was all female MMA. It was just so Many places said that “Women can't fight, it's stupid, I have been in martial arts my whole life. My father exciting. It was women who had muscles like I did, don’t let women on these cards, it’s boring, they put my sister and I into taekwondo lessons when who were aggressive like I was, and I just I fell in love don’t know what they’re doing.” we were very young — it felt like something that with the sport. I thought, women can do this. Well, as I always did. To get your second and third degree it turns out, not a lot of people thought women could What were your first fights like? black belts, you had to learn other arts at the gym. do this except for them two and the promoter. Jeff Osborne gave me a spot on his card and I They didn't want you to just have stripes on your At the time, I was training as an undergraduate in thought that was great. I won my first fight and it belt. Some other arts that were offered in school college in Indiana, and I had about one semester left was the best thing in the world to me — everything were muay thai and combat submission wrestling. but a friend wanted to go to California. So we went fed that need to fight. But you couldn’t make a living I would go to seminars and classes and by the time in the summer to train with MMA people and and it out of being a fighter. I had a college degree but it I was testing for my third degree black belt, I liked was heaven for me. It’s interesting to call it heaven was in English so that's not going to give me shit. I them far more than I liked taekwondo. Instead because it is hard work. You’re getting your ass kicked was going to go to law school but I decided to put off of doing forms or katas — moves that are all pre- all the time and I have so many wonderful confidence taking the LSAT, and I didn't want to go to graduate planned — these arts had a lot of traditional aspects issues as it is. It's like crying all the time and then school. So I worked all these odd jobs as a waitress to them but were much more fluid. getting back up and crying all the time and getting and an assistant in a chiropractic office. They The UFC started in 1993, but the early UFCs back up. Something about it was feeding something weren't fulfilling at all, but what they did do for me were kind of wacky and it’s really interesting to go that I needed and my mother was like, “Please come was allow me to train in MMA and in Brazilian jiu back and watch those fights. I think I was 12 when finish college, you have one semester left.” jitsu. Well, I lost my next two or three fights in a row, the first UFC came out and I wasn't allowed to see Afterwards, I went back to Indiana and finished but I started really putting it together. Nowadays, it. A few years later, a friend and I were watching my last semester of school, but at this point, I was female fighters get an amateur career, but I didn't UFC 5 and it was the most boring fight you will ever so raptured by MMA and by fighting. I was taking really have that option. You were either fighting or watch in your life. Not because they were boring, kickboxing fights whenever I could, but those are a not fighting and the paychecks were $300 or $400. but because they stalemated each other the entire different style of fighting than what I wanted to do. You weren't doing it for the money, you were doing time, they knew what the other one was going to do. I finally got offered a fight off the very show where it because you wanted to fight and I just loved it. So to me, it looked like a lot of hugging and not like the Hook n' Shoot Revolution had taken place. The It’s hard to explain but I think a lot of people feel the combat submission wrestling I'd seen, not like promoter, Jeff Osborne, had always believed that this way about martial arts. Hobby is kind of the the kickboxing I'd seen. Then he said, “Check this female fighters were important in the sport even wrong word for it, it is a little reductive. There's just something about when you're invested in something that deep, it is really hard to think about anything else and you adjust your world to your passion. So in 2007, I was offered a fight. I thought the promotion was called Showtime because I was kind of an idiot. I had so much going on and I was working all these jobs but Showtime was the television channel. It was EliteXC and I didn't know it was a big deal, I just knew it was a fight, it was paying more than a lot of fights I had before and it was against an undefeated fighter who everybody was in love The insult that people leveled at you with named Gina Carano. I had heard good things about her and a friend of mine had even trained was, don’t be emotional. But the truth with her once, so I knew who she was. But I had of the matter is, male fighters are just as more experience and I thought I was a better fighter because if you go into a fight not thinking you are the emotional, they are just as unreasonable, better fighter, there is absolutely no point in fighting. and they want to be attractive just as There's no reason to go out there unless you think you're the best and turns out, it was on TV. It was the much as female fighters do. first televised MMA fight and it was great! We fought our hearts out and she beat the shit out of me more or less, but I held in there and it ended up being one — JULIE KEDZIE of those moments that I think changed a lot of things for people. It changed the way people saw female fighters, it changed our place in the world. I look at early interviews with you and a lot of people ask what the difference is between men and women fighters. How have you seen it evolve GRADUATE HOTELS SPRING 2019 25 since then because you were really an early pioneer. How has the conception of woman MMA fighters evolved? Well there is a lot more choice and agency for female fighters.
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