This man may or may not get whupped tonight.
Self-defense instructor Chris Garland and MMA trainer Ed Clay's decade-long beef comes to a head tonight. According to Shane Messer, Clay's partner at Nashville MMA, the two will meet at 5:30 at 490 Allied Drive for a five-minute match that will feature "no striking, nor manipulation of small joints." Exactly what that means, we have no idea.
As former Scene writer P.J. Tobia described him in a February article, Garland (pictured at right) is "equal parts Hulk Hogan and Rex from Napoleon Dynamite (the guy who yells, "Bow to your sensei!")." He's also alleged to have killed a bird during a demonstration gone wrong and lied about being in the Special Forces.
Exactly what brings these two relentless self-promoters men to blows is unclear. According to Messner, "Chris wants to prove his skills on the mat with Ed and take out his frustration for all these accusations that Ed supposedly (but didn't) make over the past 10 years." But who cares about backstory? Someone gon' get beat!
