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Daniel Puder is an American professional mixed martial artist, who is currently undefeated in MMA competition, holding a a record of eight wins and... zero losses. Puder trained at the American Kickboxing Academy, in San Jose, California, the CSW Training Center, in Fullerton, California, and at his own gym, the Hollywood MMA Gym, in Hollywood, California. Puder is also a professional wrestler, best known for having won the $1,000,000 Tough Enough challenge during his time in World Wrestling Entertainment and Ohio Valley Wrestling. Puder had previously worked for Ring of Honor, and is currently working for New Japan Pro Wrestling. Puder was involved in amateur wrestling during high school. In high school at Monta Vista High School, in Cupertino, California, Puder finished first place in his weight division in the California Interscholastic Federation Central Coast Section, in amateur wrestling, while wrestling with a broken hand. Puder was also involved in entrepreneurship during high school, starting several businesses. At the age of 16, Puder began training in mixed-martial arts and professional wrestling.
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Daniel Puder is an American professional mixed martial artist, who is currently undefeated in MMA competition, holding a a record of eight wins and... zero losses. Puder trained at the American Kickboxing Academy, in San Jose, California, the CSW Training Center, in Fullerton, California, and at his own gym, the Hollywood MMA Gym, in Hollywood, California. Puder is also a professional wrestler, best known for having won the $1,000,000 Tough Enough challenge during his time in World Wrestling Entertainment and Ohio Valley Wrestling. Puder had previously worked for Ring of Honor, and is currently working for New Japan Pro Wrestling. Puder was involved in amateur wrestling during high school. In high school at Monta Vista High School, in Cupertino, California, Puder finished first place in his weight division in the California Interscholastic Federation Central Coast Section, in amateur wrestling, while wrestling with a broken hand. Puder was also involved in entrepreneurship during high school, starting several businesses. At the age of 16, Puder began training in mixed-martial arts and professional wrestling.
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Darrell Kurt Rambis is a retired American professional basketball player and former head coach for the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves. Rambis was born... in Terre Haute, Indiana. His family moved to Cupertino, California in his preschool years, where he grew up in the Fairgrove 'Eichler' neighborhood; his number is retired at Cupertino High School. He graduated from Santa Clara University, where he played from 1976 to 1980, becoming its second leading rebounder and all-time leading scorer with 1,736 points. During his Santa Clara years he was awarded the WCC Freshman of the Year and Conference Player of the Year as a senior. His jersey #34 was retired on December 29, 2008. Rambis was drafted by the New York Knicks as the 58th pick in the 1980 NBA Draft, but he was subsequently waived by the Knicks before playing in Greece, where he also holds citizenship. There he joined the Greek League club AEK Athens, under the name Kyriakos Rambidis, and he won the Greek Cup in 1981. He was re-signed by the Knicks in 1981 but never played a game for them. His success as an NBA player started when he was signed as a free agent by the Los Angeles Lakers in 1981.
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Bryan "Brain" Mantia is a contemporary rock drummer. He has played with bands like Primus, Guns N' Roses, Praxis and Godflesh, and with other... popular performers such as Tom Waits, Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins and Buckethead. He has also done session work for numerous artists and bands. Born in 1963 in the South Bay city of Cupertino, California to an Italian-American father and a Japanese American mother, Mantia became interested in such 'groove heavy' artists as James Brown, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix early on, but it wasn't until he was 16 years old that Mantia began playing drums. Shortly thereafter, Mantia acquired the nickname "Brain" while playing in a high school concert band, due to his obsession with the complex Anthony Cirone book, "Portraits in Rhythm." Mantia continued to perfect his drumming skills, by studying at such music schools as the Percussion Institute of Technology in Hollywood. The mid '80s saw Mantia join the San Francisco Bay Area funk-rock band, the Limbomaniacs, who broke up later in the decade, but reformed to issue a lone full-length in 1990, Stinky Grooves.
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Tyler Poelle is a film actor.