Experienced Instruction
The academy emphasizes coaches with active experience in combat sports and a curriculum designed around real technical development.
A Martial Arts Community Since 2008
Pound 4 Pound combines comprehensive striking, strength and conditioning, and a welcoming community for students ranging from first-day beginners to competitive athletes.
The Pound 4 Pound Story
Pound 4 Pound is a family-owned gym run by Justin and Ashleigh Houghton. We started in Lansing, Michigan in 2008 and moved to Littleton in 2014.
What's here now: Muay Thai and K-1 kickboxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu with Gracie Barra South Denver, wrestling, and a full strength and conditioning floor. Kids and adults, first day through fight camp, all in one building.
Our coaches compete, and our coaches build champions. Raquel Pennington won the UFC bantamweight title training here. Lucas Valente, the reigning UFC BJJ world champion, trains out of this gym and coaches on our mats. You get the same coaching they do.
Built Over Time
The academy’s history spans two states and more than a decade of coaching martial arts and performance.
A Place to Train Seriously Without the Ego
Pound 4 Pound positions the gym as a safe, clean, and non-intimidating place where members can learn, train hard, and feel part of a community.
The academy emphasizes coaches with active experience in combat sports and a curriculum designed around real technical development.
Students of different ages, goals, and experience levels can train in an environment designed to support progress rather than intimidation.
Muay Thai, K-1, youth training, strength and conditioning, pro training, and personal coaching provide several paths under one roof.
Students can begin with fundamentals and move toward more advanced partner work, fitness goals, or competition as they develop.
The gym’s current site repeatedly highlights its member community as a defining part of the Pound 4 Pound experience.
Whether the goal is confidence, fitness, skill, or competition, training is organized around learning quality technique.
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