{"id":2420,"date":"2014-12-08T05:28:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T10:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2014-12-07T23:43:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T04:43:42","slug":"bricks-nick-catone-inducted-into-nj-martial-arts-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/12\/bricks-nick-catone-inducted-into-nj-martial-arts-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick&#8217;s Nick Catone Inducted Into NJ Martial Arts Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2421\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nick_catone.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2421\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nick_catone-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Catone (Photo: NJ Martial Arts Hall of Fame)\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nick_catone-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nick_catone-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nick_catone-290x195.jpg 290w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nick_catone.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Catone (Photo: NJ Martial Arts Hall of Fame)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick Township&#8217;s Nick Catone was inducted into the New Jersey Martial Arts Hall of Fame over the weekend, a member of the organization&#8217;s third class of inductees.<\/p>\n<p>Catone, who owns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickcatonefitness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Catone&#8217;s Mixed Martial Arts and Fitness<\/a> in the Laurel Square shopping center, grew up in Brick and graduated in 2004 from Rider University in Lawrenceville, where he wrestled for five years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Hall of Fame, Catone began Jiu-Jitsu training began in 2005 and had his first professional mixed martial arts fight in May 2007. Catone garnered a 6-0 record in local fights, then became the middleweight champion for Lou Neglia\u2019s Ring of Combat before sighing a multi-fight deal with Ultimate Fighting Championship, commonly known as the UFC, in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Catone was inducted in the MMA School Owner category. His school is a state-of-the-art, 8,000 square foot facility that offers lessons in MMA, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai, as well as boxing, wrestling yoga and other martial arts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/12\/bricks-nick-catone-inducted-into-nj-martial-arts-hall-of-fame\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Township&#8217;s Nick Catone was inducted into the New Jersey Martial Arts Hall of Fame over the weekend, a member of the organization&#8217;s third class of inductees. Catone, who owns Nick Catone&#8217;s Mixed Martial Arts and Fitness in the Laurel Square shopping center, grew up in Brick and graduated in 2004 from Rider University in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,677,678],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-nick-catone","tag-nj-martial-arts-hall-of-fame"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nick_catone.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-D2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}