CYCOXTREME.COM MAKING MMA INROADS

Nicholas Remington is the ambitious owner of CYCOXTREME.COM, an emerging clothing company with a mindset to support the MMA scene by sponsoring up and coming fighters.

“We haven’t really been online very long,” he explained in a recent interview. “Basically we’re just a screen-printing company, and I’ve been selling my own clothes out of a shop for a while. Last year I got online to start expanding things.”

Remington does screen-printing and embroidery, and he said he’s always been a fan of boxing and fighting. He did a little boxing himself when he was younger.

“Most of what I do for my business is in the area of clothes for school sports and stuff,” he said. “I also do clothing for racecars, and I do some drag racing myself. I’ve always kind of been fan of cars, and a few years back I bought myself an old Duster, and I somehow turned it into a drag car.”

Remington’s company is set apart from others out there by the way he gives financial support to the fighters working to make it. “Mostly, I hope to use my business to help out athletes,” he said. “The screen-printing is the way I make money, and selling my own clothes, but the main purpose is basically for giving back to the sport.”

As for where he got the unique name, he said “Cyco” has just been his image throughout his younger years. He added extreme sports to it, and that’s how he ended up with his name.

“What I do in my services is what changes it,” he said about how he goes above and beyond some of the other clothing lines out there. “I give back to the sport through helping out athletes through the selling of the clothes, and that’s more or less what the difference is. There’s hundreds of clothing lines out there as far as sportswear. A shirt’s a shirt, but when you sell the shirt, where the money goes to after that is what makes us different.”

Remington explains that his main motivation is the dismal financial climate fighters face. “Fighters don’t really get paid. I got into sponsoring to be able to more or less have a partnership with athletes, and to do some profit sharing with them,” he said. “They can get reimbursed for what they do. Promoters don’t pay, and if they’re not on the main ticket they might only get a couple hundred bucks. When they take a fight, it can cost more to train for a fight than they get for the actual fight.”

He is trying to develop a way to directly contribute a percentage of profits to each fighter based on the sales they generate. At the moment he provides money up front for some select fighters. He’s sponsoring a few fighters and working with some events for promotional purposes.

“I was always into boxing, and in high school I did some boxing, and when MMA came around, I just watched it a lot,” he explained. “I wasn’t into it huge, just watching it here and there, and it kind of progressed from there.”

Though he’s started out with just regular workout clothes, he’s planning on expanding what he offers. “I’m working on finding a good manufacturer for fight shorts right now, but it’s kind of hard to get the right materials, and I haven’t found anything I really like yet, so that’s a work in progress,” he said. “Hopefully it won’t be too much longer. I’m looking at new stuff almost every day.”

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