Undisputed Downtown, "San Diego's toughest" school and gym for boxing, MMA, jiu jitsu, muay thai and cardio fitness training.

Nico Cebreros
Muay Thai Instructor

Nico Started Training in 1999 in the Sport of Boxing at the Original Convoy Boxing Club under Gonzo. He Trained for a number of years and then took up Work that required him to Travel all over the World so his Training suffered. Then one day in 2005 while walking through a Jungle in Guatemala he came upon a street vendor and bought the Film, “Ong Bak” for .99 cents and fell in Love with the Art of Muay Thai. In 2006 he started Training in Muay Thai under UND1SPUTED’s Head Thai Boxe Trainer Scotty. Nico has Trained extensively and even went to Thailand and spent 30 Days in Heaven/Hell Training at the Rawai Camp under the World Famous Trainers Kru Tuk and Kru Bangman.

Nico Teaches Adults and Children Muay Thai Classes and also Holds his own Muay Thai Training Camps modeled after what he experienced in Thailand for beginners, intermediate, and advanced students. Nico is available for Private Instruction in Boxing, Muay Thai Kickboxing, and Conditioning and Weight Training.

Dave "the Ghost" Ventura
Boxing Coach/Instructor

Born and raised in Southeast San Diego, Dave has been involved in the “sweet science” of boxing for as the past sixteen years. He started to train in boxing at the age of twelve for self defense at Irish Spud Murphy’s boxing gym. Dave has been a member of the USA Amateur boxing Association since 1991. He currently is a registered Coach for the USA BA. During his amateur career he was a Golden Gloves Champion in 1993 and 1994. At a young age of nineteen Dave decided to make his favorite sport into a career, he started working at the Boxing Club boxing gym. For the past thirteen years he has been a boxing trainer, instructor, within the gyms of San Diego. Currently, Dave is the head boxing instructor and teaches morning, afternoon and evening classes. When you take this class, be aware, this is going to be a workout! By mixing in boxing drills, footwork, and controlled sparring with circuit training and cardiovascular regiments, you will burn ample amounts of calories and learn solid boxing techniques

Joe Vargas

 Joe Vargas is the Head boxing coach for Undisputed Boxing Downtown.  Joe  has an extensive amateur record with over 70 fights and tournaments at the national level.  He learned his trade at the old Spud Murphy’s boxing gym and the CYAC Boxing gym in San Diego.  Joe began training youth, at age nineteen, after ending his boxing career.  He has succeeded as a coach and has taken many of his boxers to compete at the Silver Gloves, Blue and Gold, National Pals and Golden Gloves and now Profesional Boxers, he also is a well known and trusted manager for the pro-boxers. If you are looking to take your boxing to the next level come see Coach Joe Vargas!!

Prior to Undisputed, he coached and volunteered at a community gym in National City.  Joe is passionate and committed to reaching out to at risk youth.  In his spare time, he enjoys running, team sport activities and spending time with his family.

Brett Albee (a.k.a. CK, a.k.a. NM, a.k.a. Calogero)
Head Muay Thai Instructor UND1SPUTED Downtown

While serving his country as part of the U.S. Navy, Albee was stationed in Norfolk VA. In 1999, he began studying Muay Thai at Frank Cucci’s LINXX Academy of Martial Arts in Virginia Beach, VA. He began fighter training after training for three months. In 2000, Albee started fighting in an Excaliber production under the WKA. He continued to fight in amateur bouts sanctioned under the WKA such as King of the Ring and Excalibur Extreme Fighting. Trianing under the muay thai style of Arjan Chai, In 2002 Albee moved to train under Buck Grant at Hybrid Academy of Martial Arts.

In 2003 Albee started to learn BJJ and Grappling under Lloyd Irvin Brown Belt, Ken Parham. After training with a giu for four days Albee participated in the 2003 Virginia State Brazilian Jiu Jitsu championships and won the heavyweight division and second in the open. After that Albee was taking trips to Camp Springs, Maryland to train with Lloyd Irvin and his staff in order to increase his BJJ style. In 2003 he won the NAGA worlds BJJ and Intermediate division. In 2006 Albee started fighting mixed martial arts participating in the WKA North American Championships MMA open division where he placed second.

Since he was determined to pursue a fight career he moved to San Diego and started training in Chula Vista at Alliance Academy. He left and found his home at Undisputed Downtown in 2008. Albee has a 4-0 professional MMA record. He fought in his first professional fight in Yuma, AZ in Total Combat 27 winning by TKO in the third round. He recently fought in Yuma again, in Desert Rage winning by KO in four minutes of the first round.

Albee teaches a hard core system of Muay Thai mixing traditional styles into more modern contemporary cage fighting style. Taking class will teach you solid fundamentals, pushing students to self motivate, increase athleticism with a complete well rounded exercise program. His military teaching style is utilized to push his students beyond their own abilities to reach a higher standard of physical fitness and aggressive muay thai style of fighting. “You will be pushed and like it!” states Albee.

Nestor “Chorizo” Flores
Boxing Instructor

 Nestor Flores is a technical instructor who brings years of experience and knowledge of boxing to the members of Undisputed downtown. Nestor has been training in boxing for aprox 15 years. He has trained in multiple boxing gyms in the Tiajauna and regions of Mexico. His passion for boxing is reflected by his emphasis on proper techniques, timing and execution. He is the boxing instructor for the 6 am and 9 am boxing classes. If you desire to tighten up your boxing skills this is the class for you.

Herman Terrado
MMA/Jiu Jitsu coach

Herman has trained with some of the best in the world and now brings that wealth of knowledge to Undisputed Downtown. Herman teaches Jiu Jitsu under Baret Yoshida. Herman is also an active MMA Profesional Fighter with a record of 6 and 2 with a first round KO on the Strikeforce card here in San Diego on April 9th 2011. He is the Head MMA coach for UND1SPUTED DOWNTOWN and is available for personal training.