Biography(references)Pyle was born and raised in Dresden, Tennessee until the age of 17 when he moved to Birmingham, Alabama. One of his training partners told him, "Man you gotta check out this cage fighter stuff they got going on. There's this guy who lays on the ground and breaks peoples arms ..." The cage fighting they were talking about was the UFC. The man they were talking about was Royce Gracie, the masterful practitioner of the martial arts discipline known as Brazilian jiu-jitsu who won the tournaments at UFC 1, UFC 2 and UFC 4. Pyle created a gym in a 13 x 15-foot shed behind his mother's home in Dresden, searching for any instructional videos for Brazilian jiu-jitsu he could get his hands on as well attending seminars put together by the Gracie family, whenever they were close enough for him to make the drive. Despite having no formal Brazilian jiu-jitsu training, Pyle would go on to be a successful submission grappler in mixed martial arts, the large majority of his wins coming by submission.
Fighter Trivia(references)Kevin Burke in the movie Universal Soldier: Regeneration starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren and fellow MMA fighter Andrei Arlovski. Pyle played a small part in the 2012 blockbuster Men In Black III starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. After the retirement from competition, Pyle has been working as an assistant coach at his long-time team Syndicate MMA in Las Vegas.
Awards & Accolades
UFC: Fight of the Night (One time)
UFC: Knockout of the Night (One time)
World Extreme Cagefighting: WEC Welterweight Championship (One time). One successful title defense
World Extreme Cagefighting: One successful title defense
World Extreme Cagefighting: One successful title defense
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