{"id":655514,"date":"2010-02-04T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21560"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:16:37","slug":"banker-fight-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/655514","title":{"rendered":"Banker Fight Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoops, sounds like somebody broke the first two rules. Personally, I wouldn&#8217;t mind taking a crack at some of these overpaid adrenaline junkies.Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601109&#38;sid=ao18Eb66CUSA&#38;pos=15\">Bloomberg.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/banker-fight-club-300x198.jpg?resize=300%2C198\" alt=\"banker fight club\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21570\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe get a lot of finance guys,\u201d said Max McGarr, the gym\u2019s program director and a professional fighter. \u201cIt\u2019s a good release from their job. If you lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, it\u2019s good to come here and get it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great stress reliever,\u201d said Richard Byrne, chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank Securities, who practices jiu-jitsu and sparring at Renzo with Cholish and other professional fighters. \u201cTalk about a great way to get aggression out, and it\u2019s an unbelievable workout.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Cholish and his roommate, Erik Owings, also a professional fighter, converted the top level of their duplex apartment on the Upper East Side into a gym, where Byrne sometimes brings Wall Street colleagues to work out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the dungeon of pain,\u201d said Brian Peganoff, an assistant vice president in corporate cash management at Deutsche Bank. Peganoff, 27, learned tae kwon do as a child and started boxing as a workout while attending Pennsylvania State University in University Park. He began jiu-jitsu about two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople on Wall Street are pretty competitive and I think that carries over,\u201d Peganoff said. \u201cThat\u2019s the ultimate competition, putting two people in a cage and seeing who is the better guy.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoops, sounds like somebody broke the first two rules. Personally, I wouldn&#8217;t mind taking a crack at some of these overpaid adrenaline junkies.Thanks Bloomberg. \u201cWe get a lot of finance guys,\u201d said Max McGarr, the gym\u2019s program director and a professional fighter. \u201cIt\u2019s a good release from their job. If you lost hundreds of thousands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KwO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756248,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655514\/revisions\/756248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}