An avenue to curb anger issues while in young offenders, Steven Rogers was introduced to the sport of Boxing at age 12.  Joe Borden, a Canadian Hall of Fame Boxer and youth worker was running Prince County Boxing Club, where Rogers joined.  He instantly fell in love with the sport and thrived on the adrenaline rush that came with it.  Unfortunately, the rush of trouble and crime also continued.  In and out of correctional facilities, Rogers was also introduced to Judo for a period of time, and although he excelled, he quickly lost interest. After yet another visit to a federal correctional facility at the age of 25, Rogers decided he was not living the life he wanted for himself.  He found work as a tradesman and also began coaching Boxing at a local gym with his brother Cory.  He met his wife Jana, when she arrived at the gym looking to take Boxing lessons and gave him yet another reason to never look back and return to his old lifestyle.

Having spent most of his life fighting in one form or another, sitting at home one evening watching UFC with his wife, Rogers made a point of saying he would love to fight in the cage one day.

Jana encouraged him and immediately started to look into it.  She contacted TKO and lined up a fight almost instantly.  It just wasn’t that easy.  The fight fell through, but then Rogers started to check around for MMA training facilities.  At that time, in PEI, there was not much to choose from one.  Rogers started to travel a fair distance, a few evenings a week to train in Mauy Thai.  He started to train more on his own and with others in the Martial Arts community.  In October or 2007, he took his 1^st fight on short notice against Matt MacGrath.  Still being very new to the MMA world, he wasn’t exactly sure what he was in for.  He didn’t cut weight and was taking his 1^st fight with a very experienced fighter at 170 lbs.  After a quick and painful 1^st round submission, Rogers lost.

He took his 2^nd fight in January of 2008, again at 170 lbs. against Jay Hadin.  Rogers’ nose was broken and he was quickly submitted again.  Thoughts of quitting the sport came to mind shortly after.  Instead, he began to train with old friend, Richard Arsenault who was able to teach him the basics of BJJ and grappling.

Rogers accepted his 3^rd fight against Ontario fighter, Dustin Rohrer in November of 2008 for Elite 1 MMA.  This time he decided to drop a weight class to 155 lbs.  This drop in weight and additional new found BJJ and grappling skills gave Rogers his 1^st win by Guillotine Choke.

Elite 1 MMA offered him another fight against Jeremy Henry of Nova Scotia in April of 2009, of which Rogers once again won by submission.

Three weeks later in May 2009 (5^th fight) – Henry wanted another shot at Rogers – and Steven was offered a rematch with Absolute Fighting Canada.  He won again by submission.

This 3rd fight winning streak earned Rogers a shot at the Elite 1 Lightweight Title against Jonny “Showtime” Roscoe.  He started training frequently with Matt MacGrath (Steven’s 1^st fight) in Charlottetown, PEI.  He also stepped up his boxing training with old coach and friend, Canadian Hall of Famer, Joe Borden.  In April of 2009, Rogers won the Elite 1 Lightweight Title by rear naked choke where he was actually cornered by training partner and former opponent Matt MacGrath.

In July of 2010, Rogers accepted a fight in Dartmouth against Rory McDonnell  where Rogers lost by submission.   It seemed his focus was more on an upcoming fight (three weeks later) in Montreal for Ringside MMA.   After suffering a minor injury, Rogers was forced to withdraw from the Ringside fight altogether.

Steven Rogers will be defending his title of May 7^th, – in Moncton, New Brunswick, at Casino NB against Ricky Goodall.

Rogers currently owns and trains at Island Impact MMA in Summerside, PEI where he also works full time in the Aerospace industry. When he is not fighting, running, training, grappling, boxing, dieting, or competing, he enjoys the outdoors and spending time with family.