© Marc Wickert
www.knucklepit.com
7 Mar. 2007

On April 13, 2007, Matt Lindland's Wolfpack will be squaring off against Renzo Gracie's Pitbulls in what is expected to be a top-shelf MMA tournament. And light-heavyweight wolfpacker Aaron Stark is counting down the days till he can get back in the IFL ring.

"I'm driving to Portland now. I'm on my way to Team Quest to do a team practice there, and after that I'm going to go to another gym to train with Daniel Krug. He's a friend of mine who's done a couple of amateur fights, and he's a larger guy, so we'll do some rounds of Vale Tudo," says Stark.

Last time Aaron spoke to knucklepit.com, he and his wife, Tiffany, were in Santa Barbara escaping the rain in Portland a few days before Thanksgiving. Not much has changed since then, weather-wise. "It was kinda nice the last few days and then it started raining again today."

Unfortunately, the wet weather hasn't befriended the wine-making season, which normally starts picking up in February at the Colene Clemens Vineyard where Aaron is an employee.

"We've been waiting for the vineyard to dry out. All the vines were picked last year and we're waiting to get our trellis system going for training the vines up. That's basically what we're trying to do right now, but it's been too wet, so we'll just sit around and wait. The weatherman said it was going to rain the last few days, and we didn't trust him after that prediction. Then he said it was going to rain today and it did, so we couldn't get anything done."

Aaron agrees if the weather forecasters got paid on performance, they'd probably starve. "He was pretty proud of himself that the weather was doing today what he said it would do yesterday," laughs Stark.

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