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Bio

Seb“Fetan'' Zewdie is a respected boxing and MMA coach hailing from Addis Ababa Ethiopia. He made his name as a boxing coach in Los Angeles, Calif by training fighters like UFC Vet Dan Hardy, The Ultimate Fighter’s Mac Danzig, WEC veteran Chad George.

Seb trained Olympic boxer Carlos David Arce, UFC Veteran Jared Papazian, Gabriel Ruediger, and Bellator MMA’s Jesse Merritt.

Zewdie served as the 2008 Olympic Trials Team Coach for Trinidad & Tobago. He was a 2008 Olympic Trials Coach and is a certified Boxing coach For AIBA and USA Boxing. A political refugee from Ethiopia, Zewdie immigrated to the US in 1987 in order to receive a life saving heart operation after a chance encounter with Dr Rick Hodes. Zewdie is the father of three young American boys and resided with his wife Lyou only a few miles from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, site of the 1984 Olympic games until earlier this year when they moved the family to Nashville Tennessee.

Seb’s wife Lyou is a healthcare worker who has been working at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville TN during the pandemic. Seb has been helping patients with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease in his local community by teaching them how to box.

Seb Zewdie attended Addis Ketma High School, Tegbred Technical School, and he is an El Camino College graduate.