BY MATT SCHOOLEYFor years, Tyson Akl has been called psycho. And that’s OK with him. When your job is to step into a caged-in ring and punch, kick and grapple your opponent into submission, it’s actually not a bad nickname to have. The 36-year-old Akl, a Salem resident for the last four years, makes his professional mixed martial ...

American Steel Cagefighting makes its professional mixed-martial-arts promotional debut July 31 with a 10-fight card scheduled at the Icenter in Salem. The main event pits Lance Everson, 11-6-0 and fighting out of Mansfield, Mass., for The Boneyard, against U.S. Navy veteran and Nashua resident Woody Weatherby, 7-1- 0, representing Renzo Gracie ...