Andrew Pierce joins the Mulisha
Last week, just before the Monster Cup in Las Vegas, the Metal Mulisha quietly made a big move that went mostly unnoticed, bringing on Andrew Pierce — a 15-year-old amateur motocross champion from Huffman, Texas — and noting that he’ll be “the first in a long line of amateur stars to join the Mulisha squad.” Read that again and take note: Brian Deegan and the Metal Mulisha are building an am army. “It’s an opportunity of a lifetime,” Pierce says. “I’ve been following Metal Mulisha for the last couple years and really looking up to those guys. I’ve always looked up to Brian Deegan because he’s a good role model — he came up from pretty much nowhere and made himself into a great success — and they’re all great guys. They all welcomed me to the team and it feels good.” Pierce has been making a name for himself in Loretta Lynn’s Amateur National Motocross Championships since 2008, when he won the 2008 65cc Modified class and took third overall in 65cc Stock. At the 2011 AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships in August, he took third overall in 85cc Stock, behind Blake Green and Darian Sanayei, and took fifth overall in Super Mini, prequalifying for last weekend’s Monster Cup in Las Vegas where he first donned his red and black Mulisha MSR Racing gear. Pierce finished just off the podium in his first Super Mini Moto at the Monster Cup, then ripped his clutch lever off in a tussle with another rider in the second moto; he finished the weekend in 10th place overall.
“Everyone thinks Metal Mulisha’s all freestyle and hardcore dudes with a lot of tattoos, you know, that whole California lifestyle,” Pierce says. “I think they picked me as a way to balance it out and let people know they’re down with amateur motocross too.”
The Metal Mulisha team, best known for its core freestyle motocross riders, has been branching out in recent years, adding international riders, BMX star Brandon Dosch, and a mixed martial arts fight team (the latest, Cesar Gracie Jiu-Jitsu prodigy Nick Diaz, joined the Mulisha this week in advance of Saturday’s UFC 137), as well as sponsoring Deegan and other Mulisha riders as they’ve been getting into rally car and off-road truck racing. Deegan has also been grooming a generation of young rippers even younger than Pierce: The Mulisha’s Mini Troops flow team includes Deegan’s own kids Hayden and Hailie “Dirt Princess” Deegan (in August, 10-year-old Hailie won Round 10 of The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, where she has become a Trophy Kart podium regular) as well as Chance French, Chaz Vazquez, Lucky Badgwell, and Trenton Briley. Still, Pierce represents a new direction for the brand’s motocross gear and apparel division as it reaches out to the ever-growing world of amateur motocross racing.
“We’re always looking for the future of Mulisha out there,” said Deegan, in a statement issued last week. “It’s great to see young riders like Andrew taking his sport to the next level, which is what Mulisha has been about since day one.”
It’s a future Pierce says he’s eager to play a part in. “Every kid’s dream is to be a pro, and that’s my dream too, of course,” Pierce says. “I just want to start doing better at more of the Nationals and putting Metal Mulisha on top as I’m coming up over the next three years and getting ready to race as a pro. That’s my ultimate goal. In the short term I’m really looking forward to the Mini O’s next month.” Watch for Pierce and his new Mulisha skull logos next month, November 23-26, at the 40th Annual Thor Winter National Olympics in Alachua, Fla.
SoCal Says: This is great news to hear the Mulisha has signed Pierce. The Mulisha guys are known for building sick lifted trucks and we can’t wait to see Andrew’s truck. 15? Can he even drive yet? If he can join the Mulisha he should be allowed to get a driver’s license at 15!


