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GIONCO SPORTSWORLD’S CANADIAN FIGHT CHAMPIONSHIPS
Posted in Events on November 8, 2011
Canadian Fight Championships September 30 2011. Fight At The View was back in the Fraserview Hall on September 30th with a huge 16 fight card that was put together by promoters, Gerry Gionco and Mike Hammoud. The night’s action would present 4 MMA fights, a boxing exhibition and 11 amateur Muay Thai fights, including [...]
BATTLEFIELD Fight League Crowns New Heavyweight Champion Adam Santos at the Vogue Theatre Downtown Vancouver
Posted in Events, Sports on October 6, 2011
Battlefield Fight League filled the Vogue theatre in Vancouver for BFL 11: Payback with a roster of top local amateur fighters featuring a match with Andy Marinos, Ash ‘Smash’ Mashregi, and a grudge match between two heavyweights on the main card, Adam Santos and Micah Brakefield. Judging by the photos from the weight in, it [...]
SEEING RED 3 Mixed Martial Arts Fight Event by West Coast Promotions! Red Robinson Theatre Boulevard Casino
Posted in Events, Sports on October 5, 2011
Seeing Red 3: The Trilogy was Westcoast promotions latest local MMA fight night at Red Robinson Theatre on Saturday September 10th, 2011. Everyone there was treated to some BC’s best talent in the cage. If you haven’t been out to the local fight scene yet, you should make an effort, because some of these fighters [...]
ARMWRESTLING AND MORE ARMWRESTLING!
Posted in Events on September 20, 2011
The Vancouver Armwrestling Club made the trip out to Ottawa on Labour Day long weekend for the Canadian National Armwrestling Championships. It brought fierce competition from all over the country together for the chance at winning a national title and qualifying to be a part of team Canada at the upcoming World Championships in Kazakhstan. [...]
MORGANTI JU-JITSU: SUMMER TOURNAMENT 2011
Posted in Events on August 19, 2011
On August 14th of 2011, the Morganti Ju-Jitsu Federation of Canada teamed up with Bisla Martial Arts for a Ju-Jitsu tournament hosted at Bisla’s brand new 7000 square foot gym in Surrey B.C. Owner and experienced Martial Artist, Inderjit Bisla, Sensei Adam Santos, Pure Athletics Gym in North Vancouver and Sensei Cesar Narita, President of [...]
BATTLEFIELD FIGHT LEAGUE 9
Posted in Events on August 1, 2011
Battlefield Fight League 9 brought top-level amateur MMA back to Vancouver on July 16 2011 at Canada Place. A 14 fight card featured two championship battles and a great showing by fighters from West Coast BJJ. Both of the night’s titles were awarded to the fighters from that gym. Under Card 155lbs, Levon Kinley of Universal [...]
AMA 5 Fight night, June 24 2011
Posted in Events on August 1, 2011
Another great night for Mike Hammoud’s AMA – All Martial Arts fight series at the Fraserview Hall. Justin Pierrot interviewed the fighters afterwards to tell us a little bit more about how it went down in the ring. Navi Mazary took the first fight of the night, in super middleweight Muay Thai against Jeremey Neufeld [...]
MMA ON THE WARPATH … right here in Chilliwack!
Posted in Events, Sports on June 28, 2011
The fast paced, bone crunching action that took place on Saturday, June 4th had nothing to do with game two of the Stanley Cup Finals. The fans came out to the Tzeachtan Community Centre in Chilliwack, BC, for MMA on the Warpath. The Canucks game was played on a big screen while the seats filled, [...]
UFC 131: THEY’RE BAAAAAACK…
Posted in Events, Sports on June 28, 2011
It doesn’t seem like so long ago that the pending arrival of our first-ever UFC event caused a fever to grip this city, as we counted the seconds to the end of a two-year moratorium on professional MMA. Despite complaints about what some felt was a lacklustre card, UFC 115 at GM Place (now Rogers [...]
VANCOUVER MMA EXPO
Posted in Events on June 23, 2011
About two years ago, promoter Gerald Chopik decided to add another stop on the tour of his mega-successful MMA Expo. Not to be confused with the UFC Fan Expo, the MMA Expo originated in 2005 and is run independently of the UFC. Cities such as Phildelphia, Toronto, Los Angeles and Montreal had already hosted stops [...]
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