Co-main events top Up Close & Personal card Friday night
Press Release – June 9, 2011: All four fighters in the co-main events for the Maximum Fighting Championship’s MFC 30: Up Close & Personal card were bang on the scale during Thursday’s official weigh-in.
The two fights top the marquee on Friday night’s show at the Mayfield Conference Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, which will air live on HDNet Fights starting at 10 p.m. ET/8 p.m. MT/7 p.m. PT (check local listings for channel designation).
Headliners Drew “Night Rider” Fickett (41-13) and Brian “The Bandit” Cobb (18-6) are set for an exciting lightweight clash between top-notch submission specialists. Fickett weighed in at 155.5 while Cobb stepped off at 155.4.
In the night’s other co-main event, electrifying veterans Pete “The Secret Weapon” Spratt (22-19) and “The Irish Hand Grenade” Marcus Davis (18-8) will square-off in a welterweight tilt that is a rematch of their 2007 bout that Davis took via a second-round submission. Spratt weighed in at 170.6 and Davis was set at 170.1.
MFC 30: Up Close & Personal
Official Weigh-In Results
Co-Main Event – Lightweight: Brian Cobb (155.4) vs. Drew Fickett (155.5)
Co-Main Event – Welterweight: Pete Spratt (170.6) vs. Marcus Davis – (170.1)
Catchweight – 165 lbs: Thomas Denny (163.5) vs. Sheldon Westcott (165.8)
Welterweight: Jamie Toney (168.4) vs. Dhiego Lima (170.6)
Lightweight: Robert Washington (159.6*) vs. Curtis Demarce (155.6)
Middleweight: Andreas Spang (185.8) vs. Cody Krahn –
Lightweight: Scott Cleve (154.5) vs. Mukai Maromo (155.1)
Lightweight: Jevon Marshall (156.1) vs. Garrett Nybakken (154.5)
*Robert Washington fails to make weight and loses 20% of his purse