Press Release – Kansas City, KS – The Titan Fighting Championship (www.TitanFighting.com and @TitanFighting) in association with HDNet (www.HD.net) announced Wednesday that its Titan Fight Championship 20 event will be held on Friday, September 23 and will be headlined by former World Extreme Cagefighting lightweight champion Jamie Varner (17-5-1).
Squaring off Varner at the historic Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas in the 155 lbs. main event will be Bellator Fighting Championships lightweight tournament veteran and Omaha, Nebraska native Alonzo “Zo Diddy” Martinez (31-14-1).
“We’ve had the pleasure of featuring former world champions on many of our recent Titan Fighting events on HDNet and we are excited to continue that trend with Jamie Varner,” said Titan Fighting Championship CEO Joe Kelly (@TheJGK). “Stylistically, Jamie and Alonzo are almost identical. Both are former wrestlers who aren’t afraid to let their hands go. Varner vs. Martinez will be a great way to kick off our fall schedule.”
Tickets for the event are currently on-sale at Ticketmaster.com (www.Ticketmaster.com) and the Memorial Hall box office and start as low as $35.
Varner has begun to regain momentum after a surprising fall from grace after losing the WEC title. Following a nearly six-month hiatus, Varner returned to the cage this past May at Jeff Curran’s XFO 39 and recorded first round technical submission over dangerous striker Tyler Combs.
With a career resume that not only includes once holding the WEC lightweight title but also notable wins over “Razor” Rob McCullough, “Cowboy” Donald Cerrone, and UFC veteran Kyle Bradley, Varner is poised for a career resurgence. The former college wrestler has re-tooled his game under the guidance of Mike Constantino of the AMA Fight Club in New Jersey. At AMA, Varner has benefited from being able to train with UFC veterans Jim and Dan Miller as well as Charlie Brenneman on a daily basis.
“Jamie is re-focused and re-dedicated to MMA and demonstrated that by moving cross-country to New Jersey in order to work with one of the best camps in the country right now in AMA,” said Kelly. “With AMA, he not only has a chance to return to his previous form but become better than he was when he was the reigning WEC lightweight champion.”
Eschewing an easy return path to glory, Varner has once again chosen to test himself during his comeback by facing the rough and rugged Martinez, who will enter the contest in the midst of a four fight win streak. Two of those victories occurred at Titan Fighting Championship 16 and 17 and Martinez is currently 9-1 in his last ten bouts.
“Titan Fighting Championship 20 will not be a made-for-TV comeback vehicle for Jamie,” Kelly began. “Alonzo is no joke and having won nine out of his last ten, a win over Varner is the icing on the cake he needs to earn a long-term contract with a major national promotion.”
In addition to the Varner vs. Martinez bout, “HDNet Presents: Titan Fighting Championship 20” will also feature the return of rising national bantamweight sensation Anthony “Sharkbait” Guiterrez (3-0) from Lee’s Summit, Missouri as he takes on Laramie Schaffer (4-2) from Omaha, Nebraska.
Additional matchups for “HDNet Presents: Titan Fighting Championship 20” will be released in the coming days. For the latest information pertaining to Titan Fighting, please visitwww.TitanFighting.com, follow Titan Fighting on Twitter (@TitanFighting) or become a “fan” on Facebook (www.Facebook.com/TitanFighting).
ABOUT THE TITAN FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP (www.TitanFighting.com): The Titan Fighting Championship is a Kansas City-based full-time Mixed Martial Arts promotion headquartered out of the historic Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas. Owned and operated by veteran fight promoter Joe Kelly, the Titan Fighting Championship has promoted events since 2006. The goal of Titan FC is to promote and develop the top up-and-coming fighters in the world and provide a platform allowing them to take their respective careers to the next level. Fighters who have gotten their start with Titan include Mike Johnson, Jay Hieron, L.C. Davis, Rob Kimmons, Lee Gibson, Alan Belcher, Bobby Voelker, Zak Cummings, Rudy Bears, and James Krause.
ABOUT TITAN ENTERTAINMENT: Titan Entertainment is a full-service entertainment company that holds an exclusive lease on the historic Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas. The company promotes and produces events such as rock concerts, professional boxing, professional wrestling, and mixed martial arts. Titan has promoted sporting events that have been featured on ESPN, Fox Sports Net, SHOWTIME, and HDNet.
ABOUT COMBAT SPORTS MEDIA (www.CombatSportsMedia.net/@CombatSportsMMA/and find us on Facebook by searching “Combat Sports Media): Combat Sports Media is a partner to Titan Entertainment and The Titan Fighting Championship. Owned and operated by Sam and Andria Caplan, CSM is an outsource business-to-business solution for companies in the combat sports industry. CSM provides an array of services on a contract basis such as public relations, television research production, website design and management, Internet video streaming, and matchmaking consulting. Its past and present client list includes M-1 Global, SHOWTIME, Intimidation Clothing, Matrix Fights, GirlFight, the Titan Fighting Championship, Fight Night in the Cage, Locked in the Cage, the World Alliance of Mixed Martial Arts, ChokeOutPoker.net, NameDrop.com, and FightMetric.com. CSM is a shareholder in the Titan Fighting Championship.