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Filed under: NewsLightweight veteran Hermes Franca has inked a three-fight deal with Canada’s MFC promotion and will make his debut with the company at MFC 29 on April 8 in Ontario.
Franca will meet fellow UFC veteran Drew Fickett in the co-main event…
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Lightweight veteran Hermes Franca has inked a three-fight deal with Canada’s MFC promotion and will make his debut with the company at MFC 29 on April 8 in Ontario.
Franca will meet fellow UFC veteran Drew Fickett in the co-main event, pending approval from the Ontario athletic commission, says the MFC’s official website.
Filed under: ResultsMMA Fighting has MFC 28 results of Ryan Jimmo vs. Dwayne Lewis and the rest of the Maximum Fighting Championship main card taking place at the River Cree Resort and Casino near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
In the main event, Lewis an…
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MMA Fighting has MFC 28 results of Ryan Jimmo vs. Dwayne Lewis and the rest of the Maximum Fighting Championship main card taking place at the River Cree Resort and Casino near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
In the main event, Lewis and Jimmo will battle for the MFC light heavyweight title. Also on the card are former UFC fighters Matt Veach, Drew Fickett, Richie Whitson (TUF 9) and Rodney Wallace.
Results are below.
Apparently lot can change in a few years.
Maximum Fighting Championship president Mark Pavelich had a change of heart and has re-signed lightweight Drew Fickett to a multi-fight deal with the Edmonton, Alberta promotion. The news wouldn’t be as inter…
Apparently lot can change in a few years.
Maximum Fighting Championship president Mark Pavelich had a change of heart and has re-signed lightweight Drew Fickett to a multi-fight deal with the Edmonton, Alberta promotion. The news wouldn’t be as interesting if Pavelich hadn’t proclaimed in 2008 that "Knight Rider" would never fight in the MFC.
To recap what led up to Pavelich’s assertion that Fickett’s days as an MFC fighter were numbered before he ever cashed a paycheck from the promotion, it all started when "The Master" breached a clause in his 2008 contract by taking a fight within two months of a scheduled MFC bout.
But that’s not the reason he was banned by Pavelich.
When the promoter read online that Fickett had agreed to fill in for an injured Joe Riggs on a Strikeforce challengers card last-minute participation, he attempted to contact the fighter’s camp to tell them that he would be breaching his contract if he took the fight as he had an MFC bout less than a month later. When his calls and messages went unanswered, he contacted Scott Coker to tell him that Drew couldn’t fight on the card and the Strikeforce promptly rescinded the offer to Fickett.
Filed under: UFCEfrain Escudero didn’t dance around his reasons for deciding to sign with Shine Fights after being cut by the UFC following his most recent loss.
“I was offered pretty good money and for [a contract] that wasn’t for more than one year,…
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Efrain Escudero didn’t dance around his reasons for deciding to sign with Shine Fights after being cut by the UFC following his most recent loss.
“I was offered pretty good money and for [a contract] that wasn’t for more than one year,” Escudero told MMA Fighting on Wednesday afternoon. “Eventually I want to make my run back to the UFC and prove to Dana White and everybody else that I can do the job they hired me to do.”
The chance to sign a year-long, three-fight deal rather than get locked down in a longer agreement played a major role in his decision-making process, said Escudero, who described the decisions facing him after his release from the UFC following a loss to Charles Oliveira in Sepember as “very difficult.”
“Why they released me, I have no idea,” Escudero said. “Do I feel bad? Yes, I feel bad. But I have to put it aside. We don’t live in the past.”
It may have been a weekend devoid of big time MMA, but there was still plenty of fight action of all stripes on the airwaves this past Friday and Saturday. Between an eight-man tournament, a promise to finish in exciting fashion, and some outrageous co…
It may have been a weekend devoid of big time MMA, but there was still plenty of fight action of all stripes on the airwaves this past Friday and Saturday. Between an eight-man tournament, a promise to finish in exciting fashion, and some outrageous color commentary, we have no shortage of things to talk about on Monday morning.
What do you say we comb through the wreckage and see who the big winners and losers are after this eventful weekend in MMA?
Biggest Winner: Drew Fickett
Winning the Shine Fights lightweight grand prix may not be the triumph of a lifetime for most fighters, but after the hard times Fickett has fallen on/brought upon himself, it’s at least a break in the clouds. He beat three professional fighters in one night, all by first-round submission. Even if one of them was the eminently submittable Charles Bennett, it’s still impressive. Then again, the issue with Fickett has never been a lack of talent. Hopefully he’s had enough self-destruction by now and can use his big night as a springboard to something greater. Might be time to send a tape of his tournament win to Strikeforce, along with an assurance that he’s not under contract anywhere else this time.
(Fickett vs. Prater in the final. Props for all vids: YouTube/ZombieProphet MMA)
It took Drew Fickett all of seven minutes, 38 seconds of actual fighting to cut a swath through the Shine Fights lightweight tournament on Friday night. Three fights,…
(Fickett vs. Prater in the final. Props for all vids: YouTube/ZombieProphet MMA)
It took Drew Fickett all of seven minutes, 38 seconds of actual fighting to cut a swath through the Shine Fights lightweight tournament on Friday night. Three fights, three choke-out victories for the Arizona fighter now apparently billing himself as “The Night Rider.” By comparison, Carlo Prater – Fickett’s opponent in the final – had already lost a three-round split decision, then won a two-round majority scorecard verdict by the time they met up in the evening’s last bout. Can’t blame Prater for looking a little bit “over it” by the time he and Fickett locked horns, in light of that.
After the jump, check out Fickett’s road to the final, including his ugly arm-in guillotine on Charles “Kid Kaos” Bennett. Seriously guys, just pick a nickname and stick with it …