Cole Miller is looking to move up the UFC lightweight ladder but you have to think he’ll still need a couple more high quality victories before he gets a shot at gold. Still he looked good scoring the submission against Ross Pearson last night …
Cole Miller is looking to move up the UFC lightweight ladder but you have to think he’ll still need a couple more high quality victories before he gets a shot at gold. Still he looked good scoring the submission against Ross Pearson last night at UFN 22.
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Former lightweight champion BJ Penn will look to win his third match against Matt Hughes which will take place at UFC 123. While a victory won’t bring Penn much besides personal satisfaction and bragging rights, a loss to former welterweight champion Hughes would certainly continue his […]
Former lightweight champion BJ Penn will look to win his third match against Matt Hughes which will take place at UFC 123. While a victory won’t bring Penn much besides personal satisfaction and bragging rights, a loss to former welterweight champion Hughes would certainly continue his downwards spiral and in a big way. Hughes could vault himself into the mix with a victory over Penn, especially as he’s riding a three fight win streak already. We can’t wait for this one to go down.
Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu brown belt and ATT fighter Cole Miller talks about his upcoming bout against Ross Pearson at UFN 22. Miller is coming off a solid submission win over Dan Lauzon at UFC 108: Silva vs. Sonnen and will look to take out opponent Ross Pearson. Pearson won The Ultimate Fighter 9 […]
Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu brown belt and ATT fighter Cole Miller talks about his upcoming bout against Ross Pearson at UFN 22. Miller is coming off a solid submission win over Dan Lauzon at UFC 108: Silva vs. Sonnen and will look to take out opponent Ross Pearson. Pearson won The Ultimate Fighter 9 with a victory over Andre Winner, and is currently riding a three fight win streak inside the Octagon. The MMA News will certainly carry live coverage for The Ultimate Fight Night 22 tommorow so check back often.
X-1 World Events presents it’s latest event, “X-1 Heroes”, Saturday Sept. 11 at the Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The “X-1: Heroes” card is packed with a fourteen fight card, which includes a four man light-heavyweight championship tournament. The main event features a 185lb title bout between Niko Vitalve vs. Kala Kolohe Hose
Fans can watch […]
X-1 World Events presents it’s latest event, “X-1 Heroes”, Saturday Sept. 11 at the Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The “X-1: Heroes” card is packed with a fourteen fight card, which includes a four man light-heavyweight championship tournament. The main event features a 185lb title bout between Niko Vitalve vs. Kala Kolohe Hose
Fans can watch the event live via PPV or an X-1 live stream on the X1Events.com website.
The MMA News had a chance to speak with X-1 promotion owner Mike Miller, to talk about Saturday’s event as well as mixed martial arts in the state of Hawaii.
TheMMANews: “You founded X-1 World Events in 2004, what inspired you to get into the MMA industry?”
Mike Miller: “ I started off with a gym that was open with a lot of aspiring fighters, and I seen how things were going—there wasn’t a lot of competition out here in terms of promotions to have all the fighters participating inn. I used to train myself, but lately I have been too busy—the more business happens the less time you have for yourself.”
TheMMANews: “The Hawaii MMA scene seems to have taking a bit of a hit in the last couple years with some of the biggest shows in North America like Superbrawl, ICON, and Rumble on the Rock now being nonexistent. Do you think there were factors other than the down economy that contributed to this?”
Mike Miller: “It’s hard to say, in 2007 all three of the big promotions had big shows here, I had the first statewide PPV televised show here. ICON had a really big stadium show out here and you had Pro Elite out here with KJ Noons fighting on their card, those were all big shows and then things took a dive after that—things just weren’t the same from that point on. Every two weeks you can go to a sports bar and watch a UFC fight and things just got so saturated that it was hard to keep people interested in MMA, and have them pay to go watch shows when they could spend $5 and go to a bar and watch the big show.”
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TheMMANews: “With you being a local, do you feel more pressure in putting on a good show for your community?”
Mike Miller: “Yeah, the better the show themore expenses you have and I mean you don’t really make that money back at the gate. So the better the show you put on the more it costs the promoter and in turn it’s harder to profit, but I do want to put on a good show for the fans regardless.”
“TheMMANews: “Your next event is X-1 Hereos is September 11; tell us about this event and how the preparation is going?
Mike Miller: “Preparation is the same thing we usually do, all of our production and pre promotion, organizing all the flights and hotels. I think its just the fight itself that is drawing the big attention—we have two of the top 185 pounders and they are both local guys so that’s drawing up the big hype out here. We also have our co main as our light heavyweight tournament in which we found a competitor from Russia, Korea, Japan, California and some local guys from here. So we used our vacant 205 pound championship to have guys from all around the world fighting for the title.”
“TheMMANews: “It is said that the success of this event could decide if the UFC comes to Hawaii, how do you feel about this and the prospect of the UFC coming to Hawaii.”
Mike Miller: “UFC is always good but bad as well, for me I’m a fight fan so I will go and watch it, but it also raises the bar on us little guys. The big lights and the big production people see that and come to expect that from all shows.”
“TheMMANews: “What are your thoughts on the future of MMA and X-1 in Hawaii?”
Mike Miller: “For the local people we are there to fill the void, and are providing jobs in terms of fighting. I feel we can stay where we are at with no problem, or we can kick it up a notch but then things to get expensive. With us being in Hawaii, the fighters cant exactly drive inn, we have to pay to drive everyone in and the hotels charge tourist rates—which is great for the fighters who get a vacation at the same time but for us everything is a bigger expense.”
“TheMMANews: “What can we expect from the show Sept 11? “
Mike Miller: “It’s been the strongest buzz we’ve ever had on the streets, a lot of people are talking, I don’t know if that means they will buy tickets but for sure we will have a good showing. Two years ago we would have had the fans that would follow their friends to the card because they had nothing to do but now it’s more of the hardcore fan base that will attend and not just wait till the results the next day. For all the fans not able to make it this time we do have a live stream that you can watch at www.x1events.com so go to that site and click on the stream to watch the fights!”
Fans not familiar with The Fight Club light-heavyweight champion, Martin “The Stress” Desilets (10-2), may become much more familiar with the French Canadian fighter if he puts on a good performance this Friday night. A win might vault Desilets into a Bellator Fighting Championship cage in the near future.
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Fans not familiar with The Fight Club light-heavyweight champion, Martin “The Stress” Desilets (10-2), may become much more familiar with the French Canadian fighter if he puts on a good performance this Friday night. A win might vault Desilets into a Bellator Fighting Championship cage in the near future.
Desilets will defend his title in a rematch with former UFC fighter Victor “The Matrix” Valimaki (16-6) in the main event of The Fight Club’s latest event, “TFC 11: Full Force”, at the Shaw Conference Center in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Quebec fighter defeated Valimaki at the last TFC event in March of this year by TKO (punches) in the first round.
The MMA News had a chance to speak with “The Stress” through his interpreter at the TFC 11 weigh-ins to talk about his title defense, as well as his future.
The MMA News: How do you feel about your rematch with Victor Valimaki?
Martin Desilets: I feel really good about it and I can’t wait.
The MMA News: Do you think this fight will be similar to the first one?
Martin Desilets: If he’s aggressive I think it could be done in the fist round. I’ll go hard too, but otherwise I’ll go with the flow.
The MMA News: If you get another win over Valimaki, what do you think is next for you?
Martin Desilets: I had a call already from Bellator (Fighting Championships), so I’m just getting my paperwork ready and I might go to Europe for a little bit also.
The MMA News: If you could face anyone, who would your dream opponent be?
Martin Desilets: There are too many great fighters to name just one opponent, but Krzysztof Soszynski (is someone I’d like to face).
The MMA News: Since were talking about Bellator, is there anyone you’d like to debut against?
Martin Desilets: I really don’t know the fighters in Bellator, but I’m willing to face anyone.
The MMA News: With the sanctioning of mixed martial arts in Ontario, could fans expect you to fight more often in that province in the future?
Martin Desilets: Yes, for sure I’d fight in Ontario. If I’m given the right fight and the right price, I’ll go. Fighting close to home will let my friends and family come out to watch me fight, but we’ll have to wait and see.
