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Shine Fights Announces Pairings for Friday’s Lightweight Tournament

Filed under: NewsIt’s been an interesting – and mostly rough – road leading to Shine Fights’ lightweight tournament. But two days before the event, the promotion made official its grand prix pairings.

As Shine Fights COO Jason Chambers announced on T…

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It’s been an interesting – and mostly rough – road leading to Shine Fights’ lightweight tournament. But two days before the event, the promotion made official its grand prix pairings.

As Shine Fights COO Jason Chambers announced on Twitter in the days leading up to the tournament, first-round tournament matches between Drew Fickett and Charles “Krazy Horse” Bennett, Rich Crunkilton and Carlo Prater and James Warfield and Kyle Baker were confirmed by the promotion Wednesday night. Also made official was the fourth bout, Shannon Gugerty vs. Dennis Bermudez.

Shine Fights Makes New Oklahoma Tournament Site Official

Filed under: NewsIt will have to change course and move halfway across the country to do it, but Shine Fights’ lightweight tournament will go on as scheduled.

On Saturday, MMA Fighting was first to report the news that the promotion had been denied a…

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It will have to change course and move halfway across the country to do it, but Shine Fights’ lightweight tournament will go on as scheduled.

On Saturday, MMA Fighting was first to report the news that the promotion had been denied a license in Virginia for its Sept. 10 lightweight grand prix at the Patriot Center in Fairfax and would be moving the event to Oklahoma.

On Monday, Shine Fights COO Jason Chambers made the move official on his Twitter account. Less than a week before the event, which is scheduled to air on pay-per-view, Shine will move to the First Council Casino in Newkirk, Okla.

Shine Fights Forced to Move Tourney From Virginia to Oklahoma

Filed under: FanHouse Exclusive, NewsJust a week before its lightweight grand prix tournament, Shine Fights has had to make a fairly major change in plans.

The promotion had a one-night, eight-man lightweight tournament planned for Sept. 10 at the Pat…

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Just a week before its lightweight grand prix tournament, Shine Fights has had to make a fairly major change in plans.

The promotion had a one-night, eight-man lightweight tournament planned for Sept. 10 at the Patriot Center on the George Mason University campus in Fairfax, Va. But MMA Fighting has learned that though the tournament will still go on, Shine will pack up camp and move the event to Oklahoma. The exact location and venue is not yet known.

According to a source close to the promotion, the issue at the heart of the move was a marketing push by Shine that gave fans the opportunity to choose the matchups for the first-round bouts in the tournament. That apparently didn’t sit well with Virginia’s commission, which operates under the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation. The commission wouldn’t issue Shine a license because of the fan matchmaking, the source said.