Former ‘King of the Cage’ champion Tim ‘The Dirty Bird’ Means (16-3-1) is set to make his Octagon debut on short notice when he meets fellow newcomer Bernardo Magalhaes (11-1) at the upcoming UFC on FUEL 1 show this month in Nebraska. The promotion added the bout to the official fight card this past week. […]
KOTC lightweight champ Tim Means
Former ‘King of the Cage’ champion Tim ‘The Dirty Bird’ Means (16-3-1) is set to make his Octagon debut on short notice when he meets fellow newcomer Bernardo Magalhaes (11-1) at the upcoming UFC on FUEL 1 show this month in Nebraska.
The promotion added the bout to the official fight card this past week.
Magalhaes had been scheduled to face Yoislandy Izquierdo on the card, but Izquierdo was pulled due to contractual issues with a former promotion.
UFC on Fuel TV: Sanchez vs. Ellenberger (aka UFC on Fuel TV 1) is scheduled to take place on February 15, 2012 at the Omaha Civic Auditorium in Omaha, Nebraska.
Means has won seven in a row and is undefeated in nine bouts. His most recent win took place last month with a 30-second finish of opponent Tye Brown at the KOTC – Total Destruction event. ‘The Dirty Bird’ has finished 12 opponents by (T)KO, 3 by submission and won once by decision, the only time he’s left it to the judges and it was a five round title match.
Magalhaes has fought exclusively in Australia over his pro-career, and enters the Octagon on a five fight win streak. He recently defending the Cage Fighting Championship title last June, earning a unanimous decision at the Australian event. Magalhaes has won twice by submission and nine times by decision in his career.
Continuing the trend of mind boggling losses to the MMA world, multiple reports have confirmed that veteran King of the Cage announcer and radio personality Christopher “Big Poppa” Schnake passed away Monday, just days after announcing for King of the Cage: Kingpin on Saturday night. The news was broken by Schnake’s close friend and business partner “Victory Jay”.
Reports say that “Big Poppa” pulled over at a rest stop on his drive home and passed away in his car. According to Jay, Schnake had mentioned that he needed to “get his diabetes under control” in a phone conversation shortly after collapsing mid show at “Kingpin”, but that his death was shocking nonetheless.
Continuing the trend of mind boggling losses to the MMA world, multiple reports have confirmed that veteran King of the Cage announcer and radio personality Christopher “Big Poppa” Schnake passed away Monday, just days after announcing for King of the Cage: Kingpin on Saturday night. The news was broken by Schnake’s close friend and business partner “Victory Jay”.
Reports say that “Big Poppa” pulled over at a rest stop on his drive home and passed away in his car. According to Jay, Schnake had mentioned that he needed to “get his diabetes under control” in a phone conversation shortly after collapsing mid show at “Kingpin”, but that his death was shocking nonetheless.
Besides being the energetic voice behind the King of the Cage promotion, Schnake was also an entrepreneur, who along with Jay started Cagetix, an online Ticketmaster-type business that more efficiently allowed fans of local and upstart MMA shows access to tickets. Cagetix even went as far as to provide a portion of the ticket sales to struggling fighters in return for generating traffic for the site. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his friends and family.
Press Release – King of the Cage, Inc., and Magnaflow Exhaust Products present “Epic Force.”
This stellar MMA fight card featuring two World Championship bouts, will be the first opportunity for KOTC fans in the greater Dallas area to attend a live event.
The event takes place Friday, June 24 at the beautiful Winstar World Casino in […]
Press Release – King of the Cage, Inc., and Magnaflow Exhaust Products present “Epic Force.”
This stellar MMA fight card featuring two World Championship bouts, will be the first opportunity for KOTC fans in the greater Dallas area to attend a live event.
The event takes place Friday, June 24 at the beautiful Winstar World Casino in Thackerville, Okla.
KOTC’s Heavyweight stars, Nick “Afrozilla” Gaston and Tyler “The Beast” East, will battle for the heavy weight belt. No small affair on the card is the Flyweight Championship bout between, Los Angeles’s, Jared Papazian, as he faces the legendary, Abel Cullum, of New Mexico.
Also featured on the card is undefeated fighter, Treston Thomison, of Ardmore, Oklahoma. Who has been earning a reputation with his exciting aggressive style. The event will be filmed and air two weeks after the event on cable televison. Broadcast on the following networks: Sunsports, Msg, Comcast sports CA+SE, Cox Sports, Mid Atlantic, Altitude. For more information please visit www.kingofthecage.com
MAIN EVENTS
HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
NICK GASTON Vs TYLER EAST
FLYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT
JARED PAPAZIAN Vs ABEL CULLUM
TREY HOUSTON Vs RYAN MCCURDY
NICK MASTERS Vs GERALD LOVATO
SCOTT BEAR Vs TRESTON THOMISON
BRANDON NEWSOME Vs BILL ALBRECHT
KIRK GIBSON Vs DAVID ROBERTS
KYLE KELLEY Vs HUNTER TUCKER
Press Release – June 13, 2011: King of the Cage, Inc, and, Magnaflow Exhaust products, presents, “Shockwave”.
Saturday, July, 23rd, at, Gold Country Casino, in Oroville, California.The card features four main events starting with, Carter “Triple Threat” Williams, formerly known as “The Beast” and comes with a lot of experience as he is a, K-1, veteran […]
Press Release – June 13, 2011: King of the Cage, Inc, and, Magnaflow Exhaust products, presents, “Shockwave”.
Saturday, July, 23rd, at, Gold Country Casino, in Oroville, California.The card features four main events starting with, Carter “Triple Threat” Williams, formerly known as “The Beast” and comes with a lot of experience as he is a, K-1, veteran holding a record of, 39-12, in Kickboxing and was the, 2003, winner of the K-1 Grand Prix Championship in Japan, with a second round knockout over, Bjorn Bregy. Carter, has notable K-1 wins against, Charlid “Die Faust, Nobu Hayashi, Big Daddy Gary Goodrich, Dewey Cooper, Michael McDonald, and, Rick Rofous.
Carter, is a bully, constantly pushing forward to punish his opponents with kicks and punches never letting his opponent feel confident; so who better to pit against a bully than a, Monterrey County Sheriff. Ben Davis, also has a strong Kick Boxing background and has trained in that style most of his life. With this “Triple Threat” breathing down his neck he’ll really have to let it all go and we look forward to watching this Sheriff, bring law and order to the “bad boy.”
Northern California residents, will be able to see MMA’s original bad boy, Charles “Krazy Horse” Bennett. Charles has been featured frequently on Pay-per-view and SHOWTIME and has become increasingly popular for his knockout punches and powerful body slams. Coming in with, 2, World Championship Belts. Is another striker, of great fortitude, Jerimiah Metcalf; his ground defense and wrestling has won him a majority of his wins, he also possesses very accurate and heavy hands. His opponent is a fierce competitor that usually fights at, 185lbs, so with, Marcus Gaines, staring him down he had best be prepared for an intense bout. Marcus, recently met ,Jason “The Live Wire” Von Flue, in the cage and crushed his Orbital taking, the long time vetran, out of the game for quite awhile. Marcus, is a proficient and dangerous wrestler as well. Making this a very competitive match up.
Rick “The Holy Terror” Reeves who is fighting for souls through the week and on Sunday’s is a genuine warrior. This Preacher from, Reno, Nevada, is a very tough striker. The Preacher, will face, Zac Bucia. Zac, is also very tough with striking, kicks and has an impressive ground defense, so this preacher will have to pull out everything from his bag of tricks to break the soul of his opponent. A special treat for everyone is a female fight; Elaina Maxwell who just won the World Gi Brazillian Ju Jitsu, Championships, held in Southern California, has been in the cage with, Gina Carano, Meisha Tate, and to her credit, Michelle Maher. She’s also a 3X, World San Shou Champion; she is the, 1st, American, competitor (male or female) at the World Wushu Games, to bring home a gold medal. With that said we know she is tough as nails but she also holds a degree in business and is an, MMA, commentator and combative instructor for the, US military. Her opponent best be on her best game ever because, Elaina, will not let her forget this night. Win or lose, Nicole Johnson, will add a credit to her record just by entering the cage with Elaina. For more information please visit www.kingofthecage.com
Press Release – May 21, 2011: Magnaflow Exhaust products, and King of the Cage, Inc., presents, King of the Cage “Future Legends 2″. The event takes place Saturday, June, 4th, at the the Eastside Cannery Casino’s, Eastside Events Center.
The event features the sports up and coming, talent looking to make their mark on the, MMA, […]
Press Release – May 21, 2011: Magnaflow Exhaust products, and King of the Cage, Inc., presents, King of the Cage “Future Legends 2″. The event takes place Saturday, June, 4th, at the the Eastside Cannery Casino’s, Eastside Events Center.
The event features the sports up and coming, talent looking to make their mark on the, MMA, community. The incredibly popular and talented jujitsu stylist Kurt Crum returns and 2, time, National Champion Wrestler, Matt Conte, undefeated 6-0, makes his KOTC debut. doors open 6:00 PM event starts 7:00 PM. Tickets can be purchased at www.eastsidecannery.com.
June, 4th, 2011
EASTSIDE CANNERY
Kurt Crum (1-0-0) 170 ROBERT HRCKA (1-2-0)
Matt Conte (6-0-0) 165 BRANDON UPCHURCH
James Lanham (2-2-0) 155 TYLER PAUAO (2-2-0)
Aaron Williams (1-0-0) 160 Anthony Gomez (0-0-0)
JOHNNY MEDINA (1-0-0) 145 TYSON HEWELU (1-1-0)
Daniel Cuison (1-0-0) 170 KAINAN LANDER (0-0-0)
Jacob Malili (1-0-0) 155 Frank Hayden (0-1-0)
Sean Cantor (1-0-0) 135 RICHARD MALISIG (1-1-0)
Derek Imig (1-0-0) 170 KIRBY MCKENZE (0-0-0)
Jose Lopez (0-0-0) 145 Ross Bradshaw (0-1-0)
BRIGETTE BEACH (1-1-0) 135 REBECCA MAIN (0-0-0)
Chris Dial (0-1-0) 155 CASEY CLENDENEN (0-0-0)
LOUIS CRUZ (0-0-0) 260 JOSH KOTCH (0-0-0)
KAHIL ROUNDTREE (1-0-0) 205 TBA
Javier Guzman (1-1-0) 145 CHRIS HOFFMAN (0-0-0)
TONY STEWART (1-0-0) 155 Ryan Dela Cruz (4-1-0)
Press Release – Magnaflow Exhaust Products, and San Manuel Casino, present King of the Cage Empire. Thursday, February 11th, in Highland, California.
This stellar fight card will define rankings, championships and set up potential Title fights. Topping the fight card is a Championship Super Heavyweight showdown between currently undefeated Champion Neil Cooke, who has holds a […]
Press Release – Magnaflow Exhaust Products, and San Manuel Casino, present King of the Cage Empire. Thursday, February 11th, in Highland, California.
This stellar fight card will define rankings, championships and set up potential Title fights. Topping the fight card is a Championship Super Heavyweight showdown between currently undefeated Champion Neil Cooke, who has holds a perfect 6-0 record. Winning all fights in the 1st round. 3 by TKO and 3 by submission. This well rounded Champion looks to keep his unbeaten streak alive but will face heavy opposition in 6”2”, Esteves “Quit Riot “ Jones, of Sierra Vista, Arizona who is 5-1 with 4 victories by KO.
Championship action continues in the 135lbs Fly Weight class as recently crowned Champion, Jimmie “El Terror” Rivera, of Brooklyn, NY, with a record of 7-1, seeks his 1st title defense after dethroning long time Champion, Abel Cullum, He will face off against Jared Papazian, 11-5-1 of Glendale, CA, who has won his last 5 fights 3 by KO and 2 judges decisions. And has remained undefeated since dropping down to the 135lbs division. Rivera, stated” He looks forward to defending his title and has increased his training from 2 time a day to 3 times a day in preparation for this bout. Papazian, who watched Rivera, recent victory over, Abel Cullum said he noticed that Rivera, has transitioned form being a fighter who relied on his wrestling to a more well rounded fighter still feel he will be able to overcome the champ and finish him on the ground and he has also increased his cardio training as this will be the first time he fights five, 5 minute rounds.
In a bout that will determine the # 1 ranking at 185lbs middle weight division. Johnathan Brandon 5-1 of John Munoz’s school will face 10-4 Kenny Mccorkell, the winner of this bout will fight for the Middle weight title on April 21st. The card will also feature, Paul Arras, Demetrice Woods, Chris Culley, Joe Williams, Gabe Lopez, Chris Armbrister, and Andrew Pena. More information can can found at www.kingofthecage.com
