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MFC 30: Brian Cobb To Meet Drew Fickett In Co-Main Event

Cobb perfect foil for Fickett
Rival submission specialists to battle in MFC 30 co-main event
Press Release – May 26, 2011: The Maximum Fighting Championship has signed world-ranked lightweight Brian “The Bandit” Cobb to a multi-fight contract that will include his debut bout in the main event at MFC 30: Up Close & Personal.
Cobb (18-6) will meet […]

Cobb perfect foil for Fickett
Rival submission specialists to battle in MFC 30 co-main event

Press Release – May 26, 2011: The Maximum Fighting Championship has signed world-ranked lightweight Brian “The Bandit” Cobb to a multi-fight contract that will include his debut bout in the main event at MFC 30: Up Close & Personal.

Cobb (18-6) will meet top title contender Drew “Night Rider” Fickett (41-13) in a three-round, non-title affair on Friday, June 10 at the Mayfield Conference Centre in Edmonton, Alberta. HDNet Fights will air the event live, including the evening’s co-main event of Pete “The Secret Weapon” Spratt against “The Irish Hand Grenade” Marcus Davis, beginning at 10 p.m. ET/8 p.m. MT/7 p.m. PT (check local listings for channel designation).

“I am very excited about this matchup,” said Mark Pavelich, MFC Owner/President. “Brian Cobb (http://www.fightmatrix.com/fighter-search/?fName=brian+cobb) is someone who has been on our radar for some time, and I think this is the perfect time to bring him in.

“He’s ranked in the top 20 in the world, which is outstanding considering the depth of talent in the lightweight division. I believe he and Drew Fickett will put on a tremendous showcase of their skills which will make for a dynamic and entertaining fight. Having two extremely tactical fighters like Cobb and Fickett apply their trade in a co-main event with such devastating as Spratt and Davis – that’s the best of both worlds for true mixed martial arts fans.”

A submission specialist with 12 victories coming by way of tapout, Cobb enters the MFC ring for the first riding a three-fight winning streak. The 31-year-old Bakersfield, California, product holds a notable career win over Diego Saraiva, defeated Kazunori Yokota in Japan last fall, and holds three wins in three bouts against former rival John Reedy – the only losses in Reedy’s career.

Along with his jiu-jitsu game, Cobb is an accomplished wrestler with a decorated amateur career. A former high school All-American, Cobb was an NCAA Division I national qualifier and was a Pac-10 finalist while competing for Cal State University-Bakersfield.

Fickett, who fights out of Tucson, Arizona, will make his long-awaited return to the Maximum Fighting Championship following his scintillating performance over Matt Veach at MFC 28. The gifted submission specialist carries a five-fight winning streak into his matchup against Cobb, and has notable career wins over former MFC title challenger Derrick Noble, Josh Koscheck, Josh Neer, and Kenny Florian.

Ryan Jimmo’s ‘Big Deal Blog’ Number Two: Season’s Beatings

(Jimmo making Wilson Gouveia think long and hard about returning to jiu-jitsu competition. Photo courtesy PicYourAngle Photography) Arguably Canada’s top light-heavyweight fighter, Ryan “The Big Deal” Jimmo raised eyebrows when …

(Jimmo making Wilson Gouveia think long and hard about returning to jiu-jitsu competition. Photo courtesy PicYourAngle Photography)

Arguably Canada’s top light-heavyweight fighter, Ryan “The Big Deal” Jimmo raised eyebrows when he turned down an MFC title bout against promotional newcomer Glover Texeira earlier this year because he felt that the Brazilian hadn’t done enough to earn a the opportunity to fight for the strap. Jimmo had to win seven fights in the MFC to be considered for a shot, and figured that anyone else he would have to fight for the belt should have to at least win one fight under the organization’s banner to earn the same..

His decision was met with an even split of support and opposition, but the St. John, New Brunswick native stood by his convictions and was eventually offered another shot at the title vacated by Trevor Prangley against MFC veteran, Dwayne Lewis at MFC 28 on February 25.

If you’re unfamiliar with Jimmo, you likely won’t be for long as 2011 promises to be a breakout year for the two-time Pan-Am medalist and four-time Canadian national karate champion who is riding a 13-fight win streak into his bout with Lewis – a fighter he defeated by decision three years ago.

In 2008 he appeared on the first episode of The Ultimate Fighter 8, but lost a very close majority decision to Antwain Britt and was sent home.

Since then he switched camps and moved from Nova Scotia to Edmonton where he joined the Hayabusa Fight Team, becoming a more well rounded fighter as a result of his hard work, diverse training partners and methods.

Ryan has offered to give the Potato Nation and inside look at his training and thoughts heading into his fight in February and as such he will be doing an exclusive training camp blog for us every week for the next eight weeks leading up to MFC 28.

Check out his second entry after the jump.

UPDATED Exclusive: Ryan ‘Big Deal’ Jimmo’s Camp Explain Why They Turned Down MFC LHW Title Shot

(Jimmo’s a tough dude, but his mean-mug needs work.)
Imagine spending more than three years working for a company and putting in countless gallons of your blood sweat and tears in equity to be given the opportunity to compete for a promotion within the…

(Jimmo’s a tough dude, but his mean-mug needs work.)

Imagine spending more than three years working for a company and putting in countless gallons of your blood sweat and tears in equity to be given the opportunity to compete for a promotion within the organization. Now imagine if the company’s president decided to bring in a talented, but underrated go-getter to interview for the role you worked frenetically and incessantly to earn in your 44 months under his employ.

Chances are you might not be too receptive of the proposition.

That’s exactly the situation Ryan Jimmo found himself in the past few weeks when negotiating his next fight with the Canada-based Maximum Fighting Championship.

Antonio McKee Doesn’t Have to Cash Out His Roth IRA Just Yet, You Guys

(Fight starts at 2:45. VidProps: YouTube/ ZombieProphetMMA)
Alas, we’ll never know if Antonio McKee really would have made good on his threat to retire if his MFC lightweight title match against Luciano Azevedo went to decision on Friday. McK…

(Fight starts at 2:45. VidProps: YouTube/ ZombieProphetMMA)

Alas, we’ll never know if Antonio McKee really would have made good on his threat to retire if his MFC lightweight title match against Luciano Azevedo went to decision on Friday. McKee, who’d promised to beat Azevedo like he cheated him at dice, needed just three minutes, 11 seconds to stop the 26-year-old Brazilian, after gashing him open with a pair of nasty right elbows on (where else?) the ground.

Give McKee some credit, he doesn’t look like a boring fighter here. Though this fight is marred by an early low blow by Azevedo, McKee slams him to the mat immediately after the restart — “Boom-shaka-laka!” yells the always understated Michael Schiavello, at that point — and goes to work with punches and elbows. As soon as Azevedo sees his own blood – “Blood is absolutely pissing out!” shouts Schiavello, ever elegant – the fight is pretty much over. After that, it takes McKee an uncharacteristic extra minute on the mic before he starts saying crazy stuff. Then he calls out some UFC guys.

Ryan Ford: Fighting for His Family, Redemption and Respect

(Photo courtesy RyanTheRealDealFord.com)
By Mike Russell
Five years ago Ryan Ford’s goals and priorities were much different than they are today.
Back then he didn’t have anyone to answer to but the man in the mirror and his motivatio…

(Photo courtesy RyanTheRealDealFord.com)

By Mike Russell

Five years ago Ryan Ford’s goals and priorities were much different than they are today.

Back then he didn’t have anyone to answer to but the man in the mirror and his motivation for bettering himself was to help plead his case for parole.

Having grown up straddling the poverty line while raised alongside his younger brother and sister by a hard working single mother, Ford was enticed by the gangster lifestyle, partially due to the fact that he lacked a male role model in his life, partially because he grew up without and partially because he had been fooled by Hollywood into believing that being a criminal can be glamorous.

A lifelong athlete, Ford, who was a standout on the high school gridiron and track, was recruited along with a handful of his junior football teammates to be debt collectors for a powerful drug dealer in his hometown of Abbotsford, British Columbia. Although none of them had criminal pasts besides minor brushes with the law as teenagers for being, well, irresponsible teenagers, they were far from being thugs. But because they were a tough, muscular brood and they knew how to bully and to intimidate – skills they developed on the football field, they figured, why not make some easy money using their physical assets.

The problem was, they were all young and none of them really knew what they were doing aside from what they had seen the guys in movies do and they proved just how little experience they had being criminals as they botched a collection visit in which a small-time dealer who owed their boss a substantial amount of money was assaulted in front of his wife and children while the three men searched his home for the cash and drugs. The man’s wife escaped the house and called police from a relative’s home and the trio were caught as they fled the scene.

Antonio McKee Wagers MMA Career on MFC 26 Title Bout Not Going to Scorecards

("You see these? I’m gonna beat you without even hitting you with them. THAT’S how good I am.")
If we’ve learned anything in the past couple years, it’s not to believe fighters when they say, "If I &nbs…

("You see these? I’m gonna beat you without even hitting you with them. THAT’S how good I am.")

If we’ve learned anything in the past couple years, it’s not to believe fighters when they say, "If I , I will retire."

Maybe we need to institute another Cage Potato ban.

According to Maximum Fighting Championship lightweight champion Antonio McKee, his claim is different than those of guys like CroCop, Kurt Pellegrino, Quinton Jackson, Juanito Ibarra (I know he’s not a fighter, but I’m still pissed off that he welched on his retirement) and Georges St-Pierre as he claims he’s serious when he says he will walk away from the sport if his September 10 MFC 26 bout in Brandon, Manitoba with Luciano Azevedo goes to the judges’ scorecards.