A few familiar, and several unfamiliar faces hit the scales this afternoon as part of the ProElite 2 event at the i Wireless Center in Moline, IL., the same venue for Saturday’s live event.
Participants include former UFC champs Tim Sylvia and Anrdei Arlovski, as well as their opponents Andreas Kraniotakes and Travis Fulton, respectively. Also featured on the main card is an 8 man Heavyweight Grand Prix, with all fighters making weight for the live HDNet broadcast.
Tweet ProElite is set to host its second event after making a successful return to the sport of mixed martial arts earlier this summer. Weigh-ins for ProElite: Big Guns is scheduled to take place today at 4pm EST in Conference Center Room A at the i Wireless Center in Moline, IL. The event is open […]
ProElite is set to host its second event after making a successful return to the sport of mixed martial arts earlier this summer.
Weigh-ins for ProElite: Big Guns is scheduled to take place today at 4pm EST in Conference Center Room A at the i Wireless Center in Moline, IL. The event is open to the public and ProElite has give-aways planned for the fans who come down to catch the live event.
The actual event, will take place on Saturday, Nov. 5, at the i Wireless Center and features a couple of former UFC heavyweight champions on the card, as well as an eight-man Heavyweight Grand Prix.
Tim Sylvia takes on German fighter Andreas Kraniotakes, while Andrei ‘Pitbull’ Arlovski meets Travis Fulton.
The full ProElite card looks as follows:
Main Card
Heavyweight bout: Tim Sylvia (266) vs. Andreas Kraniotakes (144)
Heavyweight bout: Andrei Arlovski (250) vs. Travis Fulton (230)
Welterweight bout: Reagan Penn (169.5) vs. Evan Cutts (169)
– Heavyweight Grand Prix –
Heavyweight tournament bout: Mark Ellis (242) vs. Ryan Martinez (260)
Heavyweight tournament bout: Jake Heun (236) vs. Ed Carpenter (247)
Heavyweight tournament bout: Cody Griffin (258) vs. Justyn Riley (260)
Heavyweight tournament bout: Richard Odoms (260) vs. Rodney Housley (240.5)
Preliminary Bouts
Waylon Lowe vs. Floyd Hodges
Todd Monaghan vs. Richard McCraw
Amateur Bouts
Jonathon Thomson vs. Derek Loffer
Daniel DeCamp vs. Nick McClean
German heavyweight fighter Andreas Kraniotakes meets former UFC champ Tim Sylvia this Saturday in the second ProElite event at the i wireless Center in Moline, Illinois. Kraniotakes makes his North American debut in this fight and is looking to keep the fight out of the judges hands.
German heavyweight fighter Andreas Kraniotakes meets former UFC champ Tim Sylvia this Saturday in the second ProElite event at the i wireless Center in Moline, Illinois. Kraniotakes makes his North American debut in this fight and is looking to keep the fight out of the judges hands.
Former UFC heavyweight champ Tim Sylvia is looking trimmed down from his seven previous fights at Super Heavyweight. Sylvia meets late replacement Andreas Kraniotakes in the main event of the ProElite: Big Guns event this weekend at the iWireless Center in Moline, Illinois.
Former UFC heavyweight champ Tim Sylvia is looking trimmed down from his seven previous fights at Super Heavyweight. Sylvia meets late replacement Andreas Kraniotakes in the main event of the ProElite: Big Guns event this weekend at the iWireless Center in Moline, Illinois.
ProElite today named the participants of the second bracket of its planned heavyweight grand prix and there’s a pretty good chance you won’t recognize the names on the list.
Contrary to popular belief and ads that inferred as much, the tournament will not include former UFC heavyweight champions Andrei Arlovski and Tim Sylvia. According to the press release sent out by Stratus Media Group, the tournament will be structured similarly to Strikeforce’s Challenger Series in that the “up-and-coming’ winner will earn a shot at an upper-main card slot on a future event.
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ProElite today named the participants of the second bracket of its planned heavyweight grand prix and there’s a pretty good chance you won’t recognize the names on the list.
Contrary to popular belief and ads that inferred as much, the tournament will not include former UFC heavyweight champions Andrei Arlovski and Tim Sylvia. According to the press release sent out by Stratus Media Group, the tournament will be structured similarly to Strikeforce’s Challenger Series in that the “up-and-coming’ winner will earn a shot at an upper-main card slot on a future event.
The promotion announced that Jake Heun (1-1) will take on Ed Carpenter (5-1) and Richard “The Black Eagle” Odoms (5-0) will square off with Rodney Housley (4-1) on the November 5, 2011 Proelite 2: Big Guns event we revealed earlier this month that will be televised live on HD NET from in Moline, Il at at 8:00 pm CST.
The main event for the show sees Arlovski (16-9) take on Travis Fulton (247-48-10 1 NC) while the co-main event has Sylvia (29-7) locking horns with Andreas Kraniotakes (12-4).
Tweet Tickets for ProElite 2:Big Guns Are on Sale Now Starting at Just $30, $10 Discount for Members of the Armed Forces, Police Dept. and Fire Dept. Press Release – LOS ANGELES, Calif. (October 27, 2011) – ProElite Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is proud to present the first round of their Heavyweight Grand Prix Tournament […]
Tickets for ProElite 2:Big Guns Are on Sale Now Starting at Just $30, $10 Discount for Members of the Armed Forces, Police Dept. and Fire Dept.
Press Release – LOS ANGELES, Calif. (October 27, 2011) – ProElite Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is proud to present the first round of their Heavyweight Grand Prix Tournament on November 5, 2011 from Moline, Il. This tournament consists of some of the best up and coming heavyweights in the world and the winner will be pushed into the upper tier of the heavyweight division.
Tickets for “ProElite 2:Big Guns” are on sale to the general public at the i wireless Center box office, all Ticketmaster locations (800)745-3000, Ticketmaster online and www.proelite.com.
The second bracket of the Heavyweight Grand Prix starts with Proelite veteran Jake Heun (1-1) takes on the a proven finisher in Ed Carpenter (5-1). Standing 6-foot-2 and weighing 245 pounds, Heun’s transition from University of Hawaii Linebacker and Running Back to the sport of MMA came pretty naturally due to his athleticism. Now training out of Jeremy Horn’s Elite Performance Gym in Salt Lake City, Utah this freestyle fighter only has one thing on his mind – finish every fight. In his last win on April 23, 2011, he submitted Brandon Morgan via Keylock in the second round (2:45) of their fight in Alaska.
Fighting out of Clarendon Hills, Il and training at the Midwest Training Center along side former WEC champ Chase Beebe and UFC veteran Clay Guida, Ed Carpenter really knows how to lay down the law, finishing all of his opponents before the final bell has rung. On October 15, 2011, against 50-fight veteran Miodrag Petkovic, it took Carpenter only 2 minutes and 54 seconds to submit Petkovic via arm-triangle choke. With a solid wrestling and no-gi jiu jitsu background we can be certain that Carpenter wants to drag this one to the ground and work for an exciting submission win.
Two warriors go to battle in the last quarterfinal Grand Prix bout, as Richard “The Black Eagle” Odoms (5-0) faces off against Rodney Housley (4-1). Standing at an imposing 6-foot-5 and weighing 250 pounds, Odoms will look to continue his 5-fight win streak, which includes a win over UFC veteran Darrill Schoonover on November 6, 2010. This 13-year veteran of the San Antonio Police Department has sharpened his striking skills along side MMA veteran Pete Spratt, so you know he is very dangerous on his feet.
Housley, fighting out of Cincinnati, Ohio, is looking to snap Odoms’ streak at 5 and make a name for himself in this tournament. As an amateur, Housley compiled a record of 9-1 and is a very dangerous standup fighter with knockout power. In Housley’s last fight, his opponent felt his wrath ending it by TKO in round 1(4:50). Look for this fight to be an exciting match up of two men that won’t back down from each other.
Proelite 2: Big Guns will be televised live on HD NET at 8 P.M. CST
