Attila “Pumukli” Vegh (29-4-2 of American Top Team) is the new Bellator Light Heavyweight Champion, after winning a unanimous decision over incumbent Christian “Tonton” M’Pumbu (18-5-1) on Thursday night, February 28, at the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho, NM. The title bout was remarkably unremarkable, with two counter-punchers circling around each other, looking for openings, with the occasional shot forward by Vegh, to which M’Pumbu responded with takedown attempts and clinches. Each 5 minute-round looked eerily similar to the last, and although each just saw the round winners differently, all of them saw that Vegh had done just enough to take away the title. M’Pumbu, devastated by h...

24/7 Entertainment brought amateur MMA to Midland in a big way, this past Saturday, Feb., 16,at Midland’s Horse Show Arena. The show, 'No Remorse' featured 13 amateur MMA fights, and filled the floor of the arena, with more than half of the fighters making their ring debut; the card displayed talent from around West Texas and New Mexico. The evening’s main event saw West Texas MMA’s Jonathen Nieto (3-1) against Ferocity’s Alec Williams (2-0) at 155-lbs. There werethree nearly identical rounds of brief standup exchange followed by takedowns for Williams, and Nieto’s frustrated attempts to escape dominant position by the Williams, whose wrestling was evidently superior, but who could...

This past Saturday, Feb. 9, the North American Fighting Championship was action packed with 18 fights, including two title bouts. The Wisconsin State Fair-Products Pavilion once again held another outstanding amateur event in Milwaukee. The crowd wasfilled with loud supporting fans for all the fighters participating in the action. NAFC Bantamweight and Welterweight titles were the main event in Saturday nights “Super Brawl”. Eric Shelton, fighting out of Miletich Fighting System in Iowa, battled Roufusport’s Andre “Grunt” Attebury for the vacant bantamweight crown. “I knew he’s a great wrestler,” Shelton said, to the ring announcer. “I would have liked to finish him with my hands,” Shelton...

Kage Wars made theirdebut opening and started off of the new company Kage Wars Promotions, LLC; with a small show in Panama City,Fla., Jan. 26The showheld at the Bay Banquet Hall across from Anytime Fitness, one of the main sponsos for the show. was headlined by two incredible practioners of mixed martial arts: Brok Weaver and Brandon Jenkins. Weaver, who is well know across the Florida Panhandle, Alabama and even in Mississippi held a record 16-7before going into the fight. Weaver isfrom Port City MMA (Mobile, AL) and he had his hands full with fan favoriteJenkins, (24-12), IND. This fight was in the works for several years and Weaver came to settle things once and for all, which was evide...

Madtown Throwdown kicked off 2013 with a stellar card featuring some of the top fighters Wisconsin has to offer and even on Saturday January 5th when the Green Bay Packers had a wild card playoff game, fans still came out to support the promotion and the competitors involved. Both the main event and co-main event should have been enough to bring everyone out, in the co main event top lightweights in Wisconsin Rob Couilliard and Tyler Hellenbrand were slated to go to war and in the main event UFC veteran Eric Schaffer was set to take on John Poppie. Fans lined up inside the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, WI to get a chance to see the high level of MMA that continues to come through the M...