Shine Fights Lightweight Grand Prix Will Air 8-Man Single Elimination Tournament All In One Night On Sept 10

FAIRFAX, VA (August 16, 2010) – Tickets for Shine Fights Promotions’ highly-anticipated Sept 10 return to the MMA ring are now on sale, it was announced today by Shine Fights COO Jason Chambers. Shine Fights’ Grand Prix format–an eight-man, single-elimination tournament taking place in one night–will be the first such event held in the United States in more than 15 years.  The Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA will host the electrifying event, which will also be broadcast live on PPV by MultiVision Media, Inc., beginning at 9 p.m. EST/6 p.m. PST.  The suggested retail price is $29.99.

Tickets, priced at $350, $154, $94, $74, $64, $44, and $24, went on sale Saturday morning (August 14) at 10a.m. EST and are now available at tickemaster.com.

“The Patriot Center is very pleased to host Shine Fights’ Grand Prix Lightweight Tournament on Friday, September 10, 2010. We look forward to a fantastic Mixed Martial Arts tournament and feel it will be great for fans in the Washington, D.C. area”, said Barry Geisler, General Manager of the Patriot Center.

The Grand Prix tournament is sanctioned by the Virginia State Athletic Commission, but will be contested under Nevada State Athletic Commission rules.  Each of the eight 155 lb fighters will be paired-off in the tournament’s opening round, with the four winners moving on to round two.  The two winners of round two will move on to the tournament’s final round and battle for the championship.  The single-elimination format means that the tournament winner will need to win three bouts that evening. (In case of injury there will be two alternate bouts)

Shine Fights COO, Jason Chambers said “I am so proud to see that Shine is providing MMA fans with a grand prix tournament that has been so desired. This tournament will show true competition and true fighting in the purest form.”

Rounds one and two of the tournament will be composed of two 5-minute rounds. They will also have a 3-minute overtime if needed to decide a winner. Round three (Finals) will increase to three 5-minute rounds.

The MMA showdown will be beamed on PPV on cable and satellite in the United States and Canada. The event will be in High Definition and it will be available in both English and Spanish (where available).  The MMA showdown will be distributed live on Pay Per View beginning at 9 p.m. EST/6 p.m. PST by Multi Vision Media, Inc.  The suggested retail price is $29.95.

Ticket Information:

Tickets for the Mixed Martial Arts Tournament at the Patriot Center on Friday, September 10 at 8:00 p.m. are $350.00, $154, $94.00, $74.00, $64.00, $44.00 and $24.00 (plus applicable service charges) and are on sale. Tickets will be available through all Ticketmaster outlets including the Patriot Center box office, online at www.ticketmaster.com or via Phonecharge at 703-573-SEAT, 202-397-SEAT or 410-547-SEAT. Accessible seating is available for patrons with disabilities by calling 703-993-3035. For more information please visit www.patriotcenter.com. Follow us on Facebook (PatriotCenter) or on Twitter (@patriotcenter).

Bellator FC 26 Fight Card and Schedule In Kansas City Missouri (August 26 On FOX Sports Net)

Date: Thursday- August 26, 2010

Time: 8 pm ET  (Aired on FOX Sports Net)

Location: Kansas City Power & Light District in Kansas City, Missouri- U.S.A.

Main Fight Card: (aired on FOX Sports Net)

• Mike Hayes vs. Hae Joon Yang (heavyweight tourney first round)
• Aisling Daly vs. Lisa Ward (115-pound female tourney opening round)

Sengoku Raiden Championship 14 Fight Card and Schedule In Tokyo Japan (August 22 On HDNet)

Date: Saturday- August 21, 2010

Time:  3 am ET/PT  (Aired LIVE on HDNet)

Location: Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan

Fight Card: (aired on HDNet)

• Champ Jorge Santiago vs. Kazuo Misaki (for Sengoku middleweight title)
• Akihiro Gono vs. Jadamba Narantungalag
• Hatsu Hioki vs. Jeff Lawson
• Taisuke Okuno vs. Nick Thompson (welterweight GP first round)
• Yasubey Enomoto vs. Kenta Takagi (welterweight GP first round)
• Motoki Miyazawa vs. Takuya Sato
• Shintaro Ishiwatari vs. Kil Woo Lee (bantamweight GP second round)
• Takuya Eizumi vs. Shoko Sato (bantamweight GP second round)
• Tatsuya So vs. Wataru Takahashi (bantamweight GP second round)
• Hirokazu Nishimura vs. Jae Hyun So (bantamweight GP second round)

Strikeforce Houston ‘King Mo vs Feijao’ Fight Card and Schedule In Texas (August 21 On Showtime)

Date: Saturday- August 21, 2010

Time: 10 pm ET/PT  (Aired on Showtime)

Location: Toyota Center in Houston, Texas- U.S.A.

From strikeforce.com:

STRIKEFORCE World Light Heavyweight (205 pounds) Champion “King Mo” Lawal (7-0) will make the first defense of his belt against devastating striker Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante (9-2) in the main event. The semi-main will match Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza (12-2-1) and Tim Kennedy (12-2) in a clash for the vacant STRIKEFORCE Middleweight (185 pounds) crown.

In a featured, televised bout, undefeated heavyweight rising star Bobby Lashley (5-0), will return to the cage against an opponent to be announced.

Also on the televised portion of an outstanding event, former world champion KJ Noons 11-2) will face Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu blackbelt Jorge Gurgel (13-6) in a lightweight (155 pounds) match.

A special pre-sale ticket purchase opportunity for the STRIKEFORCE event will take place for “STRIKEFORCE Insider” e-newsletter subscribers. STRIKEFORCE Insiders will receive a special e-newsletter with the pre-sale code.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, July 16 at 10 a.m. CT at www.ToyotaCenterTix.com, by phone at 1-866-4-HOU-TIX, at select Houston area Randalls locations, and at www.strikeforce.com. Tickets will be available at 9am on Monday, July 19 at the Toyota Center Box Office.

Main Fight Card: (aired on Showtime)

• Champ Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal vs. Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante (for light heavyweight title)
• Tim Kennedy vs. Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza (for vacant middleweight title)
• Jorge Gurgel vs. K.J. Noons
• Chad Griggs vs. Bobby Lashley

Preliminary Fight Card: (may not be aired)

• Daniel Cormier vs. Jason Riley
• Andre Galvao vs. Jorge Patino
• Rocky Long vs. Vinicius “Draculino” Magalhaes
• Kier Gooch vs. Adam Schindler
• Jose Santibanez vs. Reynaldo Trujillo
• Humberto DeLeon vs. Chad Robichau
• Chad Cook vs. Arteneus Young

Bellator FC 25 Fight Card and Schedule In Chicago Illinois (August 19 On FOX Sports Net)

Date: Thursday- August 19, 2010

Time: 8 pm ET  (Aired on FOX Sports Net)

Location: Chicago Theatre in Chicago, Illinois- U.S.A.

Main Fight Card: (aired on FOX Sports Net)

• Megumi Fujii vs. Angela Magana (female tourney quarterfinal bout)
• Jessica Aquilar vs. Lynn Alvarez (female tourney quarterfinal bout)
• Champ Hector Lombard vs. Herbert “Whisper” Goodman (middleweight non-title fight)
• Neil Grove vs. Eddie Sanchez (heavyweight tourney quarterfinal bout)

Preliminary Fight Card: (may not be aired)

• Shonie Carter vs. Torrance Taylor
• Brian Gassaway vs. Kevin Knabjian
• Mark Miller vs. Josh Shockley
• Keoki Cypriano vs. Eric Kriegermeier

WEC 50 ‘Cruz vs. Benavidez’ Fight Card and Schedule In Las Vegas (August 18 On Versus)

Date: Wednesday- August 18, 2010

Time: 9 pm ET/ 6pm PT  (Aired LIVE and FREE on Versus Channel)

Location: The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada – U.S.A.

From wec.tv:

On Wednesday, August 18, Joseph Benavidez gets another crack at Dominick Cruz, who handed Benavidez his first and only professional loss last in their three-round battle last August. Benavidez will challenge Dominick Cruz for the bantamweight title in a hotly-anticipated summer showdown.

This epic summer event will be held in conjunction with the MAGIC trade show, the men’s fashion industry’s premier convention – held at The Las Vegas Convention Center and The Mandalay Bay Convention Center, August 17-19.

Tickets for WEC: Cruz vs. Benavidez are available at The Pearl box office, online at ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster locations, or charge by phone at 1-800-745-3000. Ticket prices do not include service charges.

Cruz vs. Benavidez will be televised nationally live on VERSUS beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT.  All of the network’s live WEC events are presented in HD and Spanish language SAP where available. For more information and how to find VERSUS in your local viewing area, visit http://www.versus.com/findversus.

Main Fight Card: (aired on Versus)

• Champ Dominick Cruz vs. Joseph Benavidez (for bantamweight title)
• Anthony Pettis vs. Shane Roller
• Chad Mendes vs. Cub Swanson
• Scott Jorgensen vs. Brad Pickett
• Zach Micklewright vs. Bart Palaszewski

Preliminary Fight Card: (may not be aired)

• Mackens Semerzier vs. Javier Vazquez
• Maciej Jewtuszko vs. Anthony Njokuani
• Dave Jansen vs. Ricardo Lamas
• Bryan Caraway vs. Fredson Paixao
• Danny Castillo vs. Dustin Poirier

Strikeforce Challengers 10 ‘Riggs vs Taylor’ Fight Card and Schedule In Phoenix Arizona (August 13 On Showtime)

Date: Friday- August 13, 2010

Time: 11 pm ET/PT  (Aired on Showtime)

Location: Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona – U.S.A.

From strikeforce.com:

Phoenix native and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) star Joe “Diesel” Riggs will headline a stacked STRIKEFORCE Challengers event from Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona., when he takes on knockout artist Louis Taylor at a catch weight of 182 pounds in the main event.

A former super heavyweight who once competed at over 300 pounds, the 27-year-old Riggs is now a dangerous threat in multiple STRIKEFORCE divisions. He holds the rare distinction of having competed at heavyweight, light heavyweight, middleweight and welterweight during the course of an eight-year career.

Taylor, of Chicago, has rattled off two consecutive knockout wins since the STRIKEFORCE and M-1 GLOBAL: Fedor vs. Rogers event in Chicago, Ill. on Nov. 7, 2009. The 5-foot-11 Taylor has scored knockouts in four of his six victories and has only gone to the judges’ scorecards once in his pro career.

The Phoenix event, STRIKEFORCE’s first in the state of Arizona, will also feature a four-woman single elimination welterweight (135 pound) tournament. Four women will enter the cage, only one will leave with a shot at the title! Comprised of four top female contenders, Miesha “Takedown” Tate, Carina “Beauty But The Beast” Damm, Hitomi “Girlfight Monster” Akano and Maiju Kujala the tournament will be completed over the course of the evening’s fight card. The draw to determine the semi-final matchups for the two-round tournament will take place at the Official Weigh-In on Thursday, Aug. 12. The winner of the tournament will face Women’s Welterweight Champion Sarah Kaufman.

Dodge Theatre doors will open at 5:15 p.m. MT for the STRIKEFORCE Challengers event in Arizona, Phoenix. The first preliminary bout will begin at 6 p.m. and the first main card bout will begin at 8 p.m. The SHOWTIME telecast will begin at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast.)

Main Fight Card: (aired on Showtime)

• Joe Riggs vs. Louis Taylor
• Daniel Cormier vs. TBA
• Ryan Couture vs. Lucas Stark
• Hitomi Akano vs. TBA (135-pound tournament bout)
• Carina Damm vs. TBA (135-pound tournament bout)
• Maiju Kujala vs. TBA (135-pound tournament bout)
• Miesha Tate vs. TBA (135-pound tournament bout)

***NOTE***

Pairings for tournament bouts to be determined at weigh-ins

Bellator FC 24 Fight Card and Schedule In Hollywood Florida (August 12 On FOX Sports Net)

Date: Thursday- August 12, 2010

Time: 8 pm ET  (Aired on FOX Sports Net)

Location: Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida- U.S.A.

Main Fight Card: (aired on FOX Sports Net)

• Megumi Fujii vs. Angela Magana (female tourney quarterfinal bout)
• Jessica Aquilar vs. Lynn Alvarez (female tourney quarterfinal bout)
• Champ Hector Lombard vs. Herbert “Whisper” Goodman (middleweight non-title fight)
• Neil Grove vs. Eddie Sanchez (heavyweight tourney quarterfinal bout)

Preliminary Fight Card: (may not be aired)

• Yves Edwards vs. Luis Palomino
• Brian Eckstein vs. Tulio Quintanilla
• Frank Carrillo vs. Moyses Gabin*

DREAM 15 Fight Card and Schedule In Saitama Japan (Aired July 10 on HDNet)

Date: Saturday- July 10, 2010

Time: 3am ET  (Live on HDNet)

Location: Saitama Super Arena in Saitama- Japan

Main Fight Card:

• Champion Shinya Aoki vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri (for lightweight title)
• Melvin Manhoef vs. Tatsuya Mizuno (light-heavyweight grand prix opening round)
• Gegard Mousasi vs. Jake O’Brien (light-heavyweight grand prix opening round)
• Gesias “JZ” Cavalcante vs. Katsunori Kikuno
• Alistair Overeem vs. TBA

Strikeforce and M-1 Global ‘Fedor vs Werdum’ Fight Card and Schedule In San Jose (June 26 on Showtime)

Date: Saturday- June 26, 2010

Time: 10 pm ET  (Live on Showtime)

Location: HP Pavilion in San Jose, California- U.S.A.

Main Fight Card: (aired on Showtime)

• Fedor Emelianenko vs. Fabricio Werdum
• Champion Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos vs. Jan Finney (for women’s middleweight title)
• Cung Le vs. Scott Smith
• Pat Healy vs. Josh Thomson

Preliminary Fight Card: (may not be aired)

• Ron Keslar vs. Magomed Shikshabekov

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