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RFA 34: VELICKOVIC vs SMITH FULL TV CARD ANNOUNCED

AO Welterweight TITLE
BOJAN VELICKOVIC

vs. Pineamine SMITH
CO-MAIN MAHI:
ADAM STROUP vs. JOHN Doll
Whitu pupūtanga
FRIDAY, TENUARE 15, 2016 Te noho i AXS TV
ORA i te Center 1STBANK, Broomfield, CO
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Las Vegas, Nevada – Raa te riri Alliance (RFA) president Ed Soares announced earlier this month that the promotion will return to Colorado with RFA 34 – Velickovic vs. Smith in January to kick off 2016. Now the main card has been announced. The event will be headlined by a welterweight title fight between Serbian sensation Bojan “Steel Serbian” Velickovic (12-3) and former RFA welterweight champion Benjamin Smith (15-3). The co-main event will see Colorado native Adam Stroup (10-2) and former RFA title challenger John Poppie (6-2) meet in a middleweight showdown. RFA 34 – Velickovic vs. Smith will take place Friday, January 15th inside the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, Colorado. Ka teata te kāri matua katoa ora me te motu i runga i AXS TV i 10 p.m. AND / 7 p.m. PT.
Tikiti mō te RFA 34 – Velickovic vs. Smith are available for purchase NOW through AltitudeTickets.com or you can support your favorite fighter by purchasing your tickets through CageTix.com. Tickets ki RFA 34 tīmata i te tika $30.
E wātea ana i te karanga tepu VIP 303-521-0966.
Ko te kāri matua o RFA 34 will also include a pair of RFA and Colorado fan favorites in the light-heavyweight division. Cody Mumma (8-2) is currently riding the momentum of three consecutive KO victories. That streak started with a scintillating 11-second KO of Colton Vaughn at RFA 20. The KO is tied for the second-fastest KO in RFA history.
Mumma will face fellow RFA vet Jeremy Kimball (11-5), who will be entering this contest fresh off a lightning fast KO victory of his own. That win came over Jason Clayton in just 22 seconds last summer. Heoi, Kimball’s most high-profile win to date came in the co-main event of RFA 7, when he submitted Chidi Njokuani via Rear Naked Choke.
In the bantamweight division, six-time UFC vet HugoWolverineViana (8-3) and two-time RFA vet ZacThe Anointed WarriorRiley (3-3) will share the RFA Octagon together. Viana burst on to the global MMA scene in 2012 as a semi-finalist on the first season of the UFC reality show TUF – Brazil. He then won his first two UFC bouts before losing to current UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw, who is now one of his teammates.
Riley will be entering this bout with a large amount of praise and fanfare in his own right. This past October at RFA 31, Riley made headlines after accepting a bout in Las Vegas with undefeated Hawaiian prospect Shai Lindsey on just 48 haora’ pānui. The highly-touted Lindsey, who had finished all of his opponents, was blitzed at the opening bell by southern Colorado’s newest star. Riley ended up finishing the fight in just 59 seconds with an airtight Triangle Choke.
At welterweight, Brian Camozzi (4-2) will make his long-awaited RFA debut. Camozzi is the younger brother of UFC star Chris Camozzi and fights out of Factory X Muay Thai in the greater Denver, Colorado area. He will face Tyler Milner (7-2) who is a longtime standout in the Alaska FC promotion. Milner now trains at Jackson-Wink MMA in Albuquerque, New Mexico and will be fighting for the first time in his career outside of Alaska.
Ko te kāri matua o RFA 34 will get started in the featherweight division with a pair of featherweight prospects eager to make their national television debut. Cory Sandhagen (1-0) will be making his promotional debut after enjoying a decorated amateur career. He is a main training partner of UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw at Elevation Fight Team in Denver, Colorado. Sandhagen will face undefeated Jackson-Wink MMA standout Andrew Tenneson (3-0) in a bout that is sure to get RFA commentators Pat Miletich and Michael Schiavello excited from the start. Tennesson, like his opponent Sandhagen, is a finisher as both men have finished all of their opponents before the final bell.
Ko te ki tonu i RFA 34 Kia ka kauwhautia kāri tuatahi, me te ētahi atu pārongo e pā ana ki tenei kaupapa hohoro. RFA 34 e whitu hui te whakatairanga o ki te tango i te wahi i roto i te āhua o Colorado. Ko te kāri matua katoa o RFA 34 Ka teata ora me te motu i runga i AXS TV i 10 p.m. AND / 7 p.m. PT i te Rāmere, January 15, 2016.
Haere ki RFAfighting.com for bout updates and information. RFA is also on Facebook at Facebook.com/RFAfighting, Instagram i RFAfighting, and Twitter at RFAfighting.
Mō RFA: RFA Ko te whakatairanga toi hōia whakauru ngaio e homai maranga whetu, me te runga contenders te faingamālie ke fakamo'oni'i ratou taranata ki te pā me te feia faatere i roto i te ahumahi. E whakaatu ana i te RFA ngā ora i runga i te kaupapa, tae atu Las Vegas marama a tawhio noa te United States, Los Angeles, Denver a Milwaukee. Ka taea te kite i RFA ora i roto i runga i 43 miriona mau fare motu i roto i tona mahi pouaka whakaata ki AXS TV. I roto i te Las Vegas, Nevada, RFA Ko tetahi o nga whakahaere tino kaha, me te whakaaro MMA i roto i te hākinakina e tipu tere i roto i te ao. (Ko te Tapawaru, Ultimate Fighting Championship®, UFC®, and the eight-sided competition mat and cage design are registered trademarks owned exclusively by Zuffa, LLC. Pūmau te mana).

Mō whawhai TV AXS: Rongonui mo ona ngā kaupapa Mixed Rāmere Night aotia Arts me Kickboxing AXS TV whawhai he. I tou Kāinga hoki MMA, AXS TV e faaohipahia te whatunga whwhi o whakatairanga i te United States, Canada, a Europe. And Asia to broadcast more LIVE fights than any other pouaka whakaata whatunga.“The VoiceMichael Schiavello rima-wa MMA-toa ao Pat Miletich whakarato kaimätakitaki tākaro-i-tākaro tohunga, i roto i te-hohonu toa kapinga, me te whānui tātaritanga ki ia kāri whawhai. AXS TV i paoho ngā kaupapa-ao o te piha haapiiraa whawhai LIVE i RFA, Lion Whawhai, FC tawhito, a MFC nga po Rāmere i 7 p.m. PT / 10 p.m. AND.

RFA RETURNS KI Colorado WITH RFA 34: VELICKOVIC vs SMITH

whiwhinga photo: sherdog.com
MAHI MAIN:
BOJAN “Steel Serbian” VELICKOVIC
vs. Pineamine SMITH
AO Welterweight TITLE
FRIDAY, TENUARE 15, 2016 Te noho i AXS TV
ORA i te Center 1STBANK, Broomfield, CO
Tīkiti i runga i Sale Na i ALTITUDETICKETS.com
Las Vegas, Nevada – Raa te riri Alliance (RFA) peresideni Ed Soares kauwhautia tenei ra e ka hoki mai te whakatairanga ki Colorado ki RFA 34 – Velickovic vs. Smith i roto i te Hānuere ki te whana atu te Tau Hou. Ka ngā te hui matua he whawhai taitara Welterweight i waenganui i rua whawhai roa a'e ta'na i te wehenga o rite Bojan o “Steel Serbian” Velickovic Te pakanga toa Welterweight RFA mua Pineamine Smith mo te taitara wātea. RFA 34 – Velickovic vs. Ka tangohia Smith wahi Rāmere, January 15 inside the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, Colorado. Ka teata te kāri matua katoa ora me te motu i runga i AXS TV i 10 p.m. AND / 7 p.m. PT.
“RFA he pukumahi 2016 tabula me te oaoa vau e ahau e pā ana ki te tīmata hoki i roto i Colorado reira,” Ua parau Soares. “Bojan Velickovic a Pineamine Smith e kupu matua RFA 34 mo te taitara Welterweight wātea. Ko ratou e rua nga whawhai 170-pauna roa a'e ta'na i roto i te aamu RFA o me te he ara nui ki te whana atu te Tau Hou te reira.”
Tikiti mō te RFA 34 – Velickovic vs. Smith are available for purchase NOW through AltitudeTickets.com or you can support your favorite fighter by purchasing your tickets through CageTix.com. Tickets ki RFA 34 tīmata i te tika $30. E wātea ana i te karanga tepu VIP 303-521-0966.
Velickovic (12-3) ona utu koperea tona taitara i muri i te haere i te tino 3-0 i roto i te 2015. I roto i te Maehe, te kaipahua Serbian roaa te tere wikitoria TKO a tawhio tuatahi i runga i te taukei vet MMA Chris Hugh i RFA 24. Na whai wāhi Velickovic ei melo o Team RFA i te RFA hītori vs. Hui TAONGATUKU i roto i te Mei. Ko tona a'ee te tukinga tuatahi o te whakatairanga vs. whakatairanga whakataetae a Velickovic tangohia ake te wikitoria mata-atu mahuinga ia ki Charles Byrd. Ia ka tutakina atu nga tau ki te wikitoria mo te whakapaipai whātōtō Armenian-Ukrainian Vardan Sholinian i RFA 31. Win o Velickovic mo Sholinian i Las Vegas rite i te anake 5 ra’ pānui. Na te kaupuranga “Steel Serbian” titiro ki te tīmata i te Tau Hou rite pehea 2015 haere ki raro, — ki tona ringa whakaarahia pae.
“A, no te ahau kitea i roto i taua e kia whiwhi ahau he pere taitara RFA, Ko ahau vey oaoa,” I kīia Velickovic. “Ite ahau e te tikanga e ahau tenei faingamālie, a kihai i mea faufaa te reira nei e ahau kia anga. Ka te tangata hoatu nei ngā roto i mua o ahau te whawhai ahau. Oaoa ano ahau ki te kia whawhai i roto i Colorado. Neke ahau i konei 3 marama ki muri a reira kua mana'o rite te kāinga. Tenei ka waiho i te wā tuatahi i roto i 5 tau e whiwhi ahau ki te whawhai i roto i te wahi e ora ahau. Ben Smith me ahau whawhai i runga i te kāri kotahi rua hoki RFA me te ia he dude tino uaua. Mai ia ki te whawhai a ka titiro atu ahau ki to tatou whawhai taitara i runga iJanuary 15.”
Smith (15-3) mutu ano te tau i runga i te tuhipoka tiketike ki te wikitoria whakatau loto mo te mua tūturu Craig Eckelberg i RFA 32 whakamutunga marama. Haere mai te wikitōria i runga i te rekereke o te rua piritahi RFA taitara whawhai i Smith mo te RFA i roto i 2015. Na ka titiro te tuarua-ake te toa Welterweight RFA ki te tamata mai i tona karauna RFA i roto i te mea e kite ana ia i rite ki tona heka whakamutunga ki UFC kororia. Tonu e eke i roto i te hui matua o RFA 34 ki te tangata faaite ia kāri ki i RFA e rua 20 ko RFA 24.
“Ko te mauri whakamutunga mō te OLE Ben Smith tenei,” Ua haamaramarama Smith. “Ua ahau kua ongo'i e ara i mua i toku whawhai whakamutunga, engari e ahau hiahia ano hoki ki te hoatu te periota i runga i toku mahi e te titau-toku taitara RFA me kowhetetia toku pere i roto i te UFC. Ka e ahau te wikitōria i RFA 32, engari ite e ahau kia rite ki i taea e ahau te mea i atu, i te mea ko te aha e whakaaturia e ahau i roto i tenei whawhai i muri mai. Kua Colorado atawhai tonu ahau pai, me te pārekareka ahau whakataetae ki reira. Bojan Ko te toa pai, te ia te taata hoko, me te hoariri e tika rawa. I patua e ahau i tenei whawhai, kahore he ara i taea e ahau te mea kahore. Ahau aroha ki te whakataetae me te rapu atu ahau ki tenei whawhai taitara ki Bojan.”
Ko te ki tonu i RFA 34 Kia ka kauwhautia kāri whawhai, me ētahi atu pārongo e pā ana ki tenei kaupapa hohoro. RFA 34 e whitu hui te whakatairanga o ki te tango i te wahi i roto i te āhua o Colorado. Ko te kāri matua katoa o RFA 34 Ka teata ora me te motu i runga i AXS TV i 10 p.m. AND / 7 p.m. PT i runga i Rāmere, January 15, 2016.
Haere ki RFAfighting.com for bout updates and information. RFA is also on Facebook at Facebook.com/RFAfighting, Instagram i RFAfighting, and Twitter at RFAfighting.
Mō RFA: RFA Ko te whakatairanga toi hōia whakauru ngaio e homai maranga whetu, me te runga contenders te faingamālie ke fakamo'oni'i ratou taranata ki te pā me te feia faatere i roto i te ahumahi. E whakaatu ana i te RFA ngā ora i runga i te kaupapa, tae atu Las Vegas marama a tawhio noa te United States, Los Angeles, Denver a Milwaukee. Ka taea te kite i RFA ora i roto i runga i 43 miriona mau fare motu i roto i tona mahi pouaka whakaata ki AXS TV. I roto i te Las Vegas, Nevada, RFA Ko tetahi o nga whakahaere tino kaha, me te whakaaro MMA i roto i te hākinakina e tipu tere i roto i te ao. (Ko te Tapawaru, Ultimate Fighting Championship®, UFC®, me te-iu waru whakataetae moenga, me te hoahoa whare herehere rēhita e tohu whenua anake e Zuffa, LLC. Pūmau te mana).

Mō whawhai TV AXS: Rongonui mo ona aotia AXS TV whawhai heRāmere Night hanumi Arts hōia me ngā kaupapa Kickboxing. I tou Kāinga hoki MMA, AXS TV e faaohipahia te whatunga whwhi o whakatairanga i te United States, Canada, a Europe. Na ka ki a Asia päpäho whawhai atu LIVE atu tetahi atu whatunga pouaka whakaata. “Ko te reo” Michael Schiavello rima-wa MMA-toa ao Pat Miletich whakarato kaimätakitaki tākaro-i-tākaro tohunga, i roto i te-hohonu toa kapinga, me te whānui tātaritanga ki ia kāri whawhai. AXS TV i paoho ngā kaupapa-ao o te piha haapiiraa whawhai LIVE i RFA, Lion Whawhai, FC tawhito, a MFC katoaRāmere po i 7 p.m. PT / 10 p.m. AND.

RFA RETURNS KI TE FENUA O 10,000 LAKES WITH BLUMER vs HIGO

 

MAHI MAIN:
Melvin “TOROA Killer” BLUMER
vs
Leandro “PITBULL” HIGO
Whā Showdown
FRIDAY, NOVEMA 6 Te noho i AXS TV
LIVE from Mystic Lake Casino Hotel
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Las Vegas, Nevada – Raa te riri Alliance (RFA) peresideni Ed Soares kauwhautia tenei ra e ka hoki mai te whakatairanga ki Minnesota ki RFA 32 – Blumer vs. Higo i Noema. Ka ngā te hui matua he pupūtanga whā i waenganui i rua o opuaraa whakaongaonga rawa te whakatairanga o rite ake Melvin o Minnesota “Killer Career” Blumer Te pakanga Dynamo Palāsilá Leandro “Pitbull” Fig. RFA 32 – Blumer vs. Ka tangohia Higo wahi Rāmere, Whiringa 6 inside the Mystic Showroom in Prior Lake, Minnesota. Ka teata te kāri matua katoa ora me te motu i runga i AXS TV i 10 p.m. AND / 7 p.m. PT.
“Melvin Blumer ko Leandro Higo e rua e haere mai atu te whakauru nui i runga i mua taitara challengers RFA”, Ua parau Soares. “E kore e taea e ahau tatari ki te kite i te mea e tupu no enei taahiraa e rua i roto i te RFA tapawaru tahi i RFA 32 i roto i te Lake mua, Minnesota.”
Tikiti mō te RFA 32 – Blumer vs. E wātea ana Higo mō te hoko i Ticketmaster.com or the Mystic Box Office at952-445-9000 You can also support your favorite fighter by purchasing your tickets through CageTix.com/RFA.
Blumer (12-2) returns to the the building where he recorded a front-runner for “KO o te Tau” tenei Maehe mua i RFA 24. Riro ia i tona tuatahi RFA ki te scintillating hoki-ringa KO ki runga ki te pionie rino-chinned MMA Jeff Curran. Haere mai te KO ki e rua tika hēkona e toe i roto i te taka noa tuatahi i roto i te tikanga i ko rite tonu rawa i korero te reira. Ko te auraa o te win o Blumer ko e whakakitea ana e ia te ao te mea kua mohio ki te Midwest Reanga mō tau… Melvin Blumer Ko te taranata motuhake e taea te whakaoti i te whawhai ki hea i tetahi taime. Rite ki te tango i te taahiraa i muri mai i roto i tona mahi i te anga i tetahi o te whiriwhiri a Brazil Blumer he inaianei.
“Nui atu i te hari ahau ki te kia i roto i te hui matua mo RFA te wahi e taea te hoatu e ahau i te pa mutunga i runga i te RFA tāpae 32 kāri,” kī Blumer. “Ko ahau i whawhai whakamutunga Leandro Higo o te wahi oti ia te taata e tika haere e rima rauna ki te Sharing. Ahau e kore e tino e kite i tenei whawhai e haere i te tawhiti, engari ahau e titiro atu ki te pae ara toku ringa ki tetahi hoariri uaua, me te tika.”
Fig (14-2) hanga he tauākī i roto i tona tuatahi RFA whakamutunga marama, i te RFA 29, Ko rite ki te auraa o RFA tuatahi o Blumer e. Just rite Blumer, oti ia i te hoariri nei i haere noa 5-rauna ki te toa RFA tūturu i roto i to ratou haerenga tino tata. Ko taea ki te tuku Terrion Ware mā Rear tahanga whakakowaowao ki e rua tika hēkona e toe i roto i to ratou whawhai Higo. Ko te win, ano rite Blumer, whakamatauria aha rohe pā o Higo i Brazil kua mea hoki tau… Leandro Higo Ko tetahi o te runga whawhai ki runga-a-haere mai i roto i te MMA. Hinaaro Higo he inaianei ki te kanohi Blumer i roto i te pakanga o e rua o opuaraa whā whakaongaonga rawa, me te whaihua o MMA.
“Ki te kupu matua RFA 32, he whakaatu ao, Ko te mana'o nui,” Ka mea Higo. “I’m very happy to be a part of RFA and my main goal is to become the champion and no one will stop me from achieving that. After my last fight I met Melvin and his brother. Whakaaro ahau i ratou i tetahi atu piha taimaha no ratou kei nui rawa, kaha rawa. Tawai ara ahau ki a Pedro Falcao rite “Titiro i taua Pedrinho, te rahi o te takatu ka whai ia tatou ki te tango i raro (katakata)”.
“I matou i te pāhekoheko pai, ahakoa kahore tatou e korero i te reo kotahi, i te wa pai e matou. Āhua nei e ia ki te waiho i te taata tino hauhautanga, Ahau rite ki te whakaaro ahau kotahi rawa ahau, so it wasn’t difficult. I’m sure we’ll have a great duel, ngā haere mai ia i te wini nui, Au e haere mai ahau i te wini nui, a whakapono ana ahau ki te toa o tenei whawhai e hoki te whitiki whawhai. Na ka whai tatou te toa RFA hou a ka waiho tona ingoa ko Leandro Higo.”
Whakaritea ano ki te whawhai i RFA 32 i roto i te hokinga mai o te RFA ki Minnesota e toru o nui whetu MMA o te kāwanatanga. Mua toa Welterweight RFA Pineamine Smith (14-3), te teina māhanga ōrite o Melvin Blumer me te tahi atu hawhe o te rongonui “Bash Brothers” Marvin Blumer (11-5), a runga runga o te kāwanatanga Kōmāmā Chad Curry (7-0) nei oti e whitu katoa o tona whawhai, kua. Smith, Blumer, a kua inumia katoa Curry ki te whakataetae i runga i te kāri matua o RFA 32.
Ahakoa e kauwhautia hoariri o Smith hohoro, Blumer ko Curry mohio ko wai e fehangahangai ratou i RFA 32. Ka haere mai whawhai tuatoru o Blumer i roto i te RFA ki hoa RFA vet Bill Kamery (13-4). Kua tuku Kamery tona toru hoariri whakamutunga, me te titiro ki te haere tonu i taua pūkenga i roto i tona hokinga mai ki te RFA. Na, Ka meinga e Curry tona tuatahi RFA ki Landon Vannata (6-0) in a battle of undefeated lightweight prospects. Vannata was originally set to make his promotional debut at RFA 28 whakamutunga marama, engari unuhia hoariri tona i roto o te whawhai i runga i te ra o te paunatia-i roto i. Kei te primed Vannata inaianei, rite, a vēkeveke ki te pae hopea manga i waewae i roto i te Tapawaru RFA.
Ko te ki tonu i RFA 32 Kia ka kauwhautia kāri whawhai, me ētahi atu pārongo e pā ana ki tenei kaupapa hohoro. RFA 32 e hui te toru o nga whakatairanga o ki te tango i te wahi i roto i te āhua o Minnesota. Ko te kāri matua katoa o RFA 32 Ka teata ora me te motu i runga i AXS TV i 10 p.m. AND / 7 p.m. PT i runga i Rāmere, Whiringa 6.
Haere ki RFAfighting.com for bout updates and information. RFA is also on Facebook at Facebook.com/RFAfighting, Instagram i RFAfighting, and Twitter at RFAfighting.
Mō RFA: RFA Ko te whakatairanga toi hōia whakauru ngaio e homai maranga whetu, me te runga contenders te faingamālie ke fakamo'oni'i ratou taranata ki te pā me te feia faatere i roto i te ahumahi. E whakaatu ana i te RFA ngā ora i runga i te kaupapa, tae atu Las Vegas marama a tawhio noa te United States, Los Angeles, Denver a Milwaukee. Ka taea te kite i RFA ora i roto i runga i 43 miriona mau fare motu i roto i tona mahi pouaka whakaata ki AXS TV. I roto i te Las Vegas, Nevada, RFA Ko tetahi o nga whakahaere tino kaha, me te whakaaro MMA i roto i te hākinakina e tipu tere i roto i te ao. (Ko te Tapawaru, Ultimate Fighting Championship®, UFC®, me te-iu waru whakataetae moenga, me te hoahoa whare herehere rēhita e tohu whenua anake e Zuffa, LLC. Pūmau te mana).

Mō whawhai TV AXS: Rongonui mo ona aotia AXS TV whawhai he Rāmere Night hanumi Arts hōia me ngā kaupapa Kickboxing. I tou Kāinga hoki MMA, AXS TV e faaohipahia te whatunga whwhi o whakatairanga i te United States, Canada, a Europe. Na ka ki a Asia päpäho whawhai atu LIVE atu tetahi atu whatunga pouaka whakaata. “Ko te reo” Michael Schiavello rima-wa MMA-toa ao Pat Miletich whakarato kaimätakitaki tākaro-i-tākaro tohunga, i roto i te-hohonu toa kapinga, me te whānui tātaritanga ki ia kāri whawhai. AXS TV i paoho ngā kaupapa-ao o te piha haapiiraa whawhai LIVE i RFA, Lion Whawhai, FC tawhito, a MFC katoa Rāmere po i 7 p.m. PT / 10 p.m. AND.
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