Tūtohu Archives: Mountain Valley High School

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Raruraru Rere Runga rite mua Falcons timí Kia rite mō te MMA Cage Battle

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Lewiston, Maine (January 10, 2018) – Whakatipu ake i roto i te hapori puru-kara taua, me te atu i roto i te taua, hōtaka hākinakina ngā papa e kore e tika kia rua nga tangata hoa pai.

 

 

 

Mua hoa tākaro Valley Mountain High School, a whawhai heke mai New England whakauru hoariri toi hōia, Ryan Burgess ko Nate Boucher he taunakitanga o te parau tawhito, “ia rātau ahu whakahawea.”

 

 

 

Burgess, 24, ko Boucher, 21, ka whawhai i roto i te a'ee mā runaruna i "NEF 32: Super Rāhoroi"I runga i Rāhoroi, February 3. Ko te whawhai i Androscoggin Bank Colisee ka whakatau i te tau kotahi nguha i roto i te wehenga 125-pauna, ka whiwhi i te toa koperea he taitara ki toa Justin Witham.

 

 

 

ka kua te reira i tata te tau mai Burgess, he toru-wā toa Maine nonoke kura nui, me te titleholder NEF mua, haere ki roto ki te whare herehere. huaina e ia NEF tahi-rangatira, me te matchmaker Matt Peterson me āta tono i te whawhai Boucher.

 

 

 

Aha? I te kotahi ringa, ko reira he whakatau pakihi i muri tata o Boucher, ritua-whakatau mate ki Witham i roto i te taitara a'ee Whiringa.

 

 

 

"Kua kua ahau i roto i mo te tau. I tumanako ahau ki peke matau hoki ki te whawhai taitara,"Ua haamaramarama Burgess. "I muri i whawhai a Nate ki Witham, i mohio ahau e hiahia ana ia i te rematch tonu. Kia riro te reira kitea kihai i e haere ana ki te tupu noa April, ka ui ahau ki te taea e meatia e matou tenei whawhai i roto i te Hui-tanguru, a tangohia ana Nate reira ".

 

 

 

Burgess (2-2) muri whakarewahia kotahi e rua ranei pohū pāpāho pāpori i puta ki te tohu i te tahi taumata o inoino ki tona hoa Falcon. Ko te pea iti whaiaro i te rauhanga; ite Burgess ha faingamālie ki te whakamahi te mea kite ia rite tetahi o nga chinks i roto i te patu o Boucher.

 

 

 

"Nate, ake mai ko ia he koati, He huru mimi-rawakore ina ngaro ia. Te ti'aturi nei e ahau ki te whakaiti ia ia i te iti moka, me te kia tino kore e ia i ki manukanuka tenei whawhai whiwhi i roto i nga ringa o nga kaiwhakawa,"Ka mea a Burgess. "Nate pea i taea kua he rua- ranei-toru-wā toa kāwanatanga, ki te i hoatu e ia ia te whai wāhi ki te mahi e. Ki te ia kua tonu te taua huru i whakahokia e ia na, te haere i te reira ki te mutunga i te ara ano. "

 

 

 

Burgess Ko tetahi o wha anake e toru-wā toa kāwanatanga i roto i te hītori MVHS. Opuahia, teina o Boucher, Etana, oti ano te feat.

 

 

 

Boucher, e kua tangohia i roto i wha-wā toa whāriki Maine kura nui, me rua-wā whiringa New England, Jeremiah Barkac o Dexter i roto i tona wa i roto i te tapaono NEF, titiro a ka tangi rite te pūāhua rerekē atu te tetahi e takatakahi atu i te whāriki rite te taiohi.

 

 

 

I muri toa ana whawhai tuatahi e rua ki te humarie, Boucher (2-1) Ko e kore te kotahi anake i roto i te whare nei ua i mea ai ia nui ki te whiwhi i te whitiki i roto i Portland.

 

 

 

"Whakaaro ahau te mana e ahau nga rauna tuatahi e rua o te whawhai. e toru katoa, tino. Ko te rua tuatahi ahau tino nui i (Witham) kowaowaotia atu,"Ka mea a Boucher. "Mutu te reira i ake te he wheako akoranga hoki ahau e kore e taea e koutou te waiho i te whawhai ki nga kaiwhakawa. Ko te mea nui e pā ana ki te rarangi runaruna he, i o te akoranga tiaki ahau e pā ana ki toku lekooti, i te mutunga o te ra te reira wahi o te tukanga ako, ki te hanga koe i te ngaio pai. "

 

 

 

I roto i te whakautu ki Burgess’ waipūtanga i runga i Facebook, ui Boucher whanonga te toa o mua i muri i toa i te here NEF rua whawhai ki tona mahi.

 

 

 

"E kore au nui mo te korero paru ahau. Ahau oaoa i tika te hākinakina. Ahau rite ki te whawhai, me te ka tika haere te kāinga. e ia i te reira i te iti ki te hanga i tona huru whakaaro ahau,"Ka mea a Boucher. "Maturuturu iho e ia te whitiki hoki i he ia raruraru hanga taimaha, i te mea tino faatura ore, i roto i toku whakaaro. Ko atu ia mo te ia, na au ahau inaianei mua o ia, a ka mohio ia kua ia ki te haere i roto i ahau. "

 

 

 

ka mea a Burgess whakamahia ia e okioki i ki te whakaoti i tona mātauranga kāreti me te whakawhanake ana taipitopito tuakiri rite he kaiāwhina kaihaumanu tinana, tohu e he pea atu ki te hei tona mahi i te MMA wā roa-te tikanga hauora.

 

 

 

I tonu ia tona hōtaka whakangungu i Rumford Center Community ki berserkers MMA, ka mea a Burgess i reira iti kaha, me te hanganga i mua ki tona parekura ki Witham me Dustin Veinott. patua mua Burgess tāwhai e rua.

 

 

 

"Pae tino tonu i patu te ratou e ahau, otiia hinengaro kihai i ahau i rite rite rite kia ahau kua. Na au nui atu arotahi ahau,"Ka mea a Burgess. "I te wa i oti ahau te kura, mahi-wā wahi 20 ki 30 haora i te wiki, me te haere ki te kura mo te pea tetahi atu 40. ngaro ahau e rua whawhai te wahi i ahau i raro i te taimaha. I whiwhi ahau taimaha ia ratou e tapahi i te tahi atu eé taimaha. Hiahia haere ahau i roto i reira i te rohe, a e hoatu ana e ratou ki runga ki 10 ki 15 pauna i waenganui i te paunatia-i roto i, me te whawhai. "

 

 

 

Boucher Admittedly kore tae tona pūmanawa rite te mamau kura nui. Kua aru ia he ara rerekē atu Burgess, whakauru i Central Maine Palāsilá Jiu-Jitsu - te wahi ia whakaako tonu tenei ra - i tau 13.

 

 

 

"E e ahau etahi o nga hoa whakangungu uaua me pai i roto i te āhua,"Ka mea a Boucher. "Kua tae mai toku Jiu-Jitsu te ara roa, tata te wāhi i reira kua haere ai toku tohe i te iti moka. O te akoranga, mamau Ko te aha ahau haere hoki tonu ki ina hiahia ahau i te reira. Taku Tūrongo he po-a-ra. Ko reira ri'ari'a hoki toku whawhai tuatahi. "

 

 

 

tapiritia ia e kua tae mai tona angitu nui i roto i MMA i te utu o kainonoke mua.

 

 

 

Kei te tatau Burgess i runga i Boucher ki haafaufaa ore i te toenga o tona wāwāhi. Ka rite ki te tangata e tangohia e ake tohe i runga i te rōpū kura waenganui Varsity teina i roto i te whitu o kōeke, ka mea ia e kawea tona hītori rite te ako tere kua runga ki kingitanga o Jiu-Jitsu me te mekemeke.

 

 

 

"Whakaaro ahau kei te haere ia ki te kia miharo. whakaaro ia matau ia te mea kawea e ahau ki te tepu,"Ka mea a Burgess. "Katoa mohio ia e pā ana ki ahau ko toku nonoke, engari i ahau he rota atu atu e ki te hinga hoki ki runga ki. Ahau e matau kua ia te mea e hopoi mai ki te tepu. A e kore te haere ia ki te ako i roto i te rua marama he aha kua ako ahau i roto i te rua tau."

 

 

 

Ko te pere whakatuwheratanga i runga i February 3 Kei te whakaturia hoki 7 p.m. E wātea ana i ngā tīkiti www.TheColisee.com.

 

 

 

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MIKE HANSEN: FACING FEAR HEADFIRST

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Mike Hansen

Lewiston, Maine (Pipiri 15, 2016) – Fighting anyone, ki hea, anytime and under any circumstances has become Mike Hansen’s calling card with New England Fights.

No surprise, ka, that the 30-year-old father of three from Rumford, ME will gladly entertain the idea of a mixed martial arts contest … against an opponent about whom he admittedly knows precious little … on the eve of Father’s Day.

Hansen (4-4) will take on Robert Laroski in a heavyweight clash at “NEF 24: Promised Land” on Rāhoroi, Pipiri 18 at Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston.

There is no fear of the unknown in a man who has carved out his reputation confronting substantially bigger foes since his days as a state champion wrestler at Mountain Valley High School. During his relatively short time in NEF, Hansen has fought as a middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight.

“When I took the fight (at NEF 23 in Massachusetts) against Brendan Battles, people were saying, ‘You’re crazy! He’s going to bust your head!’ I understand why the weight classes exist, and I respect that it’s about safety and all that, but I’ve always felt that a fighter should be ready to fight anybody, no matter what,” Hansen said. “In high school, I would drink two gallons of water and put lead in my uniform just so I could get to the minimum weight for the unlimited class.”

That’s the attitude of a fighter whose skill and talent level far exceed his current record as a professional.

Hansen’s docket includes a stoppage win over former NEF “Fighter of the Year” Crowsneck Boutin. His record also includes TKO losses to Battles and Cody Anderson and a choke-out at the hands of Zach Elkins.

When he reflects upon his unique life story, Hansen, who fought twice for the World Fighting League as a 20-year-old college student, marvels that he ever got back into the cage at all.

“I started the winter of 2004-05. I started training because I had gone from 187 ki 242 pounds in a few months. I was seeing stretch marks,” Hansen recalled. “I was pretty upset with myself for allowing that to happen. I started doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu two nights a week to get in shape. Then I went home for the summer and ended up with my first fight in August. My friends got me the fight without my coaches knowing about it. They told me it was a good thing I won, or they would have kicked my butt.”

Hansen kept a promise to his father to quit the sport after a knockout loss to Alexander Chianurashvili in 2006. He was studying at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, with intentions to enter the medical field.

He was stabbed and attacked with a baseball bat by three men in a case of mistaken identity not long thereafter. “I walked out of the hospital the next day, and all three of them were still in there from the beating I gave them in self-defense,” Hansen said proudly.

That dogged determination served Hansen well in the United States Army, where he studied in the elite Combatives program.

“They ask you ‘Who wins the fight?’ and the answer is, ‘Whoever’s buddy gets there first to help him clean up.’ That’s what Combatives taught me: How to survive that extra 30 ki 60 hēkona,” Hansen said. “Work ethic is what it taught me. It helped me grow and do things I might have questioned mentally whether or not I could do. Not many people find that extra little motivation. The Army taught me how to find it and utilize it.”

A few years later, Hansen found that inner fire again. Even as he returned to coaching wrestlers in his hometown, his own physical fitness suffered as work and fatherhood took precedence.

Hansen vividly describes sitting in a bean bag chair, eating snack food, watching TV at 2:11 a.m. when his phone rang. He assumed it was a friend in trouble.

“It was (NEF co-owner) Matt Peterson. Our families grew up maybe 200 yards apart. My high school wrestling coach had called him, unbeknownst to me, to tell him he needed to get me back in the cage,” Hansen said.

Three weeks later a 20 pounds lighter, Hansen dispatched super heavyweight fixture Artie Mullen at “NEF 16: New Blood Rising,” and the comeback was on.

I roto i te 15 months that have followed, Hansen has been instrumental in launching Berserkers MMA and building his reputation as both a fighter and an instructor.

Life is blossoming at home, also. Hansen is the father of two girls, tau 5 a 2, and a boy of four months. His older daughter, Kaydn, often accompanies Dad to the gym at Greater Rumford Community Center. He returns the favor by chaperoning field trips for her kindergarten class.

“She and her friends will be on the playground practicing boxing stances and stuff,” Hansen said. “Her teacher says it’s adorable. Hopefully she is learning to take care of herself so I don’t have to.”

Kaydn’s parents are making plans to take her to her first live NEF show after she turns 6. Hoki inaianei, she is content to watch her Dad’s fights on YouTube.

“If we’re watching TV together,” Hansen said, “we have a thing where I get two shows and then she gets two shows. If I put in a fight tape, she’ll say, ‘Daddy, I know this doesn’t count as one of your shows, because this is your work.’”

Ko te pere whakatuwheratanga i runga i Pipiri 18 Kei te whakaturia hoki 7 p.m. Tickets for “NEF 24: Promised Land” start at $25 a e wātea ana i www.TheColisee.com ranei i karanga i te tari pouaka Colisee i 207.783.2009, extension 525.

For more information on the events and fight card updates, please visit the promotion’s website at www.NewEnglandFights.com. I tua atu, you can watch NEF videos at www.youtube.com/NEFMMA, te whai ia ratou i runga i Twitternefights, me te uru atu ki te rōpū Facebook whaimana "New Ingarangi whawhai."

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MATT GLOVER FINDS FUTURE IN FIGHTING AFTER FOOTBALL

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Lewiston, Maine (April 22, 2016) – During the years 2003-2006, Matt Glover (1-0) ko te player from Mountain Valley High School in Rumford, Maine that you did kore want to end up facing from the other side of the pigskin. Standing over six feet tall and weighing 250-pounds, the nightmarish middle linebacker helped to build Mountain Valley (MV) into a modern day football dynasty by punishing ball carriers for four decorated years and leading MV to two state championships in the process. He bench pressed over 400 pounds in the weight room and was hell on wheels on the field making him a powerful two-way double-threat player on both offense and defense. His reputation is legendary in the River Valley area of Western Maine as a feared and respected athlete.

 

After graduating from Mountain Valley in 2007, Glover left football behind to go to work. He married his longtime girlfriend, Lindsey, and had a son. They bought a home together. Throughout the summer and fall seasons, he traveled the agricultural fair circuit in Maine with his pulling horses, a family tradition he had been brought up in from an early age.

 

“My family has been competing in horse pulling since I was a kid,” Glover explained. “It takes up a lot of time and it keeps my dad young. I get up early every morning to exercise my horse teams before I go into work at night. Between my dad, my wife and I, we have 11 draft horses. We bale our own hay for all of them. I love backing them up to the drag and watching them dig.”

 

But despite the fullness of his life, the call of competition still beckoned to him and left him with a sense of longing. “I would have killed to have had that same feeling again,” Glover recalled. “And then I stepped into the cage.”

 

I roto i te te tīmatanga 2015, Matt’s younger brother, Ryan—another Mountain Valley football standout—made his mixed martial arts (MMA) debut at “NEF 16.” Ryan swarmed his opponent in his first fight and stopped him in a blistering 12 hēkona. Matt was in attendance that night and found his curiosity piqued at the prospect of competing in a different kind of contact sport.

 

Later in 2015, Ryan competed for the inaugural NEF Amateur Heavyweight Championship. He dropped a decision that night to current title holder, Billy “Bigfoot” Leahy (3-1). I muri i te win, the trash talk quickly escalated between Leahy and members of Berserkers MMA, based out of Rumford and led by head coaches Gary Dolloff and Mike Hansen (3-3). “When Billy Leahy called out all of the guys at Berserkers after he beat my brother, then it was game-on,” recalled Matt.

 

Matt began training closely with members of the Berserkers coaching staff, including Hansen and others, who he credits for his accelerated learning curve in the sport. I tua atu, Matt sparred extensively with brother Ryan, who was preparing for a fight of his own on the same night that Matt was scheduled to make his MMA debut. “My brother and I are not like other brothers,” Matt explained. “We go into the gym and beat the hell out of each other and then ride home in the same truck—that’s just how we have always been. Push, push, push—everything is competition with us. From the first one to get to the next hay bale in the hay field to the first one to get to the supper table—it’s just how we operate.”

 

“Matt’s a real competitive person,” his wife, Lindsey, confirmed. “Everything is a competition with him. I knew that cagefighting would feed that competitive hunger that he feels all the time when he’s not pulling his horses.”

 

Matt officially made his MMA debut back in February at “NEF 21: THE IMMORTALS” against durable veteran Gravin Guillen (2-5). Matt exceeded debut expectations by finishing Guillen in just 1:30 of the first round by technical knockout (WHO). When the ref cleared the scene, Guillen’s face showed the effects of Glover’s record-breaking exploits in the weight room. Glover’s Rumford fans that were in attendance in heavy numbers that night, voiced their approval in thunderous applause. “At first, I had butterflies,” Glover remembered, “but once I heard all the people cheering, all it did was pump me up. I was ready to fight. Riro ngaro ranei, I knew they had my back and more.”

 

This weekend, Glover is poised to make his second appearance in the NEF cage when he takes on 6’6” Ras Hylton (1-0) from rival gym, Tuatahi Class MMA. Hylton made his debut on the same night as Glover and, like his challenger this weekend, made quick work of his opponent by earning a TKO victory at 1:21 o te a tawhio tuatahi.

 

Berserkers MMA Founder and Head Coach, Mike Hansen, predicts a dominant night for Glover. “Matt happens to be much stronger than he even appears, which is incredible if you have ever seen him,” Hansen stated. “A guy of his size normally struggles with agility, but Matt doesn’t. He is a super athlete and easy to coach. Matt improves daily and will be a juggernaut in the heavyweight amateur division.

 

“Ras is used to being the bigger guy in all of his fights. That will not be the case on Saturday night. Matt will put his hands on Hylton in a way he’s never been touched before. I don’t see Ras walking away from this fight with his hand held high. He should consider it a win if he can walk away at all when Matt’s done with him.”

 

Going into Rāhoroi po, Glover feels well prepared to continue building on his success in the sport of MMA that he started to create back in February. If his athletic history is any indicator, he should be confident in the future. “I’m ready for this fight,” Glover stated. “In this fight, I’m more relaxed because my brother’s not fighting and I can just focus on my fight… After that first win, I knew I was hooked because there’s no better feeling.”

 

“When people first started speaking to Matt about competing in MMA, I was completely against it 110%,” Lindsey stated. “But after watching him train so hard with the guys in the gym and seeing that he has the same passion for that as he does for his horse pulling, I felt more at ease and decided that if this was something he wanted to pursue, I would support him in any way that I possibly could.

 

“The Glover brothers fighting in MMA is a big thing for Rumford,” Lindsey stated in closing. “Every time it’s getting close to fight night, this town comes alive. No matter where he goes within the sport, this town and his family support him.”

 

hui i muri mai New England whawhai ', "NEF 22: ARATAI ROADS KATOA HERE,” takes place this Rāhoroi, April 23, 2016 i te Androscoggin Bank Colisée i Lewiston, Maine. Tickets for “NEF 22” start at just $25 a kei runga i te hoko i teie nei i www.TheColisee.com ranei na roto i te te karanga i te tari pouaka Colisée i 207.783.2009 x 525. For more information on the event and fight card updates, please visit the promotion’s website at www.NewEnglandFights.com. I tua atu, you can watch NEF videos at www.youtube.com/NEFMMA, te whai ia ratou i runga i Twitternefights, me te uru atu ki te rōpū Facebook whaimana "New Ingarangi whawhai."

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BARBARIAN VERSUS BERSERKER ON APRIL 23 IN LEWISTON

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Lewiston, Maine (March 17, 2016) - New Ingarangi whawhai (Nef), Tau-kotahi whakatairanga whawhai rohe Amerika o, ka mau tona hui muri, “Nef 22: ARATAI ROADS KATOA HERE” i runga i Rāhoroi, April 23, 2016 i te Androscoggin Bank Colisée i Lewiston, Maine. The fight card will feature a mix of mixed-martial-arts (MMA) and professional boxing bouts. I mua i teie mahana, NEF announced the addition of a professional light-heavyweight bout to the MMA portion of the “NEF 22” kāri whawhai. Mike “Te ngutu” Hansen (3-3) Kua hainatia ki te mata Hehe “Ko te he Tautangata” Baughman (0-1) i te taimaha o te 205-pauna whawhai.

 

Mike Hansen is the founding member of Berserkers MMA based out of Rumford, Maine. He is an alumni of Mountain Valley High School (MVHS) where he won a state championship wrestling as a heavyweight in 2004. Hansen made his MMA debut shortly after graduating from high school, only to step away from the sport for a decade in order to serve his country as a combat engineer in the United States Army. He returned to the MMA cage in 2015 as a member of the NEF roster. After restarting his career with a record of 2-1, Hansen dropped his first bout of 2016 to Zach Elkins (1-1) whakamutunga marama. He will look to rebound from that loss on April 23.

 

“I’m looking forward to getting back in the cage fast coming off this loss,” said Hansen. “I wasn’t mentally in that fight, so this time around with Baughman, I’m going to be mentally focused. Jesse is a big guy and a tough fighter – and he seems like a guy I could get along with. Na, when we are done smashing each other up, hopefully we can get a drink.”

 

Like Hansen, Baughman is a United States military veteran, where he served in a recon unit of the special forces and earned a level-three certification in Army combatives. He is currently a member of Team Link based out of Hooksett, New Hampshire. As an amateur MMA fighter, Baughman put together a perfect record of 5-0 and was the number-one ranked light-heavyweight in the northeast region prior to turning professional. Baughman made his pro debut last November at “NEF 20” against Matt Andrikut (2-0).

 

“I April 23rd, I’m looking forward to getting back in there and putting on a show,” Said Baughman. “My fans from New Hampshire want to see a war – and best believe they will! Mike Hansen is a worthy opponent. He knows going in, this will be a bloody battle till the end. I have the best guys around preparing me for this matchup. Big thanks to Taylor Trahan, Kevin Haley, Brett Trahan and Rob Belliveau.”

 

hui i muri mai New England whawhai ', "NEF 22: ARATAI ROADS KATOA HERE,"E wahi Rāhoroi, April 23, 2016 i te Androscoggin Bank Colisée i Lewiston, Maine. Tickets for “NEF 22” start at just $25 a kei runga i te hoko i teie nei i www.TheColisee.com ranei na roto i te te karanga i te tari pouaka Colisée i 207.783.2009 x 525. For more information on the event and fight card updates, please visit the promotion’s website at www.NewEnglandFights.com. I tua atu, you can watch NEF videos at www.youtube.com/NEFMMA, te whai ia ratou i runga i Twitternefights, me te uru atu ki te rōpū Facebook whaimana "New Ingarangi whawhai."