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RFA 34: VELICKOVIC vs SMITH FULL TV CARD ANNOUNCED

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ISIHLOKO Welterweight WORLD
BOJAN VELICKOVIC

vs. BENJAMIN SMITH
CO-MAIN UMCIMBI:
ADAM STROUP vs. UJOHANE Doll
Middleweight Yimpi
ULWESIHLANU, JANUARY 15th, 2016 PHILA ON AXS TV
PHILA kusukela 1STBANK Center, Broomfield, CO
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Las Vegas, Nevada – Uvuko Ukulwa 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. Lonke ikhadi main uzobe isiqephu bukhoma futhi lonke on AXS TV at 10 p.m. KANYE / 7 p.m. PT.
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Ikhadi main of 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. Nokho, 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 Hugo “Wolverine” Viana (8-3) and two-time RFA vet Zac “The Anointed Warrior” Riley (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 amahora’ isaziso. 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.
Ikhadi main of 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.
The full RFA 34 ikhadi kwesikhashana futhi ukwaziswa okwengeziwe ngokuqondene nalesi senzakalo ngeke kumemezela maduze. RFA 34 kuyoba umcimbi ukukhuthazwa sika lwesikhombisa ukuthatha indawo isimo Colorado. Lonke ikhadi main of RFA 34 uzobe isiqephu bukhoma futhi lonke phezu AXS TV at 10 p.m. KANYE / 7 p.m. PT ngoLwesihlanu, January 15th, 2016.
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About RFA: RFA kuyinto professional exubile karate ukukhuthazwa ukuthi unikeza izinkanyezi ekuphumeni kanye kwabazabalazayo top ithuba lokubonisa ngamakhono abo ukuba abalandeli kanye nabaholi embonini. The RFA presents izenzakalo ezenzeka bukhoma njalo ngenyanga emhlabeni United States kuhlanganise Las Vegas, I-Los Angeles, Denver and Milwaukee. RFA kuyabonakala bukhoma in phezu 43 amakhaya million kuzwelonke ngethelevishini yayo deal with AXS TV. Ngokusekelwe ku Las Vegas, Nevada, RFA ingenye esebenzayo kakhulu futhi ehlonishwa izinhlangano MMA in the mdlalo ekhula ngokushesha emhlabeni. (The Octagon, Ultimate Ukulwa Championship®, UFC®, and the eight-sided competition mat and cage design are registered trademarks owned exclusively by Zuffa, LLC. Wonke Amalungelo Agodliwe).

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Yilwa Network Presents RFA 28: Sanchez vs. Doll, PHILA lokhu Friday, Aug. 7 at 10 p.m. KANYE

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TORONTO (Aug. 6, 2015)– Fight Network, UNdunankulu wezwe 24/7 isiteshi sethelevishini abazinikezele ukuqedela izindaba combat yezemidlalo, presents a ukusakaza bukhoma of RFA 28: Sanchez vs. Doll lokhuFriday, August 7 at 10 p.m. KANYE, esiqokonyiswa ukuthweswa umqhele entsha RFA middleweight iqhawe lapho ukukhuthazwa kwenza uhambo walo wokuqala ukuba St. Louis.

 

Yilwa ukusakaza Network bukhoma of RFA 28: Sanchez vs. Poppie kuyobe baveze lonke eCanada nasemhlabeni jikelele in phezu 30 amazwe yonkana Europe, Afrika naseMpumalanga Ephakathi. The U.S ezifuywayo. ukusakaza Akazikhukhumezi on AXS TV.

In the umcimbi main, two hungry middleweight prospects vie for championship gold as RFA fan favorite Andrew Sanchez ibheka ukuvikela umuzi wakhe Turf ngokumelene Wisconsin bomdabu John Poppie.

 

“Ngijabulile ukuba beletha RFA ukuba umuzi omkhulu St. Louis,” umengameli uthe RFA Ed Soares. “Andrew Sanchez noJohane Poppie uzobe ulwela the singenamuntu RFA middleweight isicoco a Headliner ezokwenza cap ubusuku enkulu ukulwa at The Chase Park Plaza.”

 

Sanchez (6-2) ungowokuzalwa lokuhamba the St Greater. Louis Metro Area. Idumela lakhe endaweni sakhula ekolishi, lapho eba wrestling inkanyezi McKendree University. Nakuba ubhekene for the Bearcats, Sanchez waba omunye grapplers ahlotshiswe kakhulu emlandweni esikoleni. Uyena-time ezimbili NAIA iqhawe lesizwe, ezine-time NAIA All-American, kanye 2011 NAIA wrestling of the Year.

 

Doll (6-1) Ofuna ngozi eyenzeke eside elindelwe homecoming iqembu Sanchez ngo-yakhe yokuqala isiqephu kuzwelonke isihloko impi. Lo mdlali ukukhanya-wesibhakela waba ilungu ukhonkolo isizini nesishiyagalolunye hit Eqinisweni UFC iyabonisa The Ultimate Fighter, kodwa wafunda kusukela ukuthi isipiliyoni ukuthi uyakufanelekela kangcono ukuncintisana at 185-amakhilogremu. Ukulahlekelwa lone umlando Poppie nayo yeza ukumelana omunye yakhe yamanje ukuqeqeshwa nozakwethu Eric Schafer, owayesevele ligcwaliswe eziyisishiyagalolunye-izikhathi ezingu-UFC ngaphambi alwa. Poppie wayebuye abe wrestling Collegiate at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse futhi uzizwa ikhono lakhe set kanye nesipiliyoni has ukumlungiselela kule mpi.

 

Lo mcimbi co-main of RFA 28 izoba ezimbili phezulu amathemba flyweight MMA sika, lapho Wyoming sika Matt Manzanares (7-5) iphindela octagon RFA empini St. Louis bomdabu Ken “The Sensation” Gqoka (8-2).

 

RFA 28 futhi izici DEBUT of Ezingakanqotshwa Landon Vannata (6-0), obhekene omunye top propsects featherweight Missouri ngo- Nick LoBosco (8-1), okuningi Curtis “Razor” Blaydes (4-0) kwenza Kulindeleke kakhulu RFA DEBUT yakhe ngokumelene vet yingozi Justin “The Grizzly Bear” Frazier (7-2)

 

Ukuqoqa out ikhadi okuthakazelisayo, Ezingakanqotshwa Brazilian engasindi Thiago Henrique Moises (5-0) tangles nge Missouri uqobo Javon Wright (6-3), ngenkathi Ezingakanqotshwa engasindi Jake “The North County Nightmare” Roberts (4-0) Ubhekene once-washaywa Kansas bomdabu Chuka “The Lion King” Willis(4-1).

 

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RFA 28 GETS A NEW CO-HEADLINER AS GEANE HERRERA HEADS TO THE UFC

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RFA 28 – Sánchez vs. Doll
ISENZAKALO MAIN:
ANDREW Sanchez vs. UJOHANE Doll
TITLE middleweight WORLD
CO-MAIN UMCIMBI:
MATH Manzanares vs. KEN PORTER
FLYWEIGHT Yimpi
ULWESIHLANU, AUGUST 7th LIVE ON AXSTV
PHILA at The Chase Park Plaza e St. Louis, MO
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Las Vegas, Nevada – Uvuko Ukulwa Alliance (RFA) Umengameli Ed Soares umemezele namuhla ukuthi RFA 28 izoba umcimbi omusha co-main emva Geane “The Flea” Herrera safike ibuthwe final e-UFC. Esikhundleni Herrera Ezingakanqotshwa kuyoba owabe RFA flyweight iqhawe Math Manzanares, oyobe uzobe evela irekhodi-ukubopha Eyesikhombisa Promotion. Uyokwethaba face St. Louis’ siqu Ken Porter, ngubani siwumbuso flyweight MMA ithemba futhi i boxer professional Ezingakanqotshwa. Lo mcimbi main of RFA 28 bafunal sici RFA fan favorite Andrew Sanchez and The Ultimate Fighter alum John Poppie vying for the vacant RFA middleweight title. Lo mcimbi senzeka ngoLwesihlanu, August 7th at The Chase Park Plaza e St. Louis, Missouri. Lonke ikhadi main uzobe isiqephu bukhoma futhi lonke on AXS TV at 10 p.m. KANYE / 7 p.m. PT.
“Ngijabule ukubona Geane Herrera amele lokho RFA imayelana ngokubonisa umoya wokungenisa irekhodi lakhe Ezingakanqotshwa in the UFC,” Soares esibekiwe. “Lo mcimbi co-main of RFA 28 manje isici ukubuya owayengumpetha RFA flyweight iqhawe Math Manzanares kwabanye boxer-waphenduka-MMA fighter Ken Porter.
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Manzanares (7-5) iphindela RFA ngokubonakala irekhodi-ukubopha lwesikhombisa ukukhuthazwa. Ngokuhamba kwesikhathi sakhe njengoba fighter professional, yangaphambili RFA flyweight iqhawe uye wabhekana futhi bamukela neziqubu kanye ngubani ngubani sesigaba sakhe futhi ebukele ukuthatha ngokugcwele ukuthi isipiliyoni. The-time ezimbili Junior Olympian boxer anazo ezinye izandla slickest in the sport, kodwa lawo makhono buvivinywa ngokugcwele ngokumelene Porter ngubani 4-0 njengoba boxer professional. Manzanares futhi Porter futhi zahlulelwa cishe 300 kuhlangene amateur boxing emidlalweni, okungase ukwenza lokhu omunye flyweight umhlabeleli abatelekile ekhombisa e MMA kulo nyaka.
“Lokhu kakhulu okushukunyiswa bengilokhu for a impi esikhathini eside kakhulu,” Manzanares wababaza. “Ngicabanga Ken Porter kuyinto fighter omkhulu futhi kuningi uya kuye, kodwa lutho angizange ngimbone ngaphambi. Ngibheke phambili ekutholeni isandla sami wazibuza yona futhi ngibeke khona igama lami emuva phezulu the division.”
Gqoka (8-2, 1 No Contest) kuyoba umuntu esibhekele ukwamukela abalambile iqhawe wangaphambilini futhi ulangazelela ukuba nikwenza phambi ejabulile ekhaya nesixuku sakhe. The St uyaziqhenya. Louisan mhlawumbe flyweight kuphela MMA ukuthi ongaba Manzanares’ nakho MMA amateur and wesibhakela amateur. Waphinde uye waphila ngokuvumelana yakhe isidlaliso “The Sensation” kusukela ekwenzeni kwakhe professional boxing DEBUT in May 2014. Kuleso sikhathi, uye amadlingozi combat kwezemidlalo ngokuya 4-0 wesibhakela professional kanye 4-0 in professional MMA. Manje Porter umagange ukwelula ukuthi streak at RFA 28.
“Sengicabanga Manzanares isiphosela inselelo enkulu kakhulu kunalokho Herrera,” Porter esibekiwe. “Uletha okuningi etafuleni ulwisane guys obuqinile okuningi. Bengilokhu ngisebenza ngempela kanzima kule mpi futhi babheke phambili ekwenzeni isitatimende enkulu zethelevishini DEBUT yami kazwelonke for the RFA.”
Lo mcimbi main of RFA 28 izoba ezimbili phezulu amathemba middleweight MMA sika, lapho RFA fan ozithandayo Andrew Sanchez (6-2) iphindela St ekhaya. Louis empini Wisconsin native John Poppie (6-1) ngoba singenamuntu RFA middleweight isihloko. Sanchez kwaba-time ezimbili NAIA iqhawe lesizwe, ezine-time NAIA All-American, kanye 2011 NAIA wrestling of the Year sisemhlanganweni St. Louis endaweni school McKendree University. Eyobhekana Poppie (6-1), who was a light-heavyweight cast member on the nineteenth season of the UFC’s hit reality television show The Ultimate Fighter. Manje ukuncintisana at zemvelo isisindo ekilasini lakhe 185-amakhilogremu, Poppie uyobheka ukwelula akhe amane-impi win streak. Poppie Ubuye Collegiate wrestling background kusukela University of Wisconsin – La Crosse.
RFA 28 futhi izici ukubuya Bobby “The Wolfman” Moffett (7-1). The featherweight ezisabisa uyobheka ukuthi alandele RFA yakhe evelele DEBUT in Ukumasha nomunye ngokunqoba umkhulungwane e Sophomore yakhe ukubukeka ukugqugquzelwa. Eyobhekana omunye top amathemba featherweight Missouri ngo-Nick LoBosco (8-1). LoBosco akukaze walahlekelwa ekusimo sakhe ikhaya wrestling Collegiate ebukele ukugcina lawo marekhodi njengoba yayinjalo lapho elwa phambi komuzi wakhe nesixuku August 7th.
Ikhadi main of RFA 28 uyophinde ukufaka kakhulu ngabomvu RFA DEBUT of Curtis “Razor” Blaydes (4-0). Blaydes kwaba an NJCAA kazwelonke wrestling iqhawe ngesikhathi Harper College futhi uyindaba omunye phezulu amathemba wesibhakela kuleli mdlalo. Iyoba ukuhlolwa aqinile DEBUT yakhe yokukhangisa ebhekana esiyingozi RFA odayiswa odokotela bemfuyo in Justin “The Grizzly Bear” Frazier (7-2). Frazier hails from “The Natural State” of Arkansas futhi uye wabonisa yokuqedela ikhono lemvelo, njengoba yonke eziyisikhombisa onqobayo yakhe sebefikile nge umisiwe.
In the division featherweight, Jamal Parks (5-1) ubuyela RFA Octagon for the okwesibili. Lo mdlali NCAA Division I wrestling All-American kusukela Oklahoma State University uzobhekana lisha yokukhangisa Javon Wright (6-3). Wright asikapheli ulwa eminyakeni emibili eyaqala a ekusukeleni-naleso uqhekeko isinqumo isinqumo yena lehla zamanje RFA bantamweight kingpin Luka Sanders.
In action engasindi, Sokuqala Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black ibhande eTurkey Murat “Nkosi Pitbull” Kazgan (2-0-1) itawufaka kakhulu ngabomvu RFA DEBUT yakhe. Kazgan, oye kakade ngalwa Turkey, Iningizimu Korea, futhi Russia, Ofuna ukuba ahlale unbeaten e North American yakhe DEBUT. Eyobhekana-time ezimbili Gloves winner Jake “The North County Nightmare” Roberts (4-0). The St. Louis bomdabu Roberts, obesanda usejoyine The MMA LAB eGlendale, Arizona, njengamanje ugibele i streak umxhwele. Roberts kwamukelwe konke 12 Amadoda ezihaqe MMA: 8 njengoba i amateur kanye 4 njengoba professional.
Neziqubu lokwEngeza RFA 28 uzobe umemezele maduze. RFA 28 kuyoba umcimbi ukukhuthazwa yesibili ukuthatha indawo isimo Missouri kanye foray walo wokuqala angena emzini St. Louis. Lonke ikhadi main of RFA 28 – Sanchez vs. Poppie uzobe isiqephu bukhoma futhi lonke on AXS TV at 10 p.m. KANYE / 7 p.m. PT ngoLwesihlanu, August 7th.
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About RFA: RFA kuyinto professional exubile karate ukukhuthazwa ukuthi unikeza izinkanyezi ekuphumeni kanye kwabazabalazayo top ithuba lokubonisa ngamakhono abo ukuba abalandeli kanye nabaholi embonini. The RFA presents izenzakalo ezenzeka bukhoma njalo ngenyanga emhlabeni United States kuhlanganise Las Vegas, I-Los Angeles, Denver and Milwaukee. RFA kuyabonakala bukhoma in phezu 43 amakhaya million kuzwelonke ngethelevishini yayo deal with AXS TV. Ngokusekelwe ku Las Vegas, Nevada, RFA ingenye esebenzayo kakhulu futhi ehlonishwa izinhlangano MMA in the mdlalo ekhula ngokushesha emhlabeni. (The Octagon, Ukulwa Ultimate Championship®, UFC®, kanye ayisishiyagalombili emaceleni ukuncintisana mat and yezinyoni design yizimpawu zokuthengisa eziphethwe kuphela by Zuffa ababhalisiwe, LLC. Wonke Amalungelo Agodliwe).
About AXS TV ayalwa: AXS TV Ilwisana Yaziwa yonke waqaphela Friday Night Mixed Martial Arts and Kickboxing izenzakalo zalo. Njengoba Home Your For MMA, AXS TV isebenzisa i inethiwekhi Lubanzi ukukhushulwa-United States, Canada, naseYurophu. Futhi Asia ukuze basakaze L moreIVE kulwelwa kunanoma iyiphi ottelevi wakhekela inethiwekhi. “Iphimbo” Michael Schiavello nanhlanu-time MMA emhlabeni-iqhawe Pat Miletich ukunikeza ababukeli play-by-play uchwepheshe, ngokujulile fighter Ukusabalala, futhi sihlaziya ekhadini ngalinye fight. AXS TV osakaza-class emhlabeni fight LIVE izenzakalo ezivela RFA, Lion Fight, Legacy FC, futhi MFC njalo ebusuku ngoLwesihlanu ngesikhathi 7 p.m. PT / 10 p.m. KANYE.