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Spennu Running High eins Fyrrverandi fálka teammates Undirbúa fyrir MMA Cage Battle

Lewiston, Maine (Janúar 10, 2018) – Vaxa upp í sama blá-kraga samfélag og efla í gegnum það sama, hæða íþróttir program hjartarskinn ekki endilega að gera tvo menn bestu vini.

 

 

 

Fyrrverandi samherjar Mountain Valley High School, og framtíð New England Berst blönduðum bardagalistir andstæðinga, Ryan Burgess og Nate Boucher eru vísbendingar um gamla Maxim, “þekkingu kyn fyrirlitningu.”

 

 

 

Burgess, 24, og Boucher, 21, munu berjast í áhugamaður flyweight lota í "NEF 32: Super LaugardagurLaugardagur, Febrúar 3. Baráttan við Androscoggin Bank Colisee mun ákvarða númer eitt keppinautur í 125 pund deild, og vinna sigurvegari titil skot gegn meistari Justin Witham.

 

 

 

Það mun hafa verið í næstum ár síðan Burgess, þriggja tíma Maine menntaskóla glímukappi og fortíð NEF titleholder, gekk inn í búr. Hann kallaði Matt Peterson NEF meðeigandi og matchmaker og sérstaklega óskað eftir því Boucher baráttunni.

 

 

 

Hvers vegna? Annars vegar, það var fyrirtæki ákvörðun eftir lokun Boucher er, hættu-ákvörðun tap í Witham í nóvember titli lota.

 

 

 

"Ég hef verið út í ár. Ég var að vonast til að hoppa strax aftur inn í titli baráttu,"Burgess útskýrði. "Eftir baráttu Nates með Witham, Ég vissi að hann myndi vilja strax rematch. Þegar það varð ljóst að var ekki að fara að gerast fyrr en í apríl, Ég spurði hvort við gætum gert þetta berjast í febrúar, og Nate tók það. "

 

 

 

Burgess (2-2) síðar hóf einn eða tvo félagslega fjölmiðla handsprengjum sem virtust benda sumir láréttur flötur af animosity átt náungi Falcon hans. Það er líklegt minna persónulegt en taktísk; Burgess skynjaði tækifæri til að nýta það sem hann sér sem einn af chinks í herklæðum Boucher er.

 

 

 

"Nate, síðan hann var krakki, hefur reiðan-fátækur viðhorf þegar hann missir. Ég vona að auðmýkja hann svolítið og ganga úr skugga um að hann þarf ekki að hafa áhyggjur af þessari baráttu fá í hendur dómara,"Burgess segir. "Nate sennilega hefði verið tveir- eða þriggja tíma ástand meistari ef hann hefði gefið sig tækifæri til að gera það. Ef hann hefur enn sama viðhorf hann hafði aftur þá, það er að fara að enda á sama hátt. "

 

 

 

Burgess er einn af aðeins fjórum þriggja tíma ríki meistarar í MVHS sögu. Tilviljun, Bróðir Boucher er, ethan, Einnig komið feat.

 

 

 

Boucher, sem hefur þegar tekið út fjögurra tíma Maine menntaskóla motta meistari, og tveggja tíma New England finalist, Jeremiah Barkac af Dexter á sínum tíma í NEF sexhyrningi, lítur út og hljómar eins og mismunandi karakter en sá sem barist burtu frá mat sem unglingur.

 

 

 

Eftir að hafa unnið fyrstu tveimur berst með vellíðan, Boucher (2-1) var ekki sú eina í húsinu sem fannst að hann hefði gert nóg til að vinna beltið í Portland.

 

 

 

"Ég hélt að ég stjórnað fyrstu tvær umferðir af baráttunni. allir þrír, raunverulega. Fyrstu tvær sem ég ansi mikið þurfti (Witham) kafnaði út,"Boucher segir. "Það endaði að vera að læra reynsla fyrir mig að þú getur ekki skilið í baráttunni við dómara. The mikill hlutur óður í the áhugamaður röðum er, en auðvitað ég hugsa um met mitt, í lok dags það er hluti af námsferli til að gera þig að betri atvinnu. "

 

 

 

Til að bregðast við Burgess’ volleys á Facebook, Boucher efast hegðun fyrrum meistari eftir að vinna NEF Ól tvo slagsmál í ferlinum.

 

 

 

"Ég er ekki mikið fyrir orðbragð. Ég njóta bara íþrótt. Ég vil berjast og þá bara fara heim. Hann gerir það svolítið til að byggja sjálf hans sem ég held,"Boucher segir. "Hann lækkaði belti vegna þess að hann var í vandræðum með að þyngd, sem er nokkuð disrespectful, að mínu mati. Hann var út um stund, svo nú er ég á undan honum, og hann veit að hann þarf að fara í gegnum mig. "

 

 

 

Burgess sagði hann notaði þessi layoff til að ljúka háskóli menntun sína og þróa persónuskilríki hans sem sjúkraþjálfari aðstoðarmaður, gefur til kynna að læknastéttin er líklegri til að vera til langs tíma feril hans en MMA.

 

 

 

Meðan hann hélt áfram þjálfun áætlun sína á Rumford Community Center með skorpufólk MMA, Burgess sagði að það væri minna ákafur og byggð fyrir tap hans gegn Witham og Dustin Veinott. Burgess sigraði áður bæði keppinauta.

 

 

 

"Líkamlega Ég samt hefði barið þau, en andlega var ég ekki eins tilbúinn og ég ætti að hafa verið. Nú er ég miklu markvissari,"Burgess segir. "Á þeim tíma sem ég var að klára skóla, vinna í hlutastarfi 20 að 30 klukkustundir á viku og fara í skóla fyrir sennilega annað 40. Ég missti tvo slagsmál þar sem ég var undir þyngd. Ég var að fitna en aðrir krakkar voru að skera þyngd. Ég myndi fara í það á mörkum og þeir myndu setja á 10 að 15 £ milli innvigtun og baráttuna. "

 

 

 

Boucher vísu aldrei náð möguleika sína sem framhaldsskóli wrestler. Hann hefur fylgt aðra leið en Burgess, innritast á Mið Maine Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu - þar sem hann þjálfar enn í dag - á aldrinum 13.

 

 

 

"Ég hef nokkrum af the herða og bestu þjálfun samstarfsaðila í því ríki,"Boucher segir. "Ég Jiu-jitsu hefur koma a langur vegur, nánast lið þar sem það hefur staðist minn glíma svolítið. Að sjálfsögðu, Glíma er það sem ég fer alltaf til baka þegar ég þarf það. sláandi mín er nótt-og-dagur. Það var hræðilegt fyrir fyrsta baráttu mína. "

 

 

 

Hann bætti við að mestur árangur hans í MMA hefur komið á kostnað fyrrum wrestlers.

 

 

 

Burgess er að telja á Boucher að vanmeta restina af efnisskrá hans. Eins og einhver sem tók upp glíma við Middle School yngri Varsity lið í sjöunda bekk, sagði hann að saga hans eins og a fljótur rannsókn hefur framkvæmt yfir í ríki jiu-jitsu og box.

 

 

 

"Ég held að hann er að fara að vera hissa. Hann heldur að hann viti hvað ég koma að borðinu,"Burgess segir. "Allt sem hann veit um mig er glíma mín, en ég hef mikið meira en það til að falla aftur á. Ég veit nú þegar hvað hann koma að borðinu. Og hann er ekki að fara að læra í tvo mánuði það sem ég hef lært á tveimur árum."

 

 

 

Opnun bjalla á Febrúar 3 er sett fyrir 7 p.m. Miðar fást á www.TheColisee.com.

 

 

 

Um New England átök

 

 

New England Berst ("NEF") er að berjast viðburðir kynningar fyrirtæki. Verkefni NEF er að skapa hágæða viðburði fyrir bardagamenn Maine og aðdáendur eins. Framkvæmdastjóri lið NEF hefur víðtæka reynslu í Bardagaíþróttir stjórnun, Viðburðir framleiðslu, fjölmiðla samskipti, markaðssetning, lagaleg og auglýsingar.

MIKE HANSEN: FACING FEAR HEADFIRST

Mike Hansen

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

No surprise, þá, 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 Laugardagur, Júní 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 að 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 að 60 sekúndur,” 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 og 20 pounds lighter, Hansen dispatched super heavyweight fixture Artie Mullen at “NEF 16: New Blood Rising,” and the comeback was on.

Í 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, aldur 5 og 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. Fyrir nú, 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.’”

Opnun bjalla á Júní 18 er sett fyrir 7 p.m. Tickets for “NEF 24: Promised Land” start at $25 og eru í boði á www.TheColisee.com eða með því að hringja í Colisee kassi skrifstofu á 207.783.2009, framlenging 525.

For more information on the events and fight card updates, vinsamlegast farðu á vefsíðu kynningarinnar á www.NewEnglandFights.com. Að auki, þú getur horft á NEF myndbönd á www.youtube.com/NEFMMA, fylgja þeim á Twitternefights og taka þátt í opinberu Facebook "New England berst."

MATT GLOVER FINDS FUTURE IN FIGHTING AFTER FOOTBALL

Lewiston, Maine (Apríl 22, 2016) – During the years 2003-2006, Matt Glover (1-0) var player from Mountain Valley High School in Rumford, Maine that you did ekki 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.”

 

Í byrjun 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 sekúndur. 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). Eftir sigur, 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. Auk, 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. Vinna eða tapa, 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, First 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 af fyrstu umferð.

 

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 Laugardagur nótt, 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.”

 

New England Berst 'Næsta atburður, "NEF 22: Allir vegir liggja HÉR,” takes place this Laugardagur, Apríl 23, 2016 á Androscoggin Bank Colisée í Lewiston, Maine. Tickets for “NEF 22” start at just $25 og eru á sölu núna á www.TheColisee.com eða með því að hringja í Colisée kassi skrifstofu á 207.783.2009 x 525. For more information on the event and fight card updates, vinsamlegast farðu á vefsíðu kynningarinnar á www.NewEnglandFights.com. Að auki, þú getur horft á NEF myndbönd á www.youtube.com/NEFMMA, fylgja þeim á Twitternefights og taka þátt í opinberu Facebook "New England berst."

BARBARIAN VERSUS BERSERKER ON APRIL 23 Í Lewiston

Lewiston, Maine (Mars 17, 2016) - New England Berst (NEF), Ameríku tala-einn svæðisbundin berjast kynningu, mun halda næstu atburði þess, “NEF 22: Allir vegir liggja HÉR” á Laugardagur, Apríl 23, 2016 á Androscoggin Bank Colisée í Lewiston, Maine. The fight card will feature a mix of mixed-martial-arts (MMA) and professional boxing bouts. Fyrr í dag, NEF announced the addition of a professional light-heavyweight bout to the MMA portion of the “NEF 22” Baráttan kort. Mike “The yfirvaraskegg” Hansen (3-3) hefur undirritað til auglitis Jesse “The Barbarian” Baughman (0-1) á baráttu þyngd 205-pund.

 

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) í síðasta mánuði. He will look to rebound from that loss on Apríl 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 fighterand he seems like a guy I could get along with. Svo, 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 atNEF 20against Matt Andrikut (2-0).

 

“Á 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 warand 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.

 

New England Berst 'Næsta atburður, "NEF 22: Allir vegir liggja HÉR," fer fram Laugardagur, Apríl 23, 2016 á Androscoggin Bank Colisée í Lewiston, Maine. Tickets for “NEF 22” start at just $25 og eru á sölu núna á www.TheColisee.com eða með því að hringja í Colisée kassi skrifstofu á 207.783.2009 x 525. For more information on the event and fight card updates, vinsamlegast farðu á vefsíðu kynningarinnar á www.NewEnglandFights.com. Að auki, þú getur horft á NEF myndbönd á www.youtube.com/NEFMMA, fylgja þeim á Twitternefights og taka þátt í opinberu Facebook "New England berst."