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FightZone TV Celebrates their 700th Airing Milestone with the 1st of 5 Cage Wars Championship UK Events
For Immediate Release: TampaBay FL FightZone TV Celebrates their 700th Airing Milestone with the 1st of 5 Cage Wars Championship UK Events
FightZone TV, in their third year of nationally broadcasting the Best of Independent MMA Programming will celebrate their 700th airing in July with the debut of Cage Wars Championship UK "Decade."
This will be the first of multiple events from CWC's catalog leading up to FightZone's participation in a live Fall event in Spain.
The CWC brand, one of the leading native European Cage MMA events, continues to grow the sport of MMA throughout the UK and Europe.
Cage Wars' "Decade" is a MMA powerhouse of an event held recently in Kings Hall Belfast, Northern Ireland and features former UFC heavyweight contender, Jeff "The Snowman" Monson who faced off against Lithuanian Sergej Maslobojev in the main event, just one week after Monson defeated former IFL Heavyweight Champion Roy Nelson on the "March Badness" boxing/MMA pay-per-view.
Jeff is a MMA fighter (30-8) from Olympia, Washington and is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and a two-time Abu Dhabi Combat Club Submission Wrestling World Champion who has also had three professional boxing bouts with a boxing record of two wins and one draw. He is affiliated with American Top Team which is based in Coconut Creek, Florida and he has been ranked among the top 15 heavyweight fighters in the world, according to Sherdog.com.
After the fight, Jeff said "This was my first time in Northern Ireland. The people here are absolutely fantastic. I can't wait to come back. I asked to fight here, I've enjoyed it, and next time I'll try and stay a little longer.
"Featherweight Peter Duncan's nickname may be "Slam" on account of his favorite MMA technique, but it was opponent Bryan Goldsby, a Macon, Georgia native who struck with his own variation of the move, as well as a belly-to-belly suplex in their encounter.
Daniel Abrol was up next, facing the experienced JC Pennington, also at Lightweight. Pennington, currently a MMA Louisiana title-holder, was accompanied by Rich Clementi. Watch this fight for an impressive array of strikes. leg kicks, Muay Thai knees, and punches that were the order of the day.
Chum Sut team's Lee McKibbin faced late replacement, Karolis Liukaitis of Lithuania, who took this Middleweight bout on less than a week's notice which turned into a very competitive bout.
Rounding out the card are: Hugh Brady vs Michael Reid - Welterweights Colin McKee vs Arunus Silcius - Welterweights Jordy Puete vs Gary Morris - Lightweights
To keep up-to-date with CWC visit www.cagewars.co.uk
FightZone TV is now available up to 6 times weekly to over 21 million homes on Fox Sport Net's (FSN) affiliates SunSports, SportSouth, and nationally on DIRECTV, The Dish Network and AT&T U-verse, reaching over 20% of US homes with cable TV
Presentaions include FightZone Presents and Jay Adams' Brawl Call.
For Updates, Airing Schedule, List of Available Cities, Commercial availability or to request a Media Kit, visit www.FightZone.TV or email FightZoneMedia@aol.com or call 727-577-5500.
FightZone TV, LLC Al Martino, Co Owner/CEO/Executive Producer Jay Adams Co Owner/CFO/Executive Producer FightZone MagazineNancy Evans, Co Publisher Michael Martino VP Internet Development Bob Linger, Top Rank Multimedia - National Sales Rep PO Box 20044St. Petersburg, FL 33742 727-577-5500
ABOUT CAGE WARS Cage Wars Championship - CWC is the brain child of Patrick Mooney and Chris Kelly from Ireland. Both men have been involved in promoting nearly 50 MMA events at all levels and are the fathers of the Cage Fighting scene in the UK and has now become the number one Cage MMA event in Europe.
Cage Wars is a Mixed Martial Arts promotion that began in 1999 to promote and teach the sport of MMA. During that time the CWC team brought the first ever cage event to the UK in 2001 which has lead to the explosion of MMA promotions in the UK.
MMA is now the fastest growing sport on the planet today.The first event took place in the Guild Hall in Portsmouth, England and was soon followed by the first ever London event which was a sell out.
Ireland, Scotland and Belfast followed over the years and last year two events were held at the world famous Kings Hall, which once again were a phenomenal success.
Cage Wars is one of the largest and longest running UK MMA events company and has hosted or introduced many of the biggest MMA stars including Seth Petruzelli, Shonie Carter, Jess Liaudin, Brian Gassaway, Sami Schiavo, Dan Severn, Joachim Hansen and Jeff Monson to name but a few.
The Cage Wars team have been involved in over 50 MMA events in the last ten years. They also produced the first ever MMA documentary “Underdogs” with LA film director Bobby Razak; the film featured UK fighters preparing to travel to the US and fight for the first time. The DVD was released globally and was heralded as the quintessential MMA documentary.
The Cage Wars team produced the first ever UK MMA publication to demonstrate that there was a market for a publication dedicated to the sport of MMA. Today there are several monthly MMA magazines.
At the end of 2008 the Cage ars team produced the first ever MMA lifestyle social network at www.thefightfactory.eu and in a few short months the site has become hugely popular.
Currently the CW team are in pre-production for the first ever MMA lifestyle magazine TV show as well as producing Internet TV shows for several websites - FIGHT FACTORY TV and FF MMA NEWS.
The Cage Wars team have had a massive influence on the sport of MMA in the UK and Ireland and will continue to develop live events and TV projects throughout the UK, Ireland and Europe in the near future.
Upcoming events this year will be held in the UK, Spain and Ireland and later in the year CWC will introduce “Saturday Night Fights Live” which is a smaller show for all the young contenders across Europe to compete at a higher level.
- Press release from FightZone with a little editing from us (color, etc...)
Subject to change
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