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Gladiator Challenge Newsletter GC And Soboba Casino Team Up To Bring Fans The Extreme Sports Festival!
October 24, 2010 Soboba Casino San Jacinto, California
Tedd Williams and Soboba Casino are proud to present the “Extreme Sports Festival” on Sunday, October 24th in San Jacinto, California. This incredible day of action is an all-day event that will feature Grapplapaloosa, a no-gi grappling tournament for men, women, and children of all ages. In addition, there will be a California State Amateur MMA Championship event, which is also open to men, women, and children of all ages. Last but certainly not least, Tedd Williams’ Gladiator Challenge will present a pro MMA show that will showcase over twenty professional mixed martial arts bouts. In addition, there will also be over forty vendor booths for fans to peruse. With over 8,000 extreme sports fans expected, this is an event that can’t be missed!
The gates open at 10 AM, and fights will be running all day. The event will end at 12 midnight. Tickets for this awesome event cost $45, and are avai lable through the Virtual Box Office at www.vbotickets.com.
Weigh-ins for the exciting Grapplapaloosa event will run from 7 AM to 9 AM on the day of the Festival, and the tournament will begin at 10 AM. For registration and additional information on this exciting tournament, please contact Steve Lara at (626) 720-3695, or head to www.millenniamma.com.
The pro MMA event, entitled "Royal Flush," will begin at 6 PM, and will feature some incredible MMA fight action. Superheavyweights Shane Smith and Eric Prindle will face off, and at stake will be the next step in their respective careers, as well as the number one contender’s spot in their division. Smith will have his hands full with Prindle, whose nickname is “American Soldier.”
Prindle, who has trained with UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar, is a military veteran. Eric was born on August 30, 1976 in Erie, Pennsylvania and raised in Phoenix, Arizona and Honolulu, Hawaii. At 12 years of age, Eric had two amateur kickboxing fights against men twice his age and dominated the ring. At the age of 18, Eric went into the Army as a tow-gunner (weapons specialist), where he graduated from most of the schools the Army had to offer. In 1999 he won the battalion boxing smoker with the 101st Air Borne division at Fort Campbell Kentucky. He ended up winning the boxing division for the superheavyweight title. He did all of this while not knowing there was an army boxing scout watching. He was then invited to the All Army Box-Off’s where he won once again in the superheavyweight division. He was then invited to become the superheavyweight boxer for the World Class Athlete Program (WCAP) with the Army at Fort Carson Colorado. During his time with WCAP (2001-2004) he went on to become the 5-time All Army Champion and 4-time Armed Forces Champion traveling all over the United States and earning himself well over 100 amateur boxing fights. Because of the success of Eric an d that of the WCAP boxing team they were invited to compete at the international boxing championship in Ireland in 2002.
Eric ended his career with the Army in 2004. After taking four years off to devote his time to his children and wife, he decided it was time to jump back into the ring and start a brand new career in the MMA world. After training and fighting for a continual year he’s had three professional fights, winning two and losing the other. His loss to a seasoned belt-holder (after training for less than 3 months) taught Eric how every aspect of the MMA fighting world (not just boxing) is critical to becoming successful in this sport. Now knowing he needed more than boxing skills to rely on, Eric has evolved his ground game and martial arts skills while maintaining his boxing skills to a competitive standard.
Regardless of what happens Sunday, it’s going to be exciting!
For more information on Gladiator Challenge and all its events, please visit www.gladiatorchallenge.com
For additional information please contact: Phil Lanides, Publicist - (408) 439-3245, phil@fightofyourlife.com Tedd Williams, Owner/Promoter – info@gladiatorchallenge.com
Gladiator Challenge is a world-class mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion established in 1999 by Tedd Williams. A former UFC fighter, Williams is a former national AAU Sambo Champion (1997), a former California State Judo Champion (4th Degree Black Belt under “Judo” Gene Lebell) and a former college All- American wrestler (Cerritos Jr. College, 1988-89). Gladiator Challenge runs 12-18 MMA events per year, and has featured MMA superstars Uriah “The California Kid” Faber, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, James Irvin, Tyson Griffin, Dan “The Beast” Severn, “Sugar” Rashad Evans, Scott “Hands of Stone” Smith, “The Maine-iac” Tim Sylvia, Joe “Daddy” Stevenson, Mac Danzig, Jerry Bohlander, “Krazy Horse” Charles Bennett, Chris Leben, Chael Sonnen, Jake Shields, “T he Secret Weapon” Pete Spratt, Nate “The Rock” Quarry, Jason “The Punisher” Lambert, Bobby “The Bad Seed” Hoffman, and Cal Worsham, among many others. Gladiator Challenge can be found online at http://www.gladiatorchallenge.com
- Press Release from Gladiator Challenge
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