MMA Returns to Rose Garden for HDNet Fights Presents

Sportfight XXII: Re-Awakening

Tickets On Sale This Sat, Mar 1^st at 11am

April 18, 2008

Rose Garden Arena

Portland, Oregon

Who:    Sportfight XXII: Re-Awakening 

When:  Fri, Apr 18, 2008, 7:30pm

Where: Rose Quarter – Rose Garden

            Portland, Oregon

Tickets: Tickets are priced at $48.00, $32.00, and $25.00 (call for VIP prices) and can be purchased at the

Rose Quarter Box Office (M-F 10a-5p), all participating Safeway/ Tickets West outlets, by calling

877.789.ROSE (7673), or at ComcastTIX.com. For Groups of 10+ please call 503.963.4400.  For more

information please visit RoseQuarter.com. Prices do not include service charges. To receive event notices,

pre-sale opportunities, discounts and prizes join our free Rose Quarter CyberClub at RoseQuarter.com.

What: SportFight founder and MMA superstar Matt "The Law" Lindland has teamed up with Mark Cuban and

HDNet to deliver yet another adrenaline-pumping night of mixed martial arts action at the Rose Garden on

Friday, April 18 at 7:30pm. SportFight XXII: Re-Awakening will offer up a stacked fight card featuring some

of the most skilled and exciting athletes from both the Northwest and beyond, and will be broadcasted live

across the country in crystal-clear 1080i high definition. 

"We are excited to show the rest of the world what Portland already knows. There is great MMA action in

SportFight and we are proud to partner with Matt on this awesome fight card" said Andrew Simon, CEO of

HDNet Fights.

Local fight fans and a national TV audience will be treated a total of 12 stellar matchups, culminating in two

main-event battles that will feature the quick and explosive athletes of the featherweight and lightweight

divisions.

"We're going to give the crowd the action-packed lightweights, but we're also going to have some of the big

boys going at it too" said Lindland, President of SportFight, LLC., referring to the three bruising heavyweight

fights scheduled. "This fight card has a little bit of everything."

In the Main Event: SportFight veteran Enoch Wilson will put his belt and two-year reign as featherweight

champion on the line when he takes on Mike Joy, a talented newcomer who earned his top contender status

after an impressive unanimous decision victory over Zach George at SportFight XXI. Both men have shown

that they are equally comfortable standing and trading blows or taking the fight to the ground, which should

make for an entertaining and strategic battle of wills.

In the Co-Main Event: Cam Ward and Dave Jansen will face off for the number one contender spot and a

shot at lightweight champion Travis Bush. Ward, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu technician and former SportFight

lightweight champion, is no stranger to the bright lights of professional MMA competition. But he will have

his hands full with Jansen, an up-and-comer who submitted his last opponent at SportFight XXI with an

anaconda choke just 41 seconds into the first round.

Other Fights of Interest: Perhaps the most intriguing fight of the evening will feature the MMA debut of Jason

Ellis, a pro skateboarder who has competed in the X-Games and currently hosts a show on Sirius satellite

radio. Ellis will trade the familiar confines of the skate vert ramp for the hostile environment of the SportFight

ring when he takes on another first-time competitor in local product Jeff Churchill.

Main event

Featherweight Bout

Enoch Wilson, Sportfight Champion (13-4), Team Quest / OJJ / Beaverton, Oregon

vs. Mike Joy, (17-3), Alonso BJJ / Johnson KB / Olympia, WA

Co-Main Event

Lightweight Bout

Cam Ward, Former SF Champion (7-3), OJJ / Beaverton, Oregon

vs. Dave Jansen (6-0) Team Quest / Corbett, Oregon

Lightweight Bout

Ed Nuno, Former SF Champion (3-1), Team Quest / Gresham, Oregon

vs. Tommy Truex, (2-1), Greg Jackson's MMA / Albuquerque, NM

Heavyweight Bout

Eric Smith, (3-0), Boise, ID vs. Andrew Pedersen, (3-1), Vancouver, BC

Heavyweight Bout

Sunia Filikitonga, (3-0), Huston, TX vs. Thomas Naylor, (4-0), Dallas, TX

Featherweight Bout

Brian Caraway, (8-2) Yakama MMA / Yakama, WA. vs. Jeff Houland, (8-4), Fight Control / Modesto, CA.

Middleweight Bout

Tyson Jefferies, (5-3) Team Quest / Portland, Oregon vs. John Clift, (3-1) Milwaukie, Oregon

Heavyweight Bout

Nathan Rice, (5-0) Bully Gang / Eugene, Oregon vs. Daniel Krug, (5-1), Impact BJJ / Beaverton, Oregon

Middleweight Bout

Jason Ellis, (0-0) Team Tony Hawk, Murrieta CA. vs. TBA

*subject to change

About SportFight

Founded in 2003 by Matt Lindland and Randy Couture, SportFight is the leading mixed martial arts

promotion in the northwestern United States. Together with its subsidiary brands, "Proving Grounds" and

"Clash at the Casino," SportFight has produced more than 30 live MMA events in Oregon, Nevada and

Colorado.

SportFight was Oregon's first sanctioned mixed martial arts promotion and has served as a showcase for

many of the sport's emerging stars and best-known veterans, such as Sean Sherk, Rameau Thierry

Sokoudjou, Jeff Monson, Chris Leben, Ed Herman, Gesias "JZ" Calvancanti, Paul Daley, Chael Sonnen and

Dennis Hallman. Furthermore, SportFight has graduated fighters to every major MMA organization, including

the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Pride FC, K-1, the International Fight League, BodogFIGHT and Elite

XC.

Check out SportFight TV every Saturday at 10 pm on Comcast SportsNet. SportFight has an extensive

library of event footage and highlight compilations that are available on DVD at Wal-Mart, Hollywood Video

and many other retail locations. For more information, visit http://www.sportfight.tv.  

About HDNet

HDNet (www.hd.net) provides viewers with the best in original comedy, drama, news, sports and music

programming.

HDNet is your exclusive, high definition home for popular, critically acclaimed original programming, including

television's only HD news feature program "HDNet World Report", "Dan Rather Reports" featuring legendary

journalist Dan Rather and "NASA on HDNet" (presenting live shuttle launches through 2010).  HDNet

presents championship sports coverage featuring the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer,

NASCAR Grand National Division, NASCAR NEXTEL Cup re-broadcasts, boxing and Mixed Martial Arts

through its new HDNet Fights initiative; groundbreaking music programming with the HDNet Concert Series

featuring leading artists and bands including U2, Coldplay, Gwen Stefani and more; entertaining and

irreverent lifestyle programming including "Deadline!", "Art Mann Presents", and "Get Out!" HDNet is also the

exclusive high definition home to critically acclaimed and award winning programs such as the Emmy Award

winning "Arrested Development", "The Black Donnellys",  "Blade:  The Series", "Star Trek:  Enterprise",

"Smallville", "Joan of Arcadia", "Boomtown" and "Andy Richter Controls the Universe".  

Rose Quarter

The Rose Quarter in Portland, OR is owned by an affiliate of the Portland Trail Blazers and managed by

Global Spectrum. The Rose Quarter includes 20,000-seat Rose Garden, 12,000-seat Memorial Coliseum,

6,500-seat Theater of the Clouds, 40,000-square foot Exhibit Hall and the Rose Quarter Commons. Home to

the NBA Portland Trail Blazers and the NLL Portland LumberJax, the Rose Garden is a $262 million multi-

purpose arena that opened in the fall of 1995. The WHL Winter Hawks play in Memorial Coliseum, which

opened in 1961 and served as the original home of the Trail Blazers. Memorial Coliseum is attached to

40,000-square foot Exhibit Hall and seven meeting rooms. The Commons, Portland's largest outdoor

public plaza, connects the Rose Garden and the Memorial Coliseum and can accommodate up to 5,000

people for outdoor events. Ovations Food Services is the official food and beverage concessionaire for the

Rose Quarter.

Rose Quarter Ranked # 1 in Number of Shows, # 3 in Attendance and # 8 in Total Gross In the December

2006 issue of Venues Today, the Rose Quarter not only was ranked eighth in the world for venues with a

capacity of 15,001-30,000 for the year, it also won the 2006 Hall of Headlines Booking title. The Rose

Quarter has had more events (not including Trail Blazers games, Winter Hawks games, and other select

events) than any other venue in its category with 191 and boasts the third largest attendance with 872,208.

Global Spectrum

Global Spectrum (global-spectrum.com) is the fastest growing firm in the public assembly facility

management field with more than 65 facilities throughout the United States and Canada. The Philadelphia-

based company is part of one of the world's largest sports and entertainment companies, Comcast-

Spectacor, which also owns the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League, the Philadelphia 76ers

of the National Basketball Association, the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League, Flyers

Skate Zone, a series of community ice skating rinks, Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, a regional sports

programming network, Ovations Food Services, a food and beverage services provider, New Era Tickets, a

full-service ticketing and marketing product for public assembly facilities, and Front Row Marketing Services,

a commercial rights sales company and 3601 Creative Group, a full-service in-house advertising agency. In a

partnership with Disson Skating, Comcast-Spectacor annually produces 10 nationally televised figure skating

spectaculars on NBC.

- From SportFight with a little editing from us (color, etc...)

(2/26/08)