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CFC will hold its next show at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on tonight. Three World Title fights headline the start to the 2010 Cage Fighting Championship series; it’s the biggest event CFC has staged and features Australia’s most talented fighters. 5 time Champion Hector Lombard returns to defend his Middleweight title against Art Santori from Dan Henderson’s Team Quest USA. Lightweight Champion Adrian ‘the Hunter’ Pang will be defending his title for the first time when he takes on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu expert Bernardo Trekko. Sydney’s Ritchie Vas, a professional big wave surfer who is currently undefeated in MMA puts it all on the line when he takes on Perth based Brazilian Gustavo Falciroli for the coveted Bantam weight title. This event is supported with a full undercard.

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Cage Fighting Championship will hold its 12th event in Sydney this weekend, this show will feature some of the top fighters listed in the infinitemma.com rankings fighting to see who is number 1. The event will be held at Horden Pavillion on Friday March 12th and there are still some tickets available for the event by going to Ticketek

Fightbet.com.au has formed a partnership with CFC and you can now bet on the CFC fights, The first odds have been released for this weekends match ups. The main event will see Hector Lombard take on Art Santori, Hector at 1.06 is heavy favourite over Art at 8.00. The title fight between Adrian Pang and Bernardo Trekko Magalhaes, sees Trekko at 1.70 as the favourite over Pang at 2.00. The other title fight between Gustavo Falciroli and Richard Vas has Vas at 1.60 as favourite over Falciroli at 2.10

The other fights available to bet on are Robert Whittaker 1.85 v Nick Ariel 1.85. Tony Rossini 1.50 is favourite over Jon Leven 2.35 and Jai Bradney 1.50 is also favoured over Ryan Healy 2.35. If you would like to place a bet on the show go to www.fightbet.com.au create an account and back our favourite fighters, you can also bet on upcoming UFC events. visit http://www.CFCWorld.com.au for more information on this event

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BJJ New Zealand held there No Gi competition yesterday at Auckland University of Technology on the North Shore. There was a huge turnout with very strong teams from Gracie Barra, Will Machado, Douglas Santos, and Tukaha. The level keeps improving in New Zealand with bigger Blue and Purple belt divisions and more people entering the white belt division

Lucas Costa from Douglas Jiu Jitsu took out the Purple belt under 73kg division, Daniel Digby from Will Machado took out the Purple belt under 88kg division and Gareth Lewis from Will Machado took out the over 98kg Purple belt division.

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Cage Fighting Championships (CFC) is pleased to announce a new partnership with Fightbet today. CFC joins some of Australia’s leading sporting organisations by entering into a joint venture with Betezy. http://www.fightbet.com.au will offer CFC fans for the first time ever the opportunity to bet on all CFC events starting with CFC 12 on March 12th 2010, as well as a full range of sports and racing with guaranteed better odds via telephone or online 24/7. “We’re delighted to be able to announce a new partnership with Betezy today,” CFC’s CEO Luke Pezzutti said.

“Fight Promoters are trying to bring new revenues into the sport, and we feel that sport’s betting is going to be an increasing source of funding in MMA over the coming years.” We were approached by a number of sports betting agencies and we decided that Betezy was the best option for us to go with.” Betezy’s General Manager Ryan Kay said, “The huge success of club sites powered by Betezy has demonstrated that all sporting organisations with a strong supporter base can achieve a major income stream.”

“We are extremely happy to announce this partnership with Cage Fighting Championships Australia. They are Australia’s leading MMA Promotions Company, they have a very loyal fan base, who by moving their betting turnover to the Fightbet betting site can help ensure that Cage Fighting Championships Australia continues to put on the big MMA Fights Downunder.” “For the first time MMA Fans will be able to bet on all CFC events starting with CFC 12 either online or by phone in a very personal service where they are no longer treated like a number.” If you are a supporter of Cage Fighting Championships and you like a punt it’s time to start betting with Fightbet. Betting options are available on all CFC EVENTS, Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Boxing and all other sports. Click Full Story below to read the full press release

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Infinitemma.com is proud to release its February Australian and New Zealand MMA Fighter Rankings, The ranking will be released in the first week of every month and be decided by the staff of infinitemma.com. To start we will be doing the top 5 Australian MMA Fighters and the top 3 New Zealand MMA Fighters, but over time this will ideally expand to a top 10 in each country for each weight division

There we no movements in the rankings this month in either New Zealand or Australia. We did see some of the ranked fighters solidify there positions as number 1 in there weight division by winning fights on UFC 110 in Sydney. James TeHuna beat Igor Pokrajac via decision and George Sotiropoulos won a very convincing decision over Joe Stevenson and secured his place as a contender in the Lightweight division of UFC. Anthony Perosh Stepped up a weight class and fought Mirko Crocop on 2 days notice, a note that he took this fight on 2 days notice when Mirko’s original opponent withdrew. Anthony lost the fight but secured a contract with UFC for taking the fight on short notice

March will be a huge month for MMA in Australia and New Zealand with Cage Fighting Championship holding and event, Rize holding there first Cage event and some other smaller events happening around the region. Feathweight number 1 ranked Fighter Gustavo Falciroli will take on the number 2 ranked Fighter Richard Vaculik at CFC 12, which will be the first time that the number 1 & 2 ranked fighters have fought each other since the implementation of the ranking system. Lightweight number 2 ranked fighter Adrian Pang and Number 3 ranked fighter Bernardo ‘Trekko’ Magalhaes are scheduled to fight at CFC 12 in March. New Zealand Welterweight number 1 ranked fighter Rod MacSwain and Number 2 ranked fighter Daniel Digby will fight on RIze 4 for the title. To see the full rankings and other fights schedule for March click full story below

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After a successful debut show, FSN is back firing with the second installment of New Zealand’s premiere multi fight sport event. March 13, witness professional Kickboxing, MMA (mixed martial arts) & Pro Boxing all on one show! We bring together Oceania’s top guns and local stars, for you to enjoy a night of pure athletic entertainment.

We have 17 fights currently confirmed - double the number of fights you’d expect to see in your standard pro fight card. 7x Kickbox/Muay Thai (including a 4-man Muay Thai Tourny) 7x MMA (including the MMA debut of Jaye Pukepuke) 2x Pro Boxing bouts (including Olympic boxer Soulan Pownceby’s homecomming bout) Apologies to the boxing fans, we had a few nightmare pullouts, but promise to up the anti on the next show in the boxing division… Mind you, we’re very excited to have Soulan Pownceby competing in his first Christchurch bout since turning Pro, against harden pro Fale Siaoloa. The doors will open @ 6pm and we will be starting bang on 7pm this time cos we have a lot of fights to get through, so it will be non-stop action all night long! Be there as early as possible for the best seats.

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The NSW Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Federation is holding the 7th Annual Australian Submission Grappling Tournament on Saturday 13th March at the Sydney University Sports & Aquatic Centre Darlington. Entries for this tournament will close on 10th March at midnight.

Anyone wishing to enter this tournament should go to http://strongvon.com/ausubgrappling7 and complete the entry form for this event. For more information on the NSW BJJ Federation visit http://www.nswbjj.com.au/

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Peter Graham is set to feature as the headline bout for the April 18th “Ringside Promotions & Shamrock Events presents: Kickboxing/MMA/Boxing” promotion. It has been confirmed that Graham will headline the show in an MMA bout, but his opponent is still yet to be announced. Also featuring on the card will be the ring return of New Zealand champion Ron Sefo, ISKA East coast super heavy weight champion Ray Dimachki, and Jamie “The Boss” Bogovic. The undefeated Kael Coster will also be fighting for a title on the night. Stay tuned to the news page here for more details in the coming weeks. In the mean time, feel free to chat in the forum area about this event and Peter Graham’s Australian MMA debut HERE

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CFC will hold its next show at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on March 12th. Three World Title fights headline the start to the 2010 Cage Fighting Championship series; it’s the biggest event CFC has staged and features Australia’s most talented fighters. 5 time Champion Hector Lombard returns to defend his Middleweight title against Art Santori from Dan Henderson’s Team Quest USA. Lightweight Champion Adrian ‘the Hunter’ Pang will be defending his title for the first time when he takes on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu expert Bernardo Trekko. Sydney’s Ritchie Vas, a professional big wave surfer who is currently undefeated in MMA puts it all on the line when he takes on Perth based Brazilian Gustavo Falciroli for the coveted Bantam weight title. This event is supported with a full undercard.

The undercard has some great bouts on it with Ben Aldridge from Gracie Barra in Sydney taking on Robert Lisita from Lions Den Academy, John leven from CFS v Tony Rossini from IMA and Ryan Healy from Team Quest in the States v Jai Bradney from Five Rings on the Gold Coast

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Toowoomba played host to Underground MMA 4 Cage Fighting Series on Friday night at USQ Clive Berghofer Recreation Centre, the show is one of Australia’s most popular amateur MMA shows and gives fighters a chance to test there skills in the cage. Ally from www.intothezone.com.au was at the event taking pictures for infinitemma.com. Here is a link to the forum thread with a selection of photos she took from the event

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