A look inside American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, CA….the home of Josh Thomson, Cung Le, Josh Koscheck, Mike Swick, Jon Fitch, Cain Velaquez, Christian Wellisch, Bobby Southworth, Trevor Prangley, Daniel Puder, Billy Evangelista, Herschel Walker and many more.
The Golden Knights is a demonstration and competition parachute team of the United States Army. The Golden Knights ONLY provides parachute jumps to approved local and national celebrities, media personnel and VIPs. Strikeforce fighters – Josh “The Punk” Thomson and Bobby Southworth jumped/sky-dived with The Golden Knights.
KNOXX’s Josh “The Punk” Thomson along with Mike Swick and Bobby Southworth were recently at Fort Huachuca in Arizona to support our United States Army by going there to give some MMA Seminars and also do some Meet and Greet appearances. KNOXX and Oak Grove Technologies also gave away special limited edition shirts to our troops at Fort Huachuca.
Mike Swick signing on the KNOXX x Oak Grove shirts that were given away to the troops.
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Check out these MMA fighters TRY to play some golf.
MMA is a very political industry with its fair share of cliques. However, there is a cause that never fails to bring unity to the MMA community, and that is the memory of the late Ryan Bennett. He was professional sportscaster who worked for several local NBC affiliates and hosted talks shows on sports radio stations such as ESPN 1280 and Sports Radio 570, Bennett is most familiar to MMA fans as the co-founder of MMAWeekly.com and as a former UFC announcer.
Bennett died tragically in a car accident on May 31, 2006 at the age of 36, leaving wife Tonya and four children behind.
25 fighters + a golf course= tons of fun!
MMA Agents presents their first Annual Golf Tournament to benefit Ryan Bennett’s Family at Sierra Lakes Golf Course in Ontario, CA. Tuesday was a beautiful day and everyone started checking in at 9am. The teams which included one fighter on each hit the course for the next five hours for some golf, fun, and drinking. This included keg stands on the 10th hole with the hooter’s ladies serving as well as various sponsors scattered on different holes across the course. All in all it was a fantastic day and a ton of fun! Tanya Bennett, her daughter and sister were on hand to oversee the activities.
Strikeforce will have another exciting MMA event on November 21 at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California.
5:30pm – Doors Open
6:00pm – Prelims
7:30pm – Main Card
The main event will be Strikeforce Lightweight Champion Josh “The Punk” Thomson Vs. Yves Edwards and the co-main event is between Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion Bobby Southworth against Renato “Babalu” Sobral.
Both of these fights are scheduled for five rounds and both are also title fights.
To get tickets for this show, call or email Peter Malik at Strikeforce.
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If you email him, please leave him your name, number, and how many tickets you need, and he will get back to you promptly.
For more information on the event and Strikeforce, check out http://www.strikeforce.com
Outside of winning a title, one of the greatest opportunities a fighter can get is the chance to avenge a loss. Strikeforce lightweight champion Josh Thomson will revisit a big one when he faces Yves Edwards at Strikeforce “Destruction” on Nov. 21 at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif.
Two of the UFC’s brightest 155-pounders at the start of the decade, their first encounter in 2004 remains a highlight reel staple as one of the sport’s more dynamic head kick knockouts.
After taking the Strikeforce strap with a well-received five-round performance against world-ranked Gilbert Melendez last June, the 30-year-old Thomson (16-2) steamrolled Ken Shamrock protégé Ashe Bowman in just over a minute at “Strikeforce at the Mansion II” last month at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif. Thomson has won eight straight fights since his loss to UFC stalwart Clay Guida at a Strikeforce event in March 2006.
The easygoing Edwards (34-14-1), a member of the American Top Team, has had a bumpy road since his days in the Octagon. Following short-lived runs with the now deceased Pride and Bodog Fight promotions — and a quick return to the UFC in 2006 that saw him lose to Joe Stevenson — the 32-year-old Bahamian-born Texan recently settled with EliteXC.
Edwards caught fellow striker Edson Berto with a flying knee last February, but former EliteXC 160-pound champion Karl James Noons returned the favor in June with a surprising 48-second knockout. Edwards has dropped six of his last 10 bouts.
“Destruction” will also feature a light heavyweight title bout between champion Bobby Southworth and Renato “Babalu” Sobral.
Source: Sherdog
