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Guess who's back!
21 Sep 2009 12:47AM
The problem with holidays is you spend months looking forward to them, then you have the stress of going on holiday, it takes a week to de-stress and then your on your way back! After 1 day back at work, it's like you have never been at all!
I've been back fro 5 days, so this is likely to be a short blog.... here goes!
M1 Team England
OK, less than a week to go until the M-1 Challenge Semi-Finals. Wow, that's come quick. There's been the usual opponent changes, which have become common practice with the M-1 promotion, but apart from that things have run smoothly. Oh hold on, there's the visas! People don't realise some of the things that have to be sorted for a fighters when they are fighting international. You can't just jump on a plane and fight. These are professional fights and therefore you have to have working visas. They can be tough and time consuming and as it stands right now, the only fighter I know who actually has a visa is Matt Thorpe. Hopefully the rest will get sorted this week... or he is in for a busy night! You have probably heard the team for the semi's already, but just in case... it's Scott Hewitt, Si Phillips, Matt Thorpe, new boy Lee Austin and the big guy, Robbie Broughton. It's a winning team and we are confident that the results will go our way and we will be heading to the finals!
Team Colosseum
Good to be back at the Colosseum this week....man it's busy. We have picked up a lot of new faces recently, as well as some of the old guard such as Widge Milward, Steve Hazeldine and Andy Parkinson. Andy has been with us for quite some time now and has an excellent record in AM MMA. He is one of the toughest guys in the gym. Strong and taut, the guy will go toe to toe with anyone. He is on a hiatus from fighting at present... maybe reading this will encourage him to make a return, cause I think he could have a solid career if he focused on it! Most of the focus on the guys that are fighting soon, as we have a big few weeks ahead of us. On Saturday, whilst Matt is in Russia, the team will be in Birmingham for AMMA. On that show is Sam Fergsson and Ste Lane. Fast forward to October 11th and we have a team of grappler's heading to the Ground Control competition, followed by some action at Fight Ikon in Bolton, where we have Sam fighting again, accompanied by Steve Hazeldine and Chris Thompson. I am also going to be joined by my good friend Ian "Beverley Hills" Butlin, as we are commentating for the evening. Ian and I have also got a few other commenting gigs coming up and if you want to take advantage of our services, drop either of us a line!
MMA noise
OK, the main big news is the arrival of Paul Daley in the UFC. Something he has probably deserved for a long time. He was facing Martin Kampmann, which could of been a tough fight. I had Martin in the UK fighting on King of the Cage UK, he KO'd MW veteran Brendan Seguin in R1. Since then Martin has put together a streak of solid wins. Which makes his destruction at the hands of Daley even more impressive. Paul has certainly made a statement and I'm sure Dana has some plans for him. With his team mate Dan Hardy in the same division, one wonders if there would be pressure to fight each other on the way to the title? Anyway, that's me for the week. Hopefully have some more time next week and something more to say!
Chin down, hands up
Aaron
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