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GFL Camp Taji Iraq welcomes you

This is Jose Sanchez aka DIRTY, i was talking to some people here at Taji to see if it is possible to get a live show from IRAQ. Some of my buddys are intrested in the idea, some even want to fight. Scott whats up bro it can be done you need to contact any USO office. Scott email me you know where im at ill be here . The DirtySanchez* { SUPPORT THE TROOPS} Continue

Added by Jose Sanchez on October 24, 2009 at 6:40pm — No Comments

New MMA gym in Haverhill..... My impression and review!

Ok guys...and ladies...... I checked out the new MMA gym In Haverhill. Well it is in its "Infancy", but my hat goes off to both Dan and Chris, you guys did a great job. First night seemed to go off without a hitch, and I am very Impressed. A lot of people showed up, and a lot of people sweated it out! The space is open, the area is clean, and the cast and crew are a blast to hang out and roll with! Rumor has it, the new gym will start accepting Apps. late Oct. or early Nov.... I know I am signin… Continue

Added by Justin Marcotte on October 22, 2009 at 1:11am — No Comments

warr-zone rocks the center for the arts in concord

Proud of you Ross,You really rocked the house at GFL4 in concord. I still have people telling me how awsome it was and how loud it got when you came out.4-0-0 Baby.Your a great fighter and showing you will bangem standing up or on the ground.Keep it rollin your a beast.If you ever fight in concord again you will need to get even more tickets. Continue

Added by Darren R Warriner on October 4, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

New Gym in Haverhill

Fighters and New comers, There is a new Gym in town. The gym is located in Haverhill,Ma right near the center by the Bradford train station. Carried out Fight Gear, a New sponsor of the Global Fight league has given me full access to hold practices and train fighters in the gym. The gym has 2 full size Olympic wrestling mats, Thai bags, punching bags, exercise equipment,etc. Carried out fight gear will also have there offices there as well as all the gear and apparel you need to fight and train.… Continue

Added by Dan Bonnell on October 1, 2009 at 12:22pm — No Comments

GFL 4 "UNIFIED" Final fight card

GFL 4 "UNIFIED" Final fight card is posted in the forum. Continue

Added by Dan Bonnell on September 3, 2009 at 9:05am — No Comments

2 TUFF of the Unlimited Fitness Gym

Keaton Van Thof will be fighting September 19th at The Capitol Center in Concord Presented by GFL and fighting for 2 TUFF, Keaton has been in the gym everyday since the announcement of his fight, working with Carlos lovato and Ahmed Hakim sharpening his standup and ground skills, in preperation for his upcoming fight with Ross Warriner in the GFL UNIFIED FIGHT Continue

Added by frank morgan (Butch) on August 30, 2009 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

Carlos Lovato

Carlos Lovato is a boxer and a teacher at Unlimited Fitness Gym - "2 TUFF" were he teach's boxing to adults "Fit to be tied" and kids "Fit Kids" he also runs a "Real deal Boxing" class for those who understand they need serious stand up game, as the first weapon you need when you enter the cage, He is also proficient in kick boxing, the second weapon in any fighters arsenal, We are also working on 2 Special Forces Vetrans both heavily armed in combat field experience, with a combined time of… Continue

Added by frank morgan (Butch) on August 17, 2009 at 6:05am — No Comments

Rivera blazing an MMA trail in Gloucester

By Nick Curcuru Staff Writer It is the perfect way for professional mixed martial arts fighter Christian Rivera to prepare for the biggest fight of his career. The 25-year-old Gloucester native, with a 3-2 professional record that includes a current three-fight winning stre… Continue

Added by GFL on August 16, 2009 at 6:40pm — No Comments

I Wanna Be A GLOBAL FIGHTER

Fighters, Welcome to the Global Fight League!! As a league commissioned by the state of… Continue

Added by GFL on August 16, 2009 at 1:55pm — No Comments

On Friday, June 12th at the Capitol Center for the Arts, the third chapter of the Global Fight Lea…

On Friday, June 12th at the Capitol Center for the Arts, the third chapter of the Glo… Continue

Added by GFL on August 16, 2009 at 1:51pm — No Comments

MADE! I WANNA BE A GFL FIGHTER

WHATS GOIN ON! MY NAMES STEVE REYNOLDS I'M 20 YEARS OLD. I LIVE IN EXETER NH. ILL BE IN AMESBURY ON MONDAY FOR TRYOUTS FOR GFL'S NEW TV SHOW *IF FOR SOME REASON I DON'T MAKE IT TO AMESBURY ILL DEFF BE IN MANCH) AND JUST LOOKING FOR SOME SUPPORT! I WRESTLED ALL THOUGH MIDDLE SCHOOL MY FRESHMEN YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL I WAS HIT BY A TRUCK AND ON TOP OF THAT COULDN'T KEEP MY GRADES UP TO EVEN BE A PART OF THE TEAM! ANYWAYS SINCE MIDDLE SCHOOL IVE WRESTLED ANYONE AND EVERYONE! AND SOME HOW IVE… Continue

Added by STEVE O. REYNOLDS JR on July 29, 2009 at 8:42pm — 1 Comment

GFL 4 Medicals

Fighters, Please check the GFL forum for the new fighter medicals that we require in NH. If you have a valid NH license you are in the clear until it expires. but, if you do not, you must have all your medicals updated within 6 months of Sept 19th! Also, I'd like to start receiving ENTRANCE MUSIC from all the fighters. IF, i do not receive it by Aug. 20th then we will pick your music for you. How does "I touch my self" by the Devinal's sound? All i am asking for is the Artist's name and the son… Continue

Added by Dan Bonnell on July 24, 2009 at 5:54pm — 1 Comment

GFL 4 Sept. 19th "New Rules" and some other cool shit.

On Sept 19th, GFL will bring yet another New and exciting aspect to the MMA world in NH. After several talks with the NH Boxing Commission, the GFL has been granted Unified rules for Main Events and "Featured Fights" This is a first in the History of the sport for NH to allow Unified rules in a sanctioned bout in our state. Not the UFC, Not Elite XC, K1, etc. But the GFL has brought you, again, more Awesomeness! Now, the crappy news.....All fighters are now required to have their medicals done w… Continue

Added by Dan Bonnell on June 29, 2009 at 9:33pm — 2 Comments

Published: June 14, 2009 11:51 pm ShareThisPrintThis 3 Resurrection Salisbury's Thistlewood victori…

Published: June 14, 2009 11:51 pm ShareThisPrintThis 3 Resurrection Salisbury's Thistlewood victorious at GFL 3 By Evan Mugford staff writer Salisbury native Kade Thistlewood isn't looking for anyone's sympathy. He isn't trying to conjure pity, and he isn't making any excuses. Thistlewood, a 6-foot-4, 170-pound Global Fight League mixed martial artist, is looking for redemption, and he's on the fast track to earning it. Life has been difficult for the gangly 25-year-old. He was 3 when hi… Continue

Added by kade"the rage thistlewood on June 20, 2009 at 10:54am — 1 Comment

Need Some Help

Brady Bonnell Born May 26th 2009 @ 10:28pm, 7 weeks premature. Anyone who knows me personally knows I am an independent, do it yourself man. I’m your typical don’t ask for directions, Learn the hard way guy. Where I lack ability and skill I make up for with such a big heart… My Boy is fighting for his life right now at Brigham and Women’s, in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. He was born 33 weeks into his Gestational period of growth at just a mere 4 lbs 3 oz. He was given steroids to speed his… Continue

Added by Dan Bonnell on June 1, 2009 at 2:37pm — 8 Comments

More GFL 4 info in the Forum

GFL 4 information posted in the forum. Taking names for the next show Now! Continue

Added by Dan Bonnell on May 23, 2009 at 12:52pm — No Comments

GFL 4 September

With the great demand of fighters looking to fight on this GFL 3 show we have reached our max # of fights for the June 12th show and thus i will begin matchmaking for GFL 4 in September now. If you are interested in Fighting on the next show, please contact me now either via email (danbonnell@yahoo.com) phone 978 815 4399, or message me here at www.GFLMMA.com Continue

Added by Dan Bonnell on May 20, 2009 at 2:55pm — No Comments

Heavey Hearted!

GFL would like to thank everyone for coming out to the Mad River Tavern two Sundays ago for the premier of the Harvest and more importantly to raise money for Chucky's Fight. Chucky's touching story was played for everyone to see and certainly touched all that saw it. Many people stopped down to watch the fights. enjoy great food and drink, and to support the cause! Chris "The Ego" Fisette and Matt "The Ticketmaster" Smith made plans with Chucky to go down to Seabrook Beach i… Continue

Added by GFL on May 5, 2009 at 6:30pm — 3 Comments

Tomorrow Sunday 4/26 GFL meet and greet to support "Chucky's Fight"

I'd Like to see everyone make a conscious effort to make it down to Murphy's riverside (Formally Mad River Tavern) in Amesbury from 6pm-8pm. The GFL is holding a Benefit night for "Chucky's Fight" an organization dedicated to educating children on the dangers of drug addiction. We will be playing the Video from GFL 1 "The Harvest" I encourage all the fighters to make this event. Show your support for the charity, and get yourself out there, take the time to meet some of the fans that love to wa… Continue

Added by Dan Bonnell on April 25, 2009 at 12:38pm — No Comments

Phenom Labs

Hey you guys should check out Phenom Labs if you haven't already. The Wicked Whey Protein is great if you are cutting weight. It's low carb and high protein. Also check out the Herculean Extereme nitirc oxide/ creatine suppliment. Continue

Added by Ben Hudson on April 24, 2009 at 5:33pm — No Comments

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Official UFC 106 Weigh-In Results

Click below for the official weigh-in results for Saturday's UFC 106 event. UFC 106, which is headlined by the light heavyweight rematch between Tito Ortiz and Forrest Griffin and the welterweight showdown between Anthony Johnson and Josh Koscheck airs live on pay-per-view from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas beginning at 10pm ET / 7pm PT. Fans can also tune in to Spike TV at 9pm ET / 6pm PT to see live UFC 106 preliminary bouts.

Tito Ortiz New Beginning

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - The UFC 59 fight poster read "Reality Check", and for five minutes, it certainly was for Forrest Griffin, who was battered for much of the opening stanza of his 2006 bout on the card by a man who had reigned over the light heavyweight division longer than anyone else in UFC history, Tito Ortiz.

Forrest Griffin The Quest to Get That Winning Feeling Back

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC - "Where's Forrest?" Missing in action for a few days last month, Forrest Griffin was suddenly a wanted man when Mark Coleman got injured and was forced to withdraw from his UFC 106 bout with Tito Ortiz. But the former UFC light heavyweight champion was nowhere to be found.

Parisyan is out of UFC 106; Bout with Hazelett Off

Karo Parisyan is out of Saturday's UFC 106 event at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. His bout with Dustin Hazelett has been canceled.

Kos and Effect

Mike Russell, UFC - If confidence were currency, Josh Koscheck would be Donald Trump and if the 31-year-old's worth is as high as he feels it is, he believes a win over highly-touted knockout artist Anthony "Rumble" Johnson at UFC 106 November 24 could very well outbid all potential UFC welterweight title shot claimants.

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The best bartender/mattress salesman/rock star/cage fighter in Portsmouth

Meet Cyrus Clark, an undefeated mixed martial arts champion ... after one fight

Cyrus Clark is not a fighter.

Sure, he's had a few scraps in his life (10 by his count). But he claims he's never started one. And with his laid-back, skater-dude demeanor, he's the last guy you'd expect to see throwing down.But there he was earlier this year, moments before his mixed martial arts debut, hopping up and down like a madman, ready to rip his opponent's head off.

"It was pretty sudden for all of us," said Ted Roberts, Clark's friend from Portsmouth High School. "He wasn't a wimp, but he wasn't the kind of guy going around picking fights."

"Starting his career at 32, I think, was pretty funny," said Jay Krecklow, another longtime friend.

Clark, a lifelong Portsmouth resident and drummer for the band The Han Solos, used to watch mixed martial arts on TV at the Daniel Street Tavern, where he has bartended for the past 2½ years. But it wasn't until he and Krecklow attended a fight at the Ioka Theater in Exeter last year that he came up with his crazy idea.

"Immediately after that, that's all I kept talking about — how I wanted to do it," Clark said. "I had watched UFC, but then once I saw it in real life, it was way better, and I wanted to do it."

So Clark got a hold of Scott Millette of Hampton, who runs the 8-month-old Global Fight League, and told him he wanted to fight at the group's February show at the Capitol Center in Concord .

"He was like, 'No, no, the card's lined up,' and there was really no room for me." Then, suddenly, there was an opening. One of the fighters scheduled for the show had to pull out after losing by technical knockout in another fight.

Millette called Clark. "Here's your chance," he said.

As they approach their mid-30s, it's not unusual for men to try out extreme activities like sky diving or bungee jumping in an attempt to cling to their fading youth. But that's not Clark. He did it for the fun of it, and because, as his friend Roberts noted, it would give him a great story to tell to every girl he meets.

But in order to have a story to tell, Clark had to win the fight. And it wasn't going to be easy, as he only had two weeks to get ready, and no experience as an MMA fighter. He scarcely had time to get the required medical paperwork together, let alone train.

Cyrus had worked briefly as a bouncer, but dealing with drunks isn't much of a challenge.

("It's like handling a 6 year old," he said.) Other than that, his only physical training was running regularly, and carting around mattresses for his day job at National Discount Mattress on Islington Street.

What he did have, though, is a lot of what his friend Krecklow calls "pent-up aggression." And some experience getting beaten up as a kid by his older brother.

To get Clark ready for the fight, Millette took him to a gym in Haverhill, Mass.

"They beat the crap out of Cyrus for three weeks," Millette said.

"He gave me a crash course in stand-up boxing," Clark said. This entailed how to stand, where to hold his hands, and how to protect himself. "There's definitely an art to that."

When Clark broke a rib sparring just four days before his fight, he kept his mouth shut, afraid he might lose his chance to fight.

"I didn't realize at first I had broken a rib," he said. "Then it started to hurt. I definitely knew I was still gonna fight, though. I wanted to bad enough. I was afraid I wouldn't get another chance." For his corner team, Clark hooked up with Team Burgess at the weigh-in on Friday, the night before the fight. Then he worked his regular shift at the mattress store.

Saturday morning, a few hours before the bout, Team Burgess gave him his game plan for the fight. That helped him stay calm. It also helped that he had experience playing in a band.

"I know what it's like stepping out onto the stage," he said. "It was just a different event." The night of the fight, a group of friends showed up to support Clark.

"He was pretty pumped up," said Jason Stiles, his boss at the Daniel Street Tavern. "He was in the zone. He walked right past us." Physically, Clark seemed to match up pretty well against his opponent — at 6 feet tall, he had a 3-inch height advantage, and they both weighed in the neighborhood of 175 pounds.

Still, "Me and pretty much the rest of my friends all thought he was going to get his a** kicked," Roberts said.

When the fight started, it flashed through Clark's mind that he was going to have to try to kill the other guy, or be killed himself.

His plan had been to box, but the punches he was throwing kept missing. His opponent, on the other hand, had little difficulty landing a number of strong punches. Eventually, Clark grabbed the guy around the waist and pulled him to the ground.

Once on the mat, Clark managed to get his opponent in a full nelson. His cornermen started screaming, "Choke him out, baby" — a legal MMA move in which one fighter wraps his arm around the other's throat and chokes him into submission.

A minute and 20 seconds into the fight, Clark's opponent tapped-out, signaling that he was giving up.

Clark leapt into the air. As the referee raised his hands in victory, he pointed to his supporters in the crowd.

Despite his easy win, Clark said he has no plans to fight again.

"I'm already working 55 hours a week," he pointed out. "To really do MMA, you need to give 20 to 40 hours a week. There's no way. I'm officially retired, undefeated." Millette said he'd love to see Clark fight again. In fact, the GFL is building a new campaign, "So you want to be a Global Fighter?" around Clark's sudden success.

Still, Millette figures it's unlikely that he'll lure Clark back into the ring.

"He just wanted to do it once," he said. "He pretty much likened it to the top three experiences in his life, next to losing his virginity — he couldn't think of the third one."

By Marc Fortier

May 03, 2009 6:00 AM

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