Mick Mortimer Rize Bantamweight Champion- Photo by Alegra www.intothezone.com.au

Integrated MMA/Fairtex took a clean sweep at Rize FC 5 in Brisbane last night. All 3 fighters stopped their opponents due to strikes and made their team and supporters proud.

Congratulations to Tim Radley who in his debut fight caught his opponents first kick and delivered a beautiful straight right that KO’d his opponent at the 9 sec mark of round 1..

Nate “BullRush”Thompson was next to do his thing and in a hard fought battle brought about a second round TKO due to a hailstorm of unanswered  punches and elbows from mount.

The main event of the evening saw Brisbanes local boy Mick Mortimer fight former Shooto Champion Masahiro Oishi for the 60kg Rize FC Title. Round 1 saw Oishi using his awesome arsenal of grappling skills taking the young Aussie fighters back and moving to a good armbar attempt. However Mortimer showed great calmness weathering the storm with good grappling and impressive submission defence of his own. As round 2 began Mortimer found confidence in Oishi’s unsuccesful submission attempts and began to gain the upperhand with great takedown defence and punishing striking. As the round wore on Australias 60kg Champion landed combination after combination of punches and elbows that opened cuts in his Japanese opponents head. After a brief doctors check of Oishi, Mortimer opened the final exchange of the night with a punishing punch elbow combination bringing about a verbal submission from Oishi. Mick Mortimer was awarded the Rize FC Bantamweight Title much to the delight of his large group of supporters.

Integrated MMA would like to thank Tapout and Fairtex for personally sponsoring Mick and also valued Team Sponsors ASN, MMA Sports Mag and All Type Cabinets.

Rob Giufridda Cage Wars 4

Integrated MMA middleweight Rob “THE HILLBILLY” Guiffrida was victorious over Rafael Uyttebrouck on Cage Wars on the Gold Coast. Rob won by TKO in the first minute after taking his opponent to the ground and ground and pounding him to a referee stopage.

Thanks to TAPOUT and also team sponsors FAIRTEX, MMA SPORTS MAG, ASN and All Type Cabinets for their support.

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…May 29th, Sleeman Sports Centre Brisbane.

May 29th will see RIZE MMA move to the incredible Sleeman Sports Centre (3,000+ capacity).

In an event featuring Australia’s MMA elite taking on international talent from Japan, two RIZE Titles will be decided.

Integrated MMA/Fairtex will be represented by  Mick Mortimer when he does battle with Japanese ex-Shooto champion Masahiro Oishi for the RIZE Bantamweight Title at 60kg. Exciting Integrated MMA up and comers Tim Radley and Nate Thomson will also look to impress in front of their home crowd.

Other fights will see Hugh Cameron challenge Japans, Eiji Murayama for the RIZE Featherweight Title (65kg) and Michael Van Der Vlist takes on Fight World Cup Champ Api Hemara!

This event will also see RIZE 5 will featured on FOX Sports !!

General tickets are available for Integrated MMA supporters through Integrated MMA Gym and also available through Ticketek, or for group bookings and VIP tables contact us at… rize@rizemma.com

Thanks to Integrated MMA sponsors FAIRTEX, TAPOUT, ASN, MMA SPORTS MAG and ALL TYPE CABINETS.

Legend FC 2 Hong Kong

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Having scored an emphatic KO with Hong Kong on its January debut, the world’s fastest-growing sport – professional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) – is back in the SAR, with Legend 2 on June 24 at Star Hall.

Tickets for Legend 2 will go on sale from Monday, May 10, and are priced at HK$880, HK$580 and HK$280, and are available from Hong Kong Ticketing, Tom Lee outlets and selected martial arts facilities.

The Legend 2 event card will feature the very best professional martial artists from the Asia-Pacific, including national champions from Hong Kong, China, Australia, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Mongolia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Considered by many to be the ultimate martial arts competition format, MMA allows athletes trained in martial arts such as Sanda (China), Brazilian Jiujitsu (Brazil/Japan), Judo (Japan), Karate (Japan), Muay Thai (Thailand), Boxing (Greece), Sambo (Russia), Tae Kwon Do (Korea) and Wrestling (Greece) to compete in a freestyle contest of interdisciplinary skills. Over Legend 2’s nine matches, the best overall martial artists will emerge.

As the popularity of MMA continues to grow around the world, throughout the Asia-Pacific and in Hong Kong, Legend is committed both to providing regular, professional MMA competitions, and to developing Hong Kong’s MMA community.

With that commitment comes the announcement of a local MMA initiative by Legend in the form of the Legend MMA Development Programme. Organisers have announced they will identify a number of the city’s top martial artists in traditional disciplines such as Kung Fu, Sanda, and Muay Thai. In conjunction with their existing training at their regular gyms, these athletes will be provided with supplemental interdisciplinary instruction, with the aim of making their MMA debuts at Legend 3, scheduled for September 2010.

June’s Legend 2 will see a host of exciting national champions making their Hong Kong debuts, as well as the return of Legend stars Kenny Yeung, Adrian Pang and Bae Myung Ho.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, the hometown of Bruce Lee, ‘forefather’ of MMA, Yeung developed his love for martial arts here before moving to Australia to further his education and training. At the inaugural Legend event, Yeung thrilled the home crowd by beating Mongolian Khuukhenkhuu Amartuvshin in two rounds. In June’s Legend 2, Yeung will again have the advantage of home support for his MMA encounter with Justin Lee of Chinese Taipei. Lee is no stranger to competing in Hong Kong, having taken second place in the Copa de Hong Kong Brazilian Jiujitsu championship in 2008. His Jiujitsu skills are complemented by his Muay Thai training, and he is undefeated in his three professional MMA bouts to date.

Australian-Chinese Adrian Pang, whose thrilling bout with Korean Nam Yui Chul in January ended in a majority draw decision, will be back. This time, fan-favourite Pang, who began studying Kung Fu at age 11, will match up against Korean Yu Woo Sung in what is expected to be epic match in one of Legend 2’s two co-main events.

The second co-main event will feature Australian Matt Cain against Korean Bae Myung Ho. Both athletes won their respective matches here in January, and June’s contest between the two will be one of the region’s most exciting welterweight tests to date.

MMA operates under a strict set of competition rules, and athletes compete in a timed freestyle contest, with the best martial artist emerging victorious. This unique form becomes the ultimate in martial arts – complex, yet adaptable and highly entertaining to watch.

Legend clips, images, news and background are all at www.legendfc.com.

Cage Wars 4 Southport RSL Gold Coast

International Fight Promotions which runs the Cage Wars Event on the Gold Coast have released the card for their upcoming fourth event scheduled for the Southport RSL on Saturday 15th May, 2010.

Main event will feature Five Rings Dojo fighter Ben Mortimer taking on Gracie Barra Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black belt Fabricio Blum who has based himself in Sydney.

Integrated MMA middleweight Rob Guiffrida will do battle with Rafael Uyttebrouck.

Rafael Uyttebrouck vs. Rob Guiffrida
Josh Smith vs. Eli Kanuta
Thiago Ferreira vs. Court Hale
Greg Smith vs. Josh Webb
Wade Mathews vs. Laz Seiuli
Ryan Carr-Ketu vs. Charlie Ngaheu
Matt Walker vs. Richie Kingi
Brad Adam vs. Tu Katu
Evan Byrne vs. Marcio Lemosm
Ben Mortimer vs. Frederico Blum