We finally get a reprieve from the consecutive weeks of UFC events. However, there are still a number of events taking place this weekend:
2014 NCAA Division 1 Wrestling Championships
Taking place from March 20th to 22nd, the NCAA Wrestling Championships is usually the highlight of the college wrestling season. Here champions are literally made and underdog stories become reality. This event is significant for MMA because of the fact that so many MMA greats have participated in the NCAA Championships.
A few notable names includes UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez (2X All-American), UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman (2X All-American), UFC Welterweight Champion Johny Hendricks (2X Champion, 4X All-American), UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture (3X All-American), and UFC Hall of Famer Mark Coleman (Champion, 2X All-American) just to name a few. The tournament will take place at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Broadcast on various ESPN outlets.
CSC 39 – USA vs. the World
Kickboxing promotion Combat Sports Center holds an event at the Arthur Ashe Center in Richmond, Virginia on March 22nd on gfl.tv:
3 x 3 Zaravkh Abashev vs. Joe Cox
3 x 3 Avetik Petrosyan vs. Chris Mauceri
3 x 3 Niko Tsigaras vs. Kevin VanNostrand
3 x 3 Elvis Gashi vs. Jeremy Carper
3 x 3 Maria Bastasin vs. Lindsay Scheer
3 x 3 Mitch Whitesel vs. Eddie Walker
3 x 3 Armen Saponjvan vs. Francois Ambang
3 x 3 Tim Woods vs. Warren Thompson
3 x 3 Edward Burris vs. Pat Barry
Cage Warriors 66
The British Cage Warriors promotion holds an event at the Ballerup Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark streaming on MMAjunkie March 22:
Sergei Churilov vs. Nicolas Dalby – for welterweight title
Mohsen Bahari vs. Bruno “B.C.” Carvalho
Damir Hadzovic vs. John Maguire
Martin Akhtar vs. Toni Tauru
Jack Hermansson vs. Enoc Solves Torres
Robbie Olivier vs. Martin Svensson
Jussi Halonen vs. Frodi Hansen
Hakon Foss vs. Per Franklin
Emma Delaney vs. Lina Akhtar Lansberg
Rioo Ibrahim vs. Alexander Jacobsen
Binh Son Le vs. Shamal Tashkilot
Haci Firat Dogan vs. Matthias Lodahl
KSW 26 – MATERLA VS. SILVA
The Polish based KSW promotion holds an event this weekend at the Torwar Hall in Warsaw, Poland this coming Saturday March 22nd:
Michal Materla vs Jay ‘Da Spyda Killa’ Silva
Karol ‘Coco’ Bedorf vs Tim ‘The Maine-iac’ Sylvia
Marcin ‘Rozal’ Rozalski vs Nandor ‘The Hun’ Guelmino
Anzor Azhiev vs Artur ‘Kornik’ Sowinski
Mateusz Gamrot vs Unknown Fighter
Goran ‘Ghost’ Reljic vs Karol Celinski
Kamila Porczyk vs Iryna ‘Delsa’ Shaparenko
Michal ‘Longer’ Andryszak vs Michal Wlodarek
Arbi Shamaev vs Helson Henriques
Are you going to watch one of these events most notably the NCAA Championships this weekend? Feel free to leave a comment!