The last two weeks have been extremely busy in both major and regional MMA. While the majors are winding down the regional scene is not:
RFA 11 – MANZANARES VS. MAKOVSKY
Resurrection Fighting Alliance is putting on an event at the 1st Bank Center in Bloomfield, Colorado this Friday November 22 on AXS TV:
Zach Makovsky vs Matt Manzanares
Tyler ‘Thunder’ Toner vs Raoni Barcelos
Chinzo Machida vs Brian Wood
Vinnie Lopez vs Lucas Rodolfo Bresolin Rota
Scott Ingram vs Danny Mainus
Todd ‘Captain America’ Meredith vs Andrew Sanchez
Jeff ‘Raptor’ Santos vs Carlos Huerta
Rebecca Wells vs Heather Sachleben
Sonny Yohn vs Cordaro Ware
Joe Guerrero vs Joe Espinoza
Gladiator Challenge: Season’s Beating’s
Gladiator Challenge holds its annual Season’s Beating’s event at the Thunder Valley Casino in Lincoln, California this Saturday November 23:
Tag Team World Champioships: Jaime “El Cucui” Jara and Mike Quaintance vs Scott Smith Blaine Wilson
155lb Champ: Ryan “The HandGernade” Burton VS Clinton Fouse
JF – JUNGLE FIGHT 61
The Brazilian based Jungle Fights holds an event at the WALDIR PEREIRA GYMNASIUM in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil this Saturday November 23:
Mario Israel vs Renato ‘Moicano’ Carneiro
Jonas ‘Speed’ Bilharinho vs Alberto ‘Striker’ Pantoja Luz
Ary Santos vs Rogerio ‘Karranca’ Matias da Conceicao
Leandro Manhaes Paes vs Luiz Carlos Silva Pereira Carvalho
GLORY 12 Kickboxing
Glory holds a four man tournament to crown a new lightweight champion at Madison Square Garden this Saturday November 23 on Spike:
187LBS HEADLINE EVENT: SCHILLING VS BARRETT
120 KG CO HEADLINE EVENT: BEN SADDIK VS EDWARDS
154LBS TOURNAMENT RESERVE: STEVELMANS VS HOLLENBECK
154LBS SEMI-FINAL: PETROSYAN VS RISTIE
154LBS SEMI-FINAL: ROOSMALEN VS KIRIA
209LBS SUPERFIGHT: VAKHITOV VS PAGONIS
209LBS SUPERFIGHT: COLLETTE VS THOMPSON
103 KG SUPERFIGHT: JURKOVIC VS DINIZ
170LBS SUPERFIGHT: AMBANG VS WALKER
209LBS SUPERFIGHT: CAVALARI VS BOUZIDI
170LBS SUPERFIGHT: MARFORT VS SILVA
UNDERCARD FIGHT 1: FANZY (N/A) VS FILYAKOV (N/A)
UNDERCARD FIGHT 2: SHEARER (N/A) VS D’ANGELO (N/A)
UNDERCARD FIGHT 3: TBA (N/A) VS TBA (N/A)
UNDERCARD FIGHT 4: GREENE (US) VS KING (US)
DEEP – CAGE IMPACT 2013
Deep holds an event at the Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo, Japan this coming Thursday November 24 featuring several of Japan’s MMA vets:
Yoshiyuki Yoshida vs Won Sik ‘Parky’ Park
Kazunori Yokota vs Yoshiki Harada
Akihiro Gono vs Yuki Okano
Tatsunao Nagakura vs Katsunori Tsuda
Kazuhiro ‘King Kaz’ Nakamura vs Yuji Sakuragi
Takafumi Otsuka vs Toshiaki Kitada
Hideki Kadowaki vs Kleber Koike Erbst
Hiroshi ‘Iron’ Nakamura vs Yusaku Nakamura
Shizuka Sugiyama vs Ji Yun Kim
Shunsuke Inoue vs Nae Cheol Kim
Seigo Mizuguchi vs Jong Wang Kim
Yukinari ‘Hibiki’ Tamura vs Juri Ohara
Masato Kobayashi vs Hiroyuki Kobayashi
Daisuke Endo vs Kintaro Kintaro
Kota Ishibashi vs Yuma Horiuchi
Yusaku Fujisawa vs Takuya Oyama
Are you going to watch any of these regional fight cards? Leave a comment!