Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Upcoming "Rumble in Rudd"

The Cedar Valley Fighting Association returns to the Rudd Community Center Saturday, November 28, 2009 with another edition of the "Rumble in Rudd".

The event features some of the top up and coming fighters in the area. The main event pitts Joe Mullenbach of Austin. Minnesota against Tom Kephart of Pella, Iowa for the vacant CVFA 170 lbs National Championship. Mullenbach comes in with a record of 20 wins and 8 losses and has never been defeated in the CVFA. He has beaten current CVFA champion Cody Askvig and former CVFA champion Anton Tomash. Kephart has a record of 8 wins and 4 losses and has quickly moved his way up the CVFA ranks without suffering a loss in the 170 lbs weight class.

Also set to compete will be current CVFA 170 lbs Regional Champion Cody Askvig of Forest City. Askvig has been one of the top fighters int he CVFA.

Plus up and coming fighter Ryan Lorentzen of Garner is set to compete.

There will also be an amateur sign up division in which local competitors can sign up to compete. Interested participants must be at The Rudd Community Center between 5-7 PM the night of the fights to register,

Advance tickets are $15 general admission, $25 ringisde seats and are available at Rettlaws in Charles City and The Elephant Keg in Nora Springs.

Doors opan at 6:00 PM with the first fight set to start at 8:00 PM.

For more information email afafighting@yahoo.com or visit us on myspace at myspace.com/cvfafighting or online at www.cvfa.info

Monday, October 26, 2009

It's coming...

The Cedar Valley Fighting Association returns to Rudd, Iowa on Saturday, November 7th with it's biggest event of the year.
 
The Cedar Valley Fighting Association's Rumble in Rudd events have featured some of the best cage fights in Iowa.  The next edition set to take place at the Rudd Community Center on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 8:00 PM will feature the biggest fight night of the year.
 
The event features UFC veteran and three time world champion Travis Fulton of Cedar Falls as he takes on Mike Bannister of Albert Lea, Minnesota.  Fulton currently has a mixed martial arts record of 227 wins 39 losses and 7 draws.  He fought in UFC 20 & 21 and has won the IFC world championship at both the Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight class.  Fulton has fought in 13 different countries, has been featured in countless fighting magazines and television shows.  Fulton has beaten such world ranked fighters as Heath Herring, Wes Sims, Joe Riggs and Wesley Corriera and has stepped in the ring and fought Rich Franklin, Forrest Griffen, Dan Severn, Ben Rothwell, and many of the top fighters currently fighting in the UFC.
 
There will also be a CVFA Light Heavyweight title match between Mark Orton of Mason City and Jim Schneider of Leroy, Minnesota.  Orton comes in with a record of 10 wins and 1 loss and has mauled every opponent that has been placed in the cage with him in the past year.  Schneider has won 2 tournaments for the CVFA and comes in with a record of 13 wins and 3 losses.
 
Also fighting will be Mariah Johnson of Nashua.  Johnson has a record of 3 wins and 0 losses and recently only needed 55 seconds to defeat the number 1 ranked fighter in the CVFA Women's lightweight class..
 
There will also be an amateur sign up division in which local competitors can sign up to compete.  Interested participants must be at the Rudd Community Center on November 7th between 5-7 PM to register.
 
Advance tickets are $15 general admission $25 ringside table seats and are available at Rettlaw's in Charles City and The Elephant Keg in Nora Springs.
 
For more information email afafighting@yahoo.com or visit us at myspace.com/cvfafighting

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Waterloo's "Bond vs Hilger" event

In the first fight, Kyle Tournier took on R. D. Dillon. R.D. took a solid stance against him winning via a beautiful TKO after 1:48.

Tom Kephart took the second fights win against Quinn Vases through a forced tapout in less than a minute by putting Quinn in an arm bar.

Our third fight was Chris Pittmann up against Patrick Pieters. During the first round Chris struck Patrick rendering him unable to fight, there for winning via strikes after only 1:13.

Elias Escabado closed our fourth fight with a vicious KO against his opponent Cody Larsen only 23 seconds into the second round.

The fifth fight found Ron Kisner up against Clint Straw. Clink closed the deal with a guillotine choke just over half a minute into the second round.

Steven Morlock was declared winner after a verbal declaration from Willie Evans. Willie made it through just shy of two complete rounds before conceding.

Jon Engelkes took on a local professional Mike Lindquest and put up a decent fight. Mike sealed the win with an armbar just as the first round was coming to a close.

Tim Arterberry fell just minutes into the fight with Tim Morris after a very forceful kick to the head.

Ray Lancaster and Nathan Laughlin put up a good fight that ended with Laughlin's guillotine choke granting him a win 1:25 minutes into the first round.

Joey Hatell met Marcus Taylor in the cage but fell to his strikes after 1:13 in the first round.

Last but not least our two headline fights...

Ted Reynolds Jr took on Cody Larsen. Cody, who had already taken a good couple hits and one which landed his opponent a win by KO, put up a great fight. But Cody fell again to Ted's blows by KO in the second round.

Our "Women's Champion" title fight was a solid battle between Jess Hilger and Michelle Bond. Michelle fought well but "Baby Bull" Hilger lived up to her name landing multiple blows during the first round. Closing the second round Jess's armbar completed her fight and rendered "Baby Bull" as the new holder of the title.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Calendar of Events

As many know, there's an event or two going on almost every weekend. But sometimes people just don't know where at, what time, or even how would one get there?

Well to help with this, we have created a calendar that you can use your personal calendar programs on your computers that would allow for you to never miss a nearby event or even one that sparks your interest afar because you just don't know how to get there. Or you can request to be added to a list of people we send invites to your email for each event so you only see the ones you like.

You can right click on the image to get the ncessary link for each of the following types to use with your programs. Many will use the ical, but you might not be at home or have that as an option so you can also use the "HTML" for a quick version in your browser. or simply email: Our Gmail and request to be added to our email invite list. This will mean any event in the future that we create you would get an email that looks like

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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Updates and changes in communication.

Due to the readily accessible options of the internet, getting information out to the public has become increasingly easy. So here is our offer to you. If you would like to receive information about events coming up, you have two options so far. Our Facebook page  is available to the public and you can choose to "Subscribe via SMS" under the picture on the left by selecting "MORE."

You also can subscribe to our updates about events and results via our Twitter.

If you are a fighter or interested in participating in events, please contact us as that we are arranging email notifications and SMS messages specifically to let you know when an event is going to be occurring in areas you are interested in. Please contact us by message on one of these two sites or via our MySpace.

We will soon have a private website set up with a formal email address for direct contact so this information will be update when that has been determined.

See you at the fights!

Monday, October 5, 2009

About Cedar Valley Fighting Association

We're an organization which have promoted events throughout Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin designed to help young up and coming fighters find a way into the sport. With the Ironman Challenge, amateurs of all styles of fighting can sign up and compete for a chance at a professional contract.

The Cedar Valley Fighting Association is an advanced amateur event in which the best of the best in the amateur division will face off against each other.

Past AFA/CVFA events have featured UFC fighters such as Dan Severn, Jeremy Horn, Travis Wiuff, Josh Neer, Joe Jordan, Andre Roberts, Matt Andersen, Tyrone Roberts, Travis Fulton, Sam Morgan and Cory Walmsley.

Title Holders:

Michelle Bond, Women's Champion
Tyler Lakin, Tournament Champion

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