BFC

bella1

GREAT NEWS FOR TEAM RYANO.
NEIL SERRY will repersent the team in the
british fighting championships.
he will be 1 of 8 seeded fighters in tis 16 man GP.
best of luck.
ANDY RYAN TEAM RYANO.

OMCCABE

Best of luck too Neil.

wetdogsmell

well done neil, good luck and kick ass

Judomad

well done Neil, great opportunity and its great to see that he's a seeded fighter as he has all the tools to go and win this.

wayne1

The British Fighting Championship held its inaugural tournament draw earlier today at the luxurious UTC Gym in Birmingham, England. The tournament draw was hosted by Tony Lee of Cage Warriors Canada, whilst the draw was made by UFC stars Dan Hardy and Paul Taylor with BFC Co-Promoter Jeremy Bailey announcing the Match-ups.

The video for the full draw can be viewed on www.britfight.com





Bantamweight 1st Round Match-Ups


James Doolan vs Dan MonRo'e

Phil Harris vs. Lee Coville

Leigh Remedios vs Paddy Doherty

Steve McCombe vs. James Saville/ Dan Korbely

Neil McLeod vs. Neil Seery:D

James McGuinness vs. Mark Handley

Mark Chen vs. Gareth Davis

Paul McVeigh vs. Declan Williams




Featherweight 1st Round Match-Ups


Vaughn Harvey vs. Phil Else

Neil Fraser vs. Simon Boulter

David Smyth vs. Pete McGurk

Danny Batten vs. Karsten Lenjoint

Jean Silva vs. Ashleigh Grimshaw

Owen Roddy vs. Micky Young

David Lee vs. Jordan Miller

Aaron Blackwell vs. Jared Ferre




Lightweight 1st Round Match-ups


Paul Sass vs. Tim Radcliffe

Daniel Thomas vs. David Johnson

Harvey Harra vs. Ian Butlin

Jason Ball vs. Jason Young

Abdul Mohmamed vs. Ian Jones

Lee Wieczorek vs. Andrew Fisher

Greg Loughran vs. Leandro Santo

Paul Jenkins vs. Sami Berik




Welterweight 1st Round Match-Ups


Lee Livingstone vs. Emmet McNally

Ross Pointon vs. Cliff Hall

Wayne Murray vs. James Bateman

Lee Doski vs. Jason Kubiak

Che Mills vs. Kurt Warburton

Simon Phillips vs. John Quinn

Lukasz Les vs. Leslee Ojugbana

Jim Wallhead vs. Fabio Taldo




Middleweight 1st Round Match-Ups


John Phillips vs. Lloyd Clarkson

Chris Rice vs. Andrew Punshon/Adan Cole

Matt Thorpe vs. Greg Siwy

Paul Cahoon vs. Jose "Ze" Marcello

Pierre Guillet vs. Eugene Fadario

Denniston Sutherland vs. Lola Bamgbala

Mark Weir vs. Alex Reid

Alex Cook vs. Christian Smith



Light-Heavyweight 1st Round Match-Ups



Damian Grabowski vs. Rob Broughton

Chris Cooper vs. The winner of the Wayne Buck/Darren Moore Eliminator Bout

Stav Economou vs. Shawn McKenning

Dave Keeley vs. Oli Thompson






Heavyweight Quarter Final Match-Ups

Damian Grabowski vs. Rob Broughton

Chris Cooper vs. The winner of the Wayne Buck/Darren Moore Eliminator Bout

Stav Economou vs. Shawn McKenning

Dave Keeley vs. Oli Thompson





For more information on the BFC keep checking www.cagewarriors.com and www.britfight.com



About BFC (British Fighting Championship)

2009 sees the start of the most exciting ever phase of MMA in the UK with the most established promoters now joined together in a unified staging of the first British Fighting Championship.

The main organizations that form part of this new Championship are FX3, Ultimate Force, Ultimate Warrior Challenge, AMMA, and Cage Warriors. The Championship is known as the BFC and is on track to become Europe’s biggest and most important tournament organizer.

The BFC is providing the UK with 12 Official BFC main multi-card shows in 2009, staged in venues from Glasgow to London and followed by a massive end-of-season ‘BFC Night of Champions’ in December where the 2009 season contenders for the British belts go head to head.

The belts cover seven male and two female weight categories and are worth up to £250,000 in total tournament purses with opportunities for emerging British talent to move up into the UFC and gain international recognition

dunkamania

Congrats Neil, more than a few familiar names in those lists

Nothingcompares

Good luck to Paddy, Steve, Neil, Paul, Owen, Mickey, Greg and Emmet

The Bantam weight division is stacked!

wetdogsmell

some great fights there, best of luck to serry, roddy and mc'nally

siochain

will this be on TV?

Pride Fighter

Why are Stav Economou and Shawn McKenning fighting each other twice in 2 seperate weight classes??

Martin Walker

siochain wrote: »

will this be on TV?

They signed a £1 mil deal with Bravo

Roper

The BFC is going to be awesome Best of luck to all the Irish lads.

Marty I thought Ultimate Challenge UK had signed with Bravo?

Martin Walker

I read somewhere they signed a TV deal with Bravo... think it was CageWarriors forum.

Im not sure about the BFC to be honest. I dont understand how they picked the fighters.
I thought the idea was to get the top 16 fighters in each weight division then set up the tourny and find a champion by the end. But there are so many top UK fighters not envolved. Then some of the fighters picked are making there pro debuts. Declan Williams for example is making his pro debut against Paul McVeigh. Declan may be **** hot but at the end of the day he is fighting the man who many see as the best Bantamweight Europe has to offer. How can this happen in a tourny set up to find the best of the best? I just dont get it.
Am i missing something?

bella1

the BFC asked fighters to apply it was on the cagewarrior forum.
they also contacted fighters and clubs.
we got a email then sent of a list of fighters cvs .
neil was offererd a place.
TEAM RYANO MMA

Martin Walker

I understand that i did the same thing myself.

I just dont understand how they made the list of fighters in the draw.
How can a fighter with no pro experience get picked to take part when im sure there were others that entered with quite a few fights behind them?
They did after all get hundreds of applicants.

Nothingcompares

Just based on the video they had on britfight.com they seemed to want to put the best fighters as possible in each weight category but still put 1/2 black horses/unknowns just in case they're the next big thing.