Bodypower 2009 Amateur MMA Competition - NEC Sunday 10th May! Register Now!

[Brett]

Bodypower 2009 Amateur MMA Competition - NEC Sunday 10th May!

The Bodypower show will be hosting the first annual Bodypower 2009 amateur MMA Championships. The event will be taking place on Sunday 10th May & will be open to all amateur MMA athletes in a number of different weight categories. The event will be ideal opportunity to give first timers -novice fighters valuable early stage MMA experience in a competitive cage environment. The competition will be refereed by UFC referee Marc Goddard who will bring a wealth of experience to the event. For full competition details,entry forms & show tickets, please go to www.utcuk.com and click onto the Bodypower competition link. Places are limited, so get registering today in order not to miss out on a great day out & maybe bring back a trophy too !

[Brett]

ttt for what should be a great day

[Martial Arts kitten]

Good luck to Scott Taylor who is representing Gods of War on this event. Best of luck buddy!

[Gods of War]

Good luck to Scott Taylor who is representing Gods of War on this event. Best of luck buddy!

Good luck Scott from all the team.
Valhalla!

[simonjkd]

Are you still taking applications for this event as I have a fighter who is interested in competing?

Simon McGovern.

[Brett]

Are you still taking applications for this event as I have a fighter who is interested in competing?

Simon McGovern.

They are, you can just sign up through the UTC website

[simpy]

Does anybody have any idea what the deal is with corner men for this event. I am guessing i can have one corner man. I am entered and have emailed them twice now but had no relply. :(

[staffie]

I'm the same mate. Haven't had any replies to my e-mails. Some info would be nice.

[DoubleJab]

Can't find a link to click??? The banner that says 'sign up now' isn't a link. Can't see the forms on the the Bodypower site. Is the competition full now?

[DoubleJab]

No worries, found it now!

[Brett]

did you guys get a reply to your questions? i found the best way of getting hold of them was asking through the UTC forum as they've got a few threads about it on there

[staffie]

Phoned them and they said e-mails with all the details would be sent out today.

[simpy]

I am not going to be able to do this now :( . Found it really hard to get hold of anyone about this and couldn't get any info on cornermen so not even arranged one for myself yet. Turns out you have to pay for your cornerman to come in (£20 ticket) which in my mind seems silly (maybe this is normal but i have only ever done the uk mma league events and my cornerman never had to pay). I am out of work right now and seen as it would be a training partner cornering for me i simply cant afford to pay the ticket price on top of my already paid £10 entry and fuel money for the 3 hour round trip. Shame cos i was really looking forward to this. NExt time i guess.

[Stalkachu]

Was down to compete at this, but was told I was too experienced. Ah well. MMA League instead this month, I guess. Good luck to anyone who is going and competing, and hope the competition goes well!

Take care,

Stalks

[RedBaron]

simpy, i am doing it without a cornerman as well.

[simpy]

Good luck to ya bro. Cant say i feel up to fighting without a corner. Dont no why just the way i am.

[RedBaron]

yeah thats fair enough!

[Brett]

I've not sorted out having a cornerman, a few mates i train with are at the show so i'll try n get one of them to do it

[simpy]

I've not sorted out having a cornerman, a few mates i train with are at the show so i'll try n get one of them to do it
What weight you fighting at? So long as its not 77kg if im there i will corner for you and help you warm up mate

[Brett]

What weight you fighting at? So long as its not 77kg if im there i will corner for you and help you warm up mate

Unfortunately it is 77kg so if you are there it looks like we'll be competing against each other and to be fair if you saw how bad i was last night at training you'd be pretty happy to get drawn against me :o

[simpy]

Unfortunately it is 77kg so if you are there it looks like we'll be competing against each other and to be fair if you saw how bad i was last night at training you'd be pretty happy to get drawn against me :o

Ha im sure you will do well mate. Looks like i wont be there now anyway. This has all seemed like to much hard work so i think i will just wait a couple of weeks for york hall. Dam

[RedBaron]

i did this today

if you won two fights you were supposed to be in the final and i did (arm bar and my first ever knee bar!) everything going great.. in the finals i thought!

and then they tell me they had given a guy a bye to the final so i had to fight another guy again straight after my 2nd fight. was bloody knackred and lost on a decision and had an arm bar about to go on just as the bell went. i was the only person who had to do this. they wanted me to fight for 3rd place which i declined to do. feel a bit robbed to be honest. :mad:

it wasnt really explained why they had given a guy a free pass, bit poor of the organisers to be honest

that said it was a good event for the audience and im happy with my performances

[Brett]

i did this today

if you won two fights you were supposed to be in the final and i did (arm bar and my first ever knee bar!) everything going great.. in the finals i thought!

and then they tell me they had given a guy a bye to the final so i had to fight another guy again straight after my 2nd fight. was bloody knackred and lost on a decision and had an arm bar about to go on just as the bell went. i was the only person who had to do this. they wanted me to fight for 3rd place which i declined to do. feel a bit robbed to be honest. :mad:

it wasnt really explained why they had given a guy a free pass, bit poor of the organisers to be honest

that said it was a good event for the audience and im happy with my performances

congrats on your performances,

i ended up coming 3rd in the welters after losing to the winner in the semi's

to be fair to the organisers they had loads to deal with on the day, 6 people didn't turn up, 3 came in at totally different weights to what they had said plus two people turned up that weren't showing on their registration list so for a first time show i think it's quite impressive that they got through it without anything too major going wrong.

just got back from a&e after dislocating my shoulder in my second fight, probably wasn't the most intelligent thing i've done taking the third fight, but with the adrenaline etc it didn't seem too bad at the time

[WalkingAlong]

Watched this yesterday, congratulations to all the fighters and organisers. Was a good show and although I couldn't really get close enough to see everything that was going on, saw some good fights.

[freedomfighten]

Any results or photos gonna be posted?

[Brett]

Any results or photos gonna be posted?

there were two official photographers so presume there will be pics.

can't remember the Feather results, think duane dunkerly (utc) came third

Lightweight was won by Keiran Beattie (team supreme) and runner up was paul/phil (can't remember) steadman, can't remember who came third

WW was won by leon edwards (UTC), anthony subhan came second and i came third

MW was won by russ dulleston (team supreme) and anthony sylvesta came 2nd (UTC) can't remember who came third

[MisterV]

Featherweight was won by Brad Gallagher from Coventry Renegade Revolution. This event was also his MMA debut so a fantastic introduction to the scene. The event was a bit chaotic and disorganised but some great fighters in all classes, especially Featherweight. I have to say that even though this was an amateur show most of the fighters behaved like pro's. A big thankyou to team UTC for their sportsmanship, we will take you up on that invite sometime lads!

[RedBaron]

congrats on your performances,

i ended up coming 3rd in the welters after losing to the winner in the semi's

to be fair to the organisers they had loads to deal with on the day, 6 people didn't turn up, 3 came in at totally different weights to what they had said plus two people turned up that weren't showing on their registration list so for a first time show i think it's quite impressive that they got through it without anything too major going wrong.

just got back from a&e after dislocating my shoulder in my second fight, probably wasn't the most intelligent thing i've done taking the third fight, but with the adrenaline etc it didn't seem too bad at the time

i just cant help but think if i had the UTC logo on me somewhere then i wouldnt have had to have that extra fight

will your shoulder be ok? i think i popped a rib in my second fight as well, heard it but didnt feel it until later on! well done on a solid placing :)

[Brett]

i just cant help but think if i had the UTC logo on me somewhere then i wouldnt have had to have that extra fight

will your shoulder be ok? i think i popped a rib in my second fight as well, heard it but didnt feel it until later on! well done on a solid placing :)

that's the thing isn't it at the time you don't notice it when you've got the adrenaline going but once that wears off all the aches and pains come out, today i feel like i've been beaten with a baseball bat. the shoulder should be fine, just need to rest it for a while apparantly, suits me as it gives me an excuse to be slack with my training for a while and enjoy the summer (if we have one)