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A public service announcement for Sacramento fans
By Zach Arnold | March 22, 2006
By Zach Arnold
Erin Bucknell & I had heard rumblings about a big MMA show taking place at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, California for a couple of weeks. It turns out that Erin found a notice on Ticketmaster about the IFC promotion running a show on April 1st at the building.
So, I decided to go to the IFC home page and find out what the card for the show is. No card line-up. As of this time right now (March 22nd), the home page still says: April 1 Arco Arena Press Release coming soon… very soon
Fortunately, the Arco Arena home page has a card listed for the IFC show on 4/1. Unfortunately, the formatting of the text is less-than-desirable. Therefore, here’s a clean-looking list of fights that are scheduled for the event:
- Heavyweights: Kyle Keeney (Kodiak Crew) vs. Carlos Garcia (BJJ Training Center/Sacramento)
- Heavyweight Tournament: Andy Montana (Genesis Jiu-Jitsu) vs. Christian Wellisch (AKA Fight Team)
- Heavyweight Tournament: Tim Persey (Team Oyama) vs. Jorge Oliveira (Chute Boxe/Brazil)
- Heavyweight Tournament finals
- Alternate decision fight (Heavyweight Tournament): Tommy Tuggle vs. Scott Lewis
- Middleweights (women): Jennifer Tate (Team Steam Heath) vs. Tonya Evinger
- Featherweight Battle Ground Championship: Del Hawkins (Team Thunder) vs. Randy Spence (Fusion Fight Team)
- IFC US Middleweight title match: Ryan Jensen (Team Jennum) vs. Tim McKenzie
- Featherweights: Jason Walters vs. Urijah Faber (Capital City Fighting Alliance)
- Middleweights: Jacob Shagolla (Rincon Fight Club) vs. Gil Castillo
- IFC Middleweight title match: Jake Ellenberger (Mid-America Martial Arts) vs. Shonie Carter (Team Extreme)
- IFC America’s Light Heavyweight title match: Shane Johnson vs. Bobby Southworth (champion)
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Well, at least I finally heard a radio ad for the show today. They are advertising Faber so I guess thats a go.
Actually Faber supposedly had no idea he was going to be advertised. I think he said it on the Beatdown over @ sherdog.com
Oh that’s just great planning there, sigh. Well I’ll just go not expecting him to be there.
Wait a minute, if this line-up is accurate, does the CSAC allow one-night tournaments, unlike the NSAC and NJSAC?
Oh geez, I didn’t even think about that. From all that I have heard, CA’s rules follow closely with NV’s. This is starting to look like a giant cluster-f*ck. Well, if nothing else, it will make an interesting story.
IIRC, the CSAC does allow tournaments.
http://www.dca.ca.gov/csac/rules.htm
Sherdog says the one-night tournament idea is off.