Check out this cool little article featuring FIGHT CHURCH and our friends at GAME CHURCH in the new FIREPROOF MINISTRIES magazine!
http://issuu.com/fireproof/docs/issue_6-small/11?e=5133592%2F2969472
Interview w/ MMA fighter Jake Swinney…
Interview with our friend and pro MMA fighter Rodrigo Artilheiro!
Interview w/ UFC fighter and long time friend to FIGHT CHURCH, Martin “the Hitman” Kampmann!
Interview with Amateur MMA Fighter Shane Johnson…
Interview with UFC fighter Mike “Quicksand” Pyle…
Just want to give a THANK YOU shout out to some of the amazing organizations that have helped out FIGHT CHURCH over the past year and a half while we found our place in the MMA community! This time around we want to say thank you so much TUFF-N-UFF! They have been so great to us. It has been a tremendous honor to work with them since almost day one of FIGHT CHURCH! We look forward to many more years of working together!
Interview with SCC fighter Patrick “Kui” Gonsalves-Kanoho…
This past Friday night, FIGHT CHURCH with a team of 5 strong, including a brand new volunteer, worked the TUFF-N-UFF event at the SouthPoint Hotel & Casino and we had a great time! This was a new venue for the promotion and we didn’t know what to expect. When we got down below the arena where the fighter prep area was located, we realized that we were at the rodeo! Not really, but the “hallway” leading to the locker room was carpet laid on top of a dirt floor lined with curtains and on the other side of the curtains there were all kinds of animal stalls and shoots. It was pretty cool, but didn’t smell great.
Anyway, the evening was incredible. As usual, we issued gloves to the fighters, helped get wraps signed off by the Athletic Commission, staged fighters, collected gloves, etc. Of course, while taking care of those duties, we were able to talk with and build relationships with fighters, coaches, corner folks, teammates and more. We also had the honor of praying with a few fighters before and/or after their fights.
TEAM THROWDOWN was there showing love to FIGHT CHURCH sporting our logo on their team shirts. Big thanks to our friend Tha Rooster! There were many other teams represented such as Anarchy, Legends, Wand, Xtreme Couture, 10th Planet, One Kick, Fryklund and Hard Knocks. Like always, there were plenty of pro fighters in the back with each team prepping teammates/students and getting them ready to compete.
Our friend and favorite cutman, Adrian Rosenbusch, was working hard turning wrappin’ hands into an absolute artform. At the risk of forgetting someone, a few of the pros/coaches in the mix were Ryan Couture, Jimmy Jones, John Wood, Tony Fryklund, Nick Blomgren, Eddie Bravo, Tyson Griffin, Kui Gonsalves-Kanoho, Cody McKenzie, Matt Riddle, Shawn Fitzsimmons, Cameron Diffley and many more. Even bumped into Frank Trigg a couple of times!
FIGHT CHURCH always has a great time serving the MMA community in whatever way possible and providing the only chaplain program the sport has here in Vegas. Thanks so much to all our volunteers. Can’t wait for the next event!
Just a quick update…
Greetings from beautiful, sunny Las Vegas, NV! We hope your holiday season was amazing! 2012 is going to be an incredible year for FIGHT CHURCH. The sport of MMA is exploding and things here in Vegas, the hub of this international sports phenom, are going nuts. There are more and more MMA events, more and more MMA promotions, and more and more MMA athletes! The MMA gyms are busting at the seams and many coaches are branching out and opening new facilities.
Here at FIGHT CHURCH we have our work cut out for us. We are excited and thankful to be working in all 4 of the biggest gyms here in town, but are planning to double that this year by expanding to some of the other gyms that are growing. We will be recruiting and training many more volunteers so we are able to work at as many events as possible.
Our website will be undergowing some changes in the near future. In 2011, we had plans to do more video and post more regular updates. Unfortunetly, we were unable to post nearly as often as we would had hoped and video proved to be more of a challenge than we thought. However, we are on track now and have even began filming some items. We have a couple of things in the works and our goal is to post a few different things every week. Be on the look out!
We are finalizing some very specific goals for this year and will be sharing them with you very soon. In the meantime, we are super excited about this year and the opportunity to continue ministering to the MMA community. Thank you so much for your support in 2011… Let’s Fight the Good Fight!