Black Belt Cliff Fonseca has rejoined the Luiz Palhares Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Association and has opened up a new school in Smyrna, TN! He is a fantastic competitor and has been in the game a long time. Hopefully, we will be seeing him on our mats soon for some cross training!!! Here is his new school.

Check it out. www.1jiujitsunation.com

Duke Energy Center June 26th, Cincinasti, OH!!! Mike Baskis will main event a huge show against Tommy Hayden from Jorge Gurgel's team. Rob Mooney will also be fighting Taylor Ruscin from Gurgel's. We need a huge presence at this one. So mark your calendar.

Bowling Green Judo Club is yet again Kentucky State Judo Champions!!! Two years running the hard work of Sensei Clint Brezendine, Mike Elliot and recently Karate Dave Newton have payed off. Taking a team comprised of mostly kids and a few adults the Club retained the title!!!

Sensei Clint Brezendine was also promoted to 3rd degree black belt while at the tournament!!! Congratulations Sensei!!

Hardrock MMA Bowling Green May 8th

8 wins and 0 loses. 4 wins by submission, and 4 wins by TKO. All the fights ended in groundwork.
Big John Centers gobbled up his opponent took him down and opened up the night with a dominating Americana armlock finish!! Next Laith Henke matched up with a super athletic and power cat. After getting rocked Laith came back to take his opponent down and dominate the positions throughout the fight before securing the arm in gullotine and forcing the tap. Karate Dave Newton took his opponent down, mounted and beat the brakes off of em. Brandon Herrington won by tap out due to strikes. Tyler Young won a very tough fight against a much improved Prince Speights. The first half of round 1 was all Tyler but Prince came on in the second half of round 1 and ended the round mounted. In round a clinch ensued and tyler was able to jump to triangle from the single leg defense. Securing the submission for the win. Ron Rountree won by strikes from top of half guard. It wasn't pretty but he got the job done. Mike Garms was in a slug fest with a very game and experienced Josh Franklin. The strikes went back and forth with Mike wining the exchanges. Mike took Josh down and unloaded some big strikes causing hardrock to stop the fight. In the main event Ashcon Karbasi double legged his opponent, dominated and improved position until securing the mata leao choke for the win!! This was the first time the team was unleashed on Bowling Green!! Very Impressive performance for sure!!

April 18th

TJ Barber won his second professional fight last night in Dayton, Ohio. TJ fought Steven Mudlrow from Team Vision of Cinci. Muldrow is a great wrestler, and new blue belt in BJJ having traveled to Brasil to train. In fact, he apparently just got back last week from over a month in Brazil. The fight was very close. Muldrow opened up the first with a takedown and landed a few punches through Barber's guard. Then Barber went for a heel hook and nearly finished it. Barber come up and passed Muldrow's guard and worked strikes and 1 close armbar attempt before the round ended. The second frame featured some striking before a ground scramble insued. Muldrow went to attack Barber's back and Barber reversed the position ending up in Muldrow's guard. Barber worked short strikes and big elbows to Muldrow's ribs. The round ended with both of them circling and striking. Round 3 featured about 3:30 of striking. Barber circled and landed some good kicks to Muldrow's lead leg. Barber also countered with some very hard punches to Muldrow's head. toward the end of the round Muldrow shot for a takedown and Barber sprawled well and punished Muldrow with submarine punches and shots to the rib. Muldrow eventually turned the corner only to be placed in TJ's guard and quickly placed in a kimura. Barber twisted the arm badley and when Muldrow refused to tap he transitioned to the back and finished the mata leao with 10 seconds left. Barber continues to improve and after moving to E-town recently everyone can expect an awesome transformation in the next year.

Morning class is blowing up!! Lots of people training and the skill level is raising up. If you can, check it out. Tuesday and Thursday at 9:00am

We had 5 guys fight this night and all looked impressive. James "Birdman" Brasfield started the night off with a 2nd round knockout over a game opponent. Ashcon took his opponent down, passed to mount and knocked him unconscious with some really hard punches from the mount. Bart Smith double legged his opponent, took the back and applied the rear naked choke. Jesse Stover fought Justin Gamble for the middleweight title. Jesse took him down passed, mounted and basically pounded on Gamble through most of the first round. Gamble weathered the storm and came back to secure the straight ankle lock forcing Jesse to tap. With only a few months of training Jesse is looking better and better in the cage each outing. Look for big things from him in the future. TJ Barber made his pro debut. He opened up with some sharp striking, a big double leg and moved to the back mount. TJ controlled his opponent and eventually secured the "mata leao" choke. 4-1 on the night.

Thanks to Professor Luiz Palhares for another great seminar and also thanks to all those in attendance. It was a good one!

NGSF
Joe Baize 1st place gi *gi absolut belt winner*
Paul Goetz 1st place no gi and absolute
Chad Payne 1st place no gi
Adam Jones 3rd place no gi
Joe hall 2nd place no gi
Austin Abb 1st place no gi
Troy Hayden 1st place no gi Jason Hayden 1st place no gi

Hazard Results:
Jon Helton 2nd Place-Gi 160-175 lbs
Jon Helton 2nd Place-No Gi-160-175 lbs
Lee Spurgeon-3rd Place-No Gi teens 150-159 lbs

Feb. 20th TN State Judo Tournament/Southern Kentucky Grappling Open/HardrockMMA Somerset.

Southern Kentucky Grappling Open Somerset Kentucky: Kessinger finished 1st in his division and 2nd in the absolute. Ron Rountree finished 1st in Gi and 1st in No Gi. Robin Friedley finished 2nd. John Bailey 3rd no gi. Bianca medaled no gi and gi but I don't know which ones.

The Bowling Green kids went to the Tennessee State Judo Championships and cleaned house. 5 first places, 8 second place, and 3 third place. None of our kids failed to medal.

Saturday night James "Birdman" Brasfield, and Jesse "Pure Country" Stover both fought in Somerset. Brasfield quickly closed the distance worked a perfect underhook position and took his opponent down and mounted before pounding out his opponent. Jesse Stover circled exploaded with a combo and double legged his opponent before securing mount and raining down hell for the tap out.

Dan Christison is on a roll. Here are some great pics from his last win in Canada. also check out http://www.danchristison.com
http://topmmanews.com/2010/02/28/cfc-4-photo-gallery/?album=26&gallery=144

Jesse "Pure Country" Stover won the Middleweight Belt by overwhelming his opponent and forcing the ref stoppage in only 1 minute of the first round. Jesse continues to improve and is looking better each outing. Now 3-0!

Check out http://www.chadcorvinmma.com Look around and sign the guestbook!

Chad Corvin vs Joey "Mexicutioner" Beltran. UFC 113 Montreal Canada, May 8th. Corvin is Training Hard and Ready to KTFO!

Yahoo Sports:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=mmajunkie-Corvin_Beltran_UFC113&prov=mmajunkie&type=lgns

In the Meantime this is what we are getting from Beltran: "We're definitely not going to be in Kentucky anymore and he’s not going to have someone in front of him wearing jeans and a wifebeater. He’s going to have a legit fighter in front of him, we’re going to see what this kid is made of" Beltran said.

As Mooney says "The wheel that squeaks the loudest, gets the grease." So keep squeaking Beltran and we'll keep training.

We had 3 fighters fight Saturday night in Hardrock MMA Shepardsville. The new and improved James "Birdman" Brasfield debuted last night and won in convincing fashion with some tight clinch work and accurate inside striking to secure the TKO win. Paul Tipton squared off with James Douglas of 4Seasons (Lexington). It was great action. Paul landed some head kicks and was winning the striking. When the fight went to the ground it was back and forth. Douglas secured Paul's back late in the 1st round and finished the Mata Leao with 5 seconds left. Great fight and always great to compete with 4Seasons which is the original professionally ran MMA Team in Kentucky and has produced tooooo many champions to even count.

TJ Barber squared off in a rematch with Phil White. The first installment featured good back and forth action with striking, takedowns and groundwork. White managed to snag TJ's arm and forced him to tap. This match-up was much different. We had a specific game plan to stand up and use our superior striking and strength to keep the fight standing and win there. Barber showed great crisp striking and maturity to stick to the game plan. The fight went to all 5 rounds with Barber just a step ahead in the striking. White was unable to get the fight to the ground and burned precious energy with several failed attempts. Nonetheless he moved forward the entire time with Barber using good footwork and landing dozens of leg kicks and hand combinations. Very good fight and very competitive. These two guys showed skill and heart that you don't see in many pro fights. Congrats to both guys.

Our good friend Dustin Ware posted the team results from the last OGC Tri-State BJJ Open. We came in second in the Gi competition and we tied for second with Team Jorge Gurgel in the No Gi Divisions!! Congrats guys. We always finish among elite company!!

It's official. Chad Corvin has signed a contract to fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship! We anticipate that his debut will be sometime in May. He has began conditioning and we will be working hard in preparation for this big event!! We need our big guys on the mat in force. We have the talent within our team to support anyone preparing for any level of competition. Everyone has a part. Let's get him ready to go and start his UFC career with a bang!!

Pro MMA Info
http://prommanow.com/index.php/2010/01/19/breaking-news-exclusive-chad-corvin-signs-contract-with-the-ufc/

The News Enterprise
http://www.thenewsenterprise.com/cgi-bin/c2.cgi?053+article+Sports+2010012102528053053004

Deep Half Guard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1QafURNIkI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH74V0XxXTI

What a great class in E-town Sunday. In addition to the regular group of assassins and killers, UFC vet Dan Christison came down and brought 5 of his students. Brandon Kessinger, Robin "Funky" Friedley, and Mike Baskis came up from Bowling Green. Joe Baize"ambo" came up from Leg Lock City. The room was banging with nothing but meat eaters. It was Darwinism (Survival of the Fittest) in it's most natural form. What a class!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NwwFEtsWqI

We recently competed in the Tri-State BJJ Open in Union, Kentucky. Dustin Ware puts on a great event and it's always organized and professional. Our Team 1 for the Tri-State BJJ Open was composed of Owensboro, E-town, Bowling Green, Central City, and Hazard Academies combined to send a very impressive 35 competitors!! We took home 20 medals with some great individual performances. The tournament was huge and competition was very stiff. I think we all learned a lot and competition can be important for development. Great job everyone!!

Here is a Youtube highlight of our team competing in the event!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REj6UVQKM80

Here is a highlight of Joe Baize No Gi Invite Tournament Wins!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCRvOWP8OJg

Hazard Martial Arts Club added a new blue belt on Saturday January 3. Sam Hall was promoted by Josh during His quarterly visit to Hazard. Sam has been training and teaching in the club since it's formation and has shown great dedication and improvement!

Thanks guys,
Josh

New Schedules for 2010 is now posted under Class Info. All classes in Elizabethtown now take place in Energy Sports and Fitness.