Pure Fighting Championships

The next PFC is December 10, 2010. PFC 6 features
Robert McDaniels vs Kaycee Uscola and
Eddie Sanchez vs Mike Whitehead
Christmas Party Packages Available!!
VIP Dinner: 7:00pm
Doors Open: 7:30pm
Fights: 8:30pm
Venue: Prairie Pavilion

Tickets available at Pure Fitness or Contact Jeff Marchand @ 403-506-9355

Canuckles own Chad Anheliger will be fighting on this card friday night
Get your tickets and come support your TEAM!!!!

Open today

Canuckles is open as usual for today November 11 Remembrance day. So come on in to train!!!

52 pickup Game "every card is a winner guaranteed"

"Congrats to Nathan Pronyshyn. He played our 52 pickup game and won $300 of his MMA membership renewal!! Are YOU up for renewal?? If so, make sure to ask us about the "52 Pickup game" and U could win discounts, free gear, or free training!!". This game is open for NEW members too so if you've been thinking about signin...g on, NOW is the time!"

BJJ Fight Club FCC3

The Canuckles Team did great at the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Fight Club Challenge 3! Tim Blanchard won gold in the middleweight division, I won gold in the welterweight divison, and Spencer McIntosh & Adam Shaw won silver and bronze in the lightweight divison.

Thanks to BJJ Fight Club for continuing ...to host these great tournaments!

Any Canuckles members, or anyone thinking of joining: we have some great new slots available for private training! Noon, 1pm (tues and thu) and some early afternoons...along with our popular morning spots. Get in there! No experience and/or feeling outta shape?? NO PROB. call 403-253-9156 or drop by.

HEAT XC

Keto Allan put on a great battle at Heat on Friday, but he was defeated by Jason High. It's all good Keto! We'll see you fight again real soon! In the meantime, come to either of our afternoon MMA classes on tues or thurs 2-3:30pm and Keto is the instructor! He's also available for private training at Canuckles on these days. Spaces are limited though! Call us at 403-253-9156 to book a private session or for more info.

Pics Of the HEATXC 6 Weigh ins

http://mmanewscanada.smugmug.com/Sports/mma/Heat-XC-6-Bragging-Rights/14195404_QNLuj#1048219581_Srgc7

HeatXC 6 Braggin Rights- Weight Ins

Ketos official weight was 170.6 lbs today at the Mayfield Inn Edmonton Alberta for HeatXC 6 tomorrow night. His opponent will be Jason High who weighed in at 170lbs They will be the main event on the fight card. GO KETO!!!

http://www.calgaryjournalonline.ca/sports/39-sports/1362-local-fighter-becoming-smashing-success-in-mma-career

http://www.calgaryjournalonline.ca/sports/39-sports/1362-local-fighter-becoming-smashing-success-in-mma-career
Check out this article on Keto!

Keto fights on FRIDAY

Keto's next MMA fight is this friday in Edmonton. There was a story done on him last week. I'll post the link later today!

OTM Fight Shop Now Open at Canuckles

We just got our new shipment in of MMA gear and more is on the way! Come check out everything Mixed Martial Arts at Canuckles!

Another province is legalizing MMA events

Ontario is going to legalize MMA events in it's province!! Great news for MMA fans and athletes.

Copy and paste this link to your browser is you'd like to read the article:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/mma/2010/08/14/ontario_mma/

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Keto Allen Wins By Double Suplex at Heat XC 5!

Canuckles standout Keto Allen improved his professional record to 5-0 with a 1st round win at Heat XC 5 last night! Keto won by a double suplex, showcasing his outstanding wrestling abilities. Congrats to Keto!

In this video, Keto talks about the suplex, his wrestling background, and his future in MMA:



Nigel Zettergreen, who was supposed to make his return to MMA last night, had to have his return put on hold as his opponents dropped out. Nigel was looking very crisp in training and ready to go, he looks forward to getting in there ASAP.

Check out our own pro fighters Keto Allan and Nigel Zettergreen in this week's FastForward Magazine! Their pictures are featured in a story about MMA in Calgary. They were all taken at the club. Looking good guys!!!!

WOW!! What a kids MMA class yesterday! We are REALLY starting to see some young, strong talent the club. Way to go to ALL our Kids Club members, you should all be proud!!!!

Keto Allen makes big news at MFC 25

Out of context, in the ring, Keto Allen looks like the biggest guy you've ever known: the one with the weight bench in his basement in junior high; the one whose arms made you look up the word 'biceps' in the dictionary.

Practically speaking, Allen isn't actually that large. He fights at about 170 pounds. But his body looks over-stuffed with muscle. On Friday, crouched over Kamloops's Aaron Berke, bouncing his thinly-gloved fists off the other man's face, he looked positively huge.

Allen was fighting on the under-card of an event put on by Edmonton's Maximum Fighting Championship -- an event that briefly burst into Edmonton's mainstream when it was originally booked for the Francis Winspear Centre.

The iconic concert hall backed out of the booking in January, a move that still rankles MFC owner and president Mark Pavelich.
But while Pavelich remains put off by the venue change, it's hard to imagine many of the fans at the Edmonton Expo Centre Friday were much bothered, either by the new location or by the perceived slight to the sport they love.

In some ways, mixed martial arts is a world unto itself. Fans have their own media -- fight-focused websites such as sherdog.com offer blanket coverage -- and their own brands, such as TapouT, Affliction and Head Rush. They can fill hockey stadiums for marquee promotions and pack enough smaller venues to justify at least 14 more shows in Edmonton this year.
For an outsider, it's a world that can look gaudy. The stands at Friday's event offered plenty of crass T-shirts and gold chains, platform heels and fake breasts.

But it's also one that isn't monolithic. The fans don't all come from the same places or look the same way, and neither do the fighters.

Take Gavin "Forrest" Neil, a Victoria-based fighter who looks as unassuming as Keto Allen does strong.

Unlike other fighters, Neil doesn't have chiselled muscles, a shaved chest or visible tattoos. On Friday he walked to the ring to the song Gump, a parody tune by Weird Al Yankovic. He shook his bemused opponent's hand twice before the opening bell. After it rang, he knocked the other man down with one punch before forcing him to submit with a choke hold.

"You're talking to me now and you don't even think I look like a fighter," Neil said in an interview after his fight. He's right, he doesn't. He looks more like what he is when he isn't fighting, a history and sociology student at the University of Victoria.

Officials at the Winspear Centre have always maintained the MFC booking was a mistake, that they cancelled it because they don't do sports, not because that sport was mixed martial arts.

But the public reaction to the booking was definitely sport specific. People online and off reacted in horror at the idea of human combat in the pristine concert hall.

Mixed martial arts, though, isn't nearly as violent as many people think, at least not according to Bryan Hogeveen, a University of Alberta sociologist who serves on Edmonton's Combative Sports Commission, the body that licenses fights in the city.

"There's this idea that they're out there getting maimed," Hogeveen said. But in reality, he continued, most fights end with little long-term damage to either fighter.

Still, it's tough to imagine many skeptics being convinced by a close-up view. The stands were still filling Friday when Keto Allen's arms were pistoning punches into Aaron Berke. His blows made a funny sound up close, like a long inhale followed by a quick wet thwack. They were never particularly loud. Just a kish-thump, kish-thump that built speed until the referee pulled Allen off. They were just loud enough, in fact, to make you wonder how they might have sounded in the Winspear Centre, where the world-class acoustics could have echoed them to the back row.

www.maximumfighting.com

CAVE MAN TRAINING AREA

You should have seen how Max had the Intro Class working a circuit in the new Cave Man training area at Canuckles!! A complete Cave Man circuit will be available soon for the All-Acces group members!!! Check your emails!

New MMA class schedule coming soon! Tentative date for the new schedule to launch is MAY 1st. Call Canuckles MMA at 403-253-9156, email us at info@canuckles.com for any more info! You can also download a copy of our new class schedule set to launch May 1st at
http://www.canuckles.com/newconcept/canucklesschedule.pdf

FREE MMA CLASSES

If you, or anyone you know would like to try our Free Intro MMA Class and/or our Kids Club Class (for 5-12 year olds) call Canuckles at 403-253-9156 to get your passes reserved for you! Kids Club Classes are Saturdays from 12-1pm, our Intro Classes are Sundays from 12-1pm. You can also email info@canuckles.com to get your class passes!

Canuckles MMA Amateurs Fighting April 9th!!

Get ready to watch your team mates/training partners and friends throw down April 9th in Hard Knocks Mixed Martial Arts event in Calgary!! Representing Canukles Mixed Martial Arts will be: Chad James, Chad Anheilger, Keith MacDuff and Scott MacDonald!

The new Canuckles is almost 1 year old!!

Canuckles Mixed Martial Arts has been at its new location for almost 1 year now!! The bulk of the major construction is finally complete so we're able to re-group and focus back on things like our blog etc!!

Keep checking in here as we keep you informed on what's happening at the club,

This is my first-ever blog post, so I'm really running a test right now.

I'll be back soon with lots more to tralk about regarding MMA, the club and anything else going on!