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Friday, July 3, 2009
Ken Shamrock's All Women's MMA Reality Show Starring Tonya Evinger
 PRESS RELEASE:
FightLife bases a group of eight professional female fighters in one house where they live, breathe and make their money off the sport of Mixed Martial Arts fighting. The series will focus on the girls' real lives – hardcore partying, the drama, catfights, relationships, owning and operating fight shop, intense physical training led by Ken Shamrock, and their professional MMA fights.
FightLife (wt), starring popular and outspoken fighter Tonya Evinger, combines some of the biggest names in MMA with the drama and extreme lifestyles these female fighters experience on a day-to-day basis. It's a complete picture of what goes on inside and outside the octagon.
The show also has co-stars Ken Shamrock, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) World Champion and UFC Hall of Famer, as the fighters' coach and trainer; female coach Kelley Weatherford from Freestyle Gym in Reno; and female MMA promoter Mario Horta.
The series will follow the girls from their hardcore training to their wild partying and showcase each of the girls in a full MMA match throughout the series, organized by Horta.. The group of eight girls each have unique backgrounds, which will provide for compelling storylines throughout the series.
Click Here to Watch Trailer Labels: FightLife, Ken Shamrock, Tonya Evinger
posted by MMAInsiderBLOG @ 5:50 PM
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Do EliteXC Fighters Fit the WEC Mold? Maybe...
 World Extreme Cagefighting vice president Peter Dropick was recently asked if the WEC had any interest in signing fighters from the now defunct EliteXC promotion... specifically K.J. Noons, Nick Diaz, and Wilson Reis.
"I know our matchmakers are look at any fighters that are available. I don't know their contractual situations. There are a handful of guys that make sense, and there are some that just wouldn't make sense," Dropick replied.
Although he couldn't really commit to any specific fighters due to EliteXC and its fighters still being mired in a web of legal entanglements, the VP did sound like he was interested in bringing some of the top EliteXC talent to the WEC.
"I don't know specifically if we've talked to anyone or legally if we can talk to anyone at this point, but absolutely we're keeping an eye on that situation. We want the best guys in the world and those guys that are available we've got a lot to offer them."
One of the biggest questions surrounding EliteXC's collapse has been what will happen to the female fighters. Gina Carano has developed a certain amount of star power, and EliteXC had also attracted a number of other top female fighters like Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos, Sarah Kaufman, Tonya Evinger, Kelly Kobold, and others among them.
Unfortunately for the female EliteXC fighters and their fans, it doesn't appear that the UFC's sister promotion currently has any more interest in their services than does the UFC itself. Asked if there had been any discussion about bringing any of the female fighters into the WEC fold, Dropick simply replied, "No, there hasn't."Labels: Cristiane Cyborg Santos, EliteXC, Gina Carano, K.J. Noons, Kelly Kobold, Nick Diaz, Peter Dropick, Sarah Kaufman, Tonya Evinger, WEC, Wilson Reis
posted by MMAInsiderBLOG @ 1:00 AM
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