Nova Scotia hosted its first all amateur card tonight as Fight First held its first event at Olympic Hall in Halifax. The promotion which is under the Extreme Cage Combat name gave fans a mix of both Mixed Martial Arts and Muay Thai. A couple of notes, the fight between Brandon Clark and Brad Peters […]

Yesterday the Oasis Pub in Halifax held the weigh ins for the first all amateur card in Nova Scotia as Fight First will take place tomorrow night at Olympic Hall.   The banner is a new venture for Extreme Cage Combat as they will mix both amateur mma and kickboxing on the same card.  While Top […]

Date: November 28, 2014 Venue: Olympic Hall, Halifax, Nova Scotia Tickets: Buy Tickets Amateur Fights: 170lbs- Dee Logue (5-0) vs. Eric Norris (2-0) ***welterweight Title Fight 170lbs- Jonny Campbell (1-0) vs. Eamon Morrisey (0-0) 155lbs- Tyler Cornell (0-0) vs. Charlie Aalders (0-1) 155lbs- Brandon Clark (1-2) vs. Brad Peters (0-0) 170lbs-  Jordan Noseworthy (0-0) vs. Jeff Brake (2-4) Amateur […]

At the post-fight press conference, UFC Director Tom Wright announced the following $50,000 bonuses: Performance of the Night: Rory MacDonald for his third round stoppage of Tarec Saffiedine Performance of the Night: Olivier Aubin-Mercier for this inverted triangle submission over Jake Lindsey. Fight of the Night: Chris Kelades and Patrick Holohan for their three round […]

Fit Plus’s Chris Kelades discusses his debut UFC win at UFC Fight Night 54 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Kelades touches on: the biggest win of his career, cutting weight on five days notice, fighting in front of his hometown, training with TJ Grant and Scott MacLean, and Octagon ‘jitters’ how the Malcolm Gordon fight on […]

To say fans were excited to have the UFC come to Halifax would be an understatement. Around 1500 people came into the Scotiabank Centre this afternoon to catch the weigh-ins and the Q&A with Travis Browne. With so many Canadian fighters making the trip to the east coast, the fans made sure to show their […]

Nova Scotia will have a local fighter to cheer for on this week’s UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs Saffiedine card as Chris Kelades has accepted an opportunity to fight on the Halifax card on less than a week’s notice. Kelades (7-1) will become the first Canadian Flyweight to fight for the UFC as he will […]

Mitch Gagnon will face Rob Font at UFC Fight Night 54 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, according to a UFC tweet. Mitch Gagnon (11-2) was originally slated to face Aljamain Sterling. Sterling pulled out due to injury and Rob Font stepped up to fill in. It will be Gagnon’s fourth UFC fight. After losing his debut […]

Date: September 13, 2014 Venue: Olympic Hall, Halifax, Nova Scotia TV: Tickets: Amateur MMA 155lbs-Anthony Maskinel (0-0) vs Akitoshi Horiba (2-0) 125lbs- Robbie Innes (0-0) vs. Joe Majcan (3-0)   Mauy Thai Fights: 185lbs-Ricky Goodall vs. Christien Savoie 170lbs-Bruce Forest vs. Ryan Potter 135lbs-Coco McNeil Vs. Andrew Quigley 165lbs-Ryan Martin vs. Charles Alders

Even though Top MMA News may not be handing out the best of 2014 awards just yet, you can say that Chris Kelades is a front runner for a few at the halfway mark.  After already securing a submission of the year candidate with a gogoplata over Rick Doyle in January, he made a case […]