Springfield, Missouri (USA):
The sport of mixed martial arts is tough.
There is no disputing that.
Fighters experience ups and downs, wins and
losses, and make sacrifices
to be the very best they can be. Staying
committed when you’re winning
can be easy. It’s when losses come that
combat athletes find out how
committed they really are to the fight game.
Two fighters in such a
position are former UFC stalwarts Karo “The Heat’
Parisyan and Kendall “Da
Spyder” Grove. On June 16th in Springfield,
Missouri, both will tangle
with ultra-tough opponents, as Parisyan will
battle fellow UFC vet John
Gunderson, and Grove will lock horns with
UFC/Strikeforce vet Terry
Martin. The winner of the Parisyan-Gunderson tilt
will be awarded the first
ShoFIGHT welterweight belt, while either Grove or
Martin will go home with
ShoFIGHT middleweight strap. In short, it’s a big
fight for all the competitors
involved.
PPV broadcast details will be
announced soon.
Karo Parisyan (20-8-0-1) has
been fighting professionally since 1999, and
has faced many top
welterweights during his time in MMA, including Sean
Sherk, Antonio McKee, Georges
St-Pierre, Shonie Carter, Nick Diaz, Chris
Lytle, Matt Serra, Nick
Thompson, Diego Sanchez, Ryo Chonan, Thiago Alves,
Dong Hyun Kim, and Dennis
Hallman. Few in the fight game can boast such a
resume. At one point, he was
right on the cusp of a UFC title shot, but
after some tough losses, he
is looking to right the ship and get back to
the top of the mountain.
Fighting in the main event of ShoFIGHT 20 provides
“The Heat” with the
opportunity to do just that.
Kendall Grove (14-10-0-1)
grew up in Hawaii, and is the prototypical Island
boy: a scrapper who is afraid
of no man. The 6’6” middleweight made his pro
debut in 2003, and soared to
heights few reach in the fight game when he
won the 3rd season of the
UFC’s *Ultimate Fighter *competition. Over the
next few years, Grove became
a mainstay in the UFC, gathering victories
over Ed Herman, Alan Belcher,
the late Evan Tanner, Jason Day, Jake
Rosholt, and Goran Reljic
during his time with the promotion. However, he
also suffered several
setbacks, and was released in 2011 after two straight
losses. Since that time, he
has downed both Joe Riggs and Ikuhisa Minowa,
but then lost to fellow UFC
vet Jay Silva in February. Now, he’ll look to
get back in the win column
against UFC/Strikeforce vet Terry Martin with
the gold on the line.
ShoFIGHT, one of the top
rising MMA promotions in North America, will bring
ShoFIGHT 20 to the O’Reilly
Family Events Center in Springfield, Missouri
on Saturday, June 16th. The
event will host twenty UFC, PRIDE, Strikeforce,
and Bellator veterans,
including Parisyan, Grove, Gunderson, Martin, Lyle
“Fancy Pants” Beerbohm,
Marcus Aurelio, Shonie Carter, Drew Fickett,
Charles “Krazy Horse”
Bennett, Aaron Rosa, Matt Lucas, and others.
Tickets to “ShoFIGHT 20” are
now available for purchase at ShoFIGHT.com or
at the O’Reilly Family Event
Center Box Office.
Since its inception in 2009,
ShoFIGHT has rapidly established itself as one
of America’s top amateur
fight promotions, quickly garnering a reputation
for putting on exciting
events that electrify Midwest fight audiences. With
the primary goal of growing
the sport of mixed martial arts in the central
U.S., promoter JT Tilley has
spent the past four years developing a network
of top amateur talent from
across the country. The organization has
consistently maintained
eleven active weight classes, helping develop some
of the top pro prospects in
the Midwest.
For more information on
ShoFIGHT, please visit http://shofight.com/.
ShoFIGHT can also be found on
Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/pages/ShoFight-MMA/113079148732416,
and on Twitter
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