aces being smashed into the ground, heel-strikes, palm-strikes, spin-kicks, lots of blood and lots of “ouches!” all come with the deal of watching an Absolute Fighting Championship.
You don’t have to go far to catch a good ole fashion, hyper-masculine blood bash. Every couple of months the Absolute Fighting Championship (AFC) packs the Fort Lauderdale War Memorial with thousands who come to see fighters from all over the world beat each other up. Whenever paramedics are on the scene before anyone even calls them – it signifies something dangerous is expected to happen. Someone may just get hurt. So who would want to risk losing their teeth to a tornado kick in the face? Or eating pizza through a straw after their jaw gets broken?
It takes a wild one right? Maybe a loner who spends their life doing sit-ups, punching inanimate objects, and putting hot sauce on their Cheerios?
Actually none of the above is correct. In fact, these guys are probably in the market for a minivan (no offense guys … don’t beat me up), that is – the baddest two fighters, Dennis Hallman and Din Yero Thomas, in this competition are family guys.
Take for instance, Hallman, a.k.a. Superman – the new AFC heavyweight champion, has three little ones back home in Yelm, Washington. Twenty-eight year old Hallman speaks softly, plays chess, and has no tattoos on his face, he’s more like Clark Kent – outside the ring that is. Inside the ropes he’s not such a nice guy, with a record of 55 wins, 9 losses, and 2 ties, he has handed over some beatings. “I want to be the champion of it all,” Hallman says, as he downs the other half of his bottled spring water.
The other CBA (or “Certified Bad Ace”), Thomas, ate his last opponent John Strawn for breakfast in a first round submission on Feb. 5. Actually, breakfast and winning are both routine for Thomas, who is one of the pioneers of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). “I was on the top three years ago, now I’m just in it for the true fight,” Thomas remarks. He says he used to fight to make money but now with a child on the way he’s in it for, “the sport.”
The next AFC event will take place on April 30 at the War Memorial.
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