Combat Sports EXPO
Presented by GeorgiaFighters.com
Saturday, April 3
Renaissance Waverly
2450 Galleria Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30339
770-953-4500

Five of Georgia’s best trainers are set to head the premier training session to ever occur in the state of Georgia! These five trainers could easily be considered the best in the Southeast at their particular aspect of the sport and they come together for the first time ever to teach an exclusive four-hour training session during the Saturday, April 3 Combat Sports EXPO at the Renaissance Waverly!

The session will begin promptly at 1 pm. Each trainer will teach for 50 minutes followed by a 10 minute break.

The cost is a bargain deal at only $50 per person and you can take one class, two classes or all four classes!

You might want to rush to secure your spot as the number of spots is limited and this will easily attract students from all over the state of Georgia, if not the Southeast!

Sign up below to make sure you reserve your spot for this tremendous once in a lifetime training session!

Teaching the seminar are:
Standup - Khunpon from Bangkok Boxing
Wrestling - Jeff Bedard from Elite Training Center
BJJ - Roan Jucao from ATT Atlanta
MMA - Adam Singer from The HardCore Gym and Tony Tucci from X3 Sports

Teacher Bios:
Khunpon – A Muay Thai fighter for over 25 years, Khunpon is the head instructor of Bangkok Boxing. While he hasn’t officially retired, Khunpon has a record of over 200 fights- 80% of which are wins. He moved to Atlanta in 1999 to open his own gym in Gwinnett. Originally from Bangkok, Thailand, Khunpon has been fighting since 1980. His success has taken him around the world as a fighter, and now, he travels across the world as a sought-out instructor. Khunpon holds four world muay thai titles and countless national titles.

Jeff Bedard - When looking up the words “top wrestler” in the dictionary, it might as well have a photo of Jeff Bedard. He is highly regarded as one of the top wrestlers to come from Georgia and recently opened up his own gym in Buford, Elite Training Center. Only some of his qualifications are below, feel free to come take his session to find out what has made him one of the top wrestling trainers in the country.
PFC World MMA Champion with a 13-1-1 record, U.S.A. Olympic Training Center Resident, Military World Champion, 7x U.S. National Freestyle All American, 4x New York Athletic Club Champion, Michigan Open Champion, 3x N.A.G.A. Submission Champion, 2x College All American, 1990 N.A.I.A. National Champion, Sunkist Open Champion, 1x High School Michigan State Champion, 2x High School Georgia State Champion, 2x High School All-American, 170-3 High School Record, has coaches 27 College All-Americans and 2 National Champions, 2007 Gwinnett Daily Post Coach of the Year, 2007 Team Dual State Champions at Wesleyan (Head Coach), 2008 & 2009 Team Dual State Champions at Collins Hill HS (Asst. Coach).

Roan Jucao - In 1989 Roan started training under the legendary Carlson Gracie. Carlson is considered one of the most technical Gracie’s and perhaps the best Vale Tudo fighter the family ever produced. Jucao later moved on to train with the legendary Brazilian Top Team which consisted of Murilo Bustamante, the Nogueira brothers, Ricardo Arona, Paulo Filho and many other great fighters. Jucao went from white to black belt under the Gracies and has an extensive competition résumé in Jiu-Jitsu and no grappling competition. Here are some of Roan’s accomplishments:
Abu Dhabi trial Champion (Brazil), Pan American Champion, Mecca Vale Tudo Champion, Shooto Champion (Japan), Rio De Janeirio State Champion, Abu Dhabi trials (6th place USA) and 5-Time UFC Veteran. Jucao is currently the head trainer at ATT Atlanta.

Adam Singer - Adam is the head coach at The HardCore Gym in Athens. Adam is single handidly responsible for producing some of the best MMA fighters that Georgia has seen including former UFC champ Forrest Griffin, former WEC champ Brian Bowles, Stephen Ledbetter, Rory Singer, Cale Yarbrough, Dave Mewborn, Todd Duffee and so many more. Adam received his Blue Belt from Machado Black Belt Matt Thornton and his Purple Belt from Chris Haueter in 2001, at which time he started devoting his emphasis on MMA and No Gi submission grappling. Adam received his Brown Belt from Chris Haueter at the end of 2005 and recently received his Black belt from Roberto Traven (April 09′). Adam has trained with some of the best MMA fighters, boxing and Muay Thai trainers and submission grapplers/coaches/intructors in the world including: Matt Thornton, Rodney King, Robert Follis, Randy Couture, Jason Miller, Charles McCarthy, Eddie Bravo, Matt Hume, The Machados, Caesar Gracie, Paul Vunak, Dan Inosanto, Eric Paulson, Marc Denny, Jeff Monson, Ricardo Liborio, Chris Haueter and Roberto Traven.

Tony Tucci - Tony Tucci, the head instructor at X3 Sports, is quickly becoming known as one of the best trainers for all aspects of an MMA fighter. His two gyms in Atlanta (Marietta and Midtown) have been exploding with fighters for the last two years and the quality of fighters currently under his stable is a testament to his hard work and dedication. Some of those names include Clint Hester, Marius Cujba, Tom Nguyen, James Thorpe, Steele McCall and many others.

NOTES FOR PARTICIPANTS:
*You are required to bring everything to training that you’ll need including:
shorts, tshirts, shoes, socks, mouthpiece, headgear, gloves for standup and ground and anything else you’ll need.
*This training session is being offered on a first sold basis. You must sign up in advance for this training session in order to take it. You are welcome to take once class or all four classes for your $50 entry fee.
*Once you pay online we will receive an email with your name. Please bring a driver’s license to the EXPO to get into the training room.
*Please arrive early for your training session to allow yourself time to stretch out and warm up.
*Bring a change of clothes as showers will be provided at the hotel.

Combat Sports EXPO
Presented by GeorgiaFighters.com
Saturday, April 3
Renaissance Waverly
2450 Galleria Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30339
770-953-4500

At today’s Georgia Athletic & Entertainment Commission meeting, it was decided that all boxers and MMA fighters (both pro and amateur mma fighters) should come to the Saturday, April 3 Combat Sports EXPO at the Renaissance Waverly (corner of 285 and 75, attached to Cobb Galleria) to obtain their Federal ID cards.

If you choose not to get your Federal ID card at the EXPO, then you will be forced to drive to Andy Foster’s office downtown, pay for parking and make an appointment with him to get this done. Obviously, the much easier choice is to attend the Saturday, April 3 Combat Sports EXPO between the hours of 11 am and 7 pm to get this done with free parking!

The Federal ID cards have been around for years with boxing, but this is the first time that MMA fighters will need to get a card. The cards last four years and cost $25. Payments can be made by cash, check or money order to the Georgia Athletic Commission. All pro boxers and both pro and amateur MMA fighters are required to have a Federal ID card.

For more information on the Combat Sports EXPO please click here!

Lutador Grappling will be held this Saturday, March 13th at Riverwood International Charter School in Sandy Springs, GA. 

This is a venue Lutador experimented with towards the end of last year and has decided to stick with it due to the convenience for the majority of the competitors. There will be hundreds of Gi and No Gi divisions for kids, teens, women and men.  Lutador stays true in going over the top for their competitors by providing even bigger medals for this years winners along with providing every first place gi winner with a patch for their gi.

All Childrens division winners will be awarded a boken sparring sword.

As always, there will also be open and pro gi divisions for all experience levels each having a cash prize and a championship belt. The womens open weight, open belt division will have a $100 cash prize.  The belt specific divisions are open to men and women.  The white belt winner will earn $100. The blue belt winner will earn $200 and the purple belt winner, $300.  The brown and black belt pro division will be broken into 2 weight classes.  174.9 and below and 175 and above. The winner of each of these divsions will be awarded $1,000 and a championship belt.

The cost for pre-reg is $60 for the gi and no gi divisions. The at door price is $85.  Entry for the open weight division is an additional $15.  Brown and black belts compete for free!!! 

Spectator fee is $5.

The exact address is 5300 Heards Dr NW. Atl, GA. 30328

Weigh-ins will be from 6-8pm Friday March 12th and begin again at 8am on Saturday, March 13th.  On Saturday, the childrens weighins end at 9 am and the adults at 10 am. 

Childrens divisions will begin at 9am sharp and the adults no-gi division will follow at 10 am.

Go to www.LutadorGrappling.com to pre-reg or for more info.

In a fight taking place on Saturday night in Columbus OH, Brian Bowles from Athens GA lost his bantamweight WEC belt to the slick and elusive Dominick Cruz.

Just as all insiders anticipated the fight was a typical strength versus speed match-up. Cruz spent the first two rounds primarily on his feet dancing and potshot-hing Bowles. Bowles had little answer as Cruz simply picked him apart with a crisp jab, overhand rights, and low leg kicks.

At the end of the second round Bowles was wincing and pointing toward his hand. The same hand he broke when he defeated Miguel Torres for the title in ‘09. After the ringside doctor examined Bowles it was determined that he could no longer continue, determining that his right hand was broken.