Recently in Pittsburgh Category

George, in the middle, with the gray T-shirt, surrounded by his friends/trainees.

From George McGinnis:
I was the only one from our particular school that attended the event. I was also the only one who traveled to the event as well so there is unfortunately no photo's or footage of the event or my matches at this time. However, one of my opponents taped a couple of my matches and mentioned that he would send me the footage to me as early as he could. I honestly don't expect to see it...

Purple Belt 165lb and under (1st place)

Purple Belt 'Absolute - open weight class' (2nd place)

No Gi 170lb. Advanced (1st place)

No Gi Advanced 'Absolute - open weight class' (3rd place)
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Events coming up that I will likely be attending / competing:

CPWC Grappling Challenge - Lancaster Oct 24th 09

New Jersey BJJ Federation - November 14th 09

PABJJ (Team Tatu - Super Fights) - Nov 21 09

As always we would like to thank our sponors...

Sheetz
Miles Muffler
Red Lion Chiropractic
Flying Feet
Ricke Bros Auto Sales / Royal Motors
Imagineered Signs, Inc.

Sincerely Yours: George McGinnis
York Mixed Martial Arts Academy
Contact # (717) 650 - 0500
www.YMMAA.com

FIGHTCARD

PROFESSIONAL
Rob Wince vs. Ryan Lopez
J.A. Dudley vs. Johnny Curtis
Marc Stevens vs. Al Buck
Jamie Friar vs. Elijah Garshnick
Noe Quintanilla vs. Shannon Slack
Miles Shrake vs. Joey Enright
George Sheppard vs. Brian Danner

AMATEUR
Mike Muctelli vs. Dan Hornbake
Tyler Walker vs. Matt Zupon
Jeremy Chitwood vs. Kevin Myers

*fight card subject to change

Godfather MMA says so. This is an interesting mini-doc about some matches that took place in Pittsburgh in the late 1970s. Some of it looks like a tough-man competition, but there are some amateur wrestling moves, some karate and a few Muay Thai knees thrown in too.

LionHeart Fighter Dave Sachs will be travelling to Worcester, MA to compete in the Wartown Beatdown 3 in Worcester, MA. Dave will be putting his 5-1 record on the line against tough lightweight Chris Foster who also holds a 5-1 Record. Sachs vs. Foster will headline the fight card as the main event of the evening.

For more details and ticket information: www.wartownbeatdown.com

What's better than an MMA event at a strip club? Um, I can't really think of anything right now ...

August 15th Fight Card (subject to change)
Pro fights:
145 Mike Nesto vs. Khristian Geraci
Interesting to see Geraci in the mix here. I hadn't heard anything about him in a long time.
170 Jeremy Bennett vs. Nikolaos Boscarino
205 Billy Vucick vs. Rodney Sleepers
185 Andy Cooper vs. John Opfar
140 Donnie Kacher vs. Robbie Walker
145 Mike Smiley vs. Joe Wahlberg

amateur fights:
145 Rick Bauer vs. Jon Sieber
155 Andy Yackabousky vs. Aaron Aburradd
170 Ron Allen vs. Artie Speicher
135 James Miller vs. Gannon Krebs
155 John Miani vs. Julian Barona
155 Jay Morris vs. Ryan Kaintz
265 Peter Cartella vs. Ali Ahmed

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Pittsburgh native and former LionHeart Fighters trainer Mark "Fightshark" Miller was back in his hometown for the Ultimate Cage Fighting Challenge event and took a couple photos. Mark's still living out in LA, planning his comeback fight, which might occur in the fall.

With Tito Ortiz.

With undefeated LHW Phil Davis.

Be sure to check out Mark's Web site here.

Still trying to find results from last night's UCFC "Rumble on the Rivers" event that went down in Pittsburgh and featured LionHeart Fighters Phil Davis and Paul Bradley (word was David Sachs did not fight) plus veterans like Rich Clementi and Cole Miller, not to mention hot female prospect - and new LionHeart Fighter Meghan Wright. I'll let you know when I find out something.

This one promises to be a good one, with three LionHeart Fighters on the card, plus one of my favorite former UFC'ers, Rich "No Love" Clementi.

Three LionHeart fighters are on the card at Rumble on the Rivers.

Pic from the set of "Warrior"

Here's the second installment of George McGinnis' adventures as an extra in the major motion MMA picture, "Warrior," be ing filmed right now in Pittsburgh:

Ok. Well today started off a little better. I managed to get 4 - 5 solid hours of sleep, which to be honest is a blessing seeing as how I don't typically get that good of sleep from home. I guess my being up for 30 some hours straight contributed to the much needed rest.

So I grabbed my things and made way for the bus parking lot a.k.a. Extras Parking. Traffic ended up being a bit worse then I anticipated which put me slightly behind schedule, but I managed to make it to the parking lot in time to make the bus. No worries. if I would have missed it, my trusty navigation device would have worked it out : )

I / we arrived at the set and check in. This requires us to fill out a form that simulates a time slip and we head to wardrobe from there to get our training outfits approve for the days agenda / shots. From there we make way to the holding area and await further instruction.

I have noticed that a good bit of the fighters are "standoffish." To be quite honest, I personally suspect this to be in their personality for multiple reasons. (A) They fight, so automatically many of us (i.e. - them) feel they are special or above the average Joe. (B) They have had a handful of fights so others around them (in their opinion) don't have the experience or skills that they do, so us "small timers" who don't fight regularly don't perhaps qualify to be among their presence and or a part of the fighter cast. The funny thing to all this, half of the fools that suggest they are this and that stood side lines while many other fighters did their thing front and center of the main actor cam.

George with a triangle on brother Brett Myers.

The set of "Warrior," filming this week in Pittsburgh.

By Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The off-camera direction wasn't something Erik Apple likely or ever hears.

"Like a rag doll, bro! Like a rag doll."

Apple, a professional fighter with a fierce brown mohawk, was in the ring with actor Tom Hardy or his stunt double, Jace Jeanes. Hardy, recently Handsome Bob in "RocknRolla," and Jeanes sported matching hairstyles, tattoos, sleeveless white undershirts and gray sweatpants.

They were in Colt's Gym, a place so authentic and photogenic that you might swear the heavy punching bags and speed bags, the weathered wooden floor and the banners and American flag hanging from the painted, peeling brick walls had been there for decades.

Pittsburgh, PA - April 30, 2009 - Still Standing Productions, LLC is proud to announce its first ever Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) promotion in the State of Pennsylvania. Owner, Tiffany Holtzman, will establish a new sports franchise within the city of Pittsburgh and the Tri-State area.

Established Florida matchmaker, Paul Andres Domenech, is the official matchmaker for the company and plans to feature the top international, national, and regional fighters for these events.

Along side of Holtzman, Roy Englebrecht, formerly with Golden Boy Productions have teamed up with local radio personality, Bubba Snider, of B94-WBZW, and will be introducing the premier Ultimate Cage Fighting Challenge (UCFC) on Saturday, June 27th at the Mellon Arena.

Tom and I talk about Lyoto-Evans and the upcoming Central Pennsylvania Warrior Challenge

I spoke with Greg Sirb, executive director of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission, on Tuesday, and he told me about some major events that could be happening in the Keystone State this year, now that MMA is legal.

Possibility number one is that Bellator Fighting Championships, a series of events to be shown on ESPN Deportes, will stage an event at the Bryce Jordan Center on April 24, to be broadcasted the next day.

Possibility number two is that the UFC will hold an event somwhere in the state, although Dana White has said Philly, before the end of the year. Sirb told me yesterday it could be Philly, or it could be Pittsburgh.

As with these and any other events, "We haven't scheduled anything yet," Sirb said.