BodogFIGHT Season 6 to film in Vancouver on Aug 24/25. Complete fight lineup inside!

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BODOGFIGHT 6 LINE-UP SET

New Season Debuts Oct. 23

By Loretta Hunt (loretta@thefightnetwork.com)

Online betting billionaire entrepenuer Calvin Ayre has greenlighted a sixth season of his original BodogFIGHT series, and a 24-fight card has been assembled for this round. After shooting seasons three and four simultaneaously in the tropical Costa Rica locale, 48 fighters converge on a closed set at the Squamish Nation Indian Reserve in nearby North Vancouver, British Columbia for two days of events on August 24 and 25.

The series is already scheduled for broadcast in 90-million U.S. homes on ION Television and in Canada on The Fight Network starting Oct. 23, according to a bodogFIGHT representative. BodogFIGHT?s fifth season will include bouts from July 14?s ?Eddie Alvarez vs. Matt Lee? event in Trenton, N.J.

Featured during the sixth season, welterweight champion Nick ?The Goat? Thompson (32-9-1) returns to the bodogFIGHT battlecade for the first time since clinching the belt from Eddie Alvarez in St. Petersburg, Russia last April. Thompson meets Britain?s striking veteran Mark Weir (19-12-1) in a non-title fight.

Promising featherweights Sami Aziz (0-0-1) and Las Vegas? JR Sims (0-1) are back, springboarding off impressive debut performances in season three; while recent King of Pancrase inductee Assuerio Silva joins the heavyweight ranks.

Featherweight (145 lbs & under)
Sami Aziz (Sweden) vs. Hiroyuki Abe (Japan)
JR Sims (USA) vs. DJ Taiki (Japan)

Lightweight (155 lbs & under)
Rodrigo Damm (Brazil) vs. Darren Elkins (USA)
Per Eklund (Sweden) vs. Rafael Dias (USA)
Ryan Bow (Japan) vs. Santino Defranco (USA)
Chris Ade (Canada) vs. Koji Oishi (Japan)

Welterweight (170 lbs & under)
Nick Thompson (USA) vs. Mark Weir (UK)
Piotr Jakaczynski (Sweden) vs. Dan Hornbuckle (USA)
Chris Wilson (USA) vs. Ray Steinbeiss (USA)
Diego Gonzales (Sweden) vs. Steve Berger (USA)

Middleweight (185 lbs & under)
Tim McKenzie (USA) vs. Yuichi Nakanishi (Japan)
Kyacey Uscola (USA) vs. TBA
Steve Byrnes (USA) vs. Alexander Shlemenko (Russia)

Light Heavyweight (205 lbs & under)
Antony Rea (France) vs. Steve Steinbeiss (USA)
Mikhael Zyats (Russia) vs. Buddy Roberts (USA)

Heavyweight (265 lbs & under)
o Assuerio Silva (Brazil) vs. Constantin Gluhov (Russia)
Andrew Pederson (Canada) vs. Scott Lincoln (USA)
Dan Evensen (USA) vs. Dominic Richards (Canada)
Kristof Midoux (France) vs. Brad Morris (Australia)
Women?s 125lb
Megumi Fuji (Japan) vs. Lisa Ward (USA)
Carina Damm (Brazil) vs. Jessica Aguillar (USA)
Rosi Sexton (UK) vs. Julia Berezekova (Russia)

Women?s 135lb
Kelly Kobold (USA) vs. Julie Kedzie (USA)
Tama Chan (Japan) vs. Molly Helsel (USA)

Bodog Fight?s fourth season ?Paradise Lost? airs Tuesdays and Saturdays at 11 p.m. / 10 p.m. Central on ION Television and in Canada on The Fight Network.

POSTED -- 08/01/07

Some decent names included in the mix, however nothing is booked that is getting me excited to see come October.

[Cell]

I'm really excited to see both DJ Taiki and Per Eklund on the show, and Thompson destroying Weir should be fun.

I'm saddened that there's no Buckner on the show, but I am looking forward to Damm/Aguilar, Sexton/Berezekova, and Fujii/Ward. The women's fight that intrigues me the most is Kobold/Kedzie, Kobold proved herself in the fight against LaRosa, and Kedzie has looked a million times better since she started training with Greg Jackson.

[my sex is artsy]

Nice to see they kept Assuerio, I know his fight was one of the ones they were going to cut. The female fighters are obviously the big ticket items here. Also excited to see Per Eklund after his stint with TQ.

[Cell]

Meltzer is reporting that most of these fights won't even happen, and that most of the footage will be old HnS fights. I really hope he's wrong and Loretta ends up being right.

[kainer2]

Meltzer is reporting that most of these fights won't even happen, and that most of the footage will be old HnS fights. I really hope he's wrong and Loretta ends up being right.

Do you have a link for that

WAR !! Rosi Sexton

WAR Diego, Per, and the rest of the Scandys !!

[Cell]

Unfortunately no, I believe it was in his last hard copy issue of the WO.

[spartanking]

Meltzer is reporting that most of these fights won't even happen, and that most of the footage will be old HnS fights. I really hope he's wrong and Loretta ends up being right.


The truth is that they had about twice as many fights scheduled and cut it down to these fights.

Hook and Shoot will become bodogFight's official minor league, but they aren't planning on showing old footage from those past shows.

Kyacey Uscola's opponent is Gegard Moussasi.

[kainer2]

War Gegard Mousasi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also JR Sims isn't fighting

[Global Honored]

Fuji-Ward...Lisa is gonna regret that call out!

[Bishop]

Ayre just can't get enough of Berger