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BodogFight Intellects Declare War on Each Other
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 by Mike
BodogFight, the cutting edge mixed martial arts (MMA) showcase and brainchild of the Bodog.com Entertainment Group’s Founder, Calvin Ayre, pits collegiate wrestling champion Davion Peterson against Minnesota law school attendee Nick “The Goat” Thompson on episode five, which airs tomorrow on the Men’s Outdoor and Recreation channel, DISH network, Comcast, Cox, Time Warner and online at FullTiltPoker.com
“These two fighters epitomize the concept of the modern-day gladiator,” says digital entertainment mogul, Calvin Ayre. Ayre is the creator of a number of television series, including Bodog Salutes the Troops and Calvin Ayre Wild Card Poker, which have aired on Spike TV. “Both are tremendous athletes driven to mark their status in the upper echelon of MMA. Viewers will get to witness two educated fighters using both their minds and bodies as weapons.”
Despite eliminating an earlier tendency to faint when being hit on the chin – a behavior that mimicked a common condition in goats – the nickname issued to him by his peers has stuck. Nick “The Goat” Thompson, a fighter and law student from Minnesota, has the most professional fight experience of all BodogFight competitors with a 28-9 record. Currently at the Minnesota Martial Arts Academy under the watchful eye of coach and renowned MMA fighter Greg Nelson, tactical trainer to the American military, Thompson perfects his freestyle and striking training with such MMA greats as Sean Sherk and Nat McIntyre.
His opponent, Davion Peterson, bypassed the normal route of amateur fighting and stepped right in to the professional ranks with his first MMA fight in 2003, which ended with a knock-out victory over Marcel Ferreira in the Hook and Shoot: Boot Camp 1.1. Earning his two-time Big Ten collegiate wrestling champion status from Purdue University, Peterson has racked up an impressive 10-3 record using the Ground and Pound fight strategy as the foundation of his assaults.
Will `Peterson vs. Thompson’ be the spectacle that crowns the BodogFight favorite? Viewers will soon be able to cast their vote for the $50,000 prize at FullTilt Poker , where biographies of all the fighters, exclusive footage, and unedited interviews and confrontations are readily available and continuously updated each week. Each of the episodes will air simultaneously on the Men’s Outdoor and Recreation channel and on BodogFight.com broadband network.
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