Official fight card featuring co-main events released for Retribution For Immediate Release A power-packed lineup of talented fighters including many of the Maximum Fighting Championship’s biggest names is set for action at the highly anticipated MFC 26: Retribution. This is the formal announcement of the final card for the event slated on Friday, Sept. 10 [...]

For Immediate Release With today’s announcement that the Ontario government will legalize mixed martial arts events in 2011, the Maximum Fighting Championship – Canada’s undisputed leader in MMA – is excited and cautiously optimistic about the prospects of holding events in the province. The MFC has long been a front-runner in proposing MMA events in [...]

In a move that an overwhelming majority in the mixed martial arts world believed would never happen, Canadian welterweight sensation Ryan “The Real Deal” Ford has signed a new multi-fight contract with the Maximum Fighting Championship. A former two-time challenger for the MFC’s 170-pound title, Ford and the MFC bitterly parted ways in early 2009 [...]

Seven years and four months. Flip the pages on a calendar – it will take a while – but it has been that long since Antonio McKee suffered a loss. The reigning MFC lightweight champion is a consummate pro and an intellectual fighter, but also a title-holder currently wearing an undefendable belt. The one opportunity [...]

By MFC Staff Gavin Neil would have to be considered among the MFC’s most promising prospects, having already amassed a solid 8-1 record over the course of his career. There’s still plenty of work to do, yet the Victoria, British Columbia, native has taken an important step in the process of becoming a real contender. “I think [...]

by Jeff Chan MFC Staff “Ring or cage?” is MMA’s biggest debate. Fans of the ring often say that it promotes better fighting technique, while defenders of the cage like that enclosure’s dramatic “no escape” appeal. The Maximum Fighting Championship (MFC) has always taken place in a ring, and it always will. Why? Because the [...]

BLUE CORNER RED CORNER Main Event – Middleweight (3 Rounds) Jesse Taylor vs. Thales Leites Murrieta, California Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (14-5) (16-3) Light Heavyweight (3 Rounds) Wilson Gouveia vs. Ryan Jimmo Fort Lauderdale, Florida Edmonton, Alberta (12-7) (12-1) Light Heavyweight (3 Rounds) Emanuel Newton vs. Dwayne Lewis Norwalk, California Ft McMurray, Alberta (12-6) (11-4) [...]

Edwards, Watson, Juarez victorious in knockout-filled card By MFC Staff Yves Edwards marked himself as the top contender for the MFC lightweight belt yet it was a pair of spectacular knockouts that stole the show at the Maximum Fighting Championship’s MFC 24: Heat XC on Friday night at the River Cree Resort and Casino, just [...]

Lightweight Yves Edwards – 155 1/2 Derrick Noble – 156 Middleweight Tom Watson – 184 1/2 Travis Galbraith – 186 1/2* Light Heavyweight Ryan McClain – 205 Dwayne Lewis – 205 Welterweight Jesse Juarez – 171 Nathan Gunn – 169 1/2 Welterweight Dami Egbeyemi – 170 1/2 Paapa Inkumsah – 170 Welterweight David Letourneau – [...]

By MFC Staff An injury late in training for the MFC 24: Heat XC co-main event has dropped David Heath from Friday’s card, but his teammate Ryan McClain has stepped up to the challenge. McClain (9-3), who like Heath hails from Tulsa, Oklahoma, will meet Dwayne Lewis (10-4) in a light heavyweight tussle with Lewis looking to [...]