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For
Immediate Release:
Introducing
Valor Fighting and Management
We
are pleased to introduce Valor Fighting and Management, a
California Limited Liability Company established in January 2004 by
Rick Bassman Enterprises, LLC (RBE) and Eddy Millis. RBE
owns and operates Ultimate Pro Wrestling
(UPW), one of
"independent" wrestling's best-known entities, and Millis
owns and operates "The Shark Tank" training facilities,
world renown within the Mixed Martial Arts community.
Valor
was formed with the dual objectives of creating and operating an
exciting new Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) company and providing management
services to world-class level MMA fighters and Kickboxers.
The
Company announced these milestones in their first quarter of
operation:
- Valor
Fighting and Management (VFM) announced that its clients, Tom
Howard, Nathan
Jones and Sylvester
Terkay, have signed exclusively with K-1, the world's
leading fight promotion. Their multi-year agreements call
for a minimum of four fights each year, under both K-1 and Mixed
Martial Arts rules. Howard, Jones and Terkay all began their
professional careers with California-based UPW, where they still
perform on a regular basis. Howard, as "The Green
Beret," Terkay, as "Predator" and Jones gained
notoriety in Japan through the Zero-One
Pro Wrestling Organization, a Company which UPW has been closely
associated since 2001 and to which it has sent a total of 39
wrestlers. "Tom, Nathan and Predator are
concerned," Bassman said, "have aggressively looked to
develop opportunities to advance their careers in Japan for more
than a year," Bassman continued. "Each has been
keenly interested in shootfighting, and with its continued
explosion in Japan, long-term fight deals were the logical course
to pursue. K-1 made Tom, Nathan and Predator offers that met
many of our objectives and exceeded others." Howard,
Jones and Terkay will all fight on K-1's big May 22 MMA card in
Japan.
- VFM
has itself signed a Development Deal with K-1, which includes the
scouting, training and booking of talent to K-1, as well as the
development and production of special projects. In 2004
alone, in addition to Howard, Jones and Terkay, Valor has thus far
contracted Stefan
Gamlin, Kimo, Mighty Mou
and Brian
Warren to fight for K-1. Valor Co-President Eddy
Millis, whose world-renown Shark Tank has trained
fighters for K-1 over the past two years, says "our
association with K-1 through Valor opens a whole world
of new possibilities."
During
the 2004 calendar year, Valor cites amongst its goals
the production of a television pilot to bring to the October MIPCOM
convention in Cannes, France and to the January 2005 NATPE convention
in Las Vegas, the release of its first series of titles on DVD and the
production and promotion of an increasingly busy schedule of Valor
Live Events.
For
more information:
webmaster@valorfighting.com
http://www.valorfighting.com
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