MMA Valor Local Corner: Jeremiah Labiano Takes on Joe Soto
Hayward, California’s own Jeremiah Labiano will look to continue building upon his already impressive resume next month when he takes his toughest opponent to date.
Hayward, California’s own Jeremiah Labiano will look to continue building upon his already impressive resume next month when he takes his toughest opponent to date.
A bold statement from a fighter of you may not even know, but thus far Jeremiah Labiano has been able to back up those words.
It’s been well over a year since the former Strikeforce fighter Scott Smith fought. The brawler out of Elk Grove, California last fought on March 3rd, 2012 against Lumumba Sayers, where he suffered his fourth consecutive defeat. After that Strikeforce merged with the UFC and Scott Smith seemed to fall off the MMA map entirely.
This past Saturday Silicon Valley based hybrid Muay Thai and MMA promotion Arise Fighting Championships held their inaugural event inside the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Arise FC 1 featured nine Muay Thai and three MMA bouts, headlined by veteran Strikeforce lightweight James Terry taking on Mike De La Torre.
This week in MMA was absent of a UFC event as the promotion geared up for UFC 159. The highly anticipated welterweight championship main event between Georges St-Pierre and Nick Diaz had fans and media buzzing last week after the explosive pre-fight conference call that Diaz took over.
Outlasting over 200 attendee’s over a long 12 hour day, Jeremiah Labiano of Union City, California was named the Spring 2013 XFC Open Fighter Tryout winner. The bantamweight was awarded a Five Fight Contract with Xtreme Fighting Championship as well as a Sponsorship deal with American Knockout Sportwear.
Last night from the Alameda County Fair Grounds in Pleasanton, California was IMPACT MMA: Recognition. The inaugural event from the tri-valley base promotion went off without a hitch, bringing 10 professional Mixed Martial Arts bouts to 2,000+ eager fans long starved for live MMA.
The Mixed Martial Arts community located in the California Bay Area has longed for a local promotion to bring them top-level, local talent into the cage. The area is filled with top gyms with talented fighters and loyal fans that have been forced to travel to see their favorite local fighters. Change is coming and it’s coming this weekend in Dublin, California as IMPACT MMA makes their debut with “Recognition”.