WORLD EXTREME CAGEFIGHTING®
ANNOUNCES BANTAMWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

MIGUEL ANGEL TORRES vs. MANNY TAPIA

Live From The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino In Las Vegas, Wednesday, Dec. 3 Tickets Go On Sale Monday, Oct. 6 at 10am PT

Las Vegas, NV (USA) – With two spectacular wins that sky-rocketed him into the pound-for-pound stratosphere, WEC® bantamweight champion Miguel Angel Torres has been one of 2008’s great success stories. But the only man standing between him and likely recognition as Fighter of the Year is one of his greatest rivals, Manny Tapia, an unbeaten contender who has been waiting six months for his shot at the 135-pound weight class’ greatest prize. The World Extreme Cagefighting® organization is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, December 3rd, at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, these two warriors will finally meet in an explosive contest guaranteed to produce fireworks.

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No Fear MMA Fighter
Falaniko Vitale Featured in
Strikeforce Co-Main Event, October 3, 2008

No Fear sponsored MMA warrior Falaniko “Niko” Vitale (26-8) will face Frank Trigg in a featured Strikeforce “Payback” MMA contest at Colorado’s Broomfield Event Center on Friday, October 3rd, with preliminary bouts starting at 6:30 pm.

The 34-year-old Vitale considered a submission expert, is a nine-year veteran who’s competed for the UFC, ICON Sport and many of the world’s other top promotions. The Hawaiian won five of his past six fights. The loss came to Trevor Prangley at a November 2007 Strikeforce event. Vitale’s career highlights include victories over Matt Lindland, Yushin Okami and Dave Menne.

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No Fear / Bubble Gum Riders Attack El Salvador.
Keala Naihe from the Big Island, Britt Galland Jr. and Dominic DiPietro from Carlsbad descended on El Salvador over the summer to rip up some tropical point break surf. Also along on the trip were camera-man extraordinaire Toby Ogden, and the groms’ hired gun surf coach, Doug Silva. It’s all documented in stills and video, with some classic narration from the frothing groms. Check it all out at the link below…or catch it on surfline.

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Catch “Bullet” at
House of Blues, Anaheim September 27
For the No Fear Music Tour Finale

The No Fear Music Tour, featuring acclaimed Welsh hardcore-metal rockers Bullet For My Valentine, Orange County agro-death-core sextet Bleeding Through, and metal buzz band the Cancer Bats (on select dates) will wrap up a two and a half month coast to coast tour Saturday, September 27 at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California.
The tour is being produced by Live Nation utilizing the company’s unparalleled national network of local promoters to produce performances at the House of Blues, Fillmores and other venues across the country. Tickets are available now at www.livenation.com
Bullet For My Valentine was named Kerrang’s “Best British Newcomer” in 2005, won Metal Hammer’s “Golden God Award in 2006, and graced the cover of Revolver’s magazine’s March 2008 issue, “The Future of Metal.” The band’s debut album “The Poison,” sold more than one-million copies worldwide and over 400,000 copies in the U.S. alone. The band’s sophomore release “Scream Aim Fire,” released this past January.

No Fear Steps Up Its Support of NSSA
By Sponsoring NSSA Jr. Series

CARLSBAD, CA — In a move to better focus its investment and support of amateur surfing, No Fear has stepped up its involvement in the NSSA and phased out its own love child, the Koastal Kaos amateur surf series.

According to No Fear’s Vice President of Marketing, Britt Galland, “we really loved putting on the Koastal Kaos series for the past two years, and everyone had a great time. But it had become clear that we were duplicating our efforts and creating some scheduling dilemmas for the surfers,” he said. “Dropping Koastal Kaos allows us to consolidate our resources in support of the NSSA, the premier amateur surfing organization in the country.”

During its 30-year tradition, NSSA has produced more top professional surfers than any other amateur surfing body. Former NSSA National Champions include Kelly Slater, Andy Irons, Bobby Martinez, Damien Hobgood, Taylor Knox, Cory Lopez, Bruce Irons, CJ Hobgood, Fred Patacchia and Chris Ward. Now, in addition to serving as title sponsor of the four NSSA Championship series, No Fear has signed on to replace Hurley as the main sponsor the 2008-2009 NSSA Jr. Series.

NSSA Jr. — A Great Place to Start Competing
“NSSA Jr. is the perfect venue for middle school and high school short board and longboard surfers to learn the ropes of amateur surfing,” Galland said. “As they develop their surfing skills they also learn how to get through heats and manage the time clock.” After experiencing some success at the NSSA Jr. level, surfers have a lot more confidence to move up into the highly competitive NSSA Explorer and Open classes.

2008-09 NSSA Jr. Schedule
Contest #1 — September 20, San Onofre / Trails #4
Contest #2 — October 11, Huntington Beach / Golden West Street
Contest #3 — November 8, Newport Beach / 54th Street
Contest #4 — December 6, Huntington Beach / 9th Street
Contest #5 — January 10, Oceanside Harbor / South Jetty
Contest #6 — February 7, Pacific Beach / Crystal Pier
Contest #7 — March 14, Mission Beach / San Fernando Court
Championships/ Invitational – April 1, 2009, Huntington Beach Pier (extra entry fee required.

For more information on No Fear visit www.nofearsurf.com To sign up for membership and/ or NSSA Jr. events, visit www.nssa.org or email Paul Morrow at pmorrow@me.com

WEC, Urijah Faber and No Fear Join Forces

On December 12, 2007, Urijah Faber put Jeff Curran in a guillotine choke at the 4:34 second mark of the second round to score a highly impressive win and, for all intents and purposes, put his name in bright lights as a full-on World Extreme Cagefighting superstar. That same evening and on the very same fight card, Jens Pulver convincingly won his fight, and within a few hours after the event, it was decided that Pulver and Faber would fight each other for the WEC Featherweight Championship on Sunday, June 1, 2008 in Arco Arena in Sacramento, California.

In the months leading up to the bout — a bout that was being hyped as one of the most important featherweight bouts of all-time — Carlsbad, California-based company No Fear, a high profile, longtime fixture in the world of alternative sports, formed a relationship with Faber.

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For the summer of 2008, No Fear has joined forces with Live Nation, the world’s largest — live music company — to utilize the company’s network of House of Blues and other club-sized music venues to stage a nationwide club tour with some of hard rock’s hottest bands. This year’s NO FEAR Music Tour features Welsh hardcore-metal rockers Bullet For My Valentine (the band just released it’s latest offering: Scream Aim Fire). Orange County’s Bleeding Through will also support the tour, and acts Cancer Bats and Black Tide will also be on the bill at select tour dates. The first leg of the tour features 23 dates kicking off July 14th in Milwaukee, WI through August 16th in Cleveland, OH, with additional dates in September to . Tickets go on sale beginning May 30th at www.LiveNation.com with additional information about the No Fear Music Tour available at www.nofear.com.

In late June, No Fear announced a partnership with two independently-owned Skin Industries retail stores in Oahu, Hawaii. The two stores, owned and operated by Paul and Stacy Clayton, are based in Kapolei and Kaneohe and are to be renamed as No Fear storefronts.

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The 100-page 2009 No Fear Motocross catalog is now available for online viewing. Created with award-winning Olive software, the new catalog features the striking new No Fear line modeled by riders such as Trey Canard, Kevin Windham, Josh Grant, Jake Weimer, Dan Reardon, Robbie Reynard and others. Purposely created to illuminate brightly off your computer screen, it’s a new way to check out motocross gear. See it for yourself.

Urijah Faber’s fight has been rescheduled for November 5th at the Hard Rock & Casino in Hollywood, FL.