No Fear’s Vitale Featured in Upcoming Strikeforce Event
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.
At 38, Trigg is coming off a win in Japan in August where he stopped Makoto Takimoto at the World Victory Road’s “Sengoku 4″ event. Trigg admits to being near the end of his steller run in professional MMA; “I only have a couple of fights left, so they’re all important to me.” In the last two years, Trigg has turned in some of his most impressive performances, including a victory over Jason “Mayhem” Miller.
The October 3rd Strikeforce event will be televised live on HD Net and will be broadcast (tape delay) on NBC.
About Strikeforce
Strikeforce is a world-class mixed martial arts cage fight promotion which made history with its “Shamrock vs. Gracie” event, the first sanctioned mixed martial arts fight card in California state history. Since 1995, Strikeforce has been the exclusive provider of martial arts programming for ESPN and, after 12 years of success as a leading, world championship kickboxing promotion, the company unveiled its mixed martial arts series. On April 12th of this year, Strikeforce launched the first-ever 52 week MMA series on one of the four major television networks in The U.S. – NBC.
hey thats great kickboxing stuff, hoping to see more!
lol that was some serious hitting!