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This weekend The X Fights Extreme 1 Event Not your typical bar fight
After the first full week of the new semester has sufficiently kicked your tail, why not watch someone else take a beating for a while?
This Friday. Extreme Fighter Magazine and Extreme Fight Productions present The X Fights Extreme I Event at Municipal Auditorium, 301 W.13th St.. in Kansas City, Missouri.
Director of communications for the event Tonia
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Borgelt says this is the perfect event for students because it offers a vast array of enticements. With a live band, DJ, bikini-clad women and muscle-bound modern-day gladiators battling it out, there is a little bit of something for everyone to enjoy.
Extreme 1 will feature 12 professional bouts and three amateur fights.
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Wrestlers, with the fight company Blue Corner, participate in ring fighting.The X Fights will feature UFC-style cage fighting.
"These guys are amazing athletes," Davin says."They put their bodies through a lot and sustain a tremendous amount of pain to do what they love. It should be exciting to watch."
Ultimate Fighting Championship star Shawn "Muscle Shark" Sherk will be on hand to sign autographs and interact with
The main event features Kansas City Missouri, native Bobby Voelker taking on C.J. Fernandez.
Bryce Davin, Pine Top, Arizona, senior says the event offers a different kind of entertainment.
fans before the event.
Tickets start at $20,
but for a VIP seat it will
cost you upwards of $180.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
and the first fight will start
at 7 p.m.
— Kristopher McDonald
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The X Fights Extreme I Event will take place Friday at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri.
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January 22, 2009