UnCivil™ War III Fight Results

On Saturday December 10th local Mixed Martial Artists, Street Fighters and Brawlers converged on the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Springfield, Missour for what would be UCW's biggest  fight card to date.
Several local teams were on hand to compete including Springfield Fight Club, Team Fusion Jiu-Jitsu & MMA, Barry County Fight Club and newcomers Team Pride and Fight or Die. The event featured a variety of fighters, many new to Mixed Martial Arts. Most of the fights ended in the first round which is very common with new fighters. As fighters develop there skills they tend to slow things down and progress into longer more difficult fights.
The event featured two UCW Title Fights. Dewey 'Dukes' Cloud of Team Fusion faced Barry County Fight Club's Shane Beck. Both fighters entered the cage undefeated with matching fight records of three wins with zero losses. At the onset of the event both fighters knew only one of them could emerge still undefeated. Shane Beck won the fight in the first round via submission. Beck applied a Jiu-Jitsu technique known as the Rear Naked Choke. Shane Beck earned the title of UCW Featherweight Champion. Beck also received an award for "Submission of the Night".
The main event of the evening was originally scheduled to be a title fight for the UCW Middleweight Championship. The match was moved to the Light Heavyweight division when the challenger was unable to make the required weight for a Middleweight bout. Team Fusion's Devian Golden faced Barry County Fight Club co-founder Andy Hunter for the title of  UCW Light Heavyweight Champion.
Devian Golden finished the fight fourty-four seconds in to the first round. The referee stopped the fight due to strikes from the mount position. Andy Hunter stated that he was fine and would have liked the referee to let the fight go longer. Hunter said he would like a re-match with Devian in the near future. For the time being Devian 'Superman' Golden is the UCW Light Heavyweight Champion.
Golden is scheduled for his first professional Mixed Martial Arts bout on February 11th, 2012 at the O'Reilly Family Event Center. The fight against Andy Hunter was a good test for Golden who will face a bigger opponent in BJ Drew on the February 11th fight card.
The UCW III "Fight of the Night" was awarded to female fighters who faced off in the Flyweight Division. Taylor Angle of Team Fusion faced Jessica 'J-Rock' Rowden of Fight or Die. This was the first time in the cage for both fighters. The action was stopped at two minutes in the first round when Angle finished Rowden with a Jiu-Jitsu technique called a 'Triangle Choke' where the fighter uses their legs to cut off the blood supply to the brain by compressing the arteries in their oponents neck.
Springfield Fight Club fighter Brian 'Alpha Male' Ramirez also finished his opponent with the Triangle choke technique in 38 seconds of the first round. In all there were 15 bouts on the card. This was the third event for the Springfield based UnCivil War MMA promotion.
Event Promoter Eric Stevens says he doesn't like to have more than 12 fights on any one fight card but fighters were crawling out of the woodwork to get on the fight card and he didn't want to turn any of them away.
The next event is scheduled for February 25th at the same venue as the first three events, Springfield's Clarion Hotel and Conference Center. Stevens says fighters should contact him immediately via facebook for a spot on the fight card as it is expected to fill up quickly.

Fight Results:

Anthony Barton defeats Marvin Maples at 2:30 in the first round via submission.
Chance Morlan defeats Terry Dool at :40 in the first round via referee stoppage due to strikes.
Michael Deckard defeats Chad Whitehead at :45 in the first round via referee stoppage due to strikes.
Dustin McReynolds defeats Cody Wilson at 1:05 in the first round via tapout to strikes.
Jeff Parsons defeats Matt Break at 1:12 in the first round via referee stoppage due to strikes.
Ryan Greer defeats Brock Adelsberger at 1:15 in the second via tapout due to strikes.
Jacob Rowden defeats Brandon Yanke at :22 in the first round via submission.
Cass Keene defeats Kyle Aumet at :35 in the first round via guillotine choke.
Charles Yost defeats Ron Lindsey at :44 in the first round via rear naked choke.
Shane Woosley defeats Mike Henry at 1:09 in the first round via knockout.
Brian Ramirez defeats Ryan Hobbs at :38 in the first round via triangle choke.
Taylor Angle defeats Jessica Rowden at 2:05 in the first round via triangle choke.
Eric Willoughby defeats Steven Hunter at 1:47 in the first round via rear naked choke.
Shane Beck defeats Dewey Cloud at 1:38 in the first round via rear naked choke.
Devian Golden defeats Andy Hunter at :44 in the first round via referee stoppage due to strikes.

UnCivil War™ Announces 2012 Plans and a Special Announcement for Grapplers

Fight Fans:

UnCivil War™ held it's very first MMA Competition (or cagefights) on May21st of 2011. The event was a huge success despite a competitor holding an event less than two miles away on the same street on the same night. The first ever UCW (UnCivil War) featured fighters from many local teams and by the end of the show the entire audience was off their feet and you could feel the excitement in the air.

On July 9th, 2011 UCW founder and fight promoter Eric Stevens held UCW II on his birthday. An avid Mixed Martial Arts fan, Eric couldn't think of a better way to spend the occassion. The event was again a huge success featuring fighters from every fight team in Springfield that was actively competing at the time. On the card were fighters from Team Fusion, Hybrid Martial Arts, Springfield Fight Club and others. Stevens took pride in offering fans an event that included all Springfield area teams and showed Stevens' desire for a unified MMA Community. Again, the event was packed and a huge success in the eyes of the promoter and the Mixed Martial Arts Community.

Plans for UCW III have been underway since the completion of the second event. Dates had to be changed and plans delayed due to a change of ownership at The Clarion Hotel and Convention Center, home to the UCW events.

A meeting between Stevens and the venue's new management and event staff yielded a plan for one more show in 2011 on December 10th and 7 show dates for 2012 occurring approximately every six weeks beginning February 25th and concluding November 10th.

Also in the works are plans to incorporate a Submission Fighting Tournament the morning of the UCW events. The tournament will give grapplers of all ages including children who are not permitted in Missouri to compete in Mixed Martial Arts but are allowed to compete in 'submission fighting' (no striking allowed, joint locks and choke holds only) the ability to compete on the same day as the MMA event. Finalists in the children's tournament will be given the opportunity to compete in a submission only fight at the main show later that evening on the main fight card.

Grapplers will be able to compete in the tournament in the morning, watch the MMA fights that evening and spend the night at the Clarion for an all inclusive price expected to be around $99. The Clarion Hotel and Convention Center is an excellent property for an event of this type. Competitors and spectators can take advantage of "Classics" the on-site Restaurant and Bar or go for a dip in the pool after the tournament or before the MMA fights. 

UCW events always feature an 'after-party' celebration at Classics. Awards are given for 'Best Fight', Best Submission' and 'Best Knockout'. Many of the fighters like to cut loose after their contest due to the weeks of dieting and training in preparation for the event. Stevens adds that guests can stay at the Clarion for a reduced rate and avoid drinking and driving by going straight from the after party to their room without leaving the property. The discount is available to all ticket holders, event staff, corner-men, etc.

Stevens says that he is looking forward to growing his events into a "Combat Sports Convention" of sorts eventually incorporating Amateur Muay Thai and Boxing to the line-up on the Friday night before the grappling tournament and MMA competition. Stevens says he plans to keep the event for amateur combatants and desires to become a breeding ground for potential pro talent to be featured in other area events that feature pro-fights.

Stevens also says that he is looking to partner up with some area promoters as well in the future at some point as an undertaking of this magnitude is more than one man can handle. Stevens hopes to partner up with a Muay Thai / Boxing promoter in the area to take on the Friday night events as Stevens is usually busy tending to the competitors weighing-in for Saturday's events.

The first two UCW events also offered charitable donations to fund Martial Arts training for youth in the Springfield area. A summer camp program for troubled teens was funded by the promoter and coordinated with the Green County Juvenile Probation Department. Stevens says the program was a huge success and plans are underway to offer a summer camp in 2012 for both Greene and Christian County troubled youth. He says the youthful offenders are willing to listen to the fighters that run the camp. The fighters are able to get through to the kids in a way that other adults can't seem to accomplish. Stevens says that "all UCW events will support Martial Arts training for kids, especially the troubled and less fortunate youth of our community".

Stevens sees a lot of room for growth in the Southwest Missouri area as far as combat sports are concerned. "There are too many people working separately against each other. It's time for a more unified effort to grow the sport. The history of combat sports in the area is riddled with feuds and drama. To date few promotions in the area have really lasted without undergoing ownership transfers, partner fallouts or total failure. The fight game in general is ran by 'alpha-males' making it difficult not to 'butt heads' or have fall-outs. I care more about the sport than my ego so I'm willing to work with others. I don't need all the credit", says Stevens.