Canadian MMA Rumour Mill – May 14, 2015

Crazy to think it is May and there is hardly any Canadian MMA happening. This is usually a peak time for MMA in Canada.

On to some rumours:

Phew! It seemed like Adrian Woolley vs Cleber Junior was not going to happen as the OAC was not going to sanction the bout as Cleber’s record on MMA.TV was a ridiculously inaccurate 1-0. Luckily, someone got Cleber’s record back to the appropriate 9-3 so this one should go down. When will the commission’s start using the more accurate Sherdog DB?

Live in Montreal and itching for more live MMA? Hearing that Hybrid could hold their first Montreal show in mid-October!

Global Warriors 2 will have Ryan Dickson take on Jason “The Vanilla Gorilla” Witt (5-2) on the May 30th show! As I mentioned before, Dickson will be back at Welterweight.

Andrew McInnes will not be on WSOF on June 5th in Edmonton. A rumour of him and Curtis Demarce facing off had been floating around!

UPDATE: Demarce will be taking on the ‘AirWolf’ Wolfgang Janssen at Havoc on June 19.

So five Canadians have fights scheduled in the UFC. Incredibly, three have come through the Toshido MMA gym in Kelowna, British Columbia. David Lea is the man at the helm of the Toshido ship and Rory MacDonald, Matt Dwyer, and Sarah Moras must be glad to have sailed under Captain Lea.

Current UFC fighter and former MFC champ Sam Alvey has challenged Elias Theodorou to a hair vs hair bout! In my opinion Elias has more to lose than Alvey’s cookie cutter haircut.

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Manitoba is renaming the Manitoba Boxing Act to The Combative Sports Act, with this change as well as the change from the Manitoba Boxing Commission to the Manitoba Combative Sports Commission the province is hoping to be similar in legislation to the rest of Canada as well as being a destination for sports tourism. 2015 is the Year of Sport in Manitoba, so good luck to them on promoting sports in 2015! Maybe we will have actual MMA events in Manitoba this year!

Tim Hague is keeping busy with all kinds of combat! The Trashing Machine will take on Correy Payette at Super Heavyweight in a No Gi Superfight at Mindy Body Soul in Edmonton on May 30th! He’s overseas for some bare knuckle fights right now as well.