The year 2010 was the 1st year in the history of
Australian Fighting Championship
Australian Fighting Championship (AFC) is an Australian mixed martial arts (MMA) organisation based in Melbourne. In 2013 AFC was described as Australia's leading MMA organisation by MMA Kanvas and is part of Sherdog's list of top 50 global MMA ...
(AFC), a
mixed martial arts promotion based in Australia. In 2010 AFC held 1 event.
Events list
AFC 1
AFC 1
was an event held on November 12, 2010, at
State Netball and Hockey Centre in
Melbourne, Australia. The event director for the inaugural AFC 1 was Lui Spedaliere a hip hop music tour promoter from
Unda K9 Records
Unda K9 Records is an independent Australian record label founded by a female hip-hop record producer Lui. Since the formation, the label has represented a number of hip-hop acts including Figgkidd a.k.a. Lee Monro, Bishop a.k.a. Michael Sison, ...
who was engaged by the AFC founder Adam Milankovic three weeks before the event when only 50 tickets were recorded to be sold by
Ticketmaster. Lui bought her Sydney team Kurt Pascoe and Sherri Ponisi, and successfully sold 3,200 tickets in the 3 weeks leading up to the event. The highest number of tickets sold in Australia for an MMA event outside of the
UFC. The half-time entertainment was Hip Hop Artist
Phrase and DJ Jay Funk who later went on to become the AFC resident DJ for AFC 2 - AFC 8. AFC 1 was also one of the first times an Australian
MMA
Mixed martial arts (MMA), sometimes referred to as cage fighting, no holds barred (NHB), and ultimate fighting, and originally referred to as Vale Tudo is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorp ...
event had engaged international fighters
Jesse Taylor,
Jeremy May and
Ritchie Whitson all of whom had appeared in the UFC reality show,
The Ultimate Fighter.
Results
References
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2010 in mixed martial arts
2010 in Australian sport
AFC (mixed martial arts) events