June 2017 New Mexico Boxing and MMA Fighter Calendar Below is the SWFight.com New Mexico fighter fight result and schedule. We will do our best to keep this up to speed but because professional cards are far and wide, and often aren’t covered or televised, we ask that you as the public, fighters, and promoters […]
With a flyweight championship win at LFA 14, Jerome Rivera Sets Himself up for Potential UFC Call For several years in the 2000s, New Mexico was a hotbed for mixed martial arts prospects. However, over the last 3 years there has been a lull in local fighters cracking the MMA glass ceiling. On Friday night, […]
Rivera Signs 3-Fight Deal with LFA Over the weekend Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA) announced that it would be returning to Houston, Texas’ Arena Theater on June 23 with a championship doubleheader for their event LFA 14. In the co-main event, undefeated Jerome Rivera (7-0) of Santa Fe, New Mexico will be in hostile territory as […]
A female main event will headline the September 27th Triple A MMA IX: Rock Solid Camel Rock Casino card when Santa Fe’s Natalie Roy (2-0) faces Albuquerque’s Nohime Dennisson (1-1). The two were originally scheduled to square-off in June’s Triple A MMA VII: Rock-Stars event but after a TKO boxing loss in May, the New […]
King Of The Cage Starts Their 2014 With A Fight Card In The Heart Of Albuquerque The first King of the Cage event in New Mexico for 2014 should have been named “Debut” as the theme atop the fight card is that several of the area’s most talented amateurs will make the jump to the […]
In your first year of embarking on a new career, it is expected to run into some road-blocks and obstacles along the way. It is completely normal to struggle and have some harsh lessons levied onto you during that initial time period. In the world of amateur mixed martial arts, the start of the amateur […]
It was one of the busiest weekends in recent memory for the Southwest’s combat community as there was so much going on all-around the world. Boxing and MMA, regional shows and the UFC; New Mexico especially had so much going on that we as a staff couldn’t touch on everything going on despite our best […]
Friday night’s “Havoc” fight card came with heavy anticipation as many believed it could have been Holly Holm’s last fight in front of a local crowd before her assumed move to the UFC ranks. While that isn’t the case, a Holm fight card typically brings immense buzz to the area and the New Mexico combat […]
As most fight fans know, the amateur ranks in MMA are used to build experience and to get a taste of the in-cage competition. Rarely do amateur records appear reported correctly in record databases and while they do offer a glimpse of what the fighter’s potential is, an amateur record doesn’t always reflect onto what […]