Richmond Rumble, a mixed martial arts event featuring thirteen professional fights, will be held in Richmond this upcoming weekend on September 28th.
Richmond Rumble, a mixed martial arts event featuring thirteen professional fights, will be held in Richmond this upcoming weekend on September 28th. The fight card is headlined by two co-main events and will see two Virginia natives square off against two out-of-town opponents.
The featherweight headliner will feature a fight between Terrell “The Hollywood Hobbit” Hobbs (of Petersburg, VA) and Jeremy “Kamikaze” Myers (of Dayton, OH). Hobbs will hope to claim his seventh consecutive win in a row, while Myers, who hasn’t seen a professional win since 2011, looks to end his nine fight losing streak.
In the welterweight division headliner, Mike “Tailor Made” Wade will fight UFC veteran, “The Rock-N-Rolla” Nah-Shon Burrell. Both Wade and Burrell are coming off of losses, which should act as some serious motivation for both fighters.
When interviewed, Mike Wade (who has been training here in Richmond at the MMA Institute for several years now), said that his game plan going into this fight was simple, to “break him.”
Wade also said, “I know, going in, that I’m bounds ahead of [Burrell] in the wrestling department.”
Burrell responded by saying, “If I know that you’re going to come in there and try to grapple, I can prepare for that. It’s not easy to hold me down. It’s not easy to take me down. I have some pretty good wrestling defense, so I’m not really worried.”
Burrell, who has a professional record of nine wins and three losses, has fought in several high-caliber organizations, including Strikeforce and the UFC, and is approaching his debut fight in Bellator this upcoming November.
Wade seemed unfazed by his opponent’s track-record however, saying “I’ve fought guys from every big show…I’ve never turned down a fight, and make sure you publish this…because I want people to know, the biggest secret in pro MMA is that a lot of MMA fighters are a bunch of sissies. I’ve fought the toughest dudes I could get my hands on for my whole career, and I don’t think that this guy [Burrell] can say that about his career.”
