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    May 22, 2014
    Gemenie Strehlow will make his fighting debut Saturday during the No Mercy II event at Kent Freeman Arena. SUBMITTED PHOTO
    Popular fighting event returns to Detroit Lakes
    After a successful Mixed Martial Arts fight card debut in Detroit Lakes last year, the second coming of fights are back this Saturday inside...
    sportsMay 22, 2014 - 1:30pm
    April 5, 2014
    Steve Lafriniere (left) won his MMA debut after training with Lucas Holzhueter (right) of Detroit Lakes. SUBMITTED PHOTO
    A successful MMA fighting debut
    Eight weeks ago Steven Lafriniere of Mahnomen was just another guy who watched Mixed Martial Arts for many years and wondered what it would be...
    sportsApril 5, 2014 - 1:00pm
    December 6, 2013
    MMA fight card scheduled
    There will be some Mixed Martial Arts history made Jan. 18 at Shooting Star Casino, as “The Surgeon,” Santa-Marié Venter will be the first female M.M.A. fighter from South Africa to come to the U.S.A. to test her skills. She will be taking on Maddy “MadHatter” Simmons...
    sportsDecember 6, 2013 - 1:00pm
    November 28, 2013
    MMA card billed at Shooting Star
    There will be some Mixed Martial Arts history made Jan. 18 at Shooting Star Casino, as “The Surgeon,” Santa-Marié Venter will be the first female M.M.A. fighter from South Africa to come to the U.S.A. to test her skills. She will be taking on Maddy “MadHatter” Simmons...
    sportsNovember 28, 2013 - 3:00pm
    September 11, 2013
    Trainer and corner man Chris Holt wears his Brian Heden T-shirt proudly and has a celebratory word with Heden, who won early in the 1st round Saturday. BRIAN WIERIMA/DL NEWSPAPERS
    Fans pack Freeman Arena to cheer on local MMA fighters
    It was a unique Saturday event, with around 1,000 fight fans clamoring into the hot and humid Kent Freeman Arena to enjoy the first Mixed Martial...
    sportsSeptember 11, 2013 - 11:36am
    September 4, 2013
    Frazee’s Kyler Wegner practices his striking techniques with LAB’s trainer and former pro boxer Chris Holt. Wegner will be fighting in his second pro MMA fight Saturday inside Kent Freeman Arena. BRIAN BASHAM/TRIBUNE
    The ‘No Mercy’ card is Saturday
    There will be “No Mercy” shown Saturday inside the Kent Freeman Sports Arena, as the first Mixed Martial Arts fight card to be held in Detroit...
    sportsSeptember 4, 2013 - 1:07pm
    August 14, 2013
    Detroit Lakes to host MMA cage fights
    The “No Mercy” Cage Fights will be held in Detroit Lakes Sept. 7, at the Kent Freeman Arena. Full Nelson promotions and the Lakes Area Boxing club have teamed up to bring the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) cage fighting event to the area. The card will feature Minnesota’s N...
    sportsAugust 14, 2013 - 7:15am
    August 3, 2013
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    MMA Fighting: L.A.W. competitors debut
    Lakes Area Warriors MMA Club had two Junior Members took part in their first competition the Midwest Submission Challenge on July 27. After...
    sportsAugust 3, 2013 - 2:00pm
    June 5, 2013
    The Lakes Area Warrior fighters Max (Alex) Woodard of Frazee, Coach Lucas Holzhueter and Casey Holt of Detroit Lakes made their MMA debuts Friday at the Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen. SUBMITTED PHOTO
    Holt wins his MMA debut at Shooting Star
    Max (Alex) Woodard and Casey Holt made their MMA Debut in “Submit or Break II” at the Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen last Friday. At...
    sportsJune 5, 2013 - 1:05pm
    April 24, 2013
    Heden easily takes MMA fight
    Frazee’s Brian Heden stepped into the Mixed Martial Arts cage last Saturday night in Fargo at the Scheels Sports Arena, where he defeated Chris Latozke from Fargo in a heavyweight match. Heden stopped Latozke with a first-round TKO. “Brian went into the fight confident, and was...
    sportsApril 24, 2013 - 12:11pm
    March 13, 2013
    Joe Jasicki (standing) goes over a jiu-jitsu training session inside his S.T.O.M.P. Gym in Wadena. Brian Wierima/Tribune
    Learning the art of M.M.A. fighting
    Joe Jasicki has seen plenty of the world as a sponsor of Mixed Martial Arts fighters internationally as the founder of Pussout Fight Gear. ...
    sportsMarch 13, 2013 - 12:11pm
    April 2, 2012
    Heden shocks MMA world (Updated article)
    "It's the upset of the century!" Those were the words proclaimed by the MMA television analyst after Frazee's Brian Heden pounded down heavy favorite Sean McCorkle of Indiana in the main event of the inaugural Worldwide MMA card Saturday in El Paso, Texas. Heden scored a technical...
    sportsApril 2, 2012 - 12:05pm
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