Fight Force returns to Suncoast Casino for the highlight of their cage fighting calender.   FIGHT FORCE 14 and BAD BOY MMA present LAST MAN STAND, a Cage Fighting show at Suncoast Casino on Friday 27th of May. The show will consist of 14 MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fights and includes an International fight as [...]

Get ready for another explosive night of MMA with Fight Force  including a middle weight title fight with no other than Leon Mynhardt and Martin van Staden.  Both fighters have the skill to finish the fight quickly.  Martin, the more experienced, has an obvious advantage but Leon enters brings serious striking ability and wont go [...]

Fight force brings you “OUTRAGE” at the Durban Exhibition Centre with 2 international fights. 2 International fights lined up for the night! Donavin Hawkey Record  Record 5 – 2 – 0 (Win – Loss – Draw) vs Lee McKibbin – Record 3 – 7 – 0 (Win – Loss – Draw) and Martin van Staden [...]

Fight Force’s New Year’s resolution was to bring fight fans all the MMA action they can handle. The 2011 calendar is packed with excitement and kicks off with Fight Force: Aftermath on 30 January. Aftermath will be Fight Force’s 11th show and is sure to get the year off to a good start when welterweight [...]

Fight Force’s tenth show, Night of the Champions, lived up to the name and far surpassed all expectations! Held on 11 November, the event featured 15 fights that had latecomers jostling for standing room at Durban’s ICC. Amanzimtoti’s Craig Ninow defied the odds to wrest the amateur bantamweight title away from Ntuzuma’s Scelo Mavundla. Mavundla [...]

Fight Force: Night of the Champions is Fight Force’s tenth show and takes place on 11 November at the Durban Exhibition Centre. The event features a number clashes between champions and upcoming champions, and promises to be the perfect close to Fight Force’s action packed year. The main event is the SA lightweight title bout [...]

James Rennie returns to the cage one last time for Fight Force: Born & Bred, before taking time off to focus on his future. Before he leaves, he must face Michiel Opperman, the fearless striker who promises to leave Rennie with more than a few painful parting shots. Rennie has won all of his fights [...]

Despite a few technical glitches, delays and last minute changes, Fight Force Cage Rage delivered the goods on 19 August at the Durban Exhibition Centre. The 9 amateur bouts were hot and cold, but the action rose to red hot for the 7 pro bouts. Unfortunately three fighters from Pretoria did not make it to [...]

After I wrote my event report after Fight Force Overload I got more emails than I ever expected with the general theme being that of comparing Fight Force and EFC Africa. I took these mails, and the comments on the article, to heart and thought about it.  The problem has been that the events, through [...]

Brought to you by Bandon Fourie (W) VS Justin Hawkey Brandon Fourie is a very good kick boxer and doesn’t really have a ground game, or so we thought.  Justin Hawkey is the middle brother from the Hawkey hatchery and due to his pedigree was expected to do great things in his pro debut.  The [...]

We at Smacktalk have made a decision to be completely and brutally honest with regards to the events held in South Africa.  We will not sugar-coat or polish an event where the added sheen is an unfair representation of what truly happened. In the same breath we will give credit where it is due.  You, [...]

Jeremy Scheepers vs Paul van Vuuren The first time these two clashed was at Fight Force Invasion in April this year. It was a huge shock when van Vuuren, who had 2 fights behind him, defeated Scheepers, a veteran of more than 30, in the opening moments of round 1. Expect fireworks at this rematch! [...]

It may sound strange at first, but being a cage fighting chiropractor actually makes a lot of sense. In the words of Michiel Opperman, “business is always good when you have two jobs that complement each other!” With extensive knowledge on the human body and its weaknesses, Opperman is confident that he will give Fight [...]

Martin Van Staden VS Leon Meynhardt This is going to be an incredible fight.  Both of these guys have the skill to finish the fight quickly.  Martin has the obvious MMA experience on his side but Leon enters the cage with a never say die mentality and probably the best striking in his division. Aggression (Van [...]

The world cup is finally over and us fight fans can get back to what we love most:  Watching MMA events! What better way to get back into the swing of things than to prepare for Fight Force Overload which takes place this Thursday the 15th July. There are couple of cracking fights on the [...]

Jeremy Scheepers has over 30 professional wins to his name and is one of the country’s most experienced light heavyweights, despite being just 27 years old. His cage career has seen him face the heaviest hitters there are, and overcome injuries that nearly shattered his MMA dream on two occasions. Nevertheless, Scheepers claims to be [...]

Gorgeous Boyz Hardcore or GBH as they are more commonly known, love them, hate them, it’s your call, but you cannot deny that these guys have so much character it oozes out of them. I had heard reports of the gangster and bad boy image they portray and read the comments in our previous posts [...]

Smacktalk recently caught up with Mark Strydom, co-founder of Fight Force and one of the main reasons MMA is steadily gaining ground as a household acronym in SA. According to Strydom, a large part of the Fight Force formula involves understanding and staying true to the essence of MMA, and it is this recipe for [...]

Birds of a feather flock together and the Hawkey’s are a family that fights together.  Wesley is the youngest and most aggressive of the fight famous brethren to emerge from the Hawkey hatchery.  We watched as Wesley made his Professional debut against Tyson Chelin, also a Professional MMA debutant, at Fight Force Redemption.  The fight [...]