Roy Englebrecht of Fight Club OC will be promoting four events in 48 hours this weekend in Southern California. He will be doing two shows Thursday, one on Friday and another Saturday.
Via Fight Club OC press release:
This marathon run of shows begins on Thursday, May 19th with two, yes, two shows on the same evening. Englebrecht will promote two private shows, the Rumble On The Range at Lakeside Golf Club in Burbank and the NAIOP Night At The Fights at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, and will split his staff so that both shows will be covered. Both of these private shows are sold out. Then on Friday, May 20th they will be the lead promoter in a co promotion with Golden Boy Promotions for a Fight Club OC Special Edition show to air on Telefutura, from The Hangar at the OC Fair & Event Center. A crowd of 1,200 is expected for this show. The 48 hour run will end on Saturday night May 21st with the first Fight Club OC all MMA show co promoting with BAMMAUSA, also from The Hangar at the OC Fair & Event Center, where a crowd of 1,000 is expected.
Payout Perspective:
Its always interesting to see the viability of local promotions and it appears that the SoCal scene is doing well. With four shows in 48 hours, Fight Club OC may be stretching itself out but it seems like there is a market for both boxing and MMA. The co-promotions with Golden Boy and BAMMA are good signs that the quality of fights should be competitive and entertaining.
Your article about Roy Englebrechet doing four fights in 48 hours is incorrect. Roy had NOTHING to do with May 20th Bamma USA’s event what so ever. All we did was sub-lease the Hangar from him. He had absolutely nothing to do with the May 20th event and is in now way co-promoting with us. He wasn’t the promoter and he sure as heck wasn’t the match maker. Matter of fact we handled some of his mma match making for his shows up until recently. Roy is a house hold name in boxing but not in mma. If you do your research you will find that the mma community is not very fond of him.
Thank you,
Brett Roberts
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