Shout out to tonight's Chi-town fighters at the Houston's UFC Fight Night #104

Continuing the "fight week" for Chicago fans, tonight the UFC Fight Night #104 from Houston will have Chicago's own/ XFO alumni Felice Herrig in the C-main and Curtis Blaydes on the card.

Before I tune in to watch tonight (as you should) thought I would retreive and look at some 2013-2014 archival images of the Chicago Champions.

Co-Main : Straw-weight-

Alexa Grasso (9-0 MMA -1-0 UFC )  vs Felice " Lil Bulldog" Herrig  (11-6 MMA -2-1 UFC ) 

Pre-lims: Heavy-weight-

Curtis Blaydes (264.5 Lbs. ) vs Adam Milstead (233.5 Lbs.) 

Support Chicago fighters ....

Cheers, Tomba

Wait is over ..Its Fight Week in Chi-town ...3 1/2 minute "Iil Bulldog" slide show

The best way for me  to get prepared for "fight night" during Fight week sometimes is to look back at fighters that are on the card that I had photography in the past and check out the archives.

This Saturday, July 23rd on the main card of UFC on Fox 20 held at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois , one of the televised matches will be Felice "Iil Bulldog" Herrig vs Kailin Curran. Tho I haven't photograph the "Iil Bulldog" lately , during the period of 2009 through 2015 there were numerous photo sessions put together by Sucker Punch Entertainment.  I'm guessing two to three thousand files from maybe 1/2 dozen plus posed photo sessions and matches.

The below 3 and 1/2 minute slideshow is a small sample of those sessions, many never published that I am aware of.....

Mark your calendar for the upcoming Bobby Hitz Boxing at The Horseshoe in Hammond, Indiana for July 30th and then August 6th for the XFO MMA show of the year Outdoor Wars #12 at Side-outs in Island Lake, Illinois. This is a very good month for Chi-town fight fans.

Cheers, Tomba

Shout out to the New UFC Middleweight Champion ..Michael Bisping

As of this Saturday June 4th 2016 Michael Bisping (29-7 MMA    19-7 UFC ) is the current middleweight title holder after taking away from Luke Rockford ( 15- 3 MMA   5-2 UFC ) .  I heard he took the title in a winners style by TKO in 3 minutes and 36 seconds of the first round.  I haven't had a chance to check it out as I was wearing my boxing cap and working in Milwaukee  on Saturday ..maybe later in the week.

To congratulate Michael , I retrieved some older files of him when he was in Chi-town years back.

http://albumsbydeb.com/ufconfoxrevised/#/0              UFC Flipbook from January 28th   2012

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The below slideshow is from the last UFC that Michael Bisping was at in Chicago. 

  Cheers,  Tomba

Closing out 2015 ...Getting ready for 2016 ....

It's that time of the year ...Time to look back on 2015 , review what I have photographed in 2015 and more importantly prepared me "what I can do better" in 2016.

As long I reviewed 2015 Tomba-images MMA blog  , it seemed appropriate to put together a few slideshows of what the MMA World held for me in 2015..


My apologizes to George Lucas and The Walt Disney Company for the hokey Tomba Opening. And no I haven't seen " Star Wars -The force awakens " but it appears that everyone else has...

Below a four minute Slideshow of UFC gig's in 2015 (Favorite images)

Below a five minute Slideshow of XFO gig's in 2015 (Favorite images)

Next will be 2015 Boxing review ...Then 2015 Watersports review ....Then 2016 will be upon us

Happy New Year ,  Tomba ...