The IFL officially announced their rosters today for their first event to be held April 29, in Atlantic City.
The Silverbacks will take on the Anacondas while the Pit Bulls will take on the Tiger Sharks.
SILVERBACKS – Pat Miletich, Coach
LW: Bart Palaszewski
WW: Rory Markham
MW: Ryan McGivern
LHW: Travis Wiuff
HW: Ben Rothwellvs
ANACONDAS – Bas Rutten, Coach
LW: Urijah Faber
WW: Mike Pyle
MW: Amir Rahnavardi
LHW: Alex Schoenauer
HW: Krzysztof Soszynskiand
PIT BULLS – Renzo Gracie, Coach
LW: Eric Owens
WW: Gustavo Machado
MW: Fabio Leopoldo
LHW: Jamal Patterson
HW: Carlos Klinevs
TIGER SHARKS – Maurice Smith, Coach
LW: Chanti Johnson
WW: Eric Dahalberg
MW: Dennis Hallman
LHW: Ivan Salaverry
HW: Devin Cole
I’m pretty excited to see how this works out. Looks like some great fights and some decent fighters: Travis Wiuff, Ben Rothwell, Urijah Faber, Mike Pyle, Fabio Leopoldo, Dennis Hallman, and the recently talked about, Ivan Salaverry.
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I’m just proud of myself for recoginzing some of the names. I’m still cheering for the fighters that I like, though, not the specific teams.
Yeah, I don’t think fans of MMA are used to the team concept. We are used to having our favorite fighters and following their careers. MMA fans don’t have the baseball or football mindset of a team.
That and the fact that the teams names are pretty dumb. Sounds like a punch of local little league team names.
If you are going with stupid animal names you really have to go all out and get really ridiculous, my suggestions were always either the rabid chipmunks or the ill-tempered sea bass.
The Ill Tempered Sea Bass could so take the rabid chipmunks.