Art of War Cage Fighting will be hosting their 25th event on July 16th at the beautiful Newtown Athletic Club. AOW 25 features surging heavyweight Patrick “the Brick” Brady welcoming Cam “The Big Mac” Graham to the cage in the main event. Brady’s teammate at Martinez BJJ, Matt “White Chocolate” Turnbull faces the explosive Chaka Worthy in the co-main event.
The pro/am fight card is stacked with a bunch of interesting matchups and MyMMANews will be right in the middle of it. In a featured women’s amateur flyweight bout, Alaina Dutill (1-1) will welcome Eden Steiber to the cage for her fighting debut. Steiber trains out of Grindhouse MMA and lost her original opponent, Melissa Gardner just a couple of weeks ago. Dutill saw a post on social media and stepped right up as a replacement after consulting with her head coach, David Harr out of his CFS Academy. The irony lies in that both of Alaina ‘s previous bouts were against Gardner.
MyMMANews grabbed a few minutes with Alaina to check in on her fight week vibes. She tells us….
“I’m in the gym regularly so I’m feeling good and just picked up my cardio even more since we got the fight. I’ll be ready wherever it goes, but I love to stand and strike. Eden is making her debut, so there’s no way to know anything about her. We will just get in there and adjust of we have to.”
Please check out our interview on the link above. Dutill is a very busy young lady who just celebrated her 28th birthday this week. We shall see if she can give herself a victory to cap it off.
I will be cageside on commentary and post-fight interviews with The Big Homie, Justin Haskell and “Korean Thunder” Ryan Kim Cafaro. Eric Kowal will be cage-side with live results and William McKee as usual, will be capturing all of the good stuff from behind the lens. If you can’t make it out to Newtown, PA, you can order the PPV stream via the Starfund App.
Stay right here at MyMMANews as we continue setting the standard on regional combat sports coverage!
'Beautiful' Bob Meloni
Commentator for Art of War Cagefighting. More than 15 years experience in the PA/NJ regional MMA circuit. Commentator/post fight interviews. Television/media/event production. USKA Fight Sports media and production.
The story of the fighter is what Bob loves about the sport. From the lowest level, to the highest, he only cares about the two warriors who do battle once the cage doors close. Everything else is secondary. Without their blood, sweat, and tears, he would not be here enjoying every minute.
