Tickets selections are available as follows:

• Private Balcony Seating: 120.00 per seat, 6 seats per table.  These seats include the best, unobstructed view of the Pinnacle cage, a designated waitress, private seating and VIP access.
• Front Row Cageside Tables: 85.00 per seat, 8 seats per table. These seats are the closest to the cage and have a direct line of site towards the action.
• Second Row Cageside Tables: 70.00 per seat, 8 seats per table.  These are the second row of tables that are approximately 12 feet away from the Pinnacle cage. They are perfect for larger groups and have designated waitresses who will be serving drinks and food throughout the event.
• Seated: $50.00 These seats are broken up into 4 sections and are great for large groups or cheering sections.
• General Admission (standing room only): $35.00 If you like to move around the venue and look for a spot along the wall (admittedly this is where I hang out at most times) these are your tickets.

If you know a fighter personally, you can purchase tickets through them and they receive a percentage of the sale, so please contact your local fighter first.

You can also reserve your tickets through the paypal link below. Simply click on the link, fill out the required information and your tickets will be waiting for you at the door.

No line, no waiting, no problem.

Place your order below and as always, thank you for supporting Pinnacle Fighting Championships.

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PinnacleFC returns to the Iceoplex arena June 29th and we are planning our biggest and best card to date.  Our staff works 24 hours a day to bring to you the best cards we can put together and so far, we have had great results. June 29^th will be no different as we have a huge main event featuring Mark “The Pride Of Bloomfield” Cherico (4-0) taking on UFC veteran Donny “Eagle Eye” Walker (14-9).

Walker’s last three fights were in either the UFC or Bellator and he has years of experience fighting the best featherweights around including Cub Swanson, Cody Stevens, Jeff Curran and Frank Caraballo.  Walker is far and away the biggest step up in Cherico’s unblemished career to date.  Cherico is coming into the bout fresh off of his best career performance, a first round armbar win over Strikeforce veteran Billy Vaughn. His pending fight with Walker should put him farther up the ladder and onto the big show radar.  This match up will be for the first ever PinnacleFC professional title.

Also on the card we have an all-city grudge match between former training partners Khama “The Deathstar” Worthy (2-2) and Maddog gym’s Francis Healy (1-0). Healy and Worthy were scheduled to meet in April but Healy was forced to withdraw due to injury. Khama went on to win a lopsided decision over late replacement Jason Willett and a few weeks later, we are back on track for one of my favorite fights of the year.

This time around we are also featuring two amateur titles when Rich Cantolina (9-6)attempts to derail the undefeated Derrick Wright (3-0) for the featherweight amateur title and “Prince” Fadi Shuman (4-0) will square off against newly minted rival Chris Mitchell-Humes (3-0) AKA Philly Chris for the lightweight amateur strap.

Other fights on the card feature local standout Justin Steave (4-2) taking on PA’sMike Diggs (7-4), Evolve’s Kenny Jackson is set to make his professional debut against Reggie Merriweather and FCP amateur destroyer Jake Schilling (3-0) will look to remain perfect against his toughest fight to date in Tyler Ingram (6-1).

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PinnacleFC Pittsburgh Challenge Series 3: June 29th

The Pittsburgh Challenge Series will return to the Iceoplex arena in Canonsburg, Pa June 29th featuring some of the area’s best mixed martial artists competing in Pittsburgh’s premiere fighting organization.

The main event features the undefeated Pride of Bloomfield Mark Cherico taking on UFC veteran and regional champion Donny “Eagle Eye” Walker.   Also on the card is a fan favorite match up between Francis “Maddog” Healy and Khama “The Deathstar” Worthy. Two amateur titles will be up for grabs as Rich Cantolina tries to derail the undefeated Derrick Wright in the featherweight division and Fadi Shuman takes on Chris Mitchell-Humes AkA Philly Chris in a all city grudge match.  Also on the card, Kenny Jackson,  Justin Steave and more.

Tickets will be on sale shortly and the full card will be released soon.

Welp folks, its been a long, injury riddled road but here are: Pinnacle fighting championship’s second event in the Pittsburgh Challenge series. I’ll be honest and tell you that I truly had no idea how this event would turn out especially after all of the injuries and card changes.

We even had a ring girl get hurt.

Things ended up turning out pretty great when to be honest, there were times I wasn’t really sure how they would go.  Below are the quick results courtesy of Knuckledragger magazine.

Amateur Results:

• 145lb Derek Wright w/Dragon’s Den MMA with the Rear Naked Choke win over Josh Flowers fighting out of Bull Penn MMA Rd.1.
• 155lb Ammy fighter Matt Conahan w/Fight Club PittsburghTKO win over Jarod Newbraugh w/Dragon’s Den MMA Rd.2
• 170lb Ammy Chris Humes-Mitchell w/Fight Club Pgh wins Unanimous Decision over Mike Snider w/Dragons Den MMA
• 185lb Ammy Jason Cowden w/PA Brawlers loses by unanimous decision by John Saxton w/the Grappling House

Professional Results:

• 155lb Pro Reggie Merriweather w/Vision MMA wins via TKO due to strikes against Bob Tipinskiw/Independent Crew
• 155lb Pro MMA fighter Khama Worthy w/Pgh Fight Club wins a unanimous decision over Jason Willett w/Team AMS
• 145lb Pro Anthony Durnell w/Pgh Fight Club wins by unanimous decision over Kyle Rozewski w/Evolve MMA.
• 170lb Pro Jason Cardillo w/Fight Club Pgh wins by submission against Tony Parker w/Vision MMA Rd. 2
• 150lb Pro Mark Cherico w/Fight Club Pgh wins by arm bar against Billy Vaughanw/Mainstream MMA Rd.1 Continue reading →

Register your tickets to Pittsburgh’s premiere MMA Event now by click this SALES LINK HERE.  This is the best card in the area so far this year, don’t miss out.

Professional Card:

• Jason Cardillo vs Tony Parker 
• Mark Cherico vs Max Ceniceros 
• Dominic Mazzotta vs Jeremy Pender 
• Anthony Durnell vs Josh Baker 
• Justin Steave vs Anthony Morgan 
• Kyle Rozewski vs Chris Dunn 
• Francis Healy vs Khama Worthy 
• Bob Tipinski vs Reginald Merriweather 

Amateur Card:

• Cheyne Jenkins vs Josh Carter 
• Jason Cowden vs John Saxton 
• Drew Shields vs Mike Snider 
• Jarod Newbraugh vs Eric Bledsoe 
• Matt Conahan vs Doug Haupt
• Dino Juklo vs TBD

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Justin “The Hawk” Steave (4-2) will be returning to the cage April 20th after his :19 Second KO win over Tray Taylor just a few weeks ago.

This time his opponent will be undefeated professional (and amateur) fighter Anthony “The Spoiler” Morgan (3-0). Morgan hails from the great state of Tennessee and has manhandled the southern circuit. He posted a unanimous decision win over Pinnacle vet Chris Dunn in his last fight which was back in August of 2012.  Morgan has a varied combination of Submission/TKO finishes and decision wins on his resume and is the epitome of “well-rounded”. This fight has all the makings of fight of the night with two explosive guys who are on a roll and looking to continue their streak(s).

The overall card is quickly coming together and I think you will be very happy with both line ups.

Check that out after the jump:

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Yes, you read that headline right.

Maddog’s head ninja in charge Francis Healy (7-3-1) is tentatively scheduled to face off against the Deathstar Khama Worthy (1-2) at the Pinnacle Fighting Championships event April 20th in Canonsburg, Pa.

I’ll let that sink in for just a second before I continue.

Ok, we good?

Worthy is coming into the bout off of a shocking TKO loss to Philly’s Paul Felder (3-0) and Healy is scheduled to make his professional debut later this year.  Both guys come to fight and both quickly agreed to make this fight a reality.

These are the type of interesting and intriguing match ups that we are looking to bring you every time out and this is one of those fights that once I knew we were almost done locking it down, I couldn’t wait to leak the news.  Things should be made official soon enough but for now this is yet another serious fight we have scheduled for the 20th.

Check back for more as it is released.

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Pinnacle Fighting Championships is pleased to announce it’s second marquis fight for the April 20th Pittsburgh Challenge Series event; a showdown between undefeated Bullpen fighter Josh “The Cake” Baker (5-0) taking on his toughest fight to date in Fight Club Pittsburgh’s Anthony Durnell (12-3).  Both Baker and Durnell are coming into the fight off of recent wins and are looking to keep the ball rolling with another “W” in Pittsburgh’s premiere combat organization.

The card is coming together quickly and will be announced shortly.  This fight is a nice addition to the previously announced co-main event between Mark Cherico and Max Ceniceros taking place the same evening.  Continue reading →

Well friends, haters and fellow readers, I am pleased to tell you that Pinnacle Fighting Championships will be returning to the Iceoplex April 20th with another huge event and believe it or not, the mostly pro card is almost complete.   After a very successful inaugural event, we have doubled down on our efforts and will be bringing to you another top tier event like we pulled off in December.

Matchmaker Dave Klick has been hard at work and we have already put together another star studded card featuring some of the area’s top talent including Dave Sachs, Mark Cherico, Todd Bevan, Dom Mazzotta, Francis Healy, Cheyne Jenkins, ghost writer Kyle Rozewski and more.  We will be posting the official card here in the upcoming weeks but for now I can tell you about one of our marquis fights on the card.

Mark Cherico (3-0) will be squaring off against Evolve’s Max Ceniceros (4-2) in a featherweight bout that should be Cherico’s toughest draw to date. Ceniceros has spent most of his time fighting on the west coast circuit and is riding a two fight win streak with both fights being finished in the first round.

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The event was better than I could have predicted. Aside from a few small mix ups here and there, we were able to put together what I felt was a very respectable inaugural event. Every fight delivered what we expected and then some. Thanks to everyone who came out and supported us and the fighters, we couldn’t have pulled it off without you.

Our friends at BluegrassMMA.com have the quick results from the evening.

I’ll be posting all of the fight videos here on STU as fast as I can get them edited. Props to Maddog Gym for the pic.

Amateur Results:

• Anthony Smith def Chris Deep via Submission (RNC) 01:34 in Rd 2
• Caleb Dobosh def Jarod Newbraugh via Unanimous Decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
• Johnson Jajout Vs. Rick Borowski No Contest (Accidental foul (ball shot)) 01:08 in Rd 1

Professional Bouts

• Paul Felder def Khama Worthy via TKO (Strikes) 01:10 in Rd 1
• Justin Steave def Arman Aliyev via Submission (RNC) 03:18 in Rd 2
• Anthony Durnell def Jeremy Pender Unanimous Decision (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)
• Ahsan Abdullah def Mike Wilkins via Submission (RNC) 01:42 in Rd 2
• Adam Milstead def Bobby Gurley via TKO (Strikes) 03:49 in Rd 1
• Cody Garbrandt def Charles Kessinger via TKO (Strikes) 04:11 in Rd 1
• Mark Cherico def Chris Dunn via Submission (RNC) 02:54 in Rd 1