HANOVER COUNTY, Va. \u2014 Central Virginia’s toughest amateur and professional mixed\u00a0martial\u00a0arts fighters squared off Saturday evening at the Hanover Vegetable Farm in a live cage fight hosted by the Bar Fights Fighting Championship (BFFC) organization.<\/p>\n
Dozens of spectators turned out to watch 13 MMA fights featuring competitors from across the country.<\/p>\n
Eric Ash, who owns BFFC<\/a>, said the event exceeded expectations.<\/p>\n “We’ve got thirteen fights today, people from all over the country are coming in. The crowd’s been going crazy so it’s really awesome. Blown away by what they did with the facility and it was perfect, perfect day for it too,” Ash said.<\/p>\n BFFC has provided martial arts training and professional matches to the community for nearly 20 years, Ash said. <\/p>\n \nEvery day CBS 6 News’ award-winning journalists search for diverse voices and perspectives from communities across Central Virginia. We listen, give a voice to the voiceless and amplify the voices that make our home special.\n<\/p>\n Connect with CBS 6: Email newstips@wtvr.com, submit a news tip, <\/a>contact a reporter <\/a>or call our newsroom at 804-254-3684.<\/p>\n \nExplore the stories we’re covering in your community:<\/p>\n Eat It, Virginia! with Scott and Robey<\/p>\n This story was initially reported by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy. To learn more about how we use AI in our newsroom, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HANOVER COUNTY, Va. \u2014 Central Virginia’s toughest amateur and professional mixed\u00a0martial\u00a0arts fighters squared off Saturday evening at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[260526,260523,260530,49,260525,48,260529,641,260531,260528,638,260524,260527,82,4137],"class_list":["post-720573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-amateur-mma-virginia","tag-bar-fights-fighting-championship","tag-barfightsfc-com","tag-ca","tag-cage-fight-richmond-virginia","tag-canada","tag-eric-ash-bffc","tag-fighting","tag-hanover-county","tag-hanover-vegetable-farm","tag-mma","tag-mma-hanover-county","tag-pro-mma-richmond","tag-sports","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}