Nearly two years after retiring from fighting in professional mixed martial arts, Jack Shore’s name is back on a combat sports poster.<\/p>\n
The former UFC fighter from Abertillery remained in the sport as a coach but now turns his hand to fight promotion.<\/p>\n
The first iteration of Shore’s new Stand and Bang venture is on Saturday, 22 August when 23 bouts will take place inside a 20-foot boxing ring.<\/p>\n
It will feature only striking, with no takedowns or grappling, at Ebbw Vale Leisure Centre.<\/p>\n
Shore is hoping to make the show a success with the Welsh MMA scene at “an all-time high”.<\/p>\n
He told BBC Sport Wales: “It was always going to be hard to jump into an MMA or pure Thai show.<\/p>\n
“I thought, ‘what’s a little niche in the market that I can kind of go after?’ <\/p>\n
“I’m a big fan of ONE Championship and I don’t always know the guys fighting but I’ll always put it on because it’s exciting.”<\/p>\n
Shore says his event is shaped by friends coming to shows when he was fighting.<\/p>\n
He said: “All my mates used to say that if I wasn’t fighting, they wouldn’t come because they didn’t understand the grappling and it was a bit boring.<\/p>\n
“To the untrained eye it is, what’s more fan friendly than essentially an MMA fight but with no grappling and no wrestling?<\/p>\n
“That’s what we’re trying to do, stand-up fights. Most of them are going to be in MMA gloves so it should make for an entertaining night.” <\/p>\n
Shore hopes the points scoring makes it easier for the public to follow who is ahead.<\/p>\n
He said: “If one guy is inflicting more damage, the average Joe can look at that and say, ‘well, that guy’s winning’.<\/p>\n
“Don’t get me wrong, ring control scores and good defence scores. I daresay a flashy move will score a little bit higher than maybe a jab. <\/p>\n
“But ultimately the judges are being told that we’re scoring on damage.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly two years after retiring from fighting in professional mixed martial arts, Jack Shore’s name is back on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-865857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865857","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=865857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}