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Mark Bocek
Born: October 24, 1981, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height: 5 ft 9 in
Weight: 155 lb
Reach: 75.0 in
Team: America Top Team
Style: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Kempo
Rank: Black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Black belt in Kempo
Wins: 9
By knockout: 1
By submission: 7
Losses: 3
Profile: Mark Bocek is one of Canada’s first Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belts and has been studying the art for more than a decade. He first studied under Rickson and Renzo Gracie and then moved on to Nova Uniao where he received his Black Belt through Joao Roque. Mark will face former WEC Lightweight Champion Ben Henderson on April 30, 2011 at UFC 129.
Claude “The Prince” Patrick
Born: June 14, 1980, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height: 5 ft 11 in
Weight: 170 lb
Reach: 75.0 in
Team: Elite Training Center
Style: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai
Rank: brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Wins: 13
By knockout: 3
By submission: 9
By decision: 1
Losses: 1
Profile: Claude Patrick’s martial arts journey started with karate at thirteen and has since evolved into a mixed martial artist specializing in Muay Thai and Jiu-Jitsu fighting styles. Claude owns Elite Training Centre in Mississauga where he instructs Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Submission Wrestling and Mixed Martial Arts programs. Patrick will face Daniel Roberts on April 30, 2011 at UFC 129.
Mark “The Machine” Hominick
Born: July 22, 1982, Thamesford, Ontario, Canada
Height: 5 ft 8 in
Weight: 145 lb
Reach: 68.5 in
Team: Adrenaline Training Center
Style: Kickboxing, Muay Thai
Wins: 20
By knockout: 9
By submission: 7
By decision: 4
Profile: Mark Hominick was first introduced to submission fighting in ninth grade and has over 6 years experience in mixed martial arts. Over the course of Mark Hominick’s MMA career, “The Machine” has fought and won in almost every major MMA organization and has established himself as one of the most dangerous and technical strikers in all of MMA. Mark made his first UFC debut in March 2006 where he beat #1 ranked lightweight Yves Edwards. Mark trains under Shawn Tompkins at The Adrenaline Training Center in London where lives and is co-owner of Adrenaline Training Center. Mark and his wife are expecting their first child in May 2011 and will face Jose Aldo for the UFC Featherweight Championship title in the Co-main event at UFC 129 on April 30, 2011.
Sean Pierson
Born: March 10, 1976, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height: 6 ft 0 in
Weight: 170 lb
Reach: 76 in
Team: Grant Brothers MMA / Tapstar / Bruckmann Martial Arts
Style: Greco-Roman Wrestling
Rank: purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Wins: 11
By knockout: 6
By submission: 4
Losses: 4
Profile: Sean Pierson is a Canadian professional mixed martial arts welterweight fighter formerly signed to Bellator Fighting Championships. Sean signed with the UFC on October 27, 2010 and fought Matt Riddle at UFC 124 winning the fight by unanimous decision and was dubbed by UFC President Dana White as the real “Fight of the Night”. Sean is a mixed martial arts instructor who trains out of Toronto and lives in Stouffville with his wife and son. Originally expected to face Brian Foster at UFC 129 on April 30, Pierson will now face Jake Ellenberger who steps in with little more than two weeks notice.
Nice to see some real Canadian fighters on the card instead of this separatist clown GSP.
I am a proud English speaking Canadian and i can tell you that GSP is a phony “Frenchman” who is not a proud Canadian at all. Some of you may not know this but he is an anti-English language bigot from a province (Quebec) that has spent the last 5 decades banning the English language and culture with racist anti-English language laws such as bills 22, 178, and 101…In 1993, the United Nations Human Rights Committee ruled that Quebec’s sign laws broke an international covenant on civil and political rights. “A State may choose one or more official languages,” the committee wrote, “but it may not exclude outside the spheres of public life, the freedom to express oneself in a certain language.” Quebec is violating the agreements and policies of the U.N. by creating racist language laws that make English essentially illegal.
But it gets even better. This bigot GSP walks out in all his fights wearing a mouth piece from another country. Yes go look at the mouth piece he wears and shows off all the time. It has the flag of France on it. Nice eh!!! Some proud Canadian my butt. He is just opportunist trying to make money, but for those of us that are informed, we know what the Tattoo (similar to the swastika…) on his right calf also stands for. He is a separatist. The media in Canada won’t touch this, they are just as pathetic. So why if you were a proud Canadian GSP, would you wear a mouth piece from another country? Well tell us. You are a phony, a fraud, some Canadian you are, NOT!!!
You are a phony that needs to be exposed for this. You are nothing but a phony and a fraud GSP and the world should know this.
Go Shields Go!
wow james wolfe take it easy my man lol i think your reading way to much into this hhaha