Daddis Faithful Celebrate Makowski's Victory

Philadelphia’s Matt Makowski made his bones on the national scene with the now legendary victory over Nick Serra for CBS’s former MMA partner, EliteXC. After a 2-1 run with EXC, Matt came back to the area to defeat Serge Vinagre in Ring of Combat before reentering the national scene for Bellator season 1. It would be eight months before Matt got into the cage after his loss to Justin Torrey at Bellator 11.

Matt spent those eight months cornering for other Daddis fighters, and healed a back injury. Then on February 27th he stepped in to the main event of Matrix Fights 1 against former Muay Thai opponent LeVon Maynard.
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Brad Daddis Practices What He Preaches. Photo by: Paul Miles.

Brad Daddis is the owner & head trainer at Daddis Fight Camps (Philadelphia & Cherry Hill gyms), and is also a previous interviewee. He and I got together this week via Facebook to catch up and talk about some of the guys on his fight team. In the course of our chat, Brad reveals who Wilson Reis and Matt Makowski‘s first round opponents will be in the Bellator season 2 tournament.
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I’m sure I’ve said it here on several occasions. I am an old school ECW fan. I was such a hardcore ECDub fan that to this day if I hear Walk by Pantera, I mark out for Rob Van Dam. So to have a chance to participate in an MMA show at the old ECW Arena (recently rechristened as The Arena is a very special occasion for me. Its up there with places like The Blue Horizon and The Spectrum in my heart for favorite venues in the city of Philadelphia. So a special thank you to the Migliarese brothers and Jimmy Binns Jr letting me be a part of this show. For this show I sat up in the balcony above the front door, which gave me a chance to observe the packed house (around 1500, maybe more) during the event. And the crowd was a typical Philly crowd, and I mean that in the very best possible way. Aside from one drunk asshole who tried to steal an inspector’s seat in the red corner, the crowd was fantastic. They were loud for everybody, and even gave referee Kevin Mulhall a respectful round of applause. The fights, which were booked by 5 Ounces of Pain‘s Sam Caplan were all very evenly matched. in the main event Matt Makowski was paired with a former Muay Thai opponent in LeVon Maynard. With the Bellator season coming up, you’d expect Makowski, who’s been out of action for 8 months, to get one of those “tune up matches”. But he banged on Maynard like he stole his lunch money, and Maynard gave it right back to him. But it was an outstanding night of fights, and if you missed the show, you missed a show. No date was announced for return engagement, but in the program an ad teased that Matrix 2 will be coming back in June to The Arena. With all that said, the following results are unofficial until confirmed by the PSAC, and were originally brought to you (first and fast) by MAMMA Online at our Twitter account.
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All this “weekend snowicane” talk is really getting depressing. But before you get worried, as of right now Matrix Fights 1 is still green lit. I will update you if I hear any postponements due to weather. For now, though, plan on being at The Arena. That said, this show is the culmination of several months of work for Phil Migliarese of Balance Studios, Jimmy Binns Jr and Sam Caplan. Three really solid dudes. The crew put a lot of time into preparing for this show. The card features some well known locals and amateurs out of two of Philly’s top camps; Daddis FC & Team Balance. Of the 22 fighters on the card, only 4 have sub-.500 records. The card is sitting at 5 pro fights and 6 amateur bouts with the east coast debut of Brock Lesnar‘s training partner Cole Konrad and the Philadelphia debut of native son Matt Makowski.
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Matrix Fights, the brain child of Balance Studios’ Migliarese brothers with Jimmy Binns Jr and Sam Caplan, has released the bout sheet for their first fight card. Philadelphia represents big time with four pro fighters and nine amateurs coming out of the Liberty City. The rest of the card is filled in with mixed martial artists from Virginia, Brooklyn, Allentown, Pittsburgh, New Jersey and Ohio.

Matrix Fights 1 goes down on February 27th at The Arena (formerly The New Alhambra, ECW Arena, Viking Hall, etc). Doors at 7pm.

Main Event
Matt Makowski (4-2) vs LeVon Maynard (8-5)
Makowski is best known for his “butt scoot” victory over Nick Sera, but he is an accomplished mixed martial artist with Ring of Combat, EliteXC and Bellator bouts on his resume. Matt is a trainer at Daddis FC. Maynard is a Ring of Combat and UWC veteran with a January 23rd date in Chicago with Mark Miller
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