With two successful pro-MMA shows now in the rear-view, B.C.’s busiest fight promotion, Battlefield Fight League, returns home to Vancouver on July 16th,2011 with BFL9: “Quest For Gold.”

Expect another action-packed night, once-again featuring the absolute best-quality amateur MMA fights available anywhere in Canada. As always, the promotion’s deep pool of talented, nearly-pro fighters will demonstrate for fans the skill and bravery that rests at the heart of true MMA competitors. Meanwhile, for the very first time, these intense BFL scraps will be held in downtown Vancouver’s conspicuously posh and elegant Trade and Convention Centre.

Trust us, fight fans; you won’t want to miss this!

The evening’s main event will be contested for the recently-vacated featherweight title that was left behind by current BFL professional Gary Mangat (1-0). The determined combatants hunting for BFL championship gold will be American power-wrestler Tristan Storrs (7-1 Amateur), and hard-nosed Canadian Jeremy Kennedy (5-1 Amateur).

Kennedy will almost-certainly feel the love of a partisan home-side crowd, but he won’t be overly dependent on just good vibes once the bell rings. For one thing, Kennedy also has a good deal more BFL experience, having already defeated of BFL featherweights Chris Day and Oren Hanscomb. For another, Kennedy is a proud student at one of the lower-mainland’s most successful MMA gyms, West Coast BJJ. If that’s not enough, he is also a gritty, well-rounded fighter who has proven impossible to finish in the BFL and is always willing and prepared to engage in dramatic wars of mental and physical attrition.

The eighteen-year-old feels his footwork will enable him to keep the powerful American at range and score frequently with strikes, and that his BJJ will keep him competitive should the fight become grappling match. Kennedy is also not shy about proclaiming exactly how much a title win would mean:

“The belt means sooo much to me because ever since I first fought in Battlefield that’s what I had my eyes set on, and now four fights later, three being in BFL, I get the chance to fight for it and be the main event on a huge, stacked card, also, being the youngest Battlefield fighter, [becoming] the youngest champ [too] would be a pretty big accomplishment for me.”

His opponent, Tristan Storrs is a promising up-and-coming American fighter out of Idaho’s Legacy MMA. In high school, Storrs won well over %80 of his two hundred wrestling matches, and he is already an Excite Fight amateur MMA champion in Spokane, Washington. At 5’6”, three inches shorter than his opponent, but with a walking-around weight of 160lbs., this natural featherweight bears the instantly-recognizable burly frame of a supreme takedown machine. Tristan had only one fight in the BFL to date, but it was a memorable takedown-TKO that injured the erroneously-posted arm of perennial Battlefield amateur featherweight contender Chris Day.

So, while Kennedy will likely look to turn this bout into a drawn out brainy-brawl, Storrs will surely seek to make it a wrestler’s battle of brute-force and brawn. Whichever style ultimately reigns supreme at “Quest For Gold” on July, 16th, you can bet the rest of Battlefield’s talented amateur featherweights including Cam Deleurme will immediately begin gunning for a shot at the winner’s crown.

While you’re at it, you can also bank that Battlefield Fight League 9 will feature numerous other great amateur matches, and that BFL will continue aggressively developing tomorrow’s MMA stars throughout 2011 and beyond.

Battlefield Fight league 9 will feature 16 Amature MMA bouts. In the co-mainevent Justin Lansing will face Micah BrakeField for the Vacant Battlefield Fight League Amature Middleweight Strap. Ash Masherghi, Stu Deleurme, Leo Xavier, David Kennedy and Jesse Bird are just a few of the skilled fighters in action on this stacked card. Tickets for this event will go through the fighters on the card and www.yayatickets.com on June 6, 2011. For more info on this event and the entire fight card visit http://battlefieldfight.com/bfl9/.