BC Beatdown

Hockey fights without a Hockey game. What's the point?

Well anyways after years of trying and failing Manitoba promoter Darryl Wolski finally pulled the event off this past Saturday night up in BC Canada. The fight card they ended up with was pretty freakin weak (bordering on lame), some washed up former NHLer's and the rest being mostly minor league has-beens or never-were's. They even threw in a local at last minute to fill out the card who to his credit won a fight. Oooooh yeah, the man, the myth, the legend, "The Missing link" also was there, his most recent escapade was being thrown off his team mid-season last year for going to the concession stand between periods of a game and chowing down. Alas, "The Link" didn't last long Saturday night. As you can probably guess it wasn't a very classy or top-notch lineup.

Fear and Loathing in Prince George

With an hour to kill before show time, Dwayne and Troy reached for the bottle that lay in the back of their red pickup truck and started in on the rye
The pair had driven 12 hours from Alberta to witness a world's first on Saturday night: Hockey Enforcers, a spectacle of hockey fights. Without the hockey. No sticks, no pucks. Just minor-league pluggers and has-beens on skates, beating one another stupid for cash..

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The winner Dean "The Machine" Mayrand plays in the infamous NALH fighting league of Quebec. A league where most of the teams play slap shot style hockey as a rule or just in order to survive. I guess it figures the champ of this event would come from that league. It's not surprising either that there seemed to be almost as much action in the stands as there was on the ice.

"By the time the semifinals came around, more than two hours into the event and with the beer flowing freely, security officials and police had to break up at least four punch-ups among the patrons."

With the Apocalypse fast approaching and the popularity of human cockfighting on the rise all over we'll probably be seeing more of these Hockey Enforcer Contests on Pay Per View in the future.
They ought to put the NALH de Quebec on PPV, at least there's a hockey game going on between all the fights.

For Tom Benjamin's excellent thoughts on all this go >>> here

Also checkout what the posters over at hockeyfights.com who attended the event had to say.