The twenty-eighth edition of the renowned IFC Warriors Challenge comes to Gold Country Casino in Oroville,CA on Saturday August 21 at 4PM. Headlining the event are two championship fights. One title battle will feature Roseville’s own Dave “Bad Man” Huckaba taking on Fresno’s Mike “The Animal” Cook in an IFC Warriors Challenge Heavyweight title defense. Both of these fighters are known for their heavy hands and love of the stand up part of the MMA game.

The other feature will be a Warrior’s Challenge Welterweight Championship between “Mutt”, John Corstorphine, of Rancho Cordova, Ca. against local favorite Josh Hinkle. Yuba City’s Richard Blake will also be meeting Chico’s Anthony Fernandez in a Light Heavyweight match-up. A four man single elimination tournament will also help round out of this exciting nine fight Gold Country card in typical IFC style.

As is also usual for the IFC you can expect to see some hard-hitting women and this card is no exception with Kristan “Barbie” Molina from Reno taking on Michigan’s Amanda LaVoy. Barbie is formerly of Ken Shamrock’s Lion’s Den and is married to former IFL fighter Dan Molina. Fighting is very much part of this families life style. By day Barbie is a nurse who does some modeling and she has also has published her own comic book. Michigan’s Amanda LaVoy is an aggressive redhead from upstate where she is also getting ready to put him back together after taking them apart. She is preparing to enter a nursing program after she completes her Fine Arts degree program. She is an instructor at the Cheetah Cage Combat Center in Ann Arbor. Barbie versus a Cheetah – hard to let that one go. You won’t want to miss it either.