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King of the Cage, also known as KOTC, is a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

(MMA) promotion based in Southern California

Southern California

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, USA.

History

KOTC was founded in 1998 by Terry Trebilcock. KOTC features up and coming MMA stars as well as experienced combat fighters.

KOTC has promoted a majority of its events at Native American casinos throughout the United States. KOTC also promotes events in Canada, Australia & Japan. Many MMA superstars began their careers with KOTC including former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, Diego Sanchez

Diego Sánchez

Diego J. Sanchez is an American mixed martial artist of Mexican descent, with a background in wrestling and Gaidojutsu, system of submission wrestling developed by his longtime trainer Greg Jackson...

, Paul Buentello

Paul Buentello

, Rich Franklin

Rich Franklin

Rich Jay Franklin II is an American mixed martial artist and former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champion.-Background:...

, Joe Stevenson

Joe Stevenson

Joseph Christopher Stevenson is an American mixed martial artist fighting out of Las Vegas, Nevada. Competing as a welterweight, he won The Ultimate Fighter 2 welterweight tournament. Stevenson fought most of his UFC career as a lightweight, and made his featherweight debut at UFC Live: Kongo vs....

, Keith Jardine

Keith Jardine

Keith Hector Jardine is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the light heavyweight division and is best known for his time in the Ultimate Fighting Championship...

, Urijah Faber

Urijah Faber

Urijah Christopher Faber is an American mixed martial artist currently fighting as a bantamweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization. Faber won the WEC featherweight championship at WEC 19 on March 17, 2006 and held the title for over two years until his loss to Mike Brown at WEC...

, Rory Macdonald

Rory MacDonald

Roderick Macdonald is the bassist of the Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig, as well as their primary songwriter with his younger brother, Calum Macdonald. Rory tends to write the melody, and Calum the lyrics...

, Rashad Evans

Rashad Evans

Rashad Anton Evans is an American mixed martial artist from Niagara Falls, New York, currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship where he is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. Evans won the heavyweight division of The Ultimate Fighter 2. Evans lost the UFC Light Heavyweight...

, and Mac Danzig

Mac Danzig

Mac Danzig is an American mixed martial artist, who competes as a lightweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.-Background:...

,

In September 2007, Mr. Trebilcock sold KOTC to ProElite. Two years later, in July 2009, he reacquired 100% ownership of KOTC and simultaneously entered into a joint venture agreement with Mark Burnett Productions ("Survivor", "Apprentice", "Celebrity Apprentice" and "The Contender") to begin the development of various reality television platforms for KOTC. Bully Beatdown

Bully Beatdown

Bully Beatdown is an American reality television series created by Mark Burnett which airs on MTV. In each episode, show host Jason "Mayhem" Miller challenges bullies to fight against a professional mixed martial artist for a chance to win $10,000. The money they get depends on their performance...

, a Burnett produced program, is currently in its third season on MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

and features many KOTC competitors. King of The Cage events are also broadcast on most national pay-per-view platforms.

On January 30, 2010, it was announced that KOTC would begin airing monthly shows on Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban is an American business magnate and investor. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of the HDTV cable network HDNet....

's HDNet

HDNet

HDNet is a men's interest television channel in the United States, broadcasting exclusively in high-definition format and available via cable and satellite television...

channel. The initial deal was for 36 events to air. The announcers will be Michael Schiavello

Michael Schiavello

Michael Schiavello is an Australian sports commentator for K-1, Dream, Maximum Fighting Championship, King of the Cage and The Contender Asia. He has also written for more than 50 publications worldwide and was the long-serving editor of Blitz Magazine, and was also the editor of International...

, Jason "Mayhem" Miller and Maria Kanellis

Maria Kanellis

Maria Louise Kanellis, , or simply Maria, is a singer-songwriter, actress, model, and professional wrestler, best known for her time with World Wrestling Entertainment. Kanellis's career began as a contestant on the reality show Outback Jack in 2004...

. The most recent event on HDNet aired on September 17th, 2010 with No Mercy. There has been no further news regarding King of the Cage events on the channel. Only 6 events aired from February 2010 to September 2010.

The cage announcer for the KOTC series is Dean Stone.

Current champions

The weight division system of KOTC is in accordance with the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts, but KOTC names its 145-pound division Bantamweight (instead of Featherweight), its 135-pound division Flyweight (instead of Bantamweight) and its 125-pound division Junior Flyweight (instead of Flyweight). The only two weight classes not in accordance with the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts are a 160-pound Junior Welterweight division and a 230-pound Cruiserweight division.

Men's division	Upper weight limit	Champion	Nationality
Super Heavyweight Super Heavyweight (MMA) The super heavyweight division in mixed martial arts has no weight limit but generally refers to competitors weighing above 265 lb .Across Europe and Asia, there are numerous promotions that feature open-weight competitions that can qualify as super heavyweight bouts.One such example is in Japan,...	No limit	Tony Lopez Tony Lopez (fighter) Tony Lopez is an American mixed martial artist fighting out of Huntington Beach, California with Team Wildman Vale Tudo. He is the current Gladiator Challenge Heavyweight Champion and was formerly the Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight King of the Cage Champion...	United States
Heavyweight	265 lb (120.2 kg; 18.9 st)	Tyler East Tyler East Tyler East, nicknamed "The Beast", is an American mixed martial artist fighting for King of the Cage where he holds a record of 5-3 an is the current KOTC Heavyweight Championship, he was also a 3 time heavyweight contender, loseing to Tony Lopez the first 2 times...	United States
Cruiserweight	230 lb (104.3 kg; 16.4 st)	Tony Bonello Tony Bonello Tony Bonello is an Australian mixed martial artist and Gracie Jiu-Jitsu practitioner who currently competes in the King of the Cage.-Mixed martial arts career:...	Australia
Light Heavyweight Light Heavyweight (MMA) The light heavyweight division in mixed martial arts generally refers to competitors weighing between 186 and 205 lb . It sits between the lighter middleweight division, and the heavyweight division....	205 lb (93 kg; 14.6 st)	Mike Kyle Mike Kyle Mike Kyle is an American mixed martial artist who competes as a light heavyweight and heavyweight. He fights primarily for Strikeforce and King of the Cage. He is the King of the Cage Light Heavyweight champion...	United States
Middleweight Middleweight (MMA) The middleweight division in mixed martial arts can refer to a number of different weight classes:*UFC's & Strikeforce's middleweight division, which groups competitors within 171 to 185 lb...	185 lb (83.9 kg; 13.2 st)	Brandon Hunt	United States
Welterweight Welterweight (MMA) The welterweight division in mixed martial arts can refer to a number of different weight classes:*The UFC's & Strikeforce's welterweight division, which groups competitors within 156 to 170 lb...	170 lb (77.1 kg; 12.1 st)	Bill Albrecht	United States
Jr. Welterweight	160 lb (72.6 kg; 11.4 st)	Tim Means Tim Means Tim Means", is an American mixed martial artist.He is King of the Cage current Junior Welterweigt Champian.-Mixed martial arts record:\| Win\|align=center\| 15–3-1\| Mario Ramos\| TKO \| KOTC - High Performance\| \|align=center\| 1...	United States
Lightweight Lightweight (MMA) The lightweight division in mixed martial arts can refer to a number of different weight classes:* The UFC & Strikeforce lightweight division with upper limit at 155 lb...	155 lb (70.3 kg; 11.1 st)	Bobby Green Bobby Green (fighter) Bobby Green is an American mixed martial artist who is currently under contract with Strikeforce, competing in their lightweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2008, Green has made a name for himself mainly fighting on the West coast...	United States
Bantamweight Featherweight (MMA) The featherweight division in mixed martial arts can refer to a number of different weight classes:*UFC's & Pancrase's featherweight division, which groups competitors within 136 to 145 lb...	145 lb (65.8 kg; 10.4 st)	Jeremy Spoon	United States
Flyweight Bantamweight (MMA) The bantamweight division in mixed martial arts can refer to a number of different weight classes:*The King of the Cage bantamweight class with upper limit at 145 lb...	135 lb (61.2 kg; 9.6 st)	Jared Papazian	Armenia
Jr. Flyweight Flyweight (MMA) The flyweight division in mixed martial arts – as defined by the Nevada State Athletic Commission combat sports doctrine – groups together all competitors 125 lb and below...	125 lb (56.7 kg; 8.9 st)	Mamoru Yamaguchi Mamoru Yamaguchi is a Japanese mixed martial artist. He is a former Shooto Bantamweight Champion and a former Shooto Featherweight Champion. He has been consistently ranked as one of the top flyweight in the world by Sherdog's Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings. Mamoru is known for his counter striking and his...	Japan

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