Two Sweet Home Bully Gang MMA members will fight for belts on Oct. 13 at a Pacific Coast Cage Fights event in Corvallis.
Nathan Rice will face Ryan Miller for the heavyweight belt, and Chris Ensley will face Andrew Kia of Eugene’s Art of War for the 125-pound belt.
This will be Ensley’s second belt with the Pacific Coast Cage Fights federation. In August, he won the 135-pound belt.
Ensley’s weight locks in around 130 pounds, he said, so he is able to drop down fairly easily.
“I wrestled in high school,” he said. “I got cutting weight down to an art.”
He normally feels like a small 135, he said. Most of the fighters at that weight cut down to it and are bigger than he is.
So for his upcoming fight, “if anything, I’m predicting it to be easier,” he said of making weight.
Ensley is 5-2.
“I would say all of my fights I’ve had so far, I’m proud of,” he said. “And the losses I’ve had, I learned from them.”
“I always feel confident about all my fights. The main thing is making sure my body’s ready.”
He’s been healthy recently, so he’s feeling good about his next fight.
Also fighting will be newcomers Schaun Johnson, Brad Seiber and Jeff Landtroop, all of Sweet Home. Veterans Shorty Weikel of Sweet Home and Allen Davis and Mitch Melbye of Lebanon will fight as well.
They will face mainly fighters from Team Spart of Salem and Downing’s Gym of Corvallis.
The show starts at 7 p.m. with the metal band Blood Well of Sweet Home playing prior to the fighting.