TSN’s Friday Night Football will feel the intensity of the Maximum Fighting Championship on July 7. During TSN’s pre-game show for the B.C. Lions-Edmonton Eskimos game this Friday, TSN will be airing a feature on Eskimos Mike Maurer and Adam Braidwood who are both MFC fighters. Both will discuss their passion for mixed martial arts, their training, how the Eskimos have reacted to their desire to fight and their future in the sport of MMA.

Also, MFC owner/president Mark Pavelich is interviewed and gives his enthusiastic take on what lies ahead for Maurer and Braidwood in the Maximum Fighting Championship. Adding to the action of the feature, both Maurer and Braidwood are shown in sparring with MFC fighters Jason “The Athlete” MacDonald and Victor “The Matrix” Valimaki.

The show will be originally broadcast in prime time at 8:30 p.m. Eastern /6:30 p.m. Mountain/5:30 p.m. Pacific. It will also be repeated at 10 p.m. Eastern/8 p.m. Mountain/7 p.m. Pacific and at 2 a.m. Eastern/Midnight Mountain/11 p.m. Pacific on SportsCentre.

Maurer, the Most Outstanding Canadian in the 2005 Grey Cup Game for the champion Eskimos, made his professional fighting debut in the MFC in March of this year, and he plans on returning to the MFC ring in February 2007. Maurer, who fights in the light heavyweight division, has the athleticism and ferocious nature to go far in the MMA world.

Braidwood, who is trained by UFC/Shooto veteran Lance Gibson, is also set to fight in February for the MFC. Braidwood, the No. 1 pick in the 2006 CFL Canadian College Draft from the Washington State Cougars, has drawn rave reviews from Mr. Gibson who believes the six-foot-four, 275-pounder could be a heavyweight superstar in the making.

For additional information on the MFC, please call Mr. Mark Pavelich at (780) 995-9095 and check out www.maximumfighting.com.