Author: matt

RPRT clients Jorge Gurgel and Zoila Frausto, who recently announced their engagement, have both tentatively been scheduled to fight on the same date, March 5th, in two separate promotions. Jorge, without an opponent as of yet, will fight in his home state of Ohio for Strikeforce Challengers Series live on Showtime. Zoila, verbally committed to rematch Jessica Aguilar in California for Bellator…the first time she will defend her championship belt. That promotion will air on MTV2.

Both fighters fight out of JG MMA in Ohio.

Three times X Games gold medal FMX rider Kyle Loza is joining the RPRT roster. Kyle is known for basically reinventing freestyle motocross including inventing tricks like the “Electric Doom,” which earned him X Games gold in 2009. Out of X for an injury in 2010, Kyle is ready to rock for 2011 and go for his fourth medal.

Kyle is also tentatively set to be part of the cast of “Audrina,” a Mark Burnett production for VH1. Kyle’s wife Casey is Audrina’s sister and the two have two children together.

Welcome Kyle!

Geoff Rowley has partnered with the Maloof organization to help design their courses for 4 contests over 2011 as well as a handful of public skateparks the organization is planning. Geoff will work closely with the Maloofs, CA Skateparks and sponsors (including Vans and Volcom, both of which sponsor Geoff) to make the MMC the best skate contest possible.

For more info please go HERE.

RPRT clients Arto Saari, David Gonzalez, Louie Lopez, Curren Caples and Shane Borland have been invited to be the guest pros/ams for Camp Woodward’s upcoming Spring session. The skaters will be on hand to skate and interact with campers. The session is set to take place April 17-20 and information will be available soon HERE.

Once again dominating both the qualifier and main events, Josh Hansen swept stop #2 of the Monster Supercross series in Arizona this weekend. Josh is the points leader in the lites class.

Music producer BARON recently was hired by Volcom to score an original track for a contest called the “Winter X Games Real Snow Video Contest” featuring team rider Dan Brisse. The video is one minute of hard charging urban snowboard footage.

To hear the track and see the video go here (and vote): http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/realsnow/2011/?id=6009087&pollIndex=1

US Supercross season started last weekend with Anaheim 1. RPRT client Josh Hansen dominated both the qualifier round and the finals in the Lites Class with first place finishes to start the circuit out with a bang and show the world why 2011 is his year to enter the record books.

Congrats Hanny!

RPRT has been hired to help launch Honda Heritage, a new clothing line based on vintage Honda images and iconography. RPRT will assist with media and celebrity outreach as well as event execution for this Feb. 3rd event set to take place in Downtown Los Angeles.

Jorge Gurgel has been confirmed to fight on the March fight card for Strikeforce. The lightweight has yet to receive an opponent but the fight will air live on Showtime and take place in Jorge’s home state of Ohio.

At the turn of the new year it was announced that Arto Saari, 2001 Skater of the Year, has returned home to Flip Skateboards. Arto left the team a few years ago to join Alien Workshop. With recent Flip departures, Arto’s addition to the team is a huge coup for the 2010 Transworld Skateboarding Team of the Year.

Arto’s new deck can be purchased at NHS Fun Factory.