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Prospect Fights 15

Prospect Fights 15 at Rebel Toronto. First Pro MMA out of town I shot since 2019. I was a little rusty but it was good to see everyone. We lost a few fights at weigh-ins but there were still some good ones.

- Mark Ruddick Photography - My images are an exploration of the human body under muscle stress — understanding the body’s strength, flexibility, and power. Creating these images has given me a better understanding of the human form which has transitioned into my commercial fitness work. 

I am a London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, bodybuilding and fight photography.

I love to tell stories as anyone who's worked with me can attest. That includes visual stories through photographs. Let me tell your story and provide high impact images of you to sponsors, agencies, family or just for yourself.

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PFC 14 - Live PRO MMA

This last weekend I did my first live MMA show in three years with Prospect Fighting Championships. It was great to be back and to see all of the familiar faces. The event was in support of Showdow in the Downtown a chairty event which has raised millions of dollars for a variety of causes. Here’s a few selects from the event.

MMA fight

Nice left hand

Kyle Prepolec head kick

Kyle Prepolec knockout

- Mark Ruddick Photography - My images are an exploration of the human body under muscle stress — understanding the body’s strength, flexibility, and power. Creating these images has given me a better understanding of the human form which has transitioned into my commercial fitness work. 

I am a London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, bodybuilding and fight photography.

I love to tell stories as anyone who's worked with me can attest. That includes visual stories through photographs. Let me tell your story and provide high impact images of you to sponsors, agencies, family or just for yourself.

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PFC 12 - Mixed Martial Arts - Windsor

Prospect Fighting Championship but on another sell out card on Friday night in Windsor, Ontario. Here are the images from the fight which were delivered the same night as the fights.

Bout #1 - Owen vs Letourneau

Bout #1 - Owen vs Letourneau

Bout #2 - Allard vs Junkin

Bout #3 - Taveirne vs Flick

Bout #4 - Field vs Karagianis

Bout #5 - Dawson vs Lacroix

Bout #6 - Petahtegoose vs Condie

Bout #7 - Alfaro vs Arteaga

Bout #8 - Theodorou vs Perpetuo

Bout #9 - Laramie vs Cruz

- Mark Ruddick Photography - My images are an exploration of the human body under muscle stress — understanding the body’s strength, flexibility, and power. Creating these images has given me a better understanding of the human form which has transitioned into my commercial fitness work. 

I am a London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, bodybuilding and fight photography.

I love to tell stories as anyone who's worked with me can attest. That includes visual stories through photographs. Let me tell your story and provide high impact images of you to sponsors, agencies, family or just for yourself.



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Prospect Fighting Champions - Sept 28

Prospect Fighting Championships’ next event is September 28th at the Western Fair Agriplex. PFC is teaming up with Knock Out Kidney Disease a charity that had raised millions for research and treatment. The event is a pro mixed martial arts show. I did the principal photography for the poster which were designed by David Motta.

I’ll be at the event photographing the fights.

The event features the return of Jesse “the Ghost” Gross, TJ Laramie, Tony Laramie and many London, ON fighters.

Primary photography for the poster

The return of Jesse “the ghost” Gross

- Mark Ruddick Photography - My images are an exploration of the human body under muscle stress — understanding the body’s strength, flexibility, and power. Creating these images has given me a better understanding of the human form which has transitioned into my commercial fitness work. 

I am a London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, bodybuilding and fight photography.

I love to tell stories as anyone who's worked with me can attest. That includes visual stories through photographs. Let me tell your story and provide high impact images of you to sponsors, agencies, family or just for yourself.


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PFC 6 - The Action

10 Stoppages makes for a great night of fights. Prospect Fighting Championships put on a great show at the London Music Hall. The show was sold out months in advance. 135 and 265+ eliminator battles were fought and the heavyweight and featherweight belts were awarded. Shane Monaghan becomes the first 2 belt champion at 135 and 145. Avinash Chowtee scored the fastest knockout in PFC history at 9 seconds of the first round. Mr. Throwdown, Pete Trevino was in the house getting the crowd ready for all of the fights. It's always an honour to work with Pete. Special thanks to Jamie Champion for the work, this is our 7th show together.

Fight of the night: Cody Chovancek vs. Gino Ghalehpardaz
Submission of the night: Kris Allard
Knockout of the night: Avinash Chowtee

--PFC 6 Results--
Shane Monaghan def. Seth Connor via split decision
Leeroy Johnson def. Scott Lamont via submission - 1st round
Amro Falastini def. Wes Wood via TKO - 1st round
Esteban Alva def. Matt Dawson via unanimous decision
Randi Field def. Jessica Hoskins via unanimous decision
Patrick MacInnes def. Steve Eldridge via submission (RNC) - 2nd round
Zad Mangat def. Mike Gigliotti via KO - 1st round
Cody Chovancek def. Gino Ghalehpardaz via unanimous decision
Ryan Gibson def. Jeff Blythe via TKO - 1st round
Matty Hovorka def. Noah Crosswell via submission (RNC) - 1st round
Kris Allard def. Serhiy Sidey via submission (armbar) - 1st round
Justin Ritchie def. Luke Hogg via submission (armbar) - 1st round
Avinash Chowtee def. Ryan Dunphy via KO - 1st round
Josh Hanley def. Ted Weurch via submission - 1st round
Jill Ritchie def. Jessica Shaw via submission (RNC) - 1st round

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

- Prospect Fighting Championships (PFC) is a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Organization based out of London, Ontario. The goal of the PFC is to provide a quality platform that allows Mixed Martial Artists in Ontario to develop and demonstrate their talents and prepare themselves for the professional level.

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ACE Fights

I went down to MAFA in Mississauga yesterday to shoot promo pictures for ACE Fights. I shot ACE's first show back in March of 2015 and I'll be shooting their next show on Nov 11th at Nashville North.

It's always fun to hang out with a bunch of fighters getting ready for an event. I'm looking forward to the show.

Fooling around in between takes.

Throwback to the first ACE Fighting show in March, 2015.

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Working with VVV Fight Co

I went down to Toronto Saturday to shoot with VVV Fight Co. We shot at the UMAC gym in Scarborough, great place, really spacious, lots of different activity areas. Gregg had a tonne of cool clothing for our models (All competitors) to wear. I was really impressed with the quality of the clothing, especially the rash guards and gis. We shot some liftestyle, some catalogue and some action shots. It was a great afternoon and the VVV people are awesome to deal with.

Closeup of Greg's hands and important tool in BJJ

Conquer!

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Future Combat Stars - MMA

I went down to Windsor, ON to photograph the fights at Future Combat Stars #7. It was an enthusiastic crowd in Windsor. They really seemed to know their MMA. 8 fights took place including a couple of exhibitions. There were no slow fights and everyone came to bang. Technically is was the most challenging lighting I have ever shot in. The in fight pictures were shot at ISO 5000, which is not ideal, but you soldier through. Below are a few of the good shots from the day. The event ended at 6PM and the images were done and delivered at 12 Midnight, including a 2 hour drive back to London.

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PAFC 4 Posters - First Batch

PAFC 4 - Black Ties and Black Eyes / August 13th / London Music Hall / Live on Pay per View

Prospect Amateur Fighting Championships are going live on pay per view on August 13th. Thanks to Platinum MMA for letting us shoot the fighters for the promotional images. This is going to be a packed card and the fighters came in looking great 7 weeks out, they are going to be ripped come fight night. The venue for the fights is the London Music Hall. I know tickets are almost completely sold out for the event and pay per view might be the only way to see it. That night the 145 and 205 belts will be handed out. I will be photographing the show.

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Photographing Fight #300 at MCC3

A picture from the first fight I ever shot. PFC #2 - March 2014.

This weekend at Maple City Cagefighting #3 I will shoot my 300th fight since March of 2014. It has been a great couple of years and I have met tonnes of awesome people. I'd like to thank Jamie Champion for giving me a shot even though I had no experience.I love to shoot fights, fighters and promotional material for fights. I'd like to think I've become more skilled at fight pictures and hopefully I'll continue to grow. Looking forward to #300, then onto #500 and a world title fight. 

A picture from fight #295 - United Boxing Promotions - May 2016

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Platinum MMA

I went down to Platinum MMA, in London, ON this week and did a series of head shots with their coaches. They provided the gorilla background for the images.

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Jessie McPhee

I had an opportunity to shoot with amateur MMA fighter Jessie McPhee at the Platinum MMA Training Facility yesterday. The shoot was set up to do some conceptual action shots that I'll be working on in the next few weeks. We also shot so promo type pictures for Jessie.

Promo style picture for Jessie, hard side light to accentuate his physique.

Standing drop-kick, the next big move in MMA

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PAFC Ring Girls

In addition to shooting the fighters for the PAFC promotional materials, I got to shoot with the ring girls for the event. Thanks to Jamie Champion for letting me get involved with the photography and design for PAFC 3 on March 5th.

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