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Headline: Pillow Fight Championship Turns Childhood Game Into Thrilling MMA Spectacle

Caption: VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM The latest combat sports craze is one fight fans won’t be able to sleep through despite it featuring weapons you’d be more likely to find in the bedroom. The Pillow Fight Championship (PFC), which holds its next major pay-per-view event in Florida on 29 January (2021), features professionals drawn from the worlds of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and boxing, turning the popular childhood game into a thrilling spectacle. PFC is the vision of the new organisation’s CEO Steve Williams - who has been perfecting and developing the sport in the hope it delivers all the action of an MMA bout, with none of the injuries. “The winners are the ones who can swing the fastest and avoid getting hit - you’ve got to hit and avoid getting hit, that’s how you win,” Steve says. “It’s a pretty simple game. There’s a lot of different ways to win - it’s like boxing or anything else. You’re trying to hit your opponent as many times as possible and avoid getting hit. But when you get hit you don’t end up with a broken jaw, and the recovery time is a lot shorter.” He adds: “There’s all the excitement, but none of the blood.” Despite the sport not featuring the gore of its MMA cousins, it still features knockdowns, and Steve and his team have even considered putting up a special prize for a pillow fighter who can achieve its Holy Grail - knocking out an opponent with just their pillow. Bouts currently consist of three 90 second rounds with 45 second intervals- a shortness that’s necessary as the non-stop action can be tiring, even for trained fighters who adapt their boxing, Muay Thai, Jiu Jitsu skills. “It’s a gruelling sport from a physical standpoint as you’re hard on offense from the moment the bell rings for a minute and a half,” Steve says. “At the end of the time period you’re pretty exhausted. Your swinging arm, your legs. We started out at two minutes per round and had to shorten it.” Having held a recent PFC event in Sao Paulo, and with the 29 January event available to view on streaming platform FITE, the PFC team have major ambitions for the contests. “Each time they fight they get better and better, and a year from now when we get some fighters that have done it several times it’s going to make for better and better fights,” he gushes. “They’re already great to watch but they’ll get better and better, just like any sport.” He also hopes PFC will attract fans who remember indulging in pillow fighting as children themselves. “Everybody in the world, probably for the last million years has picked up a pillow of some sort to try to hit or get hit by their siblings,” the bedding combat impresario explains. Steve hopes to take the sport international, with UK bare knuckle fighter Jake ‘Brutal’ Bostwick a prospective competitor, and fights in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore planned. He is even hoping to get wrestling legend Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson involved in a fight against his lookalike, Eric Fields, who is known as ‘Baby Rock’ in PFC circles due to his resemblance to the Hollywood action star. “Eric reached out to The Rock and challenged him to a pillow fight and The Rock said ‘I’m in’,” he reveals. “So we’re hopeful we can get The Rock and Baby Rock together. We don’t know if it’ll happen or not but that’s our dream fight.” PFC 3 will take place in Florida on 29 January, with the action available to watch on the sports streaming platform FITE.

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