By: Erin BullerThe Cage Fights on Friday night helped raise about $800 for a local family, officials said Monday.
Wyoming Mixed Martial Arts held its Cage Fight fundraiser Friday at the Machine Shop to raise money for two-year old Tyler Roberts, who was in an accident at home on Nov. 23 and spent a month in Primary Children's Hospital undergoing three brain surgeries.
Tyler is on the mend now, his mother Janell Roberts said Friday.
But he's still in need of extensive physical therapy and home care and that's where WMMA stepped in.
Dave Lowe, a cage fight promotor with the WMMA, said they wanted to do something for this family and decided to donate 10 percent of Friday's Cage Fight earnings to the Roberts' family.
Lowe said Dedicate Clothing and Section 8 Clothing of Ogden also helped raise donations for Tyler's medical expenses.
"I'm overwhelmed with all the support the community has given us," Roberts said. "I want to say thank you to Dave for all of his efforts."
Roberts said she is employed with Jubilee. She is a single mother of two — Tyler and his five-year-old brother, Dieter.
Cage fighting is a mixed martial arts sport that combines boxing, wrestling, kickboxing and other forms of martial arts.
Friday's event included 17 individual fights, Lowe said.
He said he estimates about 1,200 people packed the Machine Shop, with about half of those coming in from Utah.
"The Evanston police let us take an intermission so people could move their cars to avoid tickets (it was so packed)," Lowe said. "This was the largest show I've ever done."
Source: UintaCountyHerald.com
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