The Pillow Fight Championship, or PFC, is trying to turn pillow fighting into a professional sport – but unlike MMA, ‘anyone can compete, and anyone can win’
here’s just something so cathartic about getting hit in the head with a pillow,” posits Steve Williams as he grills a couple of steaks on the back deck of his catamaran. Catfish spin in the yacht’s neon stern lights, scanning the water’s surface for scraps of food on the Boca Raton harbor.
Steve Williams founded the Pillow Fighting Championship. He is working towards making pillow fighting a professional sport. Photograph: Mary Beth Koeth/The Guardian “I’ve been in martial arts my entire life, and I can tell you that this is going to be bigger than all of them,” says Yuri Villefort, a Brazilian professional MMA fighter who runs Indio Dojo in Boca Raton, one of the first gyms to partner with Williams. “Anyone can compete, and anyone can win. It doesn’t matter your size, age, or background.”
With five months’ experience, Terrell ‘TJ’ Jenkins is considered a veteran of the sport. Photograph: Bryan Cereijo/The Guardian TJ Jenkins squares off against Mike Trujillo in the PFC Pound Down event. Photographs: Bryan Cereijo/The Guardian He appears to be in a state of perpetual awe concerning how his life turned out – a business owner who’s able to employ members of his family, and a local favorite to win the main event on Saturday.
A week earlier, she exhibited a similar manner, pushing Alaric through a park on the west side of Delray Beach, Florida. Hall prefers to train outside rather than in the gym, her workouts consisting of long runs and meditation. In the ring, she’s known as the “Shuttle Launcher” – a reference to her hometown near Cape Canaveral and her fighting style.
Hall won both of her exhibition matches last year. She’d like to protect that undefeated record, but most of all, she wants to honor her late relatives.H Of the many winners and losers at the PFC Pound Down, the person who had the most to gain is Williams, and by Sunday morning he’s doing victory laps in the tide of predictably corny headlines, from the New York Post to Haaretz, that has surged overnight.
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