Octagonside by Anthony Springer Jr., photo by Chris Cozzone
In one of the great performances of modern times, UFC world welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre beat
and battered lightweight champion BJ Penn for four rounds until the fight was stopped before the start of round five. In round
one, the larger St. Pierre held Penn against the cage and landed short punches. Round two saw St. Pierre takeover
the fight completely however as he landed heavy strikes from the top position. The beating from the much larger and much stronger St.
Pierre continued until the corner of Penn decided they had seen enough. The fight was waved off before the start of round
five giving Georges St. Pierre the TKO victory.
RESULT Hatton stops Malignaggi
in 11! By Victor Perea & Andreas Hale at ringside Photo: Chris Cozzone
Ricky
Hatton (45-1, 32 KOs) scored a eleventh round TKO over Paulie Malignaggi (25-2, 5 KOs) on Saturday night in a clash for the
IBO jr welterweight belt on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Hatton punished the outgunned Magilnaggi
the entire night and the bout ended at :28 of round eleven when Malignaggi's trainer Buddy McGirt threw in the towel.
Quick Results from Long island kickboxing challenge
John Gilliam Wins by dec
Christina Leora Wins by 1 st rd TKO
Evan ,Rochester Ny Wins
Low Kick fight by Dec
Full results and photos coming to www.uskba.com soon
8 Years old Courtney voted fighter of the night
After she left Ring at Li kickboxing challenge Sept 27 th
World Kickboxing Champion Wins fight in Shirley NY :
Joh Gilliam was the Team NY Captin which fought against Team NJ and was the main event.
John Gilliam 22 years old from Middle island has been training and fighting in Full contact fighting sports since he
was 10 years old when he walked in to AFC kickboxing in Middle island and wanted to learn to fight in Kickboxing.
John Gilliam has always been a very tough compettitor as his trainer Tommy "BEE" Bottone tells of the story of how John
used to get mad when he could not knock me or my top fighters out at the time out when he was just 10 years old.
John was a good athlete in high school as he was a strong wrestler for Longwood high school while also playing on the
school baseball team never stopping is Kickboxing training.
After recieving a baseball scholorship to St joseph's college in Patchogue
.
John has now graduated college and is persuing a career in Law enforcement.
John will have his next fight at St Joseph's college on Nov 21 st 2008 .
In the past few years John Gilliam has become the undisputed amateur World champion winning many tournaments and titles
as he recently defended the World USKBA title.
John has fought in Florida,Canada and last year fought in a World
Sanda tournament in China
and was the only foriegn fighter to make it to the second round of fights.Sanda fighting was made famous by Cung Le , a fighter
from California which has fought these rules on Tv many times and recently
won a major MMA fight against Frank Shamrock.
John Gilliam has his eyes on the World Combat league created by Chuck Norris as a place for him to begin his
Pro fight career. John has fought under many different styles of fighting over the past decade and there is no limit to where
he can go from here.
Tarek Rached Wins Muay-Thai fight at Mohegan Sun Casino.
Tarek Rached fought a fighter from Colorada who stood tall at 6"4 who was very tough . Tarek
started by taking the fight to him on the inside but it was obvious that the fighter from Colorado had very strong clinching
technique so Tarek's cornerman World Kickboxing Champion TOMMY"BEE"BOTTONE told him to stay very busy when he was in
punching range so he could not clinch and after having 2 hard rounds Tarek took over in rd 3 with a strong right hand dropping
his opponent and tarek took control for the remainder of the fight landing strong low kicks and dominating with his boxing
skills winning by unanimous decission.
This event was promoted by Justin Blair of NYC.
Tarek Rached is sceduled to fight as an alternate for the Miami Force on the WCL -
World Combat league event Presented by Chuck Norris at the Taj-Mahal Casino Hotel in Atlantic City Nj on Dec 1 st 2007. www.worldcombatleague.com
World Combat League is on the VS. The Versus Channel every Thursday Night at 11:00PM : On Long Island,Ny
it is Channel 408- Cablevission. Check it out !
