In an impressive performance UFC lightweight champion B.J. Penn outclassed Diego Sanchez over five rounds en route to opening
a large gash over his opponents left eye ending the fight via TKO in the fifth and final round. Round one saw Penn nearly
end the fight after landing a crushing right hand to the chin of his opponent followed by a swarm of punches. In the second
and third rounds Sanchez tried in vain to take Penn to the canvas but could not find any success. The fourth round saw Penn
begin to land hard combinations on the challenger and Sanchez’s face was badly swollen as a result. The final round
saw Penn drill a right head kick into the face of Sanchez that opened an enormous gash over his left eye. The fight was stopped
at 2:37 of the final round. Continued »
WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KOs) scored a one-sided twelve round unanimous decision over previously
unbeaten Kevin Johnson (22-1-1, 9 KOs) on Saturday night at the PostFinance Arena in Bern, Switzerland. Vitali pressed the
action and threw most of the power punches, but had trouble catching the crafty Johnson cleanly. Johnson was essentially a
one-armed fighter as he relied almost exclusively on his jab. Klitschko became more dominant as the bout progressed, with
the late rounds going all Vitali’s way. Scores were 120-108, 120-108, 119-109. Johnson became only the second fighter
to go the full twelve with Vitali, the other being Timo Hoffmann. For more results and photos galore, click here…
“Machida Era” now in question: Saturday night was supposed to be another chapter in what was
being called “The Machida Era.” Twenty-five minutes of a grueling chess match between Mauricio “Shogun”
Rua’s Muy Thai and Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida’s heralded Karate passed and everything changed –
except the fact that “The Dragon” would remain undefeated with a unanimous decision victory to retain his light
heavyweight title at UFC 104 in Los Angeles . . . Click here for more by Andreas Hale
Velasquez converts the skeptics: With just seven fights under his belt, respect for Cain Velasquez has been
a long, slow, uphill climb for some skeptic who believes the California fighter was overhyped . . . Click here for more by Anthony Springer Jr.
October 25th, 2009
Chrissy Yandollli Fight with Andrea Deangello NYC
Chrissy Yandolli Fighting
Amatuer Low Kick Rules : Friday Sept 25 th at the Capitale' NYC - Bowery Street Promoted
by Lou Neglia . Andrea Deangello wins on Points !
This was an awesome Womens Low kick fight with both fighters showing great
skill and heart with Andrea Deangello showing she wanted it more an winning
by decission.
Chrissy Yandolli fighting Andrea Deangello
WOMENS LOW KICK FIGHT !
John Gilliam Wins PKF Title for Breast Cancer !
Fight Results from LIKO Kickboxing, NY
8-22-09
Congratulations to John Gilliam for winning another title
and Chrissy Yandolli for winning a great fight . Our teen Stephen
Czachor and Kid Tommy Combs also fought
great matches . Bobby Campbel had a very good night of fights and I
look foward to working with him in the future on more events.The fights where sanctioned by the PKF.
RING OF FIRE returns August 1st with SUMMERBRAWL!!
The number one MMA event in the region, RING OF FIRE, returns with the 1st Annual SUMMERBRAWL
series.
On Saturday, August 1st at the Brromfield Event Center, MMA fans will be treated to a minimum of 12 exciting
bouts featuring 3 title matches.
In the Main Event, Colorado's fastest rising star Tyler THUNDER Toner takes on the Brazilian Fabio
JUNGLE BOY Serrao for the Ring Of Fire Feather Weight Championship.
ROF 145 LB Championship
Tyler Toner Fabio
Serrao
9-2 5-1
Aurora, CO Manaus,
Brazil
Toner is touted as the next great thing to come out of Ring Of Fire. The promotion has a long
history of producing some of the sports biggest names, including most recently Donald Cerrone, Shane Carwin and Eliot Marshall.
Toner is also a Strikeforce veteran, but his biggest career win thus far happened just last month in Japan. "Thunder"
was able to score a 1st round knockout over Shootboxing legend Kenichi Ogata in one of the biggest upsets in Shootboxing
history. Toner is mainly known for his aggressive style, with a strong stand up game honed by mentor Duane BANG
Ludwig. Toner will be vacating his ROF Young Guns title to vie for the ROF 145 Championship belt.
Facing Toner will be Fabio JUNGLE BOY Serrao. Serrao is a Brazilian JiuJitsu Black Belt under the
legendary Oswaldo Alves. Originally hailing from Manaus, Brazil, he currently trains with BJJ Black Belt and Vale Tudo fighter
Eduardo Mori. He has a 5-1 MMA record with 3 submission victories. Being a student of the game and wanting to improve his
skills he has sought out Sakasem THE PUNISHER Kanthawong to polish his Muay Thai. Serrao is a also a NAGA Absolute Grappling
Champion.
In the feature bout of the evening the dynamic Fabian THE FREAK Acuna clashes with IFL veteran
Jon GUNS Gunderson for the Ring Of Fire Light Weight Championship.
ROF 155 LB CHAMPIONSHIP
Fabian Acuna Jon Gunderson
5-1-1
18-7
Santiago, Chile
Las Vegas, NV
Fabian Acuna is one of the most exciting fighters on the ROF roster.
He has been called a "155 lb Cung Le". After nearly a six year layoff, "The FREAK" returned to action at ROF 34 and needed
less than 3 minutes to dispatch Contender Asia star James Martinez. Born and raised on the tough streets of Santiago, Chile,
Acuna is on of three brothers with a fighting spirit. A young Acuna channeled his aggression through traditional
martial arts first competing in bare knuckle karate matches. Acuna then tried his hand in kickboxing bouts but found
the format too limiting. After debuting MMA in 2001 at ROF 3 and winning by a spinning elbow knockout, the
tough Chilean has never looked back. Acuna is now making up for lost time and hopes the ROF belt will spring board him
in to the big leagues.
Facing Acuna for the vacant belt will be Jon GUNS Gunderson.
Gunderson is a former member of Ken Shamrock's Nevada Lions in the now defunct IFL. His career high came in challenging
Ryan Schultz for the IFL Championship in February of last year. He has the advantage over Acuna in experience
with a 18-7 record. Stylistically this should be a barn burner since Gunderson started his career with a base in boxing.
He now trains in Las Vegas at Extreme Couture with some of the best fighters in the world. Gunderson is wanting
to get back in the limelight and looks for a win at ROF to give him that push.
The Ring Of Fire SUMMERBRAWL main card is filled with top notch fighters and will also see the return of a few local
favorites.
The now vacant 145 Young Guns belt will be up for grabs and Colorado's Brian
Wood, and Hawaii's Patrick Kui Gonsalves will have first dibs. The aggressive Justin Salas
will face Throwdown Light Weight contender Eddie Pelczynski in a 155 lb contender bout. In a battle of K-1Veterans,
Andre Walker faces Swedish fighter Andreas Spang at 185 lbs. And in single bouts former
ROF Champion Christian RELENTLESS Allen, and Mike NO EXCUSES Baldwin return to the
RING OF FIRE stage.
The preliminary card will feature 2 womens bouts and highlight the top up and coming prospects in the region.
Tickets for RING OF FIRE 35 go on sale to the general public at 10:00 am Monday, July 6th. But ROF fans can get special discount pricing until midnight on Sunday July, 5th!!
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tickets.
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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.
We will never foget "Bad Chad " Distefano
A true fighting spririt that can not be matched
Overhead View Ultimate Kickboxing Challenge NYC
Click on Photo for full story and photos
Pro Boxing - Yonkers - NY - Sept 10 th
Ring of Fire Kickboxing Promoter John Bottone
Racing his Boat "The Enforcer" in Miami Florida
Tarek Rached gets TKO in 5 th rd thai fight NYC
Tarek Rached TKo'd Clint Rhodes in Muay-Thai fight
TOMMY "BEE" with Kids at Candlewood Middle school
in Dix Hills, New York May 29 th 2008
TOMMY "BEE" BOTTONE and John Gilliam with Kids at Hauppauge Junior high school
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 !
