This Saturday, August 27, at the Rahway Rec Center in Rahway, New Jersey, the Evolution Fighting Championships 7 will be taking place.  The main event is Ben Syers, of four second KO fame, taking on Caleb Solano.  Syers trains out of Team Renegade on Long Island, while Solano trains out of the Jungle Gym.  Syers is the Evolution Fighting Championships 140 pound champion and will be looking to defend his belt.  This fight is a long awaited match that had been postponed due to injury, but now both fighters are ready and will by vying for the strap.

The co-main event features another Team Renegade fighter Taylor Costantino, who will be fighting Dwayne Hallman for the vacant 150 pound title.  Taylor is a late replacement for Mark Agnew, who is out of the country and cannot be back in time due to weather conditions.  Taylor is stepping up to the plate and taking on a very tough opponent.

The rest of the card is stacked as well, and will even feature a journalist, Peter Lampasona, of US Combat Sports, making his pro debut.

If you have never been to an Evolution Fighting Championship event, do yourself a favor and pick up some tickets right away.  Promoter Steven Katz always delivers the goods, and this is one show you do not want to miss.

Here is the complete card:

Evolution Fighting Championships has been steadily making a name for itself, and is already one of the East Coast’s premier amateur Mixed Martial Arts promotions.  Promoter Steven Katz has done an outstanding job of making each event better than the last, and on August 27, at the Rahway Rec Center in Rahway, New Jersey, he’s back with what promises to be the biggest and best card yet.

“We’re still growing,” Katz said.  “I’m still growing the company.  I worked hard, and we’ll have a full card.  We should have 16 bouts cleared prior to the deadline of the fights.  We’re gonna have a full card of exciting bouts.  I brought some little guys in.  Mike Colon vs. Ariel Solano for 126 vacant belt.  That fight is going to a barn burner co-main event.  In the main event is Ben Syers vs. Caleb Solano.   Due to injury that fight was postponed [previously].  Both are training hard and it’s going to be a great main event.  It’s a fantastic fight.”

Ben Syers became an overnight Internet sensation when he knocked out Bobby Ascolillo in just 4 seconds to win the Evolution 140 pound title last November.  The video of that fight has gone viral and has nearly one hundred thousand hits on YouTube.

Atlantic City, NJ – Cage Fury Fighting Championships will crown their first bantamweight champion when Sean “Shorty Rock” Santella battles Aljamain “Aljo” Sterling on October 22, 2011, live from the Superstar Arena at the new Resorts Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Santella enters this bout with a record of 8-2-1 and already has captured three titles in other organizations. However, he feels something different about this title shot. “I’m really excited to be fighting for the CFFC bantamweight title,” Sean says. The AMA Fight Club practitioner has trained with the likes of UFC veterans Jim Miller, Dan Miller and Charlie Brenneman just to name a few. Santella believes that Sterling is just another hurdle and as he puts it, “He is in the way of me getting my belt. I want to fight the best guys out there and Sterling is on a great streak.”

Warrior's Cup XII last weekend made history by bringing pro-rules Muay Thai to the state of New Jersey for the first time ever.  There were four professional Muay Thai fights on the card, along with eleven amateur bouts, and the fans left the Collins Arena in Lincroft extremely satisfied.

The main event, a WBC International Muay Thai title bout, featured England's Liam "The Hitman" Harrison vs.  Philidelphia's Justin Greskiewicz.  Harrison lived up to his nickname by battering Justin's leg with ferocious kicks that were heard all the way up in the bleachers.  Liam started adding punches in with the kicks enroute to a TKO stoppage.  But Justin never quit and showed just how tough Muay Thai fighters are with his gritty and gutsy performance against a much more experienced opponent.

Not only were the fighters top notch, but the officials were a veritable who's who of Muay Thai.  The referee for the pro bouts was Coban "The Crusher" Lookchaomaesaitong, a former MT champion with an astounding record of 270-20, with 90 KOs.  Coban is now the Muay Thai trainer at Daddis Fight Camp, a great team based in NJ and PA.  Judging the fights were two more MT VIPs, Vladimir Borodin and Kaensak Sor Pleojit.  Borodin is a former MT champion with over 200 fights in his career who know runs his own school, Borodin's Muay Thai Gym.  Kaensak is a Muay Thai legend, who now teaches MT at AMA Fight Club, home to the Miller brothers, Charlie Brenneman and other top UFC fighters.

Overseeing the event for the WBC was Dr. John Baker, who chairs the WBC international Muay Thai committee.  Dr. Baker is an advocate of the sport, and he did a great job in helping get Muay Thai sanctioned in NJ.  Also at ringside was the reigning and defending AAPRP ringside physician of the year, Dr. Sherry Wulkan, who not only treats MT fighters, but also trains in the sport and is a total badass.  And of course, presiding over the event was  Nick "Luscious" Lembo, Counsel to the NJSACB and the man responsible for getting pro-rules Muay Thai into the state.  Nick, of course, is a seminal figure in the history of mixed martial arts, and his legacy in combat sports continues to grow.

I had the distinct pleasure of being the ring announcer for this historic event, and it is one I won't soon forget.  The night was truly special, and had the feel of a historic occasion throughout.  Before each professional bout, as is custom in the sport of Muay Thai, the fighters performed a ritual called the Wai Kru Ram Muay.  This is a sort of dance that recognizes the spirits of all those who have competed in the ring, and it mesmerized the crowd.  Truly an epic night!

Making this event possible were promoters Chris Tran, Frankie "Dead Serious" Perez, John Narleski and Greg Ewing.  Collectively they did a fantastic job in putting on an event that will have fans buzzing for months.  The show ran smoothly and professionally and it was a pleasure working with this team.

If you missed the show you can still catch it on GoFightLive.  Do yourselves a favor and check this out.  The Liam Harrison fight alone is worth the price.

The next Warrior's Cup will be held on December 3rd.  Stay tuned to this space for more details on that show.

It was another fantastic night of fights from the folks at Cage Fury Fighting Championships.  Robert Haydak, Joe Stant Jr., and Arias Garcia Jr. put together another stellar show Saturday night at Resorts Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, NJ.  This show broke away from the traditional Friday night slot and it proved to be a wise decision as the venue was packed from top to bottom with MMA fans that were hungry for the top notch action they have grown accustomed to at a CFFC event.  CFFC 10: Black Eye did not disappoint.

CFFC 10: Black Eye took place last night in Atlantic City, NJ.  Shawn Baran was on hand to cover the event and he'll have his patented Baran's Breakdown of the event in the very near future.  Here are the quick results from last nights fights:

History was made at the Collins Arena last light in Lincroft, New Jersey, as the first ever professional rules Muay Thai bouts were held in the state.  The fighters all lived up to the history occasion by leaving it all in the ring.  In the main event, Liam "The Hitman" Harrison wowed everyone in attendance with his amazing performance over a very tough and game Justin Greskiewicz. .  Harrison's leg kicks were ferocious and the thuds could be heard in the back row, and he mixed in big punches to the head as well.  The bout was stopped at 3 minutes of the second round, earning Harrison, a native of Leeds, England, the vacant WBC International Muay Thai title.

The historic event was promoted by Chris Tran, John Narleski, Greg Ewing and Frankie Perez.  The four men combined forces to put on an amazing night of fights that had the crowd on its fight throughout.  I am honored to have been able to be the ring announcer and be part of history at Warrior's Cup XII.  Congratulations, gentlemen!

We'll have much more on this event in the next couple of days, so stay tuned.  In the meantime, here are the official results: