Wednesday, 22 May 2013 08:15

Many fans felt that at this weekend's SuperKombat event in Romania that Sebastian Ciobanu was given a dreaded "hometown decision" against Frank Munoz in the Finals of the tournament. They explained on their official site today that there were not even Romanian judges to declare it a hometown decision, they had an international team judging the event. They have gone back to review the fight and feel like the fight was indeed a close one, but they cannot overrule the decision by the judges and the referee.

So therefore, to make everything square with Munoz and his team they have given him a Wild Card spot in the SuperKombat World Grand Prix, as Sebastian Ciobanu already had a spot because of him being in the Final 4 of last year's tournament. Munoz seems happy with this decision.

Wednesday, 22 May 2013 08:15

Lion Fight 10 is coming up this summer, on July 26th and will once again feature Yodsanklai Fairtex, one of the most popular Thai fighters to fight outside of Thailand in the past few years. Lion Fight have released the full video of his fight at Lion Fight 8 against Gregory Choplin for the world to watch again, for free. Yes, for free, which is pretty awesome. All of this is building to July 26's big Lion Fight 10 which will air live on AXS TV.

Enjoy.

Wednesday, 22 May 2013 08:15

Note: This is a press release from LEGEND Fighting.

LEGEND FIGHTING SHOW with HARI, KYSHENKO, ASKEROV, BESSMERTY, SAMEDOV & EMELIANENKO

On May 25, the LEGEND Fighting Show - the major event of the year in the world of combat sports, will be held at the Small Sports Arena “Luzhniki”.

LEGEND is a new format fighting show featuring recognized and future K-1 and MMA legends. The fighting contest will be presented as an integrated entertainment show with advanced visual technologies, and top level fighters as lead characters.

9 hard-line K-1 and MMA bouts will be held in the course of the Contest. For the first time ever Russian combat sports fans will be able to watch a challenging battle among the four world K-1 lightweight (71 kg) stars. The fighters will contend for the main cash prize of the night and the title of the First LEGEND Contest Champion. Add a comment

Wednesday, 22 May 2013 08:15

SuperKombat held their second show in their 2013 WGP series on Saturday in their home of Romania with some of their big hometown stars. There was a Heavyweight four-man tournament as well as a few Super Fights to round out the show. Sebastian Ciobanu walked away as the winner in the tournament, but not without a lot of doubt in the air as many believe that Frank Munoz rightfully won the bout and that Ciobanu was given a hometown decision by the judges.

The fans most likely went home happy as Ciobanu got his big victory and other hometown heroes by the way of Benjamin Adegbuyi and Catalin Morosanu picked up some wins as well.

Semi Finals: Frank Munoz (R3 - Dec.) Nikolaj Falin

Semi Finals: Sebastian Ciobanu (R3 - Dec.) Vladimir Toktasynov

Claudiu Badoi (R3 - Dec.) Stelios Papadopoulos

Benjamin Adegbuyi (R3 - Dec.) Jairizinho Rozenstruik

Stauros Exakoustidis (R2 - TKO) Ionut Atodiresei

Catalin Morosanu (R1 - TKO) Eduardo Mendes

Finals: Sebastian Ciobanu (Ext.R - Dec.) Frank Munoz

Wednesday, 22 May 2013 08:15

For those that might have forgotten, Badr Hari is set to square off with Zabit Samedov again on May 25th in Russia at LEGEND FC, which also features the return to the ring of Aleks Emelianenko, the brother of Fedor Emelianenko. He'll be fighting none other than Bob Sapp. Yes, that Bob Sapp.

To top it off there will be a one-night, four-man tournament featuring 71kg fighters. It's Arture Kysheno vs. Yuri Bessmertny and Dzhabar Askerov vs. Enrico Gogokhia. That is a pretty good card, is it not? Anyway, here is the new official promo video for the event with a lot of Badr Hari featured in it.