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After a successful debut show, FSN is back firing with the second installment of New Zealand’s premiere multi fight sport event. March 13, witness professional Kickboxing, MMA (mixed martial arts) & Pro Boxing all on one show! We bring together Oceania’s top guns and local stars, for you to enjoy a night of pure athletic entertainment.

We have 17 fights currently confirmed - double the number of fights you’d expect to see in your standard pro fight card. 7x Kickbox/Muay Thai (including a 4-man Muay Thai Tourny) 7x MMA (including the MMA debut of Jaye Pukepuke) 2x Pro Boxing bouts (including Olympic boxer Soulan Pownceby’s homecomming bout) Apologies to the boxing fans, we had a few nightmare pullouts, but promise to up the anti on the next show in the boxing division… Mind you, we’re very excited to have Soulan Pownceby competing in his first Christchurch bout since turning Pro, against harden pro Fale Siaoloa. The doors will open @ 6pm and we will be starting bang on 7pm this time cos we have a lot of fights to get through, so it will be non-stop action all night long! Be there as early as possible for the best seats.

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Headlining “Knees of Fury 28” was WBC Cruiserweight International Champion Charles August and 18 year old upstart from NSW, Cody Brooks. The large crowd in attendance were treated to a tactical 5-round display from each, as August surprisingly opted not to use his devastating punches & took the bout with a variety of jab/cross and jab/low kick combo’s. Cody’s corner clearly knew what type of threat they faced and as a result, his hands were glued to his head for the duration of the bout. Instead of countering and fighting off the back foot though, Brooks was forced to constantly move forward and initiate the action, as August sat on the outside and continually racked up the points with kicks to the legs. Each fighter landed a variety of punishing hooks and crosses through the bout, when they stepped inside and engaged, but the continual finishing of punch combo’s with scoring low kicks from August led him to a decisive 50-47 decision in the end.

Co-headlining the main card was Australian WMC champion Kym Johnson, taking on two time New Zealand WMC champ, Johan Voss. In a bout that most gave the advantage to Johnson, no one quite imagined the steam rolling that then took place. With the second kick to Voss’s leg almost buckling the Kiwi, the pace was set early in the bout as Kym continued to stick and move, landing almost every combination thrown. Late in the first round, Voss was caught flush with a right cross and downward elbow, sending him crashing to the canvas. Johan did well to beat the count & the end of round bell saved him. Round two lasted all of two low kicks though, before Voss’s leg was hacked out and he needed a full 8-count to get back up. Johnson then stepped in and faked a leg kick, only to motion the kick up high and drop the Kiwi with a flush head kick. Somehow managing to beat the 8-count again, Voss gamely continued on. It wasn’t to be though for the Kiwi, as he was dropped with another head kick seconds later, this time leaving him out on the canvas for a few minutes. It was another super impressive victory for Kym Johnson.

Australian WMC champion Gareth Rees made easy work of Perth’s Rob Powdrill. Rob was effective early with inside hook and uppercut combo’s, but looked to gas as early as halfway through the opening round. Rees jumped on the Western Australian fighter the moment he slowed down, using a variety of high/low combination’s to great effect. Late in the first round, Powdrill was getting his lead leg flogged and eventually had to take an 8-count. Round two was a similar story to the first, with Powdrill opening up well with nice hand combination’s, but this time gassing after about 30 seconds. As soon as Rees recognised the wind had left Rob’s sails, he laid on a plethora of punishing body rips, followed by moving in to the clinch and landing knee after knee. Late in the round Powdrill was dropped twice by right elbows, managing to re-compose himself before the 8-count on each occasion. The third round was total domination from Rees, as he ended the fight quickly with knees to the head, inside the clinch. Click HERE to read the rest of the event review

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On the 24th of April 2010 the Sleeman Centre home to some of the best fights seen around the world in the last decade will lead fight fans into the next decade of Muay Thai action. From 6:30 fans can prepare themselves to see hard hitting, adrenaline fuelled action. As the night wears on the intensity will lift, the hits will get harder and the losers will fall harder. The main event on the night will be a contest for the WMC world title . The king of Australian Muay Thai ‘John’ Wayne Parr v Eugene ‘Boom Boom’ Ekleboom. These two champions will fight it out over 5 rounds to see who’s still got the goods. Parr tore apart up-and-comer Eli Maddigan at the end of 2009 to prove he still holds the crown. Now it’s boom boom that will test the king. The winner of this fight will go home with the WMC World Title.

The ‘mad dog’ Eli Maddigan, will be up against long time superstar Bruce ‘the Preacher’ Macfie. A fight many have though should have happened sooner is being offered to fans on this card. Can the star of the Contender Asia Series 2 step up and conquer a fighter with the experience of the Preacher? DDD put together one of the fights of his career at the last event, now he’s back for another 5 round thriller against Chad ‘the stalker’ Walker. Making his way towards the glory of his title shot Dane ‘Daddy Kool’ takes on an international opponent, other international bouts from Michael ‘Tomahawk’ taking on a crafty Thai fighter and Dan Moulder v Super Boi will leave the crowd pumped. If that’s not enough, international star and Contender Asia series 1 fighter Zidov Akuma is coming back to Oz to fight on the card.

The growth of MMA around the world has encouraged the Evolution promoters to bring MMA to Evolution fans. Just like the Thaiboxing the MMA contest will feature a world class fighter in Adrian Pang.

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3 Australian fighters from Jabout Gym are set to co-headline the first ShootBoxing Japan event, for the year. The Aussies fighting on this card will be Greg Foley, Dean Xuereb & Christina Jurjevic. Foley is fighting the former Shootboxing champ Hiroki Shishido, Dean Xuereb is fighting rising Japanese prospect Takaaki Umenoa & 16yr old Christina Jurjevic is stepping up to fight Japanese Shootboxing champ, Rena. You can discuss the event and see the full fight card in the forum area, HERE

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Michael Schiavello is one the best known commentators in combat sports today, he is currently contracted to HDNet in the US and also does work for the Japanese shows K-1 GP, K-1 MAX, DREAM, DYNAMITE and The Contender Asia Reality TV Series and various other shows around the world. He has a unique insight in to the sport sitting ringside for some of the biggest events in the world and it is estimated that Michael has commentated over 5000 fights in K-1, MMA, boxing, Muay Thai, kickboxing, wrestling, Karate, All-Styles and more.. Michael took the time to give us his thoughts on the best fights and fighters of 2009 in both Kickboxing and MMA from his perspective.

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Fields Dynamite held the New Years Eve show in Yokohama Arena this year, the show featured a mix of K1 bouts and MMA bouts and saw a team from Dream take on a team from Sengoku. Dream won the tournament with 5 wins to 4. Also on the card was the final of the Dream Super Hulk Tournament which saw Ikuhisa Minowa defeat Rameau Sokoudjou by TKO via strikes in the 3rd round to take the title. New Zealander Ray Sefo who is currently based in Las Vegas had a K1 bout on the show against Yosuke Nishijima, Ray won the fight via decision and here is the video of the fight

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Sheppster promotions have confirmed the event date and a few of the headline fighters for their first Knees Of Fury promotion in 2010. Coming on the 20th of Feb, 2010, will be the first Knees Of Fury in 2010. Crowd favorites and Australian title holders Andre Meunier, Kym Johnson and Charles August will headline the event, dubbed “Tri Nation Showdown”. Stay tuned to the front page here for more news and updates as they come in, and in the forum section HERE for the latest event gossip and rumors.

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New Zealand Toa Taawhiti Cage Warrior 3 will return to Christchurch on December 5th at Pioneer Stadium. The show will feature a mix of MMA and Muay Thai bouts with the main event seeing local fighter Scott Benson from Academy of Combat taking on BJ Bland from Fightshop in Palmerston North. Scott is coming of a decision loss to Korey Gibson in his last fight and BJ Bland coming off a loss to Easton Nicholls. Both fighters have very good standup up and Scott would have the edge on the ground being a Brown Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu while BJ is a blue belt, but in MMA anything can happen.

The show will have full undercard with Pro and A Class MMA bouts and Temuera Morrison is the host for this event and Perry Cale will be the MC

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Strikeforce held its 4 Supremacy Cage show in Auckland last night, the show featured a mix of Muay Thai and MMA bouts all contested in a cage. The main event saw Sam Striker Brown fighting Benji Knee for the Heavyweight Title Belt, with Sam won the fight in the first round. The co main event was between Eugene Bareman and Rod MacSwain, unfortunately Eugene broke his leg with the first kick of the fight. Rod took the title but stated this is not how he wanted to win and looks foward to fighting Eugene when his leg recovers.

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A change of program will now see The NZ Lightweight Cagefighting Championship Belt being fought by Adam Calver and Daniel Hooker of Fightercenter and trained by John Oleson… Anyone who saw these two go at it at Supremacy3 will know they are both absolute warriors who fought a non-stop battle that went the distance. The score cards had them sepearated by a single point with the previous victory going to Adam Calver.

General Admission $40 pre-sales $50 door sales. Tickets will be on sale from tomorro at NZ Martial Arts Supplies 313 Queen St, NZ Boxer 65a Hillside Rd, Glenfield, Strikeforce Gym 10 Drury St, New Lynn ph Aaron 09 827 1222 or 021 034 4562 Tables of 10 still available - Call Aaron for details YMCA Auckland, Pitt St, doors open at 6

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