KING OF KOMBAT

World Class Cage Fighting

“Where Kings Emerge”

by: Maribel Alkek

King of Kombat had a successful night at the Crockett Center in Austin, Texas on April 05, 2008. A long line of fight fans anxiously waited to enter the Crockett Center for a night full of entertainment.

From the first fight event until now, King of Kombat featuring their third event of “World Class Cage Fighting” continues to bring in the fight fans and are filling the seats quickly.

This night brought a half time show of martial arts kids entertaining the crowd with “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”, bo staff forms and a few other freestyle forms. The crowd enjoyed every minute of that entertainment as they also enjoyed the live band on stage.

First fight of the night started off with Garrett Bennett (Grapplers Domain) and Louis Sims (Texas Gladiators). Both fighters started off with some stand up, but soon Bennett was on Sims back striking from the top. Sims could not fend off Bennett and was tapping out at 2:51 in R1.

Ralph Calvillo d. Chris Kuntschik (Marra Senki BJJ) - TKO 1:49 of R1 ref. stoppage due to strikes. Kuntschik motioned that a strike from Calvillo had apparently scraped his eye, but the fight had ended and boos from the crowd began. Calvillo known as the most hated fighter in Texas had some choice words for the fans.

Conan Cano (Team Xtreme) caught Ryan Caranza in an arm bar at a swift :42 in R1.

Randy Vera (Relson Gracie) took on Adrian Sanchez (Marra Senki BJJ) and had him tapping out at 1:58 in R1 with an awesome triangle choke.

Bloody fight of the evening was Chief Flores vs. Jared Hess (Fighters Inc) with cuts in R1 at 1:52 ref. stoppage. Jared Hess was the winner of this fight by TKO.

Ryan Larson ( Relson Gracie) immediately took Maxwell Smith (Grapplers Edge) to the mat to execute a triangle choke at 1:02 in R1.

Patrick Miller (Grapplers Lair) didn’t give Brandon McDowell (Death Row MMA) a chance to counter as he took back control and struck McDowell on the head and ear to end this match in 4:13 of R1.

In the super heavyweight, we would see Matt Thompson (South Austin Gym) and Chris Guillen (Scorpion's Lair). Most of these rounds were spent on the mat as Thompson attempted a triangle on Guillen but took no affect on him. Guillen dropped some strikes from a standing position and applied some ground and pound on Thompson, but it wasn’t enough to submit Thompson. At the end of the three rounds, Guillen defeated Matt Thompson by split decision.

Kamal Shalorus would end his fight against Jeff Davis in 1:06 of R1 TKO with strikes from the top. Shalorus took home a sword and a a very expensive necklace.

Fight of the night would have to be James “Deuce” King (Grapplers Domain) and Lane Yarbrough(Death Row MMA) two very tough competitors. Lane started off with a running knee strike at Deuce, but the knee strikehad no effect on King. Yarbrough and King went toe to toe, and exchangedseveral blows.While King seemed very relaxed, Yarbrough continued to take the punishment from King. Yarbrough, threw a round kick to King’s head and again it didn’t seem to phase him. After three rounds of going back and forth and an attempted arm bar by King on Yarbrough, the final score gave King the win with a unanimous decision from the judges.

James "Deuce" King vs Lane Yarbrough

Next event will take place July 26, 2008 in Austin, Texas at the Crockett Center where you can see Nick “The Ghost” Gonzalez defend his title against James “Deuce” King. This will be a heck of an event to see and remember seats fill fast at this event. Check out King of Kombat at www.kingofkombat.com for updates on future events.