Island Fight Night – Phuket Gets Ready For Battle

Island Fight Night – Phuket Gets Ready For Battle

Published on July 4, 2012 by The Editor in NEWS

Island Fight Night ~ A Fun Night of Battle in Phuket

Phuket Top Team continue their rise to dominance in Asian MMA with the next stage in their story: Island Fight Night.

Because this is the first event and therefore things are liable to change-up until the last-minute there is no confirmed Fight Card yet, but once it is released we will publish it for your information.

Of course it stand’s to reason if you are in or around Phuket then you should go along for a fun night out, Eat, Drink and Watch Fighting on the beautiful Thai Island of Phuket, doesn’t get much better does it. If you have a few dollars burning a hole in your pocket and fancy a quick trip to Phuket, well this is the weekend to do it.

Now of course we can’t all make it, so you will be pleased to hear that the WHOLE event will be recorded live and then after the event once it has been tidied up posted on YouTube. Plans for future events are for them to be streamed live via Ustream.com so we can all be involved.

In an exclusive interview with MMANewsAsia Phuket Top Teams Boyd Clarke told us what it’s all about.

Now to be straight with you all this is not a Professional MMA event, those as we know from our friends at DARE are banned.

This is a place for mainly amateur fights of varying types to give people a solid foundation in a nice safe controlled environment before taking the small step up to events from the likes of MFC and UB and then having proved themselves stepping up a notch again to the likes of DARE, URCC, Legend FC, PRO etc all leading hopefully to a shot at ONE FC.  A very smart move as that has long been a gap in the market. A safe opportunity to get started.

This event will include Muay Thai, Boxing, Submission Grappling and a special pro fight called TK-1 (This is the only Pro fight).

They expect 6/7 fights on the night, but there could of course be late additions.

As it stands now expect: 2 amateur MMA bouts, 2 muay thai bouts, 1 ADCC rules grappling, 2 amateur boxing bouts and 1 TK1 Fight.

One very interesting fight will be a super fight: of submission grappling (ADCC rules)  between Andree Leone (One FC/ Road FC) and Anthony Leone (Bellator) – Yes, Leone vs Leone, it should be fun calling that fight.

To begin with it will be mostly fighters from Phuket, Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Issan based MMA gyms, In fact anywhere in Thailand that wants an amateur fight.

Boyd added this:

“we are actively seeking sponsorship – so if anyone wants to sponsor a night we will show the banner before each fight and on the youtube upload it will flash before and after fights. for the second event we stream live on Ustream across the globe and will then advertise the product world-wide”