F-3 Championship: “The Kill” defends his belt, Naseri wins Muay Thai belt

F-3 Championship: “The Kill” defends his belt, Naseri wins Muay Thai belt

The Coffee Boys View

         Despite how critical The Editor is of F-3 – what with the lack of marketing, shoddy match-making and in the past having cruddy venues – F-3 Championship put on some quality fights and fight fans got to witness some exciting Muay Thai fights, technical boxing bouts, and witness the world’s tallest featherweight put a K-1 vet to sleep.

         It was a shame that there weren’t more people at the show – Badminton Stadium Cheras is a great venue for an event like this being that it has a ton of space, it’s air-conditioned, and it’s situated in a part of KL that’s accessible. Hopefully the people behind F-3 start advertising their events way ahead of time.

         Will “The Kill” Chope, now 14 – 5, extends his win-streak to nine in a row after putting Alex Lim to sleep in under two minutes in the main event of the first day. As per usual, Chope came out with a significant height and reach advantage and he wasted no time in engaging in the clinch. After scrambling to the ground, Chope secured Lim’s back, slapped on the rear-naked choke and it took only a matter of seconds before Lim was out cold.

         Chope, who is a featherweight contended (and recently announced the number 1 contender in the URCC after his domination of Rex de Lara), will likely want to fight for F-3’s featherweight belt in MMA if offered the chance, seeing as he is ironically massively undersized for the welterweight belt. That being said, he has now put away two men in that division, so we’ll wait and see what Chope and F-3 have in store for us.

         One the second day’s main event, we saw Amir Naseri face Q Ekkasit in what was an exciting back and forth Muay Thai fight for the 63 kg belt. Early on in the fight, Ekkasit had Naseri tied up against the ropes and Naseri actually flipped over. Thankfully, he wasn’t injured and got back in the ring and the fight resumed. This would go on to happen several times for both fighters – that’s how hard these men fought.

        

After several rounds of hardcore Muay Thai, Naseri secured the judges’ decision and walked away the new F-3 Muay Thai Champion, with relatively little dispute of the decision.

         Also at the event, Nik “The Bloodhound” Harris – who lost his previous fight to Brad “Vanilla Gorilla” Robinson at Ultimate Beatdown X – got back in the win column by defeating Wing Chun specialist MK Chan in the first round by submission (guillotine choke), after MK spent a good deal of time trying to grapple Harris to the ground.

         There was also a couple boxing bouts, one that was met with much controversy. James Goyder, combat sports journalist for websites such as MMAMania and Combat Asia – who recently lost in his boxing debut to Juggernaut Fight Club’s “The Slasher” – fought Wan Ridzuan in a rather one-sided affair. Goyder, possessing significant height and reach advantage, was more the aggressor and landed some decent combinations. Ridzuan did, however, land some significant shots in, but it certainly did not look like enough to have beaten Goyder.

         As the commentator was about to read out the judges decision, the referee had been expecting Goyder to get the nod and already lifted his hand up. However, Ridzuan was announced the winner via split-decision. Afterwards upon inspection of the official scorecards, it was revealed that there had been a miscalculation (take that with a grain of salt), and that it was actually a draw. F-3 have officially ruled the bout a draw between Goyder and Ridzuan.

         It was a fun weekend of fights, and we here at Rear Naked News (well The Coffee Boy) hope they really stick around for a long time (but only if they start marketing themselves better, and fix some things here and there such as match-making and in-venue stuff like having a concession stand). Posted below are the full results from both days:

Main Events

For the F-3 63kg Muay Thai championship belt.
Amir Naseri vs Q Ekkasit - Amir won by decision.

For the F-3 Welterweight MMA championship belt.
Will "The Kill" Chope vs Alex Lim TNT - Will Chope won via Rear Naked Choke in 2:40 of the 1st round.

Co-Main Events

Ediey Selindang Kuning vs Yodphed Jr. Thailand - Ediey won by decision.

Barbod Global Elite vs Yodphed Thailand - Yodphed won via TKO in 2:30 of the 4th round.

Main cards

Boxing Bouts

James Goyder vs Wan Ridzuan - Draw

Jon Thoo vs Hashim Abdullah - Draw

MMA Bouts

Nik "The Bloodhound" Harris vs MK Chan - Nik Harris won via guillotine choke in 2:20 of the 1st round.

Kenny Yap vs Khairul Izhar - Kenny Yap won via tap out due to strikes in 4:28 of the 1st round.

Fouzien "Underdog" vs Mohd "Bullkiller" Zakhir - Bullkiller won via Rear Naked Choke in 2:36 of the first round.

Faizal Fozi "Ajoy" vs Isaac Yap - Ajoy won via Anaconda Choke in 0:50 of the 1st round.

Muay Thai bouts

Ella Tang vs Rodiah - Ella Tang won via TKO in 2:10 of the 1st round.

Zulkifli vs Arya Kambiz Warriors - Zulkifli won by decision.

Nik "What's my f**king name?" Harris!