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.
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