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ThaiFor Fighters wanting to register for the daytime competition or spectators wanting to watch “Proving Grounds” Muay Thai tournament follow the link https://kiosk.eztix.co/kiosk/5257 early registration discounts are available till May 19th. Be a part of B.C. Muay Thai history.

Tickets for the night time show are now available at ticket zone http://www.ticketzone.com/1125444-Proving-Grounds-tickets/Proving-Grounds-Burnaby-BCIT-Main-Gym-June-02-2012.html or call Joel Wasel @ 604-805-9786, Jason Fenton 778 -235-7471 or Gerry Gianco @ 604-435-7777 Tickets starting at $35.

The B.C. Amateur Modified Muay Thai series are kickboxing tournaments that have been created so students of the martial arts can reach their full potential as fighters. This is the perfect event for anyone thinking about stepping into the ring one day as well as kick-boxers wanting to test their skill. By competing in this tournament and putting it on the line you will learn what it takes to become a real fighter. Let’s take kickboxing to the next level in B.C.

After the fight, Justin Pierrot interviewed Kiarash Moghaddam to find out what he had to say about his victory over Nick Bautista…

It seems like Nick Bautista didn’t really have much of an answer for to your leg kicks tonight. He seemed to be shying away from your punches. Were you expecting that kind of reaction?

Three years ago I fought (Bautista’s) his coach, he won unanimously… After that fight I went to Thailand… I trained so hard. Tonight I just wanted to prove that I changed… it was a great fight.

You had a very calculated style in there, you kept him at a distance, you were snapping off those brutal looking leg kicks, was that all part of your strategy?

He wanted to clinch and do leg kicks – so I wanted to to do boxing. Clinch he didn’t have a chance, boxing he didn’t have a chance… all he did was low kicks and front kicks, he was a tough guy, he has a tough coach, but I’ve got the best coaching, I’ve got the best best support team… so lucky to have that.

Seeing Red 3
MMA Live in The Cage!

Boulevard Casino – Red Robinson Show Theatre
Saturday, September 10, 2011 @ 7:30 p.m.

For immediate release: Friday, August 26, 2011

Will “The Prince” SLAY “The Dragon”?

Coquitlam, B.C: After TWO successful live MMA events in “The Cage”, West Coast Promotions looks to repeat their success in presenting their fifth MMA event “SEEING RED 3 – MMA Live In The Cage!” at the Red Robinson Show Theatre located in Coquitlam, BC.

SEEING RED 3 promises to be the most exciting MMA event in 2011 as two of B.C’s best welterweights square off in the main event!  Saeid “The Prince of Persia” Mirzaei of Reality MMA takes on Victor “The Dragon” Wang of Posener’s Pankration for the vacant WCMMA Welterweight Title.  Both fighters are coming off vicious TKO and submission victories.  This fight will NOT go the distance!

SEEING RED 3 will also feature 11 more bouts.  These bouts will be announced shortly, so stay tuned!

Want to find out more and see photos of our events and fighters? Visit our Facebook fan page at www.facebook.com/westcoastpromotions.  Hit “Like” for the chance to win 2 cage side tickets to SEEING RED 3.

UPDATE: Here is the Fight Card to date:

Here are some highlights from Summer Slugfest IV in 2010.

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Jamie Graff vs Kevin Madrid

Bryce Kilpatrick vs Bill Else

Jordan Gallagher vs Norm Nadeau

Rico Brinson vs Brandon Lynd

Jordan Manning vs Reggie McGinty

Radley da Silva vs Morgan Littlechild

Adam Blanchette vs Tony Strong

Mike Munsie vs Chad Gerow

Joe Halfar vs Josh Wright

Quest for Glory: No Second Chances, gave the downtown Granville strip a great hit of tough MMA and Muay Thai Action. Here are the results, posted as soon as the event is done.

The Vogue Theatre in all its historical glory is ready to make history again when it hosts its first MMA Event – Quest for Glory FC 2 – on Friday, July 8th, 2011.

This remarkable event will be headlined by 3 Muay Thai title matches and great MMA title contenders matches.

The Muay Thai titles consist of a 185 lbs Muay Thai Title super bout between the Iron City Muay Thai product Adam Blanchette and Sanshou Champion Tony Strong of Stand-up Muay Thai.  Tony Strong holds a record of 4-0 and Adam 4-2.

The main event will be 160 lbs Muay Thai title bout between current title holder Joe Halfar (Poseners Pankreation 5-1) and Josh Write 3-1 (Dragon’s Den Elite) which was originally scheduled for Quest for Glory FC 1 but had to be postponed.

The other Muay Thai title consists of long time veteran Toby Cleary of Carlson Gracie Academy in Maple Ridge with an 8-2 record versus Nick Udivisic 2-0 from Iron City Muay Thai in the 170 lbs division.

This card will also feature the return of 2-0 Chad Gerow from Revolution. Gerow will face off against United Martial Arts and former college wrestler Mike Munsie.

Tickets are on sale through Voguetheatre.com.

Visit QuestforGloryfc.com for more info. Tickets will sell fast, so be a part of history and witness the Quest For Glory.

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Official Fight Card:

160 LBS MUAY THAI TITLE BOUT:
JOSH WRIGHT (DRAGONS DEN ELITE) VS JOE HALFAR (POSENERS)

170 LBS MMA #1 CONTENTDER:
CHAD GEROW (REVOLUTION) VS MIKE MUNSIE (UNITED MMA)

185LBS MUAY THAI TITLE BOUT:
ADAM BLANCHETTE (IRON CITY MUAY THAI) VS TONY STRONG (STAND UP MUAY THAI)

145LBS MMA:
DANE NEWAL VS DEE OBARO (FIGHT PIT)

170LBS MUAY THAI TITLE BOUT:
NICK UDIVISIC (IRON CITY MUAY THAI) VS TOBEY CLEARY (CARLSON GRACIE MMA)

135LBS MMA
MORGAN LITTLECHILD (KAITAN MMA) VS RADLEY DA SILVA (CLINCHE/AXE)

150LBS MMA:
JORDAN MANNING (PHEONIX RISING) VS REGGIE MCGINTY (WEST COAST BJJ)

165 LBS MMA:
BRANDON LYND VS RICO BRINSON (RAW)

145LBS MMA:
JORDAN GALLAHGER (WEST COAST BJJ) VS NORM NADEAU BAD BOY’S

165LBS MMA:
BRYCE KILPATRICK (REVOLUTION) VS BILL ELSE (FIGHT PIT)

135LBS MMA
MARK BALMES (GRAVITY) VS DEREK GRANT (BRANDED MMA)

155LBS MMA:
JAMIE GRAFF (WEST COAST BJJ) VS KEVIN MADRID (MENDOZA MMA)

170LBS MUAY THAI:
MARTIN KWIATOWSKI (POSENERS) VS LUKE WINCKLER (GRIFFINS)

Quest For Glory FC 2: No Second Chances will be on July 8th at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, BC.

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Navi Mazary took the first fight of the night, in super middleweight Muay Thai against Jeremey Neufeld with an early TKO. Navi did put in a hard leg kick on Neufeld, but afterward said that he felt that Neufeld just wasn’t prepared for the fight. Neufeld took it hard in the corner early and then went down with an apparent knee injury.

Palvir Atwall from Bisla’s in Surrey had a strong win against Rob Kreuse from Wolfe’s Den, North Vancouver by judges unanimous decision. Going in with the definite height and reach advantage, Atwall said he put his strategy on those assets and used his jab and rights as well as he could. The 15 year old Atwall looks forward to more action and eventually moving up in weight divisions.

Chris ‘The Predator’ Hansen was the winner by triangle choke in the first round over Sean Devries. I asked Chris what his game plan was, and did he expect to get a triangle submission so quickly?
“Yeah, triangle choke is my bread and butter, I’ve got long legs, so triangle choke is usually what I go for… I was going to stand with him a little bit more, but I felt his power right away, decided think it would be a smart thing to do. He bloodied me up on the ground, he has lots of power. So hats off to Sean Devries.”
Chris said his plans are to keep fighting, work on his stand up, and will be submitting more people in the future.

Ryan Daley was declared the winner by judges unanimous decision in the evening’s only straight up kickboxing bout, in the heavyweight division Lloyd Kenny. Ryan says his game plan going in was “…lots of jabs. Lots of leg kicks, wear him down.” And besides that? “Being busy, keep on top of him, moving around, good technique, (it) seemed to work.”

I asked Suraj Bangarh, how he felt to be half of tonight’s unanimous draw in a Muay Thai bout at 147 lbs, you got that draw off a point deduction, how are you feeling about that?
“Pretty upset actually, it makes me feel like I didn’t do too much, felt like I had the fight. 2nd round could have been a tie. 1st round was his, the 3rd round was mine, it should have gone toward me. What can you do?
As you mentioned in 2nd round and in the 3rd round, you were coming back with huge kicks, was that part of your training that you specifically focused on, or did it feel right at the moment?
I’ve been doing martial arts for 11 years in my life now, mostly karate, just started kickboxing for 3 years now, kicks come from my karate background, definitely.

I asked Houtan Ali Kashani, the other competitor of tonight’s draw in the Muay Thai bout, about the deducted point for a low shot. Houtan said he was surprised to get the deduction right away, before receiving a warning… Very understandable. Your opponent, seemed to have trouble with your jabs, and throwing jabs over his teeps?
He is a Karate guy, he tried to throw more front kicks, but front kicks don’t work on me. Walking in to it, it will hit you, but just standing there, its not gonna work.

Sebastian Ankiel from Team Karma got his win against Jessie “The Russian Bear” Makortoff, in almost record time, with a dominant performance in the heavyweight division for MMA. Ankiel admitted “… it feels pretty good. First fight out. Make a statement, I think I did that today.” Ankiel also confirmed that in preparation for the fight he brought down his weight from 307 to 244 lbs, by training almost full time.

Cheryl Chan quickly took out Femina Wachal to win the AMA Women’s flyweight champion belt.
28 seconds is the fastest submission of the night so far. You rocked her with a really solid punch and then she just turtled. What was going through your mind when you saw her back?

I grabbed her neck and choked her out, been working on it for a long time… instinct, Soon as she turned her back, I jumped her.

What a way to rebound after last fight at Trail at AM 4 fight night where unfortunately didn’t come up on top. looks like you turned corner and new chapter starting.

I learnt a lot from that last fight. I Got back into gym, Trained really hard. I think I grew a lot more than any other fight than any other fight. I got refocused and got ready to get back in there.

Wade Apps, won his mma fight over Parker Lang, in the last 20 seconds of round 1. Apps had a impressive round of ground and pound, Taking it into a shoulder lock. .Was that what you were looking to do, go for the submission, or did you have other things in mind?

It was more or less what I wanted to do, to take him down, heard he had decent striking. So I wanted to to take him down, thats what happened.
Wade says he is looking for more amateur fights, and then will turn pro.


Bruce Tran was the winner of the co-main event, Muay Thai at 135 lbs by split decision from the Judges over Jay Jauncey from WKX. Tran said, “I feel very exhausted, a pretty cool fight, could have gone either way, did the best I could… he has some pretty good front kicks, I had to watch for his moves.”

Tricky Nick Marinos is now the AMA Welterweight champion, the winner by stoppage in round 3 over Brett Lucero from Crisis MMA in Olympia WA.

I feel good, was little worried about my cardio, because I packed on some weight for this fight, because I knew my opponent was gonna be much bigger, the knees, so I needed to have the same kind stopping power back… every fight that Ive gotten into I’m confident that I’m going to win but I always have that worry… every fight I get into I know my guard game is pretty strong, even though he is on top of me, I can hold that position for a long long time and wait for the right moment to either get out or do a reversal, once I get on my game, I don’t scramble and make bad decisions, my game plan worked. I knew he was bigger he was stronger, a champion from Washington State, I had to take my time to wear him out, and as soon as I saw him getting into round 3, and I saw his punches getting slow, I saw his punches slowing down, I came in with that hook, and I stopped him, rung his bell, and then boom, the take down! I got on top, the plan worked out great.