Friday Night Fights 8-Man Tournament

Eight Men Enter, One Man Leaves
Broad St. Ballroom, New York City

The night was record-breaking for several notable reasons, the least of which was the 105 degree temperatures in downtown Manhattan. Inside the Ballroom, the A/C was pumping alongside the beats and the swelling crowd buzzed with chatter about the night to come:
“Will Rigel show all he’s got?”
“LeGrand or Sheridan? What about the underdogs, Huang and Edgerton?”
“Where is this kid Mauceri from? ...they have Muay Thai up there???”
All questions would be answered by nights’ end. So now let me, your humble narrator, take you through the action.

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Showdown - 1st Anniversary

TaKeOn Productions celebrated their first birthday this Sunday afternoon, at the 7 Train Theater in Queens this afternoon. The timing lent a strange mood to the crowd collected in the darkened club, and it took a lot to get them out of their seat and cheering, but that didn’t stop the fighters from leaving everything they had in the ring and putting on some amazing performances. The show was being billed as “The Big Payback” referring to the main event match-up between Sitan’s Rami Ibrahim and AFC/Varner’s Combat’s Lennox Chance. Chance had defeated Ibrahim in an MMA match some months ago, taking Rami to the mat and out of his main game. This would be an opportunity for Ibrahim to avenge that loss in an arena more suited to his style of fighting. But first, there were several fights that showed the true grit of the NYC Thai Boxers.

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Friday Night Fights 9/24/10

A chatty crowd filed into the Broad Street Ballroom this Friday night, as if the local happy hours emptied right into the venue. Announcer "Diamond" Dave Diamante was looking sharp in a shiny silver suit, and the ring girls were dazzling. The crowd was looking forward to a night of equally shining and dazzling Muay Thai action, featuring a lot of local favorites and tough out of town challengers.

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Friday Night Fights 7/22/10

The Friday Night Fight series has been showcasing up and coming talent from around the US and Canada on Friday nights, starting NYC weekends off with a bang. The summer season has influenced the series' promoter Justin Blair to start the weekend early over the summer, moving his show to a Thursday night, getting a jump on the weekend festivities. A fight card that featured some familiar names and some new ones set the stage for a great night of action.

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TaKe-On's 8-Man Tournament

A Night That Made Men into Warriors, and Warriors into Champions

As if the 8-man Tournament wasn’t enough to draw out every red-blooded Muay Thai fan in the NYC Tri-State Area, the boys at TaKe-On Productions padded the line-up with three scheduled Superfights, rematches involving some of the most popular fighters from the US’s East Coast, and Canada. The card promised a night of action hot enough to rival the heat-wave that had settled over NY, and it definitely delivered the heat and some powerful storms.

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