Malik Arash Mawlayi wins ESPN Martial Combat belt in Singapore

photo: espnstar.com

The "Natural Born Killer" Malik Arash Mawlayi defeated the American striker Cyrus Washington last night, to become the new ESPN Martial Combat world champion at 72kg. Malik did not let the 7cm height advantage of his opponent factor into the fight, as he capitalised on a mistake by Cyrus, took his back, and forced him to tap out in the first round due to a rear naked choke.

Egon Racz unfortunately lost his fight against the highly rated Filipino fighter Eduard Folayang. The fight was stopped due to a guillotine choke.

Congratulations to both fighters from all of Legacy Gym!

Keep an eye on the blog for more pictures and videos of the fights, I will post them as soon as they become available. For detailed coverage of the event, check the articles below:

• Malik Grounds Cyrus for MMA Title
• Thrilling End to Martial Combat 4
• Singapore's Brian "Polar Bear" Choi clinches rousing victory at Resorts World Sentosa

Frankie gets stopped by vicious elbow in his first muay thai fight

Frankie from San Francisco, who has been training at Legacy Gym for only a couple of weeks, had his first muay thai fight last night. Having taken the fight with 2 days notice, Frankie was matched up against a much more experienced Thai opponent but, unfortunately, got caught by a nasty elbow in the first round, which ended the fight.

Frankie left Ubon today to make his way back home, with a few stitches as a nice keepsake. Everyone at Legacy was impressed with his guts and courage and wish him the best in his future fight career.

Good luck, Frankie. Travel safe.

video of the fight

Watch Malik's promo video for ESPN's Martial Combat

Yes, it is Malik, back when he had hair and cheeks...


And here is an article on the build-up for the fight, published by the bleacher report:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/401985-the-war-in-singapore-usa-vs-afghanistan-at-martial-combat-4

Eamon wins local muay thai fight in the third round

Last night, Eamon from Ireland fought at a local event in Amnat Charoen an won by stopping a much more experienced Thai opponent in the third round with a vicious body kick. Well done, Eamon! Click below for videos of rounds 2 and 3 of the fight.

round 2


round 3

Egon Racz confirmed to fight in next Martial Combat event in Singapore

Egon "Piranha" Racz from Legacy Gym will join Malik Arash Mawlayi on the fight card of the next Martial Combat event, scheduled to take place on 17 June 2010. Egon will fight the Philipino fighter Eduard "Landslide" Folayang, who has an MMA record of 6-1-0 and is the current welterweight champion of the URCC promotion, based in the Phillipines.

Both Egon and Malik will be flying to Singapore this week for the big event, and we will be updating the blog with links to the fight videos as soon as we get them. Good luck, Egon!