Young Blood II Auckland 24th May

Strikeforce gym present Young Blood 2, Ocean city restaraunt, 24th May

MMA NZ heavyweight title

Sam Brown vs Leamy Tato

Thai boxing

Ruben De Jong vs Charlie Smiler

Willie Lam vs Ivan Mertic

Antz Nansen vs Nato Laaulu

Illy Ambrozi vs Carmen Thompson

Also lots of exciting undercard fights, looking for opponents for Anton Hunt 81 85kg, 7 fights, slavia 78kg 6 fights,Leroy 66kg 12 fights.

This is gonna be our biggest show yet with 2 professional bouts, Tickets only $25 or $30 at door.

Interesting to see Lemy doing MMA now. Good to see Willie back in the ring too, what weight is that fight at?

Nato always puts on a good show too. Should be a good night of fights.

Good card, good luck Carmen and Willie and Antz sure you will all do well. Good luck putting it together Aaron.

f*ck, cant get the poster up aaron. ill try again tomorw.

all the best to willie lam and Antz, be good to see willie back in the ring, Antz is a machine and smashing everyone in the sparring.

Steve "Action" Anderson vs Leeroy Colquhoun also on the card

Be good to see Steve again. WHo is Leeroy, one of your boys Aaron?

leroy is my boy richy, he has had about 12 fights now and has been fighting in queensland and sydney for his last few fights. He normally fights at 66kg but is stepping up to 68kg for this one.
Really looking forward to nato vs ants for the titles.I have heard great things about ants lately and nato is in great form from his last few wars with ra jonathon and brice baron.Leamy is hanging out to fight as well.
I love bringing the boys to auckland to check out the scene up there,
Rexy

Sounds like a wicked night! All the best to Nato and Leamy, It's good to see fighters from the lower north island on the Auckland fight cards. Im kinda gutted we don't have anyone fighting, was looking foward to payback on the motel scene after Young Blood One. But we'll get you Rex. You wait. Haha

Cheers for that info Rex, I look forward to seeing him in action, sounds like he has some good experience behind him. Antz has gone from strength to strength so that will be a good fight too. Catch up with you at the fights Rex, good luck to your guys preparing, its gonna be a good night.

Leroy vs Steve. Is this Steve's first fight back since tearing his hammy? Didn't know he fought at 68kg, is this his new fight weight?

Guessing the titles will be full thai rules, will this fight be one also?

leroy normally fights full thai now but this one is mod thai as steve not keen on elbows apparently.natos is full thai rules and leamys is full thai plus some optional ground work he he he

sounds like a realy good card. good luck to leamy and after watching nato after his last fight hes in good form go hard bro and to my good mate leroy tell rex to keep you away from h*$#* houses lol good luck

Really looking forward to this one - the last Strikeforce show we went to really went off!

Sam vs Leamy should be a good stouch and I always enjoy watching Willie fight. I saw Nato fight a couple of time when I was working in Welly and that should be a good one too.

We will be selling brawla gear at the event and will have some big specials as part of our stock clearance before our new gear comes in. Big reductions on last years hoodies and some of our older t-shirt designs so come and see us there.

Ok as usual with fight cards a few fights have changed. Carmen an illy is now posponed till July, Antz and Nato is also posponed till later date, Antz took fight on short notice and wont make title fight weight, and Nato only wants to do 5 rounds so this may happen in the future. Antz Nansen will now be fighting Kaota Puna. Harris Ishikawa will be fighting Jonny 'Hurricane' Clapperton. Both fighters underfeated with hard an fast styles.

Here's the poster, will have a go and hopefully it works...

BOA @ ROGUEMAG.COM
Editor

What weight will Kaota and Antz be fighting at?

K and Antz will be fighting 95 to 100kg, ill post fyll card in the next few days

75 to 78kg fighter needed to match luke brinkley, luke only had two fights 1 win 1 loss, anywhere in north island text me 0210344652

ok fight card so far

Jacob Collins vs Charlie Vaki
(Strikeforce Gym) 50kg (Terry Thaiboxing)

Jaskaran Sing vs Eze
(Strikeforce Gym) 50kg E.T.K)

Shelly Mc Bride vs T.B.A
(Strikeforce Gym) 85kg Pathai)

Kane Conlan vs Ra Redden
(Strikeforce Gym) 62kg Reddens Fight Club)

_Ben Sisam vs T.B.A)
(Strikeforce Gym) 75kg (Pathai)

Kaota Puna vs Antz Nansen
(Strikeforce Gym) 100kg E.T.K)

Marc vs Mike Vaki
(Egale Kickboxing) 115kg Terry Thaiboxing)

Mel Prior vs Rohan O'Gara
(Strikeforce Gym) 86kg E.T.K)

Luke Brinkley vs Jo Kelly
(Strikeforce Gym) 75kg Reddens Fight Club)

Duran Butler vs Arash Sherdan
(Strikeforce Gym) 69kg Phanton)

Harris Ishikawa vs Johnny Clapperton
(Strikeforce Gym) 66kg Stormforce gym)

Slava Alexeichik vs Rhys Collier
(City Lee Gar) 79kg (Kapiti Thai Boxing)

Willie Lam vs Ivan Mertic
(Strikeforce Gym) 78kg (S.M.A.C)

Steve Anderson vs Leeroy Colquhoun
(E.T.K) 69kg Reddens Fight Club)

Ruben De Jong vs Charlie Smilier
(Strikeforce Gym) 135kg (smilier Gym)

Sam Brown vs Leamy Tato
(Strikeforce Gym) 110kg Reddens Fight Club)

GO ETK .....

Looks like a good night of fights instore Aaron, especially with the number of big boys on the card. No alternate opponent sorted for Nato?

Good luck to all the fighters.

damn good night that was

results please...

Jacob Collins vs Charlie Vaki
(Strikeforce Gym) 50kg (Terry Thaiboxing)

Jaskaran Sing vs Eze
(Strikeforce Gym) 50kg E.T.K)

Both novice fights - very good work from the kids.

Shelly Mc Bride vs Miss Tiola WON on points unanimous
(Strikeforce Gym) 85kg Pathai)

Kane Conlan vs Ra Redden Ra WON split decision i think - DAMN GOOD FIGHT
(Strikeforce Gym) 62kg Reddens Fight Club)

Ben Sisam WON unanimous vs Julian Mang kon ma
(Strikeforce Gym) 75kg (Pathai)

Kaota Puna vs Antz Nansen WON split decision
(Strikeforce Gym) 100kg E.T.K)

Marc vs Mike Vaki (dont know, sorry, was busy with Strikeforce corner)
(Egale Kickboxing) 115kg Terry Thaiboxing)

Mel Prior vs Rohan O'Gara WON unanimous
(Strikeforce Gym) 86kg E.T.K)

Luke Brinkley WON KO vs Jo Kelly
(Strikeforce Gym) 75kg Reddens Fight Club)

Duran Butler WON KO I think vs Arash Sherdan
(Strikeforce Gym) 69kg Phanton)

Harris Ishikawa WON vs Johnny Clapperton
(Strikeforce Gym) 66kg Stormforce gym)
Harris won the amateur fighter of the night award as well and still unbeaten

Slava Alexeichik WON vs Rhys Collier
(City Lee Gar) 79kg (Kapiti Thai Boxing)

Willie Lam WON (I think, not too sure... sorry) vs Ivan Mertic
(Strikeforce Gym) 78kg (S.M.A.C)

Steve Anderson vs Leeroy Colquhoun Dont know
(E.T.K) 69kg Reddens Fight Club)

Ruben De Jong WON unanimous vs Charlie Smilier
(Strikeforce Gym) 135kg (smilier Gym)

Sam Brown vs Leamy Tato WON on points
(Strikeforce Gym) 110kg Reddens Fight Club)

Great night- very enjoyable...
Here is the full run down on events, pics to follow- click on below link

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ENJOY!!!

BOA @ ROGUEMAG.COM
Editor

Thank you heaps Aaron for looking after us, from the moment we arrived till the very end when the last beer had been drunk. I think you may have to get a bigger venue if you intend to put fights on that are as well matched as this one was!!!

I missed out on seeing most of the fights, but am looking forward to seeing it on Combat videos DVDs...(just a small plug for "Big Tony" who does an outstanding job filming and commentating these figthts :-)

great crowd ,awesome show aaron. It was so packed. The card was top notch.what more can I say.
leamys fight with sam made the night for me.
Thanks again aaron for another great fight trip

Hello Folks

Pic galelries are up,sorry only have the pro fights at this stage... :(
click here link title

ENJOY!!!

BOA @ ROGUEMAG.COM
Editor

hahaha Boa, "A heavier than usual Mel Prior" ... i think that may be the result of a process called growth. seeing as tho iv just turned 17 Lol

All good mate- evolution is a good thing i guess and maybe see you on the heavier weight classes when you about 21?

BOA @ ROGUEMAG.COM
Editor

"A heavier than usual Mel Prior"... Hey, Boa, take it easy, this is the kid's normal weight!:):) We dont want to end up with a little anorexic Mel, dont we? By the way I think that Mel is looking good now, and beside "process called growth" he is generating a sht load of muscled lately.:)

=P thnx illy. i gota stick up for the "looser" built fighters.hahhahaha

Congrats to Harris aswell. Wicked Wicked fight.

hahaha thanks bro, cant really remember much so ill jus have to go with your word until the dvd arrives lmao!

btw mel, checkout the pic on my profile

Yeah Harris deserved AM fighter of the night, very dynamic and his opponent was no push over, it was evenly contested till the third when Harris exploded with a beautiful leaping right hand and then followed up with a second 8 count.

Cool picture, Harris. Looks like you court Steve in one of his bad hair days... again. LOL.

""looser" built fighters"... Mel, Mel, Mel... It looks like we need to talk, young man.:):)

lol thats funny illy. I like that quote on your profile Harris did you write that, your definately living by it, cant wait till we spar next, hehehe

lol give me about a month ..... hahahaha

yeh lol i wrote that quote