Gidday Everyone,

Here's the results as best I can remember.

17 Scotty Benson 66kg Vs Ben ‘the Virus’ Ruck 64kg
Scotty by TKO. He was just too good on the night. I felt OK for 2 rounds, but couldn't step it up after that and Scotty unleashed with some long combos that I couldn't answer. If I get a rematch sometime I'll ask Scotty beforehand not to do that again :) Congrats and thanks to Scotty.

16 Glen ‘the Fury’ Fraser 66kg Vs Sone ‘the Arch Angel’ Vanathy 63kg
Yeehaa, what a fight!!!! Glen must have trained his butt off for this. He gave it everything. Sone was his usual awesome self, but he often had trouble countering Glen's excellent come forward style, although both guys landed some big shots throughout. Unfortunately for Glen Sone's experience paid off, and he was able to put 2 8 counts on Glen in the last to take a split decision. Fight of the night, these guys are both sensational.

15 Neil Bryant 82kg Vs Dan ‘3rd Degree’ Burns 82kg
Another punishing performance by Dan to win a unanimous decision. Neil is tough as hell and never gives up. Dan is leaving us for Europe - great send off mate!!

14 Karen Lynch 57kg Vs Tabitha May 58kg
I think Karen won - stoppage by leg kicks, but I'm not certain cos I missed it.

13 Jamie Harleys 80kg Vs Tom ‘Jones’ deGroen 79kg
Bugger me, but is Tom good or what. He looked so well balanced and sharp. They wont exactly be lining up for a piece of him. Jamie was unlucky to get caught hard in the first, which stopped him from showing how good he also is.

12 Larn Sweeney 75kg Vs Sam ‘Fearless’ Fiamatai 72kg
Larn gave it everything. Sam had the advantage in the power department, but Larn wouldn't stop throwing combos, and eventualy he caught Sam with a nice high kick to stop Sam in the third round as Sam was looking to create an opening to finish the fight. I know exactly how you feel Sam mate - we're singing the blues :(

11 Leroy Calhoun 67kg Vs Jason ‘Yoyo’ Yocum 64kg
A great performance by Jason, showing great distancing and beautiful knees to win the fight by stopage (cut???) after the first. Look out for the Yoyo in the future.

10 Chris Mason 87kg Vs Dan Stirling 87kg
Chris had to pull out I think.

9 Quin Maaka 77kg Vs William Tervoort 74kg
Hard fight. I think Will took the first, but Quinn came back to win the last two rounds with nice high left leg whip kicks. Both boys will be sore!!!

8 Mark Anderson 161kg!! Vs Evan ‘the Beast’ Yeoman 105kg
Great fight from Evan - he stayed off the ropes and combo'ed well to get a deserved win over Mark. From what I saw Mark gave it everything too, and every time he threw a bomb I think everyone held their breath.

7 Claire Saxton 56kg Vs Kerry ‘the Smiling Assassin’ Keneally 56kg
Another tough fight. Kery's knees were excellent, but Claire's powerful punches and kicks gave her a close fought win.

6 Glen Foster 79kg Vs Ryan Heketa 79kg
I didn't see it, but I'm pretty sure it was Ryan by knee to the body in the first.

5 Nop 60kg Vs John Turner 60kg
This one was full action too. It was youth versus, hmmm, shall we call it experience :) Youth prevailed eventually to give Nop the win, but great effort by John who became a dad again only a couple of months ago. It's tough for us old guys John!!!

4 Tony Mazur 74kg Vs Harley French 68kg
Didn't see all of this. I think Tony is only about 14 (hope I've got the right guy), and will be one to look out for.

3 Micheal Davids 81kg Vs Tommy Vestin 79kg
Both guys fought a hard tiring fight. Michael mixed his combos a bit better to get the win, but it didn't come easy.

2 Adam Calver 66kg Vs Andrew Hassmann 68kg
Adam took a couple of rounds to get on top of Andrew by using very sharp punch combos, but both guys did themselves proud. Andrew's first fight I think, and he threw some nice shots.

1 James Simpson 75kg Vs Callan Dean 75kg
Callan was a bit too much for James, throwing nice hard hands and knees, but James was very game and gave it everything.

Cheers all. Thanks heaps to Mark for an awesome night, and to all the VUW crew for their support.

Ben