World Championship Kickboxing makes its first foray into the fight capital of the world, Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday, December 14th at the just opened spectacular Palms Casino Resort. The all professional six bout card features two IKKC world title fights and the first ever Omnoi Stadium Championship outside of Bangkok, Thailand.
The first fight of the night is set to go off at 6:30pm and pits two outstanding amateur fighters set to make their pro debut. Undefeated Joshua “The Avenger” Bendell will take on Fairtex Muay Thai’s rising star, Armando Ramos in a five round Jr. Welterweight non-title bout.
The second fight and first televised fight pits IKKC Intercontinental Muay Thai champion Craig “The Bullet” Buchanan squaring off against Thailand’s Somsak Phosrirueng who is a former stadium champion in Northern Thailand. Buchanan is hoping to extend his win streak to seven in a row after defeating champions from France, Japan, Eastern Europe, United States and England. Somsak hopes derail the champion who is on a collision course to face ISKA world champion, Alex Gong sometime in 2002 in Las Vegas
The third fight of the night features IKKC World Champion BM Sasiprapa defending his title against the US Champion James Cook. Both of these fighters display tremendous skills and Sasiprapa is training hard to defend his title against the highly regarded fighter from Fairtex who seems to improve with every bout.
The fourth fight will make history as Omnoi Stadium has agreed to sanction their championship title for the first time on foreign soil. Omnoi Stadium broadcasts their bouts in Thailand on Channel 3 and is considered by many as the pre-eminent stadium in Thailand. Their annual ISUZU Cup championship is the largest payday for a Muay Thai fighter in Thailand. Fasten your seat belts and get ready to witness a war!!!
The fifth fight and the main event of the evening pits two legends of the sport…Manson “The Master Blaster” Gibson and seven-time world champion Cheungpuek Kiatsongrit from Thailand. IKKC world champion Gibson will be defending his belt for the fourth time and if he is victorious, it will mark his 100th professional win. Gibson who defeated Kiatsongrit in Japan wants to make it two in a row and leave no doubt who the best 175-180 fighter in the world is. Kiatsongrit who just devastated a Dutch fighter with a one round KO last month to win another world title knows this fight will not be as easy and has trained extremely hard and is in the best shape of his career. It will be interesting to see how the odds in Vegas change on this fight as the fight gets closer….right now it seems like a toss-up.
To close the show, two top former amateur champions take to the ring….One, Scott Thorson will make his pro debut and the other Ed Wedding will take his unblemished pro recond into his second pro fight. These two fighters were slated to fight many times as amateurs, but for some reason the bout never took place. Now as pros and contracts signed…..there is no backing out in this heated highly anticipated fight.

The significance of this fight card demanded that it be broadcast live on iN Demand pay-per-view, which covers cable households throughout the United States. The event is also being carried on The Dish Network, Viewer’s Choice Canada and Bell Express Canada at a suggested price of $19.95.
The broadcast will begin at 7:00pm PST/10pm EST on December 14th.

But the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas is where fight fans will want to be as they will be able to wager on all six WCK fights for the first time in Las Vegas history. Betting lines will come out approximately seven days before fight night.
Join us live in Las Vegas or on iN Demand pay-per-view for an action packed night of World Championship Kickboxing.

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