Written By: Barry Laminack
With their first weigh-ins now in the books, we are only 24 hours away from the kick off of the first ever Immortal Kombat Fights. The promotion might be new, but many of the names and faces on the card have been around Houston (and Texas) MMA for a long time. There is a good mixture of veterans and young fighters on the card.
As for the weigh ins, it was not the smoothest in the world, but that’s to be expected from a new promotion. Sometimes it’s out of the promoters hands if the guys don’t make weight.
After the dust had settled there are a total of 9 confirmed fights. The only fight still up in the air is Jared Taylor vs Lex Pappas. Taylor didn’t make it to weigh-ins so the state is giving him until Noon tomorrow to weigh in. If he does not, the fight will be off.
At one point, it looked like the Sam Mohamed vs Ricky Compala fight might not happen because of a huge discrepancy in weight. Compala was at 203 and Mohamed was at 187. After some careful checking and re-figuring, the state said that Compala needed to cut 1.5 pounds to make it official. When I left, he was still running around the parking lot in his sweat suit, but I’m told the fight is going to happen.
Here is the final card, with the one fight in italics still up in the air.
Gilbert Jimenez vs Rocky Long – For the Texas Title Belt
Jay Peche vs Derrick Lews
Corey Salter vs Dale Mitchell
Matthew Thompson vs Jon Kirk
Sam Mohamed vs Ricky Compala
Carl Perry vs Kyle Simpson
Lex Papas vs Jared Taylor
Chris Smith vs Marcus Dupar
Noel Ligon vs Edgar Verdin
Daniel Miller vs Jason Sullivan
OH, Congrats to Dale Mitchell for winning the “Biggest Dude in the Littlest Drawers” award…and for droppin’ it like it’s hot on the scale. If you didn’t watch the live broadcast, you missed it!
Enjoy the pics, we’ll see you at the fights.
Rocky Long vs Gilbert Jimenez
Derrick Lews vs Jay Peche
Corey Salter vs Dale Mitchell
Jon Kirk vs Matthew Thompson
???? vs Lex Papas
Chris Smith vs Marcus Dupar
Daniel Miller vs Jason Sullivan
War Sulli !!!!
These match ups are a joke!!!
always a jackazz downing fights!
what weight u fight at babyboom?
Man you always make me laugh …go sulli go noel
Stop my gut is hurting..man y’all need to go on the road……..love the cage door
Those are nice sponsor banners and such.
Went back for a 2nd look. Seriously, are these guys licensed professional fighters?? Half these guys look like they should be wearing ankle monitoring devices.
This douche bag match maker is giving mma an awful name.
And just to show that im not a complete dick, or a hater, I wish everyone fighting on this card good luck. Good luck in your fights, and good luck getting paid after. I have a good feeling Derrick Lewis is gonna reenact a prison shower scene on his opponent, Kirk by however he pleases because hes The Jaguar and he can do that, Sulli wins by old school vintage Sulli “Is his opponent dead” KO, and I see Noel and Edgar having a good fight as well as Taylor and Pappas if it happens. All this is IF the cage is still there if Dale pulls off another slam like he did at WGC. Thats a strong sumbitch right there. As far as the rest of the card goes, I could honestly give a shit.
real shame about whats missing here…that was some capitol business lol. Looking forward to seeing Sully back at it. Im not sure what is going on with Derricks opponent but its hard to believe that he has a fighting chance.
Also hope lex gets a fight. I know he dropped weight fast and hard to get there and he deserves to have his day. War Edgar and of course im looking forward to watching Dale and Cory go at it. Both bigt strong guys and both are fast.
@ carl sagan and arsonist, wtf have you done in the cage? ppl need to train and worry about themselves instead of other ppl. MMA has a bad name from dumb fucks like you two!
“well said Jimenez”..some ppl just know how to fight from the sidelines. step up ladies (sagan & arsonist) we can ask the matchmaker to set it up for you, if you guys think all these fighters are all flukes.