THE MOST FUN YOU CAN HAVE ON ATHURSDAY NIGHT IN ORANGE COUNTY !!!
Three Orange County fighters, a BIG heavyweight bout, and two good MMA bouts are what fight fans will get at the Thursday, August 29th Fight Club OC show in The Hangar at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa.
That’s the good news ….. the bad news is that the show is already SOLD OUT and only a limited number of Standing Room tickets are being sold for $30. This marks the 21st consecutive sellout for Fight Club OC and a huge thank you to the fans that have made Fight Club OC “the most fun you can have on a Thursday night in Orange County”. Your fights for the upcoming August 29th show are listed here.
Costa Mesa: There is an old saying that says “it isn’t bragging if it is true”, and that really rings true for the Thursday, June 20th Fight Club OC show. Promoter Roy Englebrecht isn’t bragging when he says that the featured bout on the card may be the best matchup in the past 10 years.
8-0 Jordan Panthen set to face 8-2 Victor Toney
“Without a doubt most every promoter, matchmaker, trainer, and booker will be watching this bout which will feature 8-0 Jordan Panthen vs 8-2 Victor Toney,” said Englebrecht. “Panthen, a former national amateur champion, has 7 knockouts and is coming off a second round knockout over tough 19-5 Ravshan Hudaynazarov on the April Fight Club OC show. Victor Toney with six knockouts, and the cousin of former world champion James Toney, is coming off a big upset win over 13-1 Jahyae Brown on a DAZN show, plus he went the distance with current WBC world champion Sebastian Fundora. You do not want to miss the fight.”
The six bout fight card will feature the return of 3-0 Dorian Mendez as he faces 1-2 Raymond Benavides. 5-0 Jamie Cerna returns to Fight Club OC and fights for the Tequila Mandala Young Champions Belt against 2-2 Simon Aristegui from Oxnard. We have one light weight MMA matchup in the middle of the show set with Adam Garcia facing Curtis Hill. Plus, two fighters making their boxing pro debuts will be Billy Jamal Timmons from Cypress as he faces Nesly Trezile from Los Angeles. Our opening boxing bout will see Steven Shareef debuting against Julian Baez a veteran of one pro fight.
Fight fans will certainly get their money’s worth at the Thursday, April 4th Fight Club OC show as five pro boxing bouts and two pro MMA bouts are featured that will have The Hangar at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa rock’en and rolling!
Fans will see the return of one of the top middleweight prospects in the country as 7-0 Jordan Panthen meets tough Uzbekistan star 19-5 Ravshan Hudaynazarov in an eight round matchup.
The Tequila Mandala Young Champions Bout will see former Marine Sean Sharaf take his 2-0 record vs Lancaster’s Chadricc Kindle.
The April 4th show will also see recently signed SOCA Fights prospect Dorian Mendez facing Ezra Rabin out of Oakland, CA.
Plus many more of the best local up and coming talent Southern California has to offer will be featured on this April 4th show. Less than 40 tickets remain online at www.socafights.com so don’t delay as this show is guaranteed to sell out! This is Fight Club OC, where we will sell you the whole seat, but you’re only going to need the edge!
Opening Night of the 14th year of Fight Club OC shows, set for Thursday, February 15th, will showcase one of the nation’s top middleweight prospects, as undefeated 6-0 Jordan Panthen continues his climb up the rankings meeting Philippine’s tough Adam Abdulhamid, who brings a solid 18-14 record with 9KO’s into the six round featured bout. And if either fighter needed more incentive, the winner will take home the Tequila Mandala Young Champions Belt.
The Hangar at The OC Fair & Event Center will be rocking with fans enjoying five other solid pro boxing and MMA bouts that even feature several OC athletes.
What a way to end the 13th year of Fight Club OC shows and give the best fight fans in Southern California an early Christmas present.
How about two heavyweight bouts…six undefeated fighters… a potential Title Bout and 10 total bouts!!
NOTE – For this show and because of the number of bouts the FIRST BOUT begins at 6pm, with doors opening at 5:30pm
11-0 Austin Brooks in a potential WBA America’s Title fight vs. an opponent TBA. Top heavyweight and former world challenger 29-3 Kubrat Pulev vs. Chicago’s 34-2 Andrzej Wawrzyk – OC’s 13-1 Luke SantaMaria vs. tough Cameron Krael – 17-1 Tervel Pulev vs. 6-3 Dionardo Minor in a second heavyweight battle – LA’s 14-2 Viktor Spavinskyl vs. veteran Darel Harris – undefeated 8-0 Samuel Arnold vs. 3-0 Andres Martinez – MMA action sees 2-0 Daniel Park vs. Tucson’s Humberto Duarte – undefeated 10-0 Rene Moreno battles veteran Diuhl Olguin – Riverside’s Dan Hernandez faces Parley Jessop – and for the Tequila Mandala Young Champions Title bout it will be Riverside’s Nate Palencia vs. LA’s Dorian Mendez
*** Again this show starts at 6pm with doors at 5:30pm.
“A mixed martial artist fighting a boxer in an MMA fight gives the MMA fighter a huge advantage, and the same goes true for MMA fighters engaging in a boxing match with a boxer. It’s really not a fair fight,” said Hall of Fame promoter Roy Englebrecht. “On October 26, Lisa Mauldin and Angel Blackwell will get their chance to test the waters in boxing without having to do so against someone with a huge stylistic advantage. These two ladies know how to fight. Now they want to box, and I’m expecting a barnburner.”
Currently 6-3 as an MMA pro with three finishes, Irvine’s Lisa Mauldin has been on a tear in the PFL promotion, where she’s won two straight, including a third-round stoppage of highly regarded Helen Peralta in February and a first round submission of Desiree Yanez in August. Now she’ll look to close out 2023 in the boxing ring with a win over Blackwell.
Fighting out of San Diego, Angel Blackwell not only has a long amateur background in MMA, but she turned pro last year on a Combate Global Exclusivo card and even has experience as a professional wrestler. But now it’s time to step between the ropes for what she expects to be the biggest fight of her career thus far.
Englebrecht Promotions & Events returns to the Hangar at the OC Fair & Events Center in Costa Mesa, CA on August 24thfor another summer scorching Fight Club OC show! With eight (8) bouts this card it is stacked and packed! Showcasing all this talent on one hybrid boxing/MMA card, is one event you are not going to want to miss! 120 tickets remain so don’t delay and secure your tickets today before its too late at www.socafights.com.
For the past 13 years and 25 years before that at the Irvine Marriott, these two fight series were know as the launching pad for fighters making their pro debuts and a place where they could shine and start their journey in the fight game. Thursday, June 8th at Fight Club OC will be no different as five young fighters will be making their professional debuts. Fight Club OC fans know debut fights can be some of the most exciting fights of the night, so as the tradition goes be prepared to wad up a couple of dollars. With less than 200 tickets remaining for this June 8th show featuring four Boxing and two MMA, secure your seats today online at www.socafights.com
Tequila Mandala Young Champions MMA Bout
Tequila Mandala decided it was time to Sponsor an MMA Bout so on June 8th Jose “El Chingon” Huerta from Bell Gardens returns to Fight Club OC, this time for a Young Champions Belt when he faces tough Carlos Elizarraraz from Santa Ana fresh off his April 13th win. Huerta who has been training harder than ever has never been more ready to answer this challenge. This final bout of the evening is set for 3 Rounds at 5 Minutes each in the Bantamweight division. Also in MMA action on June 8th will be Huntington Beach’s Nick Olson a veteran of two professional fights as he takes on Kasamune Spirits, a kickboxer who will bemaking his professional MMA debut out of Valencia, CA.
Pro Debut Boxers Highlighted On June 8th Fight Card
Headlining the boxing side of the pro debut fighters will be Lucas Parks hailing originally from Sweden, now representing Laguna Niguel as he makes his pro debut against Frankie Pizzurro also debuting from Las Vegas. This fight is set at Middleweight and is a guaranteed fireworks bout! Riverside boxing fans will be in the house come June 8th when Adrian Trujillo is back in action after his unanimous decision win in April against Sabino Sanchez. Nate Palencia from Riverside is also set to make his boxing pro debut at Super Lightweight. And opening the show will be Riverside’s Eric Valdivia as he steps into the ring for the first time as a pro fighter. Opponents TBA shortly.
By Tom Donelson / Author, Member Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) and contributor to www.dmboxing.com since 2008
Vasyl Lomachenko seems to have been with us for a long time, but he has only fought 19 professional fights. He fought for his title in his third fight as he upset Gary Russell Jr for Russell’s feather weight title. My first thought was that he would go the way of past Olympic stars who went for the title too early in their careers. Davey Moore in, his ninth fight, won the world super welterweight title but in his thirteenth fight, he lost to Roberto Duran and from that point, was never the same fighter. He went on to lose four more times and retired with an 18-5 record.
Olympic gold medalist Pete Rademacher fought Floyd Patterson in his first fight as a pro for Patterson’s heavyweight title. He knocked Patterson down in the second round but then hit the canvas six times before the fight was stopped. He then lost to heavyweight contender Zora Folley. He went on to fight many contenders and finished with a 15-7 record. Then there was Leon Spinks who won a heavyweight title from Muhammad Ali in his eighth fight before losing the rematch. From that point he went from the apex of the sport to mediocrity finishing with a 26-17 record.
Lomachenko never suffered the fate of the other Olympic champions who won or fought for titles too early in their careers. He has a 13-1 record in championship bouts and now he is facing Devin Haney for all of Haney’s belts.
At 35, Lomachenko still has the talent to win the title back, but Haney is a good boxer who has the speed and agility to frustrate Lomachenko.
Haney went to Australia to capture the lightweight titles as he defeated Georgie Kambosos Jr. in Kambosos backyard. And when he defended his title, he went to Australia to give Kambosos a shot to regain his title, but he won even more easily.
This bout is an interesting bout for both are good boxers, but Lomachenko can turn aggressor if the needs arrive. Haney surprised everyone when he went down under and easily out boxed Kambosos not once but twice. Haney strength will be his quickness and mobility whereas Lomachenko is a good boxer in his own right, but he also can be a good inside fighter with body shots. Lomachenko doesn’t have the quickness of Haney so he may be forced into trench warfare to reduce Haney’s mobility. While Haney has had more fights overall, Lomachenko has been involved with more championship bouts and his lengthy amateur career supplemented his professional career. Lomachenko is the rare fighter who quickly translated his amateur career into a successful professional career. In his third fight, he won a championship and won titles in three different weight classes. While many favor Haney due to his speed and youth, there is something to be said for experience and Lomachenko has yet to be stopped.
Englebrecht Promotions & Events, has just added an interesting bout to their April 13th Fight Club OC show at The Hangar in Costa Mesa, California. Cruiserweight Tervel Pulev 16-1 (13 KOs) will face Joel Shojgreen 14-4 (13 KOs) in a scheduled eight-rounder. Tervel is from Sofia, Bulgaria, and will be flying into Las Vegas on April 1st. He is the younger brother of world-ranked Kubrat Pulev, who will be in his corner for the bout. Brooklyn native Shojgreen is a Joe DeGuardia/Star Boxing fighter. The card can be seen on FITE.tv
April 13th Boxing Bouts
6-0 (2KO’s) Sonny “The Bear” Robledo returns on April 13th, this time Robledo will be fighting for the Fight Club OC/Tequila Mandala Young Champions Belt and against 4-1 (3KO’s) Tyrrell Washington from Mira Loma, CA. This fight is set for six rounds in the Super Lightweight division and slated for the final bout of the evening.
4-2 (3KO’s) Fight Club OC veteran Michael Meyers returns against tough Mario Aguirre, a veteran of 24 fights. If you remember the Robledo vs. Meyers from last year you remember six rounds of back and forth action! Meyers plans on showing Fight Club OC fans another outstanding performance in the ring come April 13th.
