WCL Update Team Philly was victorous over the NY Clash tonight! I did not get the play by play update because the other teams were still fighting and it was very loud. I am sure tomorrow someone will put up the full results, but for now...Stephen Thompson beat Carlos Tearney(sp?) both rounds the word I got was that Carlos stunk the place up by running from Stephen BOTH rounds. He got continous warnings and points taken for passivity to the point where the ref. threatened to DQ him. After that he got more points taken but never got DQ'ed. Peyton Russell KO'ed Lemont Davis with a kick to the head. Jason Bourelly defeated Tom Poey. Vriginia Baker was defeated by Jennifer Santiago. Ronnie Copeland was KO'ed by Armin Mrkanovic. Team Maimi was putting the smack down on New England as I was being updated! Is it possible that Maimi and Huston and Philly and LA will be the next teams to fight? If so...does that mean STEPHEN THOMPSON and RAYMOND "THE REAL DEAL" DAINELS fight be only a few months away??? I think so!

Thank you VERY much for the update. If you find out more please post that info too.

Splendid for Stephen and Peyton, too bad for Ronnie. What about Shannon Hudson ?

Jean-Luc,
I just wanted to let you know that unfortunately Shannon Hudson lost both rounds last night, but I can't remember the guys name! I hope this was helpful!

I found the guys name I believe it was Eric "El Tigre" Castanos. Correct me if I am wrong...

Megan,
You are correct. Eric "El Tigre" defeated "The Cannon" in a CLOSE contest. Shannon is not only a great fighter but an even GREATER showman. He was asked to try to get the crowd involved so, as he told me, he knew he could not get the hometown crowd to like him so he decided to make them HATE him. He actually had some of the Cuban fans (El Tigre is Cuban) threatening to come up on the platform. The Cannon is a showman extrordinare.
The Wonderboy/Showtime fiasco was a FIASCO!!! The Wonderboy could not hit Tearny because hitting on the ground wasn't allowed. The first fight actually looked promising, in the beginning, until the WB punched ST in the head. After that it was a track meet. The second fight between them STUNK!!!!! WB would blitz, ST would fall. This happened time after time. The ref threatened to DQ him on the third rules infraction but several more infractions later he was still there. The reffing, as usual was atrocious (sp?). It is obvious that Cecil Peoples has it in for me (stemming from the very first show last year on Oct 8th in Dallas where I called him on some calls that embarressed him) and he is taking it out on my team. Stephen hit Carlos with a straight left hand to the head that knocked him down but it was ruled a slip/no knock down. There are coachs and fighters I have talked to that says he needs to go. Anyway, it is obvious that I have a problem with his reffing skills. As a person, I do not know the man and have no problem but as a ref?????? Peyton was "The Man" in the Lemont "Bad Boy" Davis fight. Lemont looked, actually, pretty good for most of the fight. He moved, countered with kicks and punches. I was actually impressed. I expected Peyton to take him out within the first 30 sec of the fight but LD took that plan away from us. Peyton got his groove later in the fight and after several round kick attempts to the head one finally slammed in and put LD down. To his credit he stepped up and tried to make a fight out of it but PR was to strong and kicked him again with a round kick to the head to finish it.
Jason Bourelly/Tom Poey fights were nothing short of speed and power vs experience and heart. JB came with some of the fastest/hardest punches and kicks I think I've seen in the WCL (with the exception of the WB, of course) that hit so hard on the the Phenoms gloves that I thought he was going down. Tom did not waiver from his plan (which is where the experience comes in) and took it to JB. TP tried to get inside on JB but JB's speed was so great TP never could get there. You talk about HEART, look it up in the dictionary and I think you will see Tom Poey's pic in the definition. TP has heart but he has skill also. The second fight between these two was similar to the first but TP was able to get a little closer to JB a bit but the outcome was the same. JB over TP (MAN WHAT A COUPLE OF FIGHTS). I can't wait till this stuff hits the airwaves. Can't confirm this but a little birdie said that there is a strong possibility that the show will be picked up by a BIG network early next year. After this weekends show the WCL will have enough footage to edit 12 one hour shows for TV. Lets keep our fingers crossed.

OH, The Wonderboy WILL be fighting RD in Jan......unless he does a Joey Greenhaugh and decides to go back to point fighting. Seems Joey, after finding out he has to fight Crafton "Blaze" Wallace (who is a killer) in this show decided to return to point fighting. Word has it that he said he could make more money point fighting. But it was told to me that it would be possible for him to make more money doing point......... IF he was winning. Also there is no TV for point fighting. Anyway that's enough trash talking for now. See you at the next WCL event on Jan. 20th in Austin, Tx where the Miami Force will take on the Houston Destroyers for the WCL League Championship and the Philadelphia Fire will battle the LA Flamers or Stars or something like that as an under card contest. Put it on your calenders.

Hey Ray, Just wanted to say congrats to the philly team for their win in miami, you guys did awesome. Thank you for the nice write up, Hats off to jason his game plan work perfect, I couldn't land anything clean on him all night.

There are about 200 pictures of the WCL Miami event on the site http://www.maslinc.com/index.cfm?ac...hotos&show=main

You are most welcome Tommy P. you are one tough fighter. I'm only sorry it was with one of my guys BUT pro's have to do what they are contracted to do, or, at least, should do what they are contracted to do.

The WCL site has been updated with some pretty cool new stuff... Some really good pictures too... Go check it out!..