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SUPERKOMBAT New Heroes in Carrara, Italy on November 3rd


SUPERKOMBAT Fighting Championship, Europe’s leading professional kickboxing league, has started the searching for the Asian New Hero. The first international selection will be taken at SUPERKOMBAT New Heroes (Carrara) and Unified World Championships during of Orient Festival, scheduled between October 31 and November 3 in Carrara, Italy.

“From January, when we started this project called SUPERKOMBAT New Heroes and we had events in more than 10 countries from 3 continents. Now, we cooperate with Orient Festival and between October 31 and November 3 we will continue our plan. More than 5.000 fighters from 113 countries will attend at the Unified World Championships and the best of them will be selected for the SUPERKOMBAT New Heroes event I’m really confident that we can find also New Hero from Asia. Everyday we will have tryouts to discover the New Hero”, said Eduard Irimia, SUPERKOMBAT Fighting Championship President.

Also, the best fighters who will participate at the Unified World Championships from Carrara will be selected for next SUPERKOMBAT World Grand Prix events. From -67 kg to +91 kg, all the fighters will be scouted by SUPERKOMBAT Fighting Championship stars and officials. SUPERKOMBAT New Heroes from Italy (Carrara) will be the sixth edition of this year after Croatia (Opatija), Brazil (Sao Paulo), Austria (Vienna), United Arab Emirates (Dubai) and Romania (Targoviste).

As we announced before, Eduard Irimia, SUPERKOMBAT Fighting Championship President, and Michele Panfietti, WKA (World Karate and Kickboxing Association) President, signed a worldwide agreement for the 2013 Edition of the biggest oriental show from Europe, scheduled between October 31 and November 3 in Carrara (Tuscany), Italy. Eduard Irimia will be the TV producer of the event and in the last day of the festival a SUPERKOMBAT New Heroes event will close the martial arts world championship, where will attend 5.000 fighters from 113 countries and 5.000 martial artists for 120 martial seminaries.

“Orient Festival is a challenge for me. At SUPERKOMBAT World Grand Prix events we had even 20.000 spectators, but here we will have a 100.000 audience and this is huge. As I said before, as a main-stream promotion, we always create a mix between martial marts, culture and history. The event will be broadcasted live via SUPERKOMBAT Fighting Championship media partners in more than 100 countries”, said Eduard Irimia, SUPERKOMBAT Fighting Championship President

“We know SUPERKOMBAT Fighting Championship and we know also that is Europe’s leading professional kickboxing league so is an honour to work with them. It is just the beginning of our global cooperation and we are very glad we will have a SUPERKOMBAT New Heroes event at Orient Festival especially in the first days a Unified World Championship will be organized here. An incredibile event is announced. Amateur and professional events for the first time in a huge festival of martial arts”, said Michele Panfietti, WKA (World Karate and Kickboxing Association) President.

All the Asian fighters can send their intentions to fight in SUPERKOMBAT Fighting Championship at office@superkombat.com or by filling the contact form located on the website.

On Sunday, November 3, in Marina di Carrara (Italy), SUPERKOMBAT Fighting Championship, Europe’s leading professional kickboxing league, presents “SUPERKOMBAT New Heroes”, stand-up fighting event inside of Orient Festival, the biggest oriental show outside of Asia. Eight fights were added on the card with New Heroes middleweight title between Cristian Milea (Romania) and Cedric Manhoef (Suriname) as the main-event. In the presence of most of SUPERKOMBAT champions, SUPERKOMBAT Fighting Championship will launch the first global humanitarian campaign, this time to help the flood victims from Galati area (Romania), where is scheduled the SUPERKOMBAT World Grand Prix – Final.

5.000 fighters at Unified World Championships, 5.000 martial artists, 50.000 square meters, 15 diplomatic missions, 100.000 visitors are the numbers set for this edition of Orient Festival scheduled for October 31 – November 31 at the CarraraFiere Exhibition Centre. “Is the perfect opportunity to launch a global humanitarian campaign. We want to demonstrate again that SUPERKOMBAT it’s not only a fighting promotion. Near Galati, the city what will host the Final on December 21, a lot of people suffered due the flooding. So this why we decided to start our global campaigns with Galati”, said Eduard Irimia, SUPERKOMBAT Fighting Championship President.

“I am very honoured to be hosting of this exciting show inside our festival. Except the show from November 3, we are happy because SUPERKOMBAT board decided to make a worldwide selection from Unified World Championships. It’s a good chance for the fighters to become international stars” said Michele Panfietti, WKA (World Kickboxing Association) President.

Stars as Catalin Morosanu, Andrei Stoica, Bogdan Stoica, Alexandru Lungu, Benjamin Adegbuyi, Sebastian Ciobanu and Melvin Manhoef will be in Carrara for practice and exhibitions during the Orient Festival, but also to sustain the first global humanitarian campaign named “Fight for Galati”. 16 warriors from eight countries will wear shirts with this message in the ring at SUPERKOMBAT New Heroes.


Fight Card:

1. Super Fight – Lightweight Bout (-139.99lb / -63.50kg)
Petjor Dorje (Netherlands) vs. Shan Cangelosi (Italy)

2. Super Fight – Lightweight Bout (-143.30lb / -65.00kg)
Cristian Spetcu (Romania) vs. Apirak Sitmonchai (Thailand)

3. Super Fight – Welterweight Bout (-147.71lb / -67.00kg)
Alexandros Filippidis (Greece) vs. Kong Fah Sitmonchai (Thailand)

4. Super Fight – Super Middleweight Bout (-165.35lb / -75.00kg)
Bogdan Stanciu (Romania) vs. Ouaida Tergui (Morocco)

5. Super Fight – Light Heavyweight Bout (-187.39lb / -85.00kg)
Daniel Alexandru (Romania) vs. Clyde Brunswijk (Suriname)

6. Super Fight – Cruiserweight Bout (-200.62lb / -91.00kg)
Cristian Ristea (Romania) vs. Fabian Gondorf (Netherlands)

7. Super Fight – Heavyweight Bout (+211.64lb / +96.00kg)
Enver Sljivar (Slovenia) vs. Alex Rossi (Italy)

8. SUPERKOMBAT New Heroes – Middleweight Title Bout (-156.53lb / -71.00kg)
Cristian Milea (Romania) vs. Cedric Manhoef (Suriname)