Lion Fight Promotions: Battle In The Desert 5

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Lion Fight Promotions WBC Championship Muay Thai Fight Card
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
Tickets Go On Sale Friday



Main event: WBC Light Heavyweight Champion Joe Schilling vs. Simon Marcus
Co-Main event: Las Vegas’ Chaz Mulkey vs. Gregory Choplin
WBC international lightweight championship: “Coke” Chunhawat vs. Matt Embree
Three more bouts confirmed; one more to be added soon


In the main event, 27-year-old WBC Interim World Light Heavyweight (175 pounds) Champion Joe Schilling (12-1 (10 KO’s) of Los Angeles, Calif. will take on undefeated top contender Simon Marcus (22-0 (17 KO’s) of Toronto, Ontario Canada.

Streaking Las Vegas star and WBC International Middleweight Champion Chaz Mulkey (7-4, 3 KO’s), fresh off his fifth consecutive win at Lion Fight Promotions’ last event on Nov. 19, will face his toughest test to date in two-time world champion and WBC No. 5 ranked super middleweight (168 pounds) contender Gregory Choplin (50-9, 22 KO’s) of Miami, Fla. by way of Paris, France in the middleweight (160 pounds) co-main event.

Mulkey was victorious over British champion Simon Chu via unanimous decision in the main event of Battle In The Desert 4, Lion from The Joint, while Choplin, dropping down a weight class, is looking to return to the win column after two consecutive losses in Nov. and Dec 2011 in his native France.

Following his hard-fought, majority decision victory over Rami Ibrahim on Nov. 19, WBC national champion Phanuwat “Coke” Chunhawat (146-24-1, 24 KO’s) of Oakland, Calif. via Thailand will return to the squared circle an attempt to avenge a June 2011 defeat when he battles 21-year-old young gun Matt Embree (19-3, 9 KO’s) of Toronto, Ontario, Canada with the vacant WBC international lightweight (135 pounds) championship at stake.

The matchup between Chunhawat and Embree will serve as a rubber match. In Sept. 2010, Chunhawat edged out a split decision over Embree, who returned the favor by winning in the same fashion in the second meeting.

In other professional Muay Thai action, Vivian Leung (2-0, 1 KO) of Las Vegas via Saskatoon, Canada will face Tiffany Van Soest (1-0) of San Diego, Calif. in a super bantamweight (122 pounds) bout. Power striker Scotty Leffler (4-2, 3 KO’s) of Las Vegas will meet Sheldon Gaines (2-4, 1 KO) of Los Angeles, Calif. in a 142 pound catch weight fight and 21-year-old top prospect Anthony Castrejon (2-0, 1 KO) of Las Vegas will make the third start of his promising young career in a super bantamweight (122 pounds) fight with 28-year-old Francisco Barragan of Dallas, TX.

Lion Fight Promotions will announce the addition of a seventh professional bout to the card soon.

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Simon Marcus talks about his upcoming fight with Joe Schilling

On February 25th,2012 Lion Fight Promotions will be hosting "Battle in the Desert 5" Live from the Joint, WBC full rules Muay Thai fight card at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. In the main event, 27-year-old WBC Interim World Light Heavyweight (175 pounds) Champion Joe "Stitch Em Up" Schilling (12-1 (10 KO’s) of Los Angeles, Calif. will take on undefeated top contender Simon "Bad Boy" Marcus (22-0 (17 KO’s) of Toronto, Ontario Canada.

Otherwise known as Simon Sor Suchart, Simon comes out of the Siam No.1 Muay Thai Academy, under the tutelage of Ajahn Suchart Yodkerepauprai. The same camp that Clifton Brown, and Matt Embree come out of.

http://www.totalmuaythai.com/Simon-Marc ... -Thai.html

Good Read, I still think Joe whips him.