Vol. 35 No.7
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Chargualaf defeats Bamba in PXC debut

By Kyle Terwilliger
For Variety

IT was quite a defeat for the two-time silver medalist Sonny Chargualaf Saturday night as he defeated Wynue “One Time” Bamba by unanimous decision in the first live airing of the PXC.
This fight was the only fight of the night to go to the judges’ scorecards. In fact, it was the only fight to reach the second round. The fight began with the two fighters feeling each other out. Chargualaf kept his distance and used his reach and his Tae Kwon Do abilities to his advantage keeping Bamba away with an array of different kicks.
As the fight moved into the second round, the fighters were once again feeling each other out with Chargualaf keeping Bamba away with many different kicks.
This was eventually enough to keep the fight from going to a third round sudden death.
The judges gave the unanimous decision that Chargualaf had won his first ever Mixed Martial Arts fight. In the first of the night’s four fights, John Ogo squared off against Cummings.
The fight began knees being thrown by Cummings. After a brief stoppage to attend to the eye of Joe Cummings, which was cut by the elbow of Ogo John Ogo went to the ground and pounded by getting Cummings in a full mount, until the fight was stopped by the referee with 10 seconds left in the first round. Cummings moved to 0-1 in the PXC as Ogo moved to 2-1.
The second fight scheduled for the night between Chris Duenas and Robin Caoile did not go on.
Caoile forfeited the fight giving the win to Duenas. In the second fight of the night Martin Crisp made his PXC debut facing Leo Cing.
Crisp came out to prove that he was the real deal coming into the PXC by attacking Cing from the beginning. As the fight moved to the ground Crisp was attempting to take Cing’s back but in the process ended up getting a Neck Crank position on Cing and cranked him into submission with a little less than two minutes left in the first round.
The fight made Crisp 1-0 and moved Cing to 2-2 in the PXC. In the heavyweight fight of the night the 1-3 Toby Mesa took on the 1-3 Roque Martinez for the chance to fight heavyweight title holder Charles Aiken in PXC XI “No Turning Back.”