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Camozzi Drops Decision To Taylor, Loses Title!

Posted on: March 29, 2009

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Camozzi Drops Decision To Taylor, Loses Title!

With a fight crowd waiting in anticipation for one of the better fight cards Colorado has seen in recent months, King Of Champions packed in over 2000 MMA spectators at the Crown Plaza Event Center.

KOC “SHOCKWAVE” was bigger and better then ever, and we were in for another great night of mixed martial arts.

There were 11 scheduled bouts on the card including 4 professional, 1 female and 6 amateur fights for fans to flourish upon.

In the main event of the evening, one of Colorado’s most well known and impressive fighters Chris Cammozzi took on Ultimate Fighter alum and reality star standout Jesse Taylor.

Taylor instantly went for the take down driving Camozzi back, and to the canvas to start the first stanza.

Camozzi worked his way back to his feet and Taylor drove him back down, letting it be known he wanted this fight to stay on the ground.

Taylor moved on to deliver strikes from side control and used his superior wrestling skills to move around Camozzi and control the ground action in what seemed to be a relatively effortless manner.

Taylor transferred to back control and started working on a RNC. Camozzi did what he could to halt the choke attempt, but Taylor continued working to lock it in.

Taylor was unsuccessful in his attempts and Camozzi did an excellent job defending the powerful grip of his opponent. Camozzi then worked to side control and delivered some GNP before the end of the first round.

Taylor started round 2 with another double leg take down, obviously wanting nothing to do with the excellent stand up of Camozzi.

Taylor continued with his ground mission, delivering punishment from various positions.

Camozzi was defiantly staying active in his guard with submission attempts but Taylor just happened to have the counter to keep them short lived and ineffective.

Referee Tim Mills called a halt to the action midway through the round to stand the fighters due to a lull in action on the canvas. Camozzi took advantage as he landed a solid shot to the head of Taylor.

Taylor once again unloaded the double leg taking the fight back to his comfort zone and ended the round landing elbows and enforcing his GNP on Camozzi.

Round 3 began where the second ended as Taylor immediately went for another take down and quickly started his GNP and displayed unstoppable ground control. Camozzi stuck with his active guard pulling a heel hook to side control then back control and once again Taylor swiftly adjusted and avoided any trouble.

The round continued with Taylor controlling the ground while Camozzi was busy working to escape as the round came to an end.

All 3 judges had the fight scored in favor of an extremely exhausted Jesse Taylor as he was crowned the new champion.

In the co-main event Rocky Johnson defended his KOC 155 lb. title against the talented Bryan Craven.

Craven started the round by landing a couple good leg kicks while Johnson responded by shooting for the take down but only to get rejected.

Johnson was persistent in taking the fight to the ground but Craven had great take down defense landing some good counter strikes. Both fighters were successful landing strikes, elbows and a variety of submission attempts in the early going.

Craven ended the first round with a vicious right hand to the face of Johnson.

Round 2 began back to the ground with Johnson landing some GNP and great submission attempts. Craven worked to the guard of Johnson landing mean GNP to weaken his opponent.

The fight continued with back and forth action as many spectators cheered on the combatants. the round ended with Craven landing blows from the bottom and rising to his feet and landing another nice right hand to the face of Johnson.

Craven started the final round with great stand up landing punishing knees and leg kicks. Craven seemed to have a slight advantage in the stand up while Johnson controlled the ground attack.

When the smoke cleared it was back in the hands of the judges whom sided with Johnson via split decision as Rocky Johnson retained his KOC crown.

Josh Huber made his 140 lb. professional debut against Travis Sherman. Huber came out swinging for the fences backing Sherman to the cage. Sherman was overwhelmed by the flurry and resorts to falling into his guard.

Huber took no time in moving to the mount and slithering to back control. Huber took a second to better his position and lock in the RNC. Huber was claimed the victor at 1:23 of the first round and took home his first professional win.

Jeremy Malaterre was set to do battle in a rematch with Alfredo Corona in his pro debut.

Malaterre started in the clinch with vicious knees against the cage as both fighters exchanged kicks and strikes before Corona pulls guard hoping to bring the fight to the ground.

Malaterre did not mind the guard as he was still delivering GNP and defending submission attempts.
The GNP action continued to finish off the first round.

Malaterre began round 2 with a jab, cross, head kick combo. Corona again felt he would be better off and pulls guard but gets tossed as Maleterre moved to side control. Malaterre delivered more GNP and elbows while Corona took what he had to offer.

Round 2 ended much like the first with Malaterre in Coronas guard finding a way so sneak in a punch or two while Corona did what he could to lesson the damage and move to a better position.

This professional fight was scheduled for 2 rounds and Malaterre walked out with a unanimous decision.

Joey Banks put his KOC Amateur 145 lb Title on the line against KOC Jr. Lightweight Title holder Matt Vigil. Banks started with promising stand up and take down defense landing numerous clean shots.

Vigil continued to try to get the fight to the ground and was eventually successful. Vigil moved directly to side control and started punishing Banks with strikes and elbows.

Vigil began to advance to the mount and Banks performed a sweep that Vigil put a quick ending to.

Round 2 Banks started with good combinations and landed some good shots as Vigil again wanted the fight on the ground where he clearly had an advantage.

Banks had several submissions but none he could finish, while Vigil continued to strike any way possible landing elbows and punches to the head and body.

Round 3 was back to the canvas and Vigil was swinging like he wanting to finish the fight as Banks continued to stay in the guard and take the punishment.