February 7th King of Champions presented MMA enthusiast with Apocalypse. With 11 action packed bouts and a great display of submissions, knock outs and stoppages the promotion gave fans what they were there to see and more.

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In the main event we had the KOC Pro Light Weight title between Rocky “THE ROCK MONSTER” Johnson and former Kick Down armature lightweight champion Ian Stonehouse.

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The fight started with the intensity of the entire crowd chanting the fighter’s names back and forth one half of the crowd then the other “Stonehouse, Johnson, Stonehouse, Johnson”. This continued through the entire fight.

This fight lived up to the hype as “Main Event” of the evening. The fighters began with a quick flurry to clinch up and exchanged powerful knees with bad intentions. Both fighters did a great job of showcasing stellar MMA skills, giving spectators a great back and forth action packed first round.

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Round two the warriors began exchanging vicious leg kicks. Stonehouse gaining confidence in his stand up makes a decision to attempt a head kick that places him in the side control of Johnson. Johnson makes best of his situation and forces his ground and pound upon his opponent.

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Stonehouse finds a break to work a great sweep and got back to his feet. Johnson immediately used his great wrestling and worked another take down.  Stonehouse pulled guard to minimize the damage for the rest of the second round.

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We began the third with Johnson slamming Stonehouse to the canvas with force. We continued with the back and forth action, takedowns and sweeps. Johnson found a break to catch an arm bar. Stonehouse quick on his game locks up his arm in defense and worked to improve his position.

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Stonehouse finished the round on top feeding Johnson some ground and pound. The winner was now in the hands of the judges. The three judges scored the fight 30-27 in favor of the “Rock Monster” Rocky Johnson. Johnson became the KOC Pro Lightweight Champion with the victory.

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In the co-main event we had James Mead vs. Pete Vandervot.  This was a fight that pretty much went straight to the ground. The fighter had a series of sweeps to have Mead take over with his ground and pound.

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Mead continued to put on the pressure landing devastating elbows and viscous ground and pound. Vandervot verbally taped 4:34 into the first round.

The KOC welterweight title was on the line for the top ranked amateurs. Derek Moralez and Troy Barron stepped into the cage to try and claim the title.

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Moralez started with his signature HUGE slams. Barron worked his way back to his feet after taking a little ground and pound.

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Moralez didn’t waste any time in putting on the heat and lands a devastating right hand dropping Barron sending him to the canvas.

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Moralez continued with his overwhelming arsenal to assure Barron was not getting up. It only took Moralez 59 sec to finish his opponent.

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Moralez became the KOC amateur welterweight champion. Moralez no holds the welterweight title in two different fight promotions.

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Undefeated power house Jesse Henley and Josh Huber went to war over two rounds before Henley sunk in a head and arm triangle midway through the second round to get the submission win to maintain his unblemished record.koc-apocalype_2125cropwm_main

Dan Craft wasted no time letting his fist fly against Masson Hoffman as he took the fight to the ground and begin his GNP assault forcing Hoffman to tap with just under 2 minutes gone in the first.

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Pueblo’s Micky Koonce had his hands full with Travis Hollis as they exchanged strikes and displayed very well rounded ground games before Koonce rained down strikes from top position to get the TKO victory at the 2:25 mark in round two.

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Kelly Brown showed more heart and determination in her all out war with Audrey Perkins than I have seen in an MMA fight.   That may even be an understatement as these to women put on one hell of a fight.  Unfortunately for Brown she came up short as Perkins was declared the winner by unanimous decision, but by no means was Brown a loser in this fight!

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Anthony Lobato secured the RNC on Anthony Chavez at the 2:52 mark of round one after some great back and forth action to get the victory.

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Miguel Martinez and Zachary Chavez let it all hang out over two rounds before Chavez was unable to continue prior to the final round giving Martinez the victory.

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Geoff Brokx and Tony Gonzalez started of the night off fights as Brokx locked in the arm bar for the submission midway through the 1st round.

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Written by Rick Teran/Brawlin.net & Joe Cordova
Fight Fotos by Joe Cordova/Brawlin.net
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