New York (October 2, 2013) – Lou Neglia's "Combat At The Capitale" took place this past weekend on September 27 and in his own words, "was one of the best kickboxing events that I ever promoted." The venue was sold out three weeks in advance and was packed with eager fight fans. In most cases, fight fans will leave once their "favorite" fighter has competed. Not this time! There was not an empty seat through out the whole night. Once again Lou's matchmaking was key to the competitive action that continued from the opening bell of the first bout to the last bell of the evening. Whether it's MMA or Kickboxing, Lou has always followed his motto, "tough fights make great fighters." Records mean nothing in Lou's "Combat At The Capitale." It's who you fought and how you fought.
"One of the greatest fights I ever promoted at the Capitale was Niko Tsigaras of Armenia VS Nick Pace of the US," said Lou. "The fans were on the edge of their seats from beginning, middle and end of each round," he continued. Before the winner was announced, Lou told the crowd that there no losers in this fight as this was the greatest fight he ever matched up. The announcement was also made that both fighters will return in championship bouts. Lou challenges anyone to say this wasn't the Gatti/Ward or Zale/Grazino of kickboxing. The bout was aggression from beginning to end. The fight can be watched at Go Fight Live.
Kickboxing is the most competitive stand up way of fighting and helped make MMA the popular sport it is. Fans enjoy a good ground game but they love the standup. GLORY, the premiere Kickboxing organization in Asia, Europe and now the US, are helping to bring Kickboxing to the forefront of combat sports. Lou Neglia was appointed to help promote GLORY in his area and being a former world champion kickboxer, he is very proud of this duty. In the last GLORY show that took place at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York city, Lou presented a fighter with a check for $200,000. The elaborate purse acknowledges the great talent and sacrifice that these kickboxer. Winners at the Capitale show are now eligible to compete at the next GLORY event at Madison Square Garden in November. The greatest theatre in the world will host some of the greatest fighters in the world from 5 countries.
Other results were:
– Nafiz Kamal vs TBA: Kamal via 3rd round TKO
– Malik Blake vs Quamar Simmons: Blake via decision
– George Maldarelli vs Justin Montalvo: Maldarell via decision
– Ian Hastings vs Paul MIller: Miller via decision
– Edwin Smart vs Aziz Austin: Smart via decision
– Jennie Nedel vs Nicole Scimene: majority draw
– Avetik Petrosyan vs Zarrukh Abashev: Petrosyan via TKO 1st
– Andrea DeAngelo vs Anna Shearer: DeAngelo via decision
– Shawn Pierce vs Mike Trizano: Trizano via decision
– Danilil Sherstobitov vs Georgio Smaumgui: draw
– Niko Tsigaras vs Nick Pace: Tsigaras via split decision
– Alexy Filyakov vs Travis Lerchen: Filyakov via tko 1st (pro bout)
– Jeff Brown vs Mike Fischetti: draw