URCC 27: URCC partners up with Resorts World, Plans for 2016 and Releases Fight Card
Universal Reality
Combat Championship 27: Rebellion Press Conference took place in Passion
Restaurant, Maxims Hotel. The press conference was hosted by Douglas “Elvis
Presley of Japan” Masuda. During the press-conference that took place in Maxim’s
Resort. President and Founder, Alvin
Aguilar and Executive Vice President Operations of Resort’s World Manila, Stephen Reilly announced then signed Universal Reality Combat Championship’s
partnership with Resort’s World Manila then
Mr. Aguilar gave some parting words, “The
sky’s the limit for the URCC”. Then, Mr.
Masuda introduced the ring girls for the said card, which are Angela Chua and Athena Baetiong.
After
that announcement was made, was the revelation of the complete fight card of
the said event that will take place on April 23, 2016 on Marriot Grand Ballroom.
Alvin Aguilar also talked about the
vision of the what’s to come for the year 2016. URCC aims to make 10 more
events this year, but kept details under the radar for now. Then, during the Q&A portion, Carlo “The Samurai” Laurel took no breaks
from talking mad trash about his opponent, Alvin “Sindikato” Ramirez. He even peeled a picture of Ramirez infront of
the crowd when asked about what was his plan when he faces Sindikato.
On the said event, five title
fights will be highlighting the card URCC 27: Rebellion. It will be for the
Featherweight, Lightweight, Flyweight, Pinweight and Light Heavyweight
Championship. Headlining the card will
be DEFTAC standout, Red “The Filipino
Bolo Punch” Romero who will be going up against Korea’s Do Gyum Lee. This fight will be his
second URCC Featherweight title defense(first successful defense was against
Malaysia’s Jian Kai Chee).
Meanwhile, the Co-Main Event
will be for the lightweight strap and will be fought by two warriors, namely
Will Chope of Fight Corps MMA, a
former UFC Fighter and Richie Redman of Legacy
Gym Boracay, a former PXC Fighter.
Then, three highly anticipated
match-ups will finally come intro fruition starting from one of the youngest up
and coming fighter with an unblemished MMA record of 5-0, CJ “Goldbenboy” De Tomas will be fighting
to take the flyweight title from flyweight kingpin, Hideo “Death From Tokyo” Morikawa, who will be defending his title for
the very first time and previously defeated Goldenboy’s father, Charles
De Tomas. Also, pinweight standouts Fritz “Kid Tornado” Biagtan of Biagtan MMA and Eddie Estrada of Yaw-Yan
Buhawi will go all-out for the vacant pinweight title.
Lastly, URCC Veteran Caloy
Baduria of Elorde MMA finally gets another shot at the light heavyweight
title. But, will have to fight it out against DEFTAC’s standout, Chris Hofman.
Here is the complete URCC 27:
“Rebellion” card:
Featherweight Championship
Red Romero vs Do Gyun Lee
Red Romero vs Do Gyun Lee
Lightweight Championship
Will Chope vs Richie Redman
Will Chope vs Richie Redman
Flyweight Championship
Hideo Morikawa vs CJ De Tomas
Hideo Morikawa vs CJ De Tomas
Light Heavyweight Championship
Chris Hoffman vs Caloy Baduria
Chris Hoffman vs Caloy Baduria
Pinweight
Championship
Eddie Estrada vs Fritz Biagtan
Bantamweight
Bout
Andrew Benibe vs Drex Zamboanga
Flyweight
Bout
Carlo Laurel vs Alvin Ramirez
Welterweight
Bout
Jericho Tomagan vs Jet Hermida
Pinweight
Bout
Solomon Dultra vs Jojo Tabang