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Current ICON Middleweight Champion Kala Kalohe Hose defeated Fairbanks fighter Rolando Dominique with a second round TKO August 2 at ICON Sport "Hard Times" in Honolulu.   Even though Hose is the current champ, it was a non-title fight and the bout was at a catch weight of 180 pounds. 

 

Bantamweight Scott Jorgensen (4-1) will made a successful second appearance in the WEC cage August 3 when he faced Kenji Osawa (13-7-1) in Las Vegas.  Former state champion wrestler Jorgensen defeated Osawa by unanimous decision. 


In Hawaii, Sitka fighter Richie Whitson (4-0) earned the title of Lightweight World Champion at X-1 World Events: Legends May 16.  Whitson defeated Ray Cooper (14-9) with a first round knockout.   Photos on sherdog.com

Former Alaska Fighting Championship Lightweight Champion Justin Buchholz (8-2) defeated Corey Hill (2-1)  with a second round rear naked choke at UFC 86 July 5 in Las Vegas.

 

April 4 kicked off a weekend of defeat for Alaska fighters in the lower 48. 
In New Jersey Friday night, Alaska grown Shad Lierly (2-2) hoped to become the new IFL 145-pound champ, but instead suffered a first round knockout at the hands of the current champ Wagnney Fabiano.
Saturday brought two more defeats for the state.
In his EliteXC debut, Anchorage fighter Doug Evans (6-3) lost to Californian Bao Quach (13-8) by knockout at the Table Mountain Casino in Friant, California. 
In Reno, Fairbanks fighter David Knight lost to Washington fighter Lyle Beerbohm by choke in the first round of his Xtreme Caged Combat 6 fight.

 



In Calfornia, Anchorage middleweight fighter Ricky Shivers was defeated by Gladiator Challenge veteran Jaime Jara (17-5) by submission (round one) in Rebel Fighters: Warriors Collide March 22.
See photos on rebelfighter.net