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Fletch "Boomtown" Brandis

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Hey I'm new to The Beatdown, ready to start things up here in Hilo! I've got to go unpack my bags and get to the gym. I was on my way out of the airport when I bumped into another fighter Patrice "La Pouvoire" Pothier, who thinks he can just push me outta the way to get his damn starbucks. Hey listen here , I don't know what they do in French Canada, but I guarantee you aren't going push me around in the cage. How bout you do that again when it really counts?

Well it's obvious that Patrice Pothier is a sucker so how about you young one will you step up to face "the ice" queen elsa

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MMA Tycoon Official Rankings (AS OF 9-28-17)

 

145 lbs Featherweight Division

C- TBD

1- Edgy Brah (5-1)

2- Ricardo Alverez (4-0)

3- Thomas Kortez (4-0)

4- Edward Soriano (3-1)

5- Mark Tyme (3-1)

 

 

155 lbs Lightweight Division

C- MIKI VIKI (6-1)

1-Benz Bulver (5-1)

2-Simon Jensen (5-1)

3-Joe Shahen (4-1)

4-James Winkle (5-1)

5-Cory Dillon (3-1)

 

170 lbs Welterweight Division

C- EDUARDO VIEIRA (2-0)

1-Aldo Odla (6-1)

2-Joseph Murray (4-1)

3-Dan Tasker (3-1)

4-Yoel Romero (3-0)

5-Benedict Cumberbatch (2-0)

 

185 lbs Middleweight Division

C- YEN ASKREN (4-0)

1-Michael Carter (4-1)

2-Martin Taylor (4-1)

3-Tony Fry (4-1)

4-Dyl Stephens (3-1)

5-Ryan Lock (4-2)

 

205 lbs Light-heavyweight Division

C- YACOB NILSON (5-1)

1-Stefano Magaddino (4-2)

2-Anthony Johnson (3-1)

3-Tage McNutt (3-1)

4-Midnight Rider (3-1)

5-Arany Dali (2-0)

 

265 lbs Heavyweight Division

C- ROY ROY (3-0)

1-Ryan Griffin (5-2)

2-Fanta Coco (3-0)

3-Angel Soriano (3-0)

4-Wolfgang Ubenslikt (3-1)

 

5-Patrice Pothier (2-1)

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"The Beatdown" Prospect Watch: Kongchai Phetboonme (316487)

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Kongchai came up like most muay thai fighters from Thailand. He was born in one of the poorest areas of the conutry, Isaan in the northeast, and followed in the footsteps of all his male relatives in pursuing a fighting career. He became the only relatively succesful boxer of the family. His fight name "Kongchai" was given randomly by the promotor who was setting up his first fight at age eleven. "Kong" means "resounding/reverberating/loud" and "Chai" means "victory" so his fight name means "Resounding victory" although when said by thai natives it sounds more like "gaawng" as the equivalent thai consonant sounds either like a 'k' or a 'g' depending on the context of the syllable. Like most muay thai fighters, he bears the name of his gym, "Petboonmee", which means "diamond possessing great merit" - "Pet" = "diamond"; "Boon" = "merit"; "Mee" = "to posses/have" - and was mistakenly written as "Phetboonme" by QFC promoters upon his MMA debut.

 

Employing a muay mat style (agressive fighter who relies on punch-kick combinations), Kongchai was neither too good or too bad. He was just a kid who was always up for a fight for cheap money. He quickly became known for fighting for minimal purses and spending all his money betting on cock fights and tipping cocktail waitresses and muay thai promoters surely took advantage of it, signing him for fights at disadvantageous weights and against much more experienced opponents. Win or lose, get beat up or not, Kongchai wouldn't care, he would just fight, collect his money, live like a king for a couple of days, then get broke and have to resort to fight again, often without telling his coaches. Not rarely he would rent a motorcycle or take a bus all by himself to fight in obscure regional shows without even having a cornerman.

He bounced from gym to gym because of this behavior, until the head coach at Petboonmee gym in Bangkok took him under his wing and sorted him out (a little bit). He finally got legit fights at bigger venues and scored some vicious KOs during his run at Channel 7 Stadium - as seen below - but more often than not he got outworked by craftier fighters and lost his most important matchups.

 

 

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Overall Kongchai had almost 200 hundred muay thai fights before turning 18 years old. He claims his record is 140 wins, 30 losses and 10 draws but we highly doubt it, as most muay thai fighters have no idea what their overall record is and when asked will come up with these big, round numbers. We contacted Thailand's Sports Authority which has a verified record of 88-46-9 for Kongchai, but he has many more unlicensed fights in off-brand shows throughout the country. The fact is Kongchai fought at least once a month for years. His best moment was his debut at Rajadamnern Stadium when he shocked the gamblers by KOing muay thai legend Pornsanae with a head kick:

 

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He went on to lose four decisions in a row after that and his lazy ways finally caught up to him. He quickly ballooned in weight and became massive for thai standards and his gym started having trouble getting him meaningful fights. When he heard that rogue muay thai manager Theksit Ruengruong was recruiting muay thai fighters to fight internationally, he begged his gym to hook him up with him so he could have what he called "easy fight against farangs (foreigners)". Mr. Ruengruong set up a QFC fight for him at Sydney where he jumped into MMA with useless grapping skills and got tapped out. He then proceeded to burn all his pay money in an aussie night club then begged Freebok company for a sponsorship deal.

With Mr. Ruengruong setting up a Sitsongrit Gym MMA associate in Rio de Janeiro, he flew Kongchai in to train there, although it's been hard to make the young fighter attend training as he spends most days sitting at the beach watching brazilian girls sunbathing in tiny bikinis.

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