This tournament was held at the Tiger Muay Thai training facility. Every “Full Moon” the camp promotes an amateur night of “smoker fights”. These fight cards combine Boxing, Muay Thai, and MMA fights. July 19th 2008 BBQ Beatdown fights featured a 4 man under 85 kilo MMA tournament.

Fighters wore shin pads and 8oz “shooto style” gloves. No knees to the head when the opponent is standing or on the ground. Knees are permitted only to the body from the standing position. No upkicks, or down kicks from both combatants when a fighter is on his back. And no leg submissions. This tournament featured 2 rounds of 3 minute duration.

The first round featured Mike Hutchison from Canada vs. fellow Canadian Jason Saggo. The other bracket featured Andreas Hesselback of Sweden vs. an American KOTC PPV veteran.

Fighters in this Video

Having both won their previous matches Jason Saggo and Andreas Hesselback advance to the Finals. Jason is an accomplished BJJ Blue Belt having won two Gold Medals at the2008 Pan Asian Grappling games held in the Philippines. He is well cross trained sporting a pro 2-0 record in Muay Thai. Andreas Hesselback is a Silver medalist at the Southeast Asian Grappling games and is 2-1 in pro MMA.

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