On Oct 30th at the Red Lion in Vancouver, WA, Gladiator MMA owner Austin Springer put together a stacked card of fighters from tough teams around the Pacific NW for the inaugural Halloween Brawl. 12 amateur fights took place, including 3 title fights & 1 Superfight, and it being a Halloween show of course there was a costume contest, plus yours truly announcing the "Fighter of the Night", sponsored by Close Combat Wear & Fight Gear.

The main event saw KO King, Eric Ramsey from Dark Force Underground, earn his second win over NW Warrior Chris Barber this year, both ending by brutal KO. Barber, who took the fight last minute, was taken down and ate a huge Hammerfist and was knocked out cold in 55 seconds of the 1st round. The win earned Ramsey another Title in the 170lb division & he goes to 9-0 with every win coming by KO!

The co-main event saw striker Doug "Crazy Legs" Kay fail to answer the bell for the 2nd Rd after Arsenal Combat fighter John "Spiderman" Heilman turned out a dominate Rd 1 for the Bantamweight Championship. Heilman was eating knees in the clinch as Kay used his striking to rack up points, but once Heilman popped out of a Guillotine attempt thrown on by Kay, the fight changed hands. Heilman aggressively stayed on top and landed numerous punches as Kay attempted to scramble and get back to his feet. The round ended with Heilman unloading on Kay, with Kay needing help to his corner & complaining of having trouble seeing out of his right eye. His corner was forced to throw in the towel as Kay was seriously hurt and word is he will now need unfortunately surgery. Our best wishes to Kay for a speedy recovery.

Touch Em Up's Chris Perrin defeated C.A.G.E fighter Rod Jaques at 2:13 in the 2nd Rd when referee Elliott Alleman had seen enough and called the fight, awarding Perrin the Middleweight Championship belt. Perrin also won the Close Combat Wear & Fight Gear sponsored "Fighter of the Night" award which I was brought in to choose and give away. Afterwards, Perrin thanked his team and family who were present in abundance. Perrin's sons joined the costume contest, with of his boy's making it all the way to the finals & beating out his older brother!

KO of the night would definitely have to go to Touch Em Up's Jay Shaffer who KO'd a tough Tommy Grajo fighting out of Team Quest. Shaffer had rocks in his left hand and it only took a couple to drop Grajo and put him to sleep in just 28 secs. For the effort, Shaffer earned the 185lb Super Fight Belt and has plans on possibly turning pro soon.

Another great KO came from Bennett Seybold out of Gladiator MMA who has earned two KO's in the last 2 weeks, this time knocking out Kapano Jacobs at 2:00 of Rd 1.

One of the best fights of the evening was in a 185 lb Kickboxing contest with 503 West Coast JJ's Ryan Truitt battling it out with Gladiator MMA's Jake Smith. This fight was amazing with both fighters landing clean shots in their kicks and strikes, yet neither fighter slowing down. So it came as no surprise that the bout was ruled a majority draw by the judges with 2 judges scoring it even and the 3rd for Truitt.

In other bouts, Arsenal Combat's Olin Howlett stopped NW Warrior BJ Garmin at 22 seconds of the second round. Touch M' Up's Josh Ryan defeated Mike DiPalermo by verbal submission to strikes in Rd 2. Heavyweight Josh McPherson out of Arsenal Combat Sports beat Josh Fernandez, also by verbal submission to strikes. Independents Shane Jordan & Donavan Weaver won their fights both by rear naked choke, & Gladiator MMA's Cody Lindley TKO'd Josh Fleck in the night's first fight.

Sponsors that made the Halloween Brawl possible were Close Combat Wear & Fight Gear, Karmma Fight Gear, Bernie's and Rollie's Barber Shop, Max Muscle, Lunatic Tattoo, Live To Fight, International Longshore & Warehouse Union, Hedlok Clothing. Austin Springer's next event will be December 18th in Vancouver. More info on Gladiator MMA can be found at their facebook page HERE.