World Championship Fighting

Results

June 27, 2009

Aleppo Shriners Auditorium

99 Fordham Road

Wilmington, Massachusetts

On June 27, 2009 World Championship Fighting presented what many fans are calling their best fight card

ever, live from the Shriner's Auditorium in Wilmington, MA. While there was no marquee main event featuring

fighters who already have national recognition, the card was filled with fighters ready to break into the

national spotlight. As usual for WCF, the crowd was filled with a who's who of MMA stars. UFC Fighters

Jorge Rivera and John Howard joined Mark DellaGrotte, Sean Gannon and former Middleweight Boxing

Champion Dana Rosenblatt were in attendance, along with actor Kevin James, who is filming a movie locally.

The night's main event featured two of New England's best middleweights in Woody Weatherby from Renzo

Gracie NH and Dan Keefe, from Brickhouse Fight Team. The fight was a war from start to finish with Keefe

controlling most of the action, and Weatherby landing the cleaner strikes. Keefe pushed the pace undeterred

by the big shots from Weatherby, and was able to take the fight to the ground where he was able to grind on

Weatherby and rough him up a little. As the fight wore on, it turned into battle of Weatherby attempting

submissions, with Keefe escaping and making Woody pay with big shots from the top. The fight came down

to the wire with Weatherby locking in his best submission of the night, an arm bar that looked to be enough

to finish the fight, but Keefe was able to hold on and take the hard fought victory by decision.

The night also featured a pair of big lightweight fights that featured four exciting and popular fighters. Calvin

Kattar took on undefeated Rodrigo Almeida in the night's co-main event, and the crowd was going crazy for

both fighters from start to finish. Rodrigo was able to get in tight on Kattar and avoid his devastating punching

power, and for the first time Kattar was force to show his impressive wrestling and jiu-jitsu game. As Almeida

was fighting hard for a takedown, Kattar was able to lock up a tight guillotine choke and pull guard for the

submission victory halfway through round 1.

In the second pairing of top lightweights, John Benoit and Damien Trites put on the most exciting fight of the

night, a thrilling back and forth battle that truly brought out the best in both fighters. Benoit was able to land

more effective punches and kicks on their feet, and bloodied Trites up quite a bit. On the floor, both fighters

had their moments, but the combination of Benoit's submission attempts and big combinations were enough

to earn a decision, and get him back on track for a title run.

Looking ahead, World Championship Fighting also announced a featured fight for WCF 8, which will take

place this fall. Wilmington's Dan Bonnell makes his return to the ring to take on the streaking Josh LaBerge

in what promises to be an exciting match up. Stay tuned for big announcements about WCF 8 in the coming

weeks.

Official Results from WCF 7:

Dan Keefe defeated Woody Weatherby -- Split Decision

Calvin Kattar defeated Rodrigo Almeida -- Submission (Guillotine Choke) 2:16 R1

John Benoit defeated Damien Trites -- Majority Decision

Greg Rebello defeated Jerry Spiegel -- Unanimous Decision

Tom Moreau defeated Don Carlo-Clauss -- Majority Decision

Elias Rivera defeated Scott Rehm -- Submission (Heel Hook) 2:43 R1

Travis Bartlett defeated Guillermo Echuaca -- TKO (Punches) 2:18 R1

Saul Almeida defeated Dan O'Keefe -- Submission (Peruvian Necktie) 1:16 R1

Nick Evangelous defeated Matt McKusker -- TKO (Punches) 2:41 R1

Aniss Anlhajjajy defeated Aaron Petrucelli -- Majority Decision

Marcos Escalante defeated John Walsh -- Submission (Rear Naked Choke) 1:24

Zack Burhans defeated Jeff Silva -- Unanimous Decision

Nelson Gaipo defeated Ryan White -- TKO (Punches) 1:07 R1

Noah Wiseman defeated Steve Beck -- Submission (Rear Naked Choke) 1:50 R1

- From the WCF with a little editing from us (color, etc...)

- Photos courtesy of the WCF

Subject to change

(6/28/09)