RAMPAGE 4 MMA CHAMPIONSHIP FULL FIGHT CARDS

4 more days to go! This 5 May 2018, Rampage MMA Championship will be held at Sabah Top Team in Plaza Grand Millenium, in Penanpang, Kota Kinabalu.

Rampage MMA was created by Coach Antonio Battistessa, an Italian Muaythai/MMA coach that founded Sabah Top Team; to promote his fight gear brand RAMPAGE.

Coach Antonio with his RAMPAGE fight gear

This amateur MMA championship was organised to give newbies a taste of competition and to keep the interest in MMA alive in Borneo.

In just a year's time, Antonio has managed to organised 3 event. This Saturday will be the 4th edition.

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This 4th edition will see a cards full of new faces across many different countries. A total of 14 bouts will be competed. Check out the fight cards below:

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The main card of the night will see the meeting of two MIMMA veteran. Bryant Tan of Sibu representing Borneo Top Team was MIMMA 4 finalist in 2016. He's also a pro Muaythai fighter. He took a break from competition in 2017 and came back to the scene late last year by winning the Golden Gloves Malaysia in Boxing. ( read about his come back story here )

He beat Tham Yau Kent for the Golden Gloves title. And this Saturday at Rampage 4, they will meet again.

Kent may have lost to Bryant in boxing, but in MMA, Kent is a true veteran. Two times MIMMA semi-finalist, main card fight in Rampage MMA 2, and Jesselton Fight League 1 Heavyweight Champion in 2015.

This fight will be at Catchweight 100kg and expect a explosive fight to close the night.

Rampage 4 MMA Main Card.

CATCHWEIGHT 100kg

Name : Bryant Tan 
Age: 24
Team :  Borneo Top Team ( Sibu, Sarawak )
Country : Malaysia
Height : 183 cm
MMA amateur record : 4-1-0 
Dominant style : Muaythai, Boxing
Pass achievement : MIMMA 2016 Middleweight finalist. Golden Gloves 2017 Champion

Name : Tham Yaw Kent 
Age: 26
Team :  Karabaw ( KK, Sabah )
Country : Malaysia
Height : 172cm
MMA amateur  record : 4-3-0
Dominant style : Boxing
Pass achievement: Jesselton Fight League 1 MMA H';eavyweight Champion. Golden Gloves 2017 Finalist

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MIDDLEWEIGHT (83.9 kg) 

Name : Amir Aiman Kamaruddin
Age : 28
Team :  Innovation ( Lahad Datu, Sabah )
Country : Malaysia
Height : 175 cm
MMA amateur record : 2-4-0
Dominant style : Boxing & Luta Livre

Name : Mobby Han 
Age : 30
Team :  MAD Fight Club ( Kuching, Sarawak  )
Country : Malaysia
Height : 173 cm
MMA amateur  record : 0-0-0
Dominant style : Kickboxing

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CATCH WEIGHT (50 kg) WOMAN

Name : Christina Batoon
Age: 22
Team :  Sabah Top Team( KK, Sabah )
Country : Philipines
Height : 155 cm
MMA amateur record : 1-0
Dominant style : MMA
Pass achievement : MMA & Luta Livre

Name : Colleen Augustin
Age : 19
Team :  Monarchy MMA ( Kuala Lumpur  )
Country : Malaysia
Height : 165 cm
MMA amateur  record : 0-0-0
Dominant style : All rounder pressure fighter
Pass achievement : 2-0-0 Muaythai, ADCC Grappling champion,  Dumau Champion, COpa de Malasia Champion

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 STRAWWEIGHT (52.2 kg)

Name : Mohd Haikal Hassim
Age: 18
Team :  Innovation ( Lahad Datu, Sabah )
Country : Malaysia
Height : 168 cm
MMA amateur record : 0-0-0
Dominant style : Boxing & Luta Livre
Pass achievement : Boxing

Name : Adriel JJ Wee
Age : 21
Team :  Highlight Reel ( Singapore )
Country : Singapore
Height : 161 cm
MMA amateur  record : 2-0-0
Dominant style : Taichi
Pass achievement : SubZero Grappling Tournament Flyweight Champion

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STRAWWEIGHT (52.2 kg) 

Name : Krittamet Thurakitwong
Age: 18
Team :  Yorky MMA ( Bangkok, Thailand )
Country : Thailand
Height : 174 cm
MMA amateur record : 2-0-0
Dominant style : MMA

Name : Hanafi Md
Age: 21
Team :  Sabah Top Team( KK, Sabah )
Country : Malaysia
Height : 160 cm
MMA amateur record : 1-0-0
Dominant style : MMA
Pass achievement : King of the Cage Borneo win

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HEAVYWEIGHT (120 kg) 

Name : Nikolas Sarigus
Age: 28
Team :  Karabaw ( KK, Sabah )
Country : Malaysia
Height : 168 cm
MMA amateur record : 2-1-0
Dominant style : Boxing
Pass achievement : Jesselton Fight League 1 semi-finalist

Name : Jay Jay James
Age: 29
Team :  Keningau MMA( Keningau, Sabah )
Country : Malaysia
Height : 163 cm
MMA amateur record : 0-0-0
Dominant style : MMA
Pass achievement : Copa de Borneo Gold

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CATCHWEIGHT (68 kg) WOMAN

Name : Kaetyng 'Red Arrow' Chin
Age: 28
Team :  Borneo Tribal Squad ( KK, Sabah )
Country : Malaysia
Height : 159 cm
MMA amateur record : 0-0-0
Dominant style : Grappling & Boxing
Pass achievement : Sabah Grappling Quest Blue Belt Absolute Champion

Name : Velleirre Preylla Peter
Age: 22
Team :  Sabah Top Team( KK, Sabah )
Country : Malaysia
Height : 158 cm
MMA amateur record : 1-0
Dominant style : MMA
Pass achievement : MMA & Luta Livre

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Name : Glenn Chua
Age : 24
Team :  Highlight Reel ( Singapore )
Country : Singapore
Height : 161 cm
MMA amateur  record : 0-0-0
Dominant style : Taichi

Name : Mohd Hellmi Chieng
Age : 19
Team :  Borneo Top Team ( Sibu, Sarawak )
Country : Malaysia
Height :  172 cm
MMA amateur  record : 0-0-0
Dominant style : MMA

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 WELTERWEIGHT (77.1 kg) 

Name : Khojaev Jovidon
Age : 19
Team :  Victory MMA ( Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam )
Country : Tajikistan
Height :  183 cm
MMA amateur  record : 0-0-0
Dominant style : MMA
Pass achievement : Candidate of Master Sports of Tajikistan. Champion of Tajikistan grappling (youth). 2nd place All Russian Kudo tournament. Champion of St. Petersburg in Japanese Jiu-Jitsu.

Name : Mustafa Ibrahim Radi
Age : 
Team :  Monarchy MMA ( Kuala Lumpur  )
Country : Jordan
Height :   cm
MMA amateur  record : 
Dominant style : MMA

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BANTAMWEIGHT (61.2 kg)

Name : Sim Kai Xiong
Age : 21
Team :  Highlight Reel ( Singapore )
Country : Singapore
Height : 170 cm
MMA amateur  record : 4-1-0
Dominant style : Taichi
Pass achievement : Singapore Fighting Championship Featherweight Champion

Name : Naziman Nasipin
Age: 30
Team :  Keningau MMA( Keningau, Sabah )
Country : Malaysia
Height : 157 cm
MMA amateur record : 2-1-0
Dominant style : MMA
Pass achievement : Rampage FC 1 Bantamweight winner

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FLYWEIGHT (56.7 kg)

Name : Rayyan Amsir

Age: 32

Team :  Innovation ( Lahad Datu, Sabah )

Country : Malaysia

Height : 165 cm

MMA amateur record :0-0-0

Dominant style : Boxing & Luta Livre

Name : Kevin Pengcome

Age: 19

Team :  Yorky MMA  (Bangkok, Thailand )

Country : Thailand

Height : 178 cm

MMA amateur record : 1-1-0

Dominant style : MMA

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FEATHERWEIGHT (65.8 kg)

Name : Ronell Taliban
Age: 30
Team :  Innovation ( Lahad Datu, Sabah )
Country : Malaysia
Height : 163 cm
MMA amateur record : 0- 0-0
Dominant style : Karate & Luta Livre

Name : Victor Georgesen
Age: 25
Team :  Victory MMA ( Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam )
Country : Denmark
Height : 171 cm
MMA amateur record : 0-0-0
Dominant style : Boxing
Pass achievement : Amateur boxing 1-0

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BANTAMWEIGHT (61.2 kg)

Name : Sean Paul
Age: 27
Team :  Sabah Top Team ( KK, Sabah )
Country : 
Height : 166 cm
MMA amateur record : 1-1
Dominant style : Striking
Pass achievement : Muaythai

Name : Terrance Yip
Age : 20
Team :  Highlight Reel ( Singapore )
Country : Singapore
Height : 168 cm
MMA amateur  record : 0-0-0
Dominant style : Taichi
Pass Achievement : Grapple Asia Champion

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 WELTERWEIGHT (77.1 kg) 

Name : Zachenzie Zifyon Douni 
Age: 18
Team :  Keningau MMA( Keningau, Sabah )
Country : Malaysia
Height : 179 cm
MMA amateur record : 0-0-0
Dominant style : Striking Stand up
Pass achievement : Kickboxing Gold & Silver

Name : Chai Min Chek
Age : 41
Team :  MAD Fight Club ( Kuching, Sarawak  )
Country : Malaysia
Height : 183 cm
MMA amateur  record : 0-0-0
Dominant style : Kickboxing

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check out the awesome poster design by  Keningau MMA for their fight team, featuring the Murut warrior headgear

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MIMMA 5 GRAND FINALS - KHAIJU DOMINATION

There’s a genre in Japanese movies that features huge giant monsters. Then few years back when Pacific Rim movie was released, the word Kaiju becomes more well-known as it refer to the big giant alien monsters that terrorized earth. This March Pacific Rim 2 is out and Kaiju again will be the talk of town as it rampage through the cities in the movie.

In Malaysia we also have a Kaiju. Tsan Neing Khai aka ‘Khaiju’ from Sarawak! He is a heavyweight MMA fighter and will be terrorizing the MIMMA cage in the grand finals on 30 March.

 

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Tsan started participating in MIMMA since 2015 in season 3. Stumbling at semi-finals to Sabahan Tham Yaw Kent Following in season 4, he came back with much fire and rematch Kent in the semis but this time victorious. Following that he beat NIker Tan of Penang in the contender fight and met heavyweight favourite Darren Low in the grand finals.

It was a heavyweight fight that went down MIMMA history as the most closely contested. Giving Darren a tough night. It went the distance to 5 rounds with unanimous decision going to Darren.

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Season 5, again Tsan is back! He is determined to win the heavyweight title this time. With 3 finishes win in the league, Tsan was positioned 3rd in the league standings. He qualified for the semis and overcame Steven Yeoh of Johor in 3 hard rounds. 

MIMMA5 semi-finals vs Steven Yeoh

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Tsan’s dream was to make the heavyweight fight a Borneo showdown again by rematch with Darren Low for the grand finals. But this was not meant to be as Darren didn’t accumulate enough points to reach the semis (read about Darren Low’s story here).

For this time Tsan will need to defeat league leader Azrel Izzat of Perak to fulfill his dream of bringing the title back to Kuching. 

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Martial arts has not been part of his life until only in 2014 when he started doing Muaythai, all for the reason of losing weight as he was weighing around 140kg then. He just became a father of a new baby girl and at the same time running the business of few cyber cafes. Hardly any exercise made him pile on the pounds. 

“One Day when I was bringing my toddler for a walk, I felt tired and my lower back hurts just by caring my daughter for a few minutes. That's when I started to realised that I need to keep fit so that I can see my daughter grow up n be there for my family." 

From that experience Tsan started going for Muaythai classes introduced by a friend at a local martial art gym.
“I fall in love with Muaythai, I started going for classes every day , 6 classes a week , and I lost 30kg in the first 3 months." 

Tsan’s Muaythai gives him a solid foundation for MMA. He is among the pioneers of MMA in Sarawak. Training at Gymbox Kuching under Matt Pellino with Jace Law, Stephen Onn Jenggeing, Aaron Lo & Aaron Tan. Each of them pushing each other out of their comfort zone in order to improve each other.

His love for martial arts lead him to convert a store room in his shop to become a personal training room. That was the initial intentions anyway. 

“Started up with my friends coming in, but as times goes by friends bring along friends, then friend's friend's friends and so on until today my gym is way too small already. This was the beginnings of MAD Fight Club." 

“I trained by myself and with Aaron Tan, I went to Labuan’s Borneo Amatuer Challenge taking the ISKA trainer course level 1. I even imported a friend from Indonesia as my boxing coach, then I will be teaching Muaythai class." 

"I enjoy sharing knowledge with people. That’s what keeps me going on teaching classes. Tsan quest for knowledge also lead him to cross train with Warmonger Gym in Miri and also improving his grappling and BJJ with Albert Lim’s Studio 23." 

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Tsan is now a very busy business man. MAD Fight Club is now one of the top fight gym in Kuching. MAD.net cyber café is in its 10th year of operations, and since last year expanded his business to serve food & beverage in MAD Food Factory, all in the same block of building.

"MAD’s name is from my elder brothers company MADTechnologies, I loved their design n term so I just use their design as to help them do branding." 

"MAD means that we have crazy ideas, doing things differently, dare to challenge the new frontier." 

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On how he feels that the rematch with Darren didn’t materialized.
“Yeah that sucks big time, during the leagues my initial strategy is to skip battles with Darren as to minimize the changes for both of us to be injured so that we can had a rematch during the grand finals, but during the early league as we were chatting along, he told me that he will be very busy with work so maybe can't fight during Chinese New Year."

"I think its league 5 that I wanna get a rematch with him, but sadly accident happens, he got injured when he was training about 1 week off our scheduled fight day." 

"He messaged me personal telling me that he was injured and was unable to fight and pulled out last minute. I was unhappy at first because I bought flight tickets at RM600 and I was then very busy with my café." 

"I can only do day trips for my fight, the semi-finals fight. I had to wake up at 5am, flight at 7 am, then had to get ready to fight at 1pm. After the fight I need to get ready to pack up and rush back to the airport for the 10pm flight, I reached home that day at 1am midnight. Then have to go cafe cook the next day! Thing we do for the sport we loved LOL! , oh yeah I do the cooking myself too, I learn it from Aaron Tan… : ) "

Khaiju preparing for war

Through the love of MMA, Tsan and Darren are now close friends.
"Me and Darren, I think we are looking at this sports, somehow in a similar point of view as we both took it as a hobby. We do it so that we can eat more delicious foods, LOL. We both are the giants of Borneo, and most importantly with the love for the sports, we want to see it grow in our homeland."

the giants of Borneo

What do you think of the challenge Azreel present?
“I have been looking at his fights because I see him as potential opponent in the near future but he too choose to pullout during our matched ups, he is quite a tanky fighting styles with light feet. I think it will be a quite interesting match for us in the grand finals."

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