1999 IKF / RINGSIDE USA NATIONAL
AMATEUR TOURNAMENT
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"Walk the Walk!"
A Salute to
The First Ever IKF USA National Tournament
Champions
The Class of 1999 IKF/RINGSIDE USA National Amateur Champions. You
Started The WALK For Us ALL!
Being First In North America: In 1999 the IKF
teamed up with Joe Taylor of Ringside Products and started the very
first Amateur Kickboxing and Muay Thai Tournaments in the United States, the IKF
USA Nationals.
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So what's
it take to host a USA National Amateur Tournament? Well, to start
with, how about 40 IKF National Title
Belts at $165.00 each. This event was FIRST CLASS!
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Dan
Rawlings after his victory with his Champion Award Gloves from
RINGSIDE and Title Belt.
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1999
IKF/RINGSIDE
U.S. A. National Amateur Tournament Champion, Kevin
Miller of Illinois.
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A
special thanks to Tournament host Mick Doyle (L) followed by Steve
Fossum, Referee
Dan Stell, Trainer Marshall Hamel, Official Brooks Mason,
Trainer & Fighter Ricardo Sanders, & Trainer Duke
Roufus.
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IKF World Referee Dan Stell (L)
has his hands full with Special Guest at the Nationals, former NHB
fighter and now Pro Wrestler
Mick Tierney "The Irish Assassin"
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IKF MuayThai Referee Fred Fitzgerald (C)
raises the hand of Dan Rawlings (L) of Euclid Ohio, USA after Rawlings
defeated Chris Brammer (R, Omaha, Nebraska, USA) by TKO at
1:56 of the first round to win the 1999
IKF/RINGSIDE
National Amateur Super Lightweight MuayThai Title.
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Two Champions
take a moment for the camera after their victories in the 1999 Tournament.
David Pareja, (L) Full Contact Rules Light Heavyweight Champion
of Flossmoor, Illinois, USA and Tim Mazurkiewicz (R) Full
Contact Rules Heavyweight Champion of Beloit, Wisconsin, USA
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Posing before
their bouts: Lisa Morrison (L) of San Diego California won
her Woman's MuayThai Rules Super Lightweight Division Title by split
decision 30-27, 28-29, 30-27, over Sarah Baker of St. Paul
Minnesota. Angela Rivera
(Eventually Angie Parr PHOTO )
(R) of Hespeira California won her Woman's MTR Flyweight title by TKO
at 1:09 of round 1 over Deb Davey of Dixon Illinois. Their
trainer Jim VanOver of Two Tiger Gym shares the spotlight with
them.
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IKF referee
Dan Stell raises the hand of David Pareja, (R) of
Flossmoor, Illinois, USA. Pareja defeated Robert Carlton
(L) of Arlington, Texas by unanimous decision 29-28, 30-27, 30-27 to
capture the Full Contact Rules Light Heavyweight Title.
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IKF referee
Dan Stell raises the hand of Kevin Miller of Chicago,
Illinois, USA. In one of the best bouts of the tournament, Miller
defeated Scott Akins (L) of Memphis Tennessee by Split Decision,
29-28, 28-29, 30-28 to capture the Full Contact Rules Super Welterweight
Title.
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