{"id":205701,"date":"2015-07-02T13:01:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T03:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=205701"},"modified":"2015-07-02T13:01:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T03:01:49","slug":"minor-changes-in-rop-18-fight-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/minor-changes-in-rop-18-fight-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor changes in ROP 18 fight card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changes were made on the fight card of Rites of Passage 18: Warpath set at 7pm this Friday at the Saipan World Resort\u2019s Royal Taga Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The fighters were replaced or the fight was cancelled in four of the 15 bouts scheduled this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel \u201cFlowmotion\u201d Floor, who is supposed to fight Jones Langu of Red Ants Academy, will now duel Trench Tech\u2019s Jeff Garcia in one  of three kickboxing bouts. , Garcia was initially set to face Steve Paul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShiska\u201d Bob Alvarez is slated to meet Independent fighter John Tudela but will now take on his cousin Roman \u201cSonic Boom\u201d Alvarez in a grappling exhibition match. Andrew \u201cShotgun\u201d Sablan (Independent), who is scheduled to clash with Ricky \u201c2Slick\u201d Camp in a 135-pound bout,  is now a standby fighter along with Derick Naog.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the fight cards remain the same with Miura Yasua of Sendokai Nagano challenging hometown hero Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho in the main event.<\/p>\n<p>The Camacho-Yasua non-title bout will be preceded by the match between High Blood Pressure\u2019s Ernie Santos against Trench Tech\u2019s Jordan \u201cThe Machine Gun\u201d Manglona for the flyweight belt, while Guam Muay Thai\u2019s Eric \u201cGatty\u201d Gatmen takes on another Trench Tech fighter in Ning \u201cThe Slicer\u201d Cepeda for the lightweight crown.<\/p>\n<p>Three kickboxing matches will serve as an appetizer to all fight fans with Wesley \u201cBaby Bully\u201d Ponio battling Kier \u201cThe Radical Kidd\u201d Agda in the opener and will be followed by the Floor-Garcia bout.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan \u201cSnowflake\u201d Perez of Guam Muay Thai will test Team Zalaka\u2019s Fradley Jepen in a mixed martial arts contest, while Matthew \u201cMighty Mouse\u201d Sablan clashes with Mike Muna in a grudge match.<\/p>\n<p>Down2Scrap fighters Jonathan \u201cThe Outlaw\u201d Camacho and Jadrien \u201cLast King\u201d Camacho will take on Tim Salas of Zalaka and Trench Tech\u2019s A.J. \u201cSmalls\u201d Aldan in back-to-back matches. Mike \u201cThe Medic\u201d Pacini of Guam Muay Thai will square off against Ko \u201cPak Pak\u201d Palacios of Trench Tech, while HBP\u2019s Frank Quidachay will meet Team Intense\u2019s Renz \u201cThe Intense\u201d Benghit.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzo \u201cFruity Pebbles\u201d Attao of Gracie Barra is hoping to settle a score with Trench Tech\u2019s Lucas \u201cThe Irish Zombie\u201d Nutting in a grudge match set at 135lbs.<\/p>\n<p>Kiya Killas\u2019 Josh \u201cOh My Gosh\u201d Cruz\u2019s opponent is not yet known as he would either face Team Pwang\u2019s Garry \u201cThe Dissa\u201d Ray or Andrew Sablan. \u201cRock \u2018N\u2019 Roll\u201d Cole Morrill has the same situation as he would either duel Zalaka\u2019s Derick Asao or Langu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes were made on the fight card of Rites of Passage 18: Warpath set at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5823,4414,1125,595],"class_list":["post-205701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-ernie-santos","tag-guam-muay-thai","tag-rop","tag-trench-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}