{"id":253146,"date":"2017-05-26T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=253146"},"modified":"2017-05-26T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T20:00:15","slug":"set-tonights-rop-21-throwdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/set-tonights-rop-21-throwdown\/","title":{"rendered":"All set for tonight\u2019s ROP 21: Throwdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_253157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253157\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Trench-pix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho spars with a trainer in preparation for his bout against Xtreme Combat Korea\u2019s Gun Han Park in tonight\u2019s Rites of Passage 21: Throwdown. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The stage is set for Rites of Passage 21: Throwdown as Trench Tech\u2019s first event of the year goes down tonight and features two of the islands\u2019 prides\u2014Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho and Kelvin \u201cThe Big Hit\u201d Fitial.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho will fight in the main event, going up against Extreme Combat Korea\u2019s Gun Han Park in the 170-lb bout. Fitial, on the other hand, will duel Pete \u201cBig Mac\u201d Miyasaki of GuamFightClub in the 250-lb catch weight in the semi-main event at the Marianas Business Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>Both Fitial and Camacho are looking for back-to-back victories after winning their previous bouts in contrasting fashions. Fitial is coming off a unanimous decision triumph over Australia\u2019s Benjamin Sosoli in the PXC 56: Pacific Xtreme Combat 56 held last March 25 this year, while Camacho earned a TKO win (punches) versus Korean Hyun Joo Kim in ROP 20: Conquer in August last year.<\/p>\n<p>Weigh-ins for the two anticipated bouts along with 12 other fights were held yesterday at GIG Discotheque.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s Throwdown will open with a boxing match between Trench Tech\u2019s Jordan \u201cThe Machine\u201d Manglona and Guam 360MMA\u2019s Peter Rodriguez and will be followed by a kickboxing duel between Guam Muay Thai\u2019s Chris Redina and Trench Tech\u2019s very own Kier \u201cTheRadicalKid\u201d Agda.<\/p>\n<p>For the MMA bouts lineup, Guam Muay Thai\u2019s Shane Moore will start the action at the octagon cage as he takes on compatriot and independent fighter Vince Acfalle. For the second MMA fight, it will be Guam versus Saipan as Andres \u201cThe Tanapag Beach BadBoy\u201d Camacho challenges the visiting Kyle Gumataotao.<\/p>\n<p>The eight other preliminary MMA bouts are as follows and have a lot of fighters seeing action in ROP for the first time: George Grove vs Brendon Manglona; John Mendiola vs Austin John King; Austin Petrus vs Patrick Ungcangco; Joey Boy Crisostomo Jr. vs Vince Torres; K.J. \u201cMan Down\u201d Villagomez vs Juan \u201cHot Pocket\u201d Lizama; L.D. Ogo vs Torsten Rosser; Sang Hyun Park vs Mark \u201cThe Dark\u201d Nuique; and Ray \u201cThe Major\u201d Duenas vs either Jones Langu or Phil David.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stage is set for Rites of Passage 21: Throwdown as Trench Tech\u2019s first event&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":253157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4414,16952,2325,595],"class_list":["post-253146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-guam-muay-thai","tag-gun-han-park","tag-mma","tag-trench-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253146","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}