Kem Sitsongpeenon vs. Yodsanklai official for Yokkao December 30th event

The rumored bout between Kem Sitsongpeenong and Yodsanklai Fairtex is now official of December 30th in Pattaya, Thailand. Yokkao Boxing will host the event “Muay Thai Combat Mania 2012 Pattaya”. The venue is set as Pattaya World Boxing Stadium.

Yodsanklai Fairtex and Kem Sitsongpeenong will easily be the highest profile fight featuring two Thai’s. Both fighters have been able to achieve international success and it isn’t very common for two Thai fighters that are on the international circuit to fight one another. Yodsanklai is the current WMC middleweight world champion, and is a former WBC champion as well as King’s Cup tournament champion. Kem is the current WBC super welterweight champion and recently won the Toyota Vigo Marathon tournament; he is also the 2011 Thai Fight 154lb tournament champion.

The fight will take place at 156lbs with both fighters having to weigh-in the morning of the fight.

Take-On Productions teams up with Yokkao, returning to Madison Square Garden in November

Take-On Productions has announced that they will be returning to Madison Square Garden in November. The promotion will be making their second trip to the historic venue after a successful first event at Madison Square Garden (MSG) in March. In addition to returning to MSG with “Muay Thai at the Mecca 2”, they have announced that Yokkao will be sponsoring the event. For those not familiar with Yokkao, they are an apparel and equipment company that sponsors some of the biggest fighters around the world such as Buakaw and Giorgio Petrosyan.

Although no official fights have been announced for the upcoming event at MSG, fighters expected to be in action on the night include Justin Greskiewicz, Brian Collete, Rami Ibrahim, Jay Matias and Brett Hlavacek.

Take-On Productions will also return to Atlantic City on August 11th to Bally’s Hotel and Casino. Yokkao will begin their sponsorship of the promotion with this event, and it will be the fist Yokkao branded event in the United States.

Saenchai says he is not fighting in Italy for the MPL in video message

The video below has surfaced online. Saenchai states he will not be fighting in Italy in October, this after the MPL had confirmed that Saenchai was still fighting on their event. It will be very interesting to see what happens in this situation. As it currently stands, in Saenchai's own words he will not be fighting in Italy until January for Yokkao Boxing.

Yokkao Extreme promoter Stefania Picelli talks about her upcoming venture with Yokkao Boxing

Last week Yokkao Boxing and Stefania Picelli dropped a bomb on everyone when they announced Yokkao Extreme. The news was even bigger when they announced that a fight between Buakaw Por. Pramuk and Dzhabar Askerov would not be happening in Los Angeles for the Muaythai Premier League as previously announced by the them.

Behind Yokkao Extreme is Stefania Picelli, a former model who at the age of twenty five has taken the reigns of promoting the upcoming January 2012 event. Stefania was kind enough to answer some questions for Muay Thai Authority regarding her involvement with Yokkao Extreme and the news of Buakaw vs. Dzhabar Askerov.

MTA: Yokkao Extreme was recently announced and you are the promoter for the event, how did you end up in the fight promotion business?

Stefania: I think that nothing happens by chance, that you have to work a lot to achieve your goals and this is what I did for the last 3 years.

Buakaw vs. Dzhabar Askerov now taking place in January of 2012at Yokkao Extreme

Yokkao Boxing is best known for manufacturing Muay Thai equipment in Thailand and sponsoring some of the world best fighters. Now they have stepped into the promotional business, and their first announcement has definitely stirred the pot.