Simply The Best 9 set for November 22nd in Belgium

Simply The Best 9 is set to take place November 22 in Farciennes, Belgium. The WKN sanctioned event will feature four WKN championships on the line.

The main event will be Belgium's Nordine Saidane vs. Argentina's Ariel Leandro Araneda. The fight will be fore the WKN 72kg Intercontinental Championship.

The other WKN title fights include Lello Perego vs. Nikolaos Kontagiannis, Ashley Gilson vs. Lehota Krisztina, and Magomed Munayev vs. Reuben Assopardi.

Fight Card:

Nordine Saidane vs. Ariel Leandro Araneda

Lello Perego vs. Nikolaos Kontagiannis

Ashley Gilson vs. Lehota Krisztina

Magomed Munayev vs. Reuben Azzopardi

Valentin Di Quinzio vs. Killian Moulun

Sinan Durmaz vs. Cedric De Braecekenier

Xavier Lejour vs. Abdellah Aarab

Gaetano Pirello vs. Adem Tiryaki

Paolo Renna vs. Fabien Lossec

Simply The Best 8 Results

Simply The Best 8 took place in Borlange, Sweden. The main event for the event was for the WKN Welterweight European Championship and featured Sweden's Abdou Karim Chorr vs. Kevin Maertens of France. 

Karim Chorr was able to out point Maertens to capture the WKN 69kg Welterweight European title in a unanimous decision win. With the win he improved his professional record to 26-6.

In other action Meran Zangana defeated Andreas Iversen by third round (T)KO in the final of the 76kg Scandinavia Tournament. Youssef Assouik won the 64kg Scandinavian Tournament after he defeated Jonas Berglund by a third round stoppage due to an injury.

Results:

Abdou Karim Chorr def. Kevin Maertens via Unanimous Decision

Hussein Ibrahim def. Valentin di Quinzio via Unanimous Decision

Sandra Bengtsson def. Ashley Gilson via Unanimous Decision

Ehsan Barghi def. Majid Fallah via Split Decision

Emil Flystam def. Albin Fajkovic via (T)KO in Rd. 3

Hassan Moradi def. Yousef Karim via (T)KO in Rd. 3

WKN Scandinavian 76kg Semi-Finals:

Andreas Iversen def. Abdallah Habib via KO in Rd. 1

Meran Zangana def. Nafir Akatta via Unanimous Decision

WKN Scandinavian 76kg Final:

Meran Zangana def. Andreas Iversen via (T)KO in Rd. 3

WKN Scandinavian 64kg Semi-Finals:

Jonas Berglund def. Simon Santana via Split Decision

Youssef Assouik def. Liam Borcheloui via Unanimous Decision

WKN Scandinavian 64kg Final:

Youssef Assouik def. Jonas Berglund via (T)KO (Injury) in Rd. 3

Michael Mananquil representing North America at WKN Belarus

Michael Mananquil will be representing North America at WKN Belarus on September 23, 2010.

Mananquil last competed in July when he dropped a controversial split decision to Malaipet. Mananquil will be part of the 8-man tournament and will look to best a field that includes Sudsakorn (Asia), Kushnirenko (Europe), Marcos Cornejo (South America), Erkan Varol (Turkey), Kulebin (Belarus), and Harvey (Australia).

Other fights featured at WKN Belarus will be
Joanna Jedrzjcyk vs. Alla Ivashkevich for the WKN Muay Thai Women's Title, Igor Klimovitch vs. Bodan Lukin for the WKN Muay Thai European Title, and Dmitry "Black Vallet"  Valent vs. Tarek Slimani for the WKN Muay Thai International Title.