San Jacinto, CA – KOTC?s next pay-per-view starts to air on August 12th and is scheduled to run for three weeks. On the card Joey Villasenor defended his title against American Top Team’s Jorge Santiago. The match ended in a decision victory for the champion, one that tested the champion’s endurance as well as showed he wasn’t afraid to go to the ground against a BJJ black belt. In other title action, Millennia Jiu-Jitsu’s Manny Tapia defeated Gregory Vivan for the 135 pound title, however Urijah Faber‘s defense of the 145 pound title and James Fanshier‘s defense of the Welterweight title were cancelled. An estimated 7700 fans packed the Soboba Casino in California, mainly to watch longtime KOTC fighters in action including former Welterweight Champion John Alessio, Mike Guymon, and Rob McCullough in a total of 21 fights at the live event.A gallery of shots from this night is posted at http://malarky.udel.edu/~keith/2005/KOTC/kotc080505.htm.
