August 18, 2012 – Championship Muay Thai at PALA CA

CONTACT:            Jack Taylor, 760-801-6328, jtaylor@palacasino.com

                        Pala Casino Spa & Resort

14x WORLD CHAMPION JULIE KITCHEN TO FIGHT UNDEFEATED MIRIAM NAKAMOTO FOR
WCK CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS WORLD TITLE
AUG. 18, AT PALA

Three other Women’s World Title Matches Top Fight Card along with Four Man North American Welterweight tournament

for automatic invitation to Big-8 Belarus Tournament

PALA, CA, June 1, 2012…..Julie Kitchen, 44-8, of Cornwall, England, will go after her unprecedented 15^th World Title by entering the ring against the undefeated WBC & WMC current World Champion Miriam Nakamoto, 14-0, of Dublin, CA in the five-round main event of a 10-fight international Muay Thai gala starting at 6p.m., Saturday, August 18, in the Events Center at Pala Casino Spa & Resort.

Tickets, $100, $40, are available at the Pala Casino box office or at 1-877-946-7252 with no service charge.  Tickets also are available at www.startickets.com, or by telephone at 1-800-585-3737.  For bout information call WCK hotline at 1-877-446-7962.

Three additional women’s world title fights, two men’s title bouts and a Big 8 North American Welterweight Qualifying tournament complete the professional card.  A three-fight amateur card at 6 p.m. will lead off the action.

Kitchen, who has won 14 Muay Thai world championships, is recognized as the most successful female fighter ever in the United Kingdom and possibly the world.  Nakamoto has won six world titles and became the first American-born female fighter to win the World Boxing Council Super Lightweight world championship when she knocked out Luxembourg’s Claire Haigh in the first round on August 21, 2010 in Haikou City, China on a WCK Muaythai event.

This historic fight will be held at the Pala Casino Resort and Spa between the two best female standup fighters in the world.  It is the best American female fighter Miriam Nakamoto known as the Queen of Mean with her devastating knockout power versus United Kingdom’s Julie Kitchen, dubbed as “The Queen of Muaythai” for her 14 world championship titles and fantastic classic Muaythai fighting style.  “This will be the greatest female fight of this decade,” commented Dennis Warner, the president of In Sync Productions. “This will be the Ali vs Frazier of female fighting.  Both of these women are recognized as the best stand-up pound-for-pound fighters in the world.  In Sync Productions has been promoting female stand up fighters since 1989, and Kitchen vs Nakamoto is certainly what the fans want and this fight won’t disappoint.”

 In the other women’s title fights:

Tiana Caverly, 32-11-2, from Perth, Western Australia, will defend her World Boxing Council (WBC) Muaythai World Bantamweight championship against Jemyma Bertrian, 13-2, of The Netherlands.

Lena Ovchynnikova, 8-2-0, from Lviv, Ukraine, will meet Emily Bearden, 16-6-0, from New York City, USA, for the International Kickboxing Federation (IKF) World Super Bantamweight title.

Hilary Mack, 19-6-0, from Glasgow, Scotland, will fight Tiffany “Time Bomb” Van Soest, 8-1-0, from San Diego, CA, for the International Karate Kickboxing Council (IKKC) World Super Bantamweight championship.

About Pala Casino Spa & Resort
Pala Casino Spa & Resort includes a Las Vegas-style casino with 2,000 slot machines, 15 poker tables and 87 table games; a 507-room hotel; a 10,000-square-foot, full-service spa and salon that features 14 treatment rooms; a state-of-the-art fitness center; swimming pool with 12 private poolside cabanas, and dual-temperature outdoor Jacuzzi.  Pala also offers 10 restaurants and 40,000 square feet of meeting and convention space.  Pala Casino Spa & Resort is an AAA Four-Diamond Award winner for seven consecutive years.  Its state-of-the-art Pala Spa was named the 2009 Best Casino Spa by Spas of America and the 2009 Best Casino Spa by the Southern California Gaming Guide.  In 2011, Pala Casino Spa & Resort was voted Best Casino in San Diego by the public in the 10News.com annual poll sponsored by KGTV-TV 10 News in San Diego.  For more information, visit http://www.palacasino.com.

About WCK Muaythai
Founded in 1989 by Dennis Warner and In Sync Productions, Inc., WCK Muaythai is based in Southern California and is the largest Muay Thai sports entertainment event in North America.  The championships are held in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Beijing, Manila and other cities and feature top fighters from the USA, Japan, China, France, Thailand, England and Australia, including such world champions as Steve McKinnon, Craig Buchanan and Lerdsila “Mr. Lighting” Chumpairtour.  Currently airing in regional sports cable networks across the USA, WCK is watched by over 500 million viewers worldwide.  For more information about WCK Muaythai visit www.wckmuaythai.com

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