Tuesday 16 April 2013
Tyrone Spong vs. Angel DeAnda Slated for WSOF 3 Co-Main Event
Tyrone Spong & Angel DeAnda Meet at WSOF 3
Tyrone 'King of the Ring' Spong's returns to the cage in June highly marking his anticipated second MMA bout where he will take on Angel DeAnda.
Spong (1-0), who was victorious in his MMA debut in November, will meet Angel DeAnda (11-2) on June 14 in Las Vegas, WSOF president Ray Sefo announced the fight late Monday night via his Twitter
The bout will serve as the card's co-main event. Jon Fitch vs. Josh Burkman will be the WSOF 3 main event.
Considered one of the best pound-for-pound kickboxers in the world, 27-year-old Spong, who trains with the Blackzilians, improved his kickboxing record to 69-6-1 last month when he defeated kickboxing legend Remy Bonjasky at Glory 5 in London.
In his MMA debut At WSOF 1 Spong knocked out Travis Bartlett in devastating fashion, and has since drawn great interest from the MMA community, who have been pining to see the King of the Ring in more MMA bouts.
His opponent DeAnda enters the bout on a four fight win streak, most recently stoping veteran Anthony Ruiz in November, under the Tachi Palace Fights
A Las Vegas venue for WSOF 3, which will air live on NBC Sports Network, has yet to be announced.
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