WEYMOUTH Martial Art Centre’s King Tiger Thai boxing, in conjunction with Dorchester Kickboxing, staged their seventh and biggest fight night yet in front of a sell-out crowd at the Weymouth Pavilion.

The main event of the evening saw King Tiger’s Darren Anstley defending his TFC 88-kilo Euro-pean title against Spanish number one Samuel Diaz over eight two-minute rounds.

Anstley came out on the bell with a ferocity that clearly shook his opponent, who found himself smashed around the ring with a hook cross combination, culminating with a head kick.

This left Diaz out for the count giving Anstley his 14th knockout in 16 fights to send the capacity crowd wild.

The first title bout of the night saw King Tiger’s Billy ‘The Kid’ Ellis taking on Taurus’s Bryn ‘The Assassin’ Cooper for the vacant Total Full Contact Eng-lish title.

The crowd roared as Ellis dominated the opening three rounds with an amazing display of high kicks and knees to the head.

Cooper somehow survived the onslaught and, just at the end of the fourth round, he rocked Ellis with a huge punch combination and another flurry knocked him through the ropes with 30 seconds left, but it was too little, too late and, at the final bell, Ellis was crowned the new champion.

King Tiger’s Jo Edwards, a veteran of nearly 50 fights squared off in an A class Thai boxing bout with Spanish champion Isreal Munez.

Edwards stuck to his game plan as he countered Munez’s huge southpaw hooks with big kicks to body and head before tying him up on the inside.

The Spaniard remained dangerous but the pivotal moment came when Edwards threw a huge spinning elbow to the head which visibly stunned Munez and forced him to hold on until the bell.

The second round saw Edwards continue to throw an array of elbow techniques but Munez fought back bravely before finally collapsing under a barrage of knees in his own corner to be counted out by the referee to hand Edwards the win.

The opening bout of the night saw King Tiger’s River Suther-land taking on UTC Birming-ham’s Jordon O’Keefe, and the two youngest competitors put on a show in a three-round war of attrition under Thai boxing rules. It was O’Keefe’s night as he took the fight 2-1 in rounds with the judges.

Kerin Law then took on Nor-way’s Ellisiv Boe in a boxing match.

Law’s powerful long-range punching dominated the opening round but, a change of tactics in the second, saw Boe brawling forward and Law had to dig deep in the third to take a majority decision.

Dorchester Kickboxing’s heav-yweight John Graham then took to the ring in another international boxing bout against Norway’s Robert Moberg.

After starting strongly, big- punching Graham faded in the final rounds allowing Moberg to take a unanimous decision.

King Tiger heavyweight Ash Gordon dominated Cardiff Eagles’ Nuno Suarez on his debut to claim a stoppage win and Weymouth fitness instructor Andy Sloane, who had spent just five weeks’ training, took on Rob Graham in a bid to raise money for local charity Lillie May’s Journey, with the bout ending in a draw.

King Tiger’s Yeovil fighter Shah Mohhamed was then edged out by Plymouth’s Ben Claasen and there were also boxing victories on points for TFC world heavyweight champion Lee Grinrod and unbeaten light heavyweight Dan Curtin over more experienced Portsmouth fighters Troy Matthews and Shaun Allan.

Marvin Talbot, 43, from Wey-mouth’s Grey Ranks Boxing Club then did enough to negotiate a victory over King Tiger’s Luke Sawyer, who had taken the bout just five days before fight night.

King Tiger coach Tom Ashe said: “This was our seventh fight night, hence the magnificent seventh title, and definitely our best.

“We had five drop-outs in the week of the show and four of my fighters had to switch to boxing but none of them complained because they just wanted to fight in their home town.”

Joint-promoter Keith Adams of Dorchester Kickboxing was also thrilled with the night, he said: “It was our best yet with quality bouts all the way through.”