Global Knockout MMA Announces Heavyweight Tournament for GKO 6

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GKO 6, March 26th at the Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort will see 3 championship bouts including a one night 4-man Heavyweight Championship Tournament.

The Heavyweight Tournament semifinal match-ups will see Cody “The Freight Train” East colliding with Dave “The Bad Man” Huckaba and “Mr. Incredible” Josue Jr Lugo against “Black Dynamite” Roy Boughton.

East is a former King of the Cage and Legacy FC Heavyweight Champion, who at GKO 5 was scheduled to face Dave Huckaba, but due to a last minute change fought and defeated Roy Boughton in the 1st round via submission to punches.

Huckaba who has 19 of 22 stoppage wins via knock out, comes in off of a October, 2015, knock out of Patrick Smith rebounding from a GKO 4 TKO loss to Roy Boughton.

As was already stated Boughton at GKO 4 defeated Dave Huckaba (tko) and will be looking to rebound from losing to Cody East (tko).

Lugo comes in off a RFA 27, split decision loss to Jan Jorgensen, which ended a 7 fight unbeaten streak; that saw Lugo win 6 times via stoppage.

Headlining the card will be a rematch from GKO 5 that saw Justin Baseman defeat Nick Kohring via split decision for the GKO Middleweight championship.

The nights other title affair will see Alex Sandoval, who’s won 2 in a row, against Eloy Garza, who’s coming off a GKO 4 knock out of Karl Marx Mazoni; and they will be battling for the vacant GKO Flyweight championship.

Champ: Justin Baesman (17-8-1) vs. Nick Kohring (9-1) – Middleweight Title
Alex Sandoval (10-2) vs. Eloy Garza (6-3) – Vacant Flyweight Title
TBA vs. TBA – Tourney Finals
Cody East (11-1) vs. Dave Huckaba (23-9) – Tourney Semi-Finals
Josue Jr Lugo (7-2) vs. Roy Boughton (12-6) – Tourney Semi-Finals
Jonathan Hamm (0-1) vs. Sean Tucker (0-0)
Angelo Trevino (2-0) vs. Sergio Vasquez (4-2)

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