ISKA World Middleweight Champion Vorn Viva and Charlie Gillespie after their fight August 20 at the CTN indoor studio. Vorn Viva won by unanimous points decision.

Vorn Viva beat Charlie Gillespie by unanimous points decision. Charlie proved a very tough fighter. He withstood some very hard shots and got rocked with a straight right hand in the fifth but did not go down. In the end, it was all Viva, who was shaking his hips as the crowd chanted his name through later rounds.

Thun Sophea beat Dominik Zidov by unanimous points decision. Sophea looked a lot better on the night, and Zidov was never really in the fight. In fairness, though, Zidov was in a pretty bad motorcycle accident a few weeks ago that put 42 stitches in his head and banged him up pretty good. After the fight, Zidov said that under normal circumstances, “I could beat him.”

Sen Bunthen and Ervant “The Wolf” Atagyan fought to a draw. In the fifth round, Sen Bunthen caught a front kick from Wolf, and holding Wolf’s leg high in the air, Sen Bunthen ran him backward into the ropes and tried to kick Wolf’s head off. Wolf ducked, and instead Sen Bunthen went flying over the ropes where he crashed hard on the edge of the apron and then flipped and smacked his head on the concrete floor. He laid there for quite some time as doctors came over and had a look. I am not sure if he was out cold or not, but when he finally made it back to his feet, Sen Bunthen was still clearly dazed.

By that time the round was over, and the only decision that could be made was made. The fight was declared a draw. Until the moment Sen Bunthen went flying over the ropes, it was a very close fight. Sen Bunthen won rounds 1 and 2 easily, but Wolf came on strong in the third in a round that could have gone either way. Wolf clearly won the fourth, and an air of concern settled into the arena as the round came to a close.

Sen Bunthen came out slugging in the fifth, scoring with hard left kicks to the body, and was easily winning the round when he went flying over the ropes. But there was still half a round left, and in rounds 3 and 4, Wolf had come on hard in the later half. Impossible to know what would have happened had Sen Bunthen’s injury not occurred.

“Tough fight,” Wolf said afterward with a shake of his head and a hard exhale.

Um Dara scored a TKO victory over May Sopheap due to doctor stoppage in the fourth. Um Dara cut May Sopheap with an elbow in the third.

Cheam Adam came back from a second-round knockdown to score a 4th-round TKO over Sam Ounloung.

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