The Kentucky boxing club hosted a fight night for the ages on Nov. 23 where a house packed full of eager fans roared for knockdowns, knockouts and plenty of blood through 10 intense bouts at Thrive Tribe Boxing & Fitness.

Club president Hunter Williams announced after the last fight was over that the boxing club is planning to host another fight night event in the spring of 2025 with better fights, more diversity and further spectacle for the fans.

This time around, each fight consisted of three two-minute rounds with a 30 second break in between. Official results of each fight are as follows.

Fight No. 1: Hamblet Arroyo vs. Mostafa “Prince Mostafa” Mubarak

Winner: Mubarak by unanimous decision

Official scores: 30-27, 30-26, 30-26

The introductory fight got off to a hot start.

“I said that in the press conference I’m going to put him down in the first round, and that’s exactly what I did,” Mubarak said.

Prince Mostafa was successful in connecting multiple body and liver shots on Arroyo early, knocking him to the canvas.

“The only thing I was thinking at that moment was I need to get up,” Arroyo said after the fight.

The constant pressure winded Arroyo quickly and he admitted to needing more practice.

“I want to get my rematch, finally win against him,” Arroyo said.

Post-fight, Mubarak called out multiple members of the club including heavyweight Aidan Greenwell.

“He just, for some reason, seems to hate me very much, so I’ll knock him out just like I did to Hamblet out there,” he said.

Fight No. 2: Ethan Webb vs. Luke Justice

Winner: Webb by unanimous decision

Official scores: 29-28, 29-28, 28-28

Webb-Justice was an absolute slugfest between two guys who are admittedly friends outside of the ring.

The unanimous decision surprised both Webb and Justice.

“I had fully expected to lose that first round,” Webb admitted. “I thought I was performing subpar. Turns out, I was doing pretty good.”

“Me personally, I thought it was going to be a split decision,” Justice said

Webb was a bit slow to start, but he came out swinging in the second round and landed some crucial shots on Justice to put some points on his side of the card.

“Well, it did (catch me off guard) a little bit,” Justice said. “That second round was a little wakeup call because I got put on the ropes a little bit after it and it was tiring.”

Though there is still no animosity between these two, they hope to continue to sharpen each other’s skills and maybe meet again in the ring someday.

Fight No. 3: Alexander “Blevy Boy” Blevins vs. Ricky Chen

Winner: Blevins by majority decision

Official scores: 29-28, 29-28, 28-28

With the stakes of this fight being bragging rights and some Cook Out, there was a lot on the line here.

Chen came out swinging hard to start the fight and Blevins admitted that some of those hits were getting to him early.

“In that first round it was really tough,” Blevins said. “I got stars every time he would lay one of those punches on me.”

Chen’s endurance proved to be his kryptonite, however, and Blevins used this to his advantage. After landing some of the hardest hitting punches of the night, Chen was wobbling around the ring and Blevins secured his first career win.

Chen was noticeably shaken up after the fight and departed before the event was over after being attended to.

“I kind of feel like being nice,” Blevins said when asked if he was going to run up the bill at Cook Out. “I kind of landed a couple, quite a bit, of upper cuts. I know he has to be feeling that.”

Fight No. 4: Patrick Oliphant vs. Nate Winn

Winner: Oliphant by majority decision

Official scores: 27-29, 29-28, 28-28

Oliphant and Winn had sparred prior to the fight, but on the night of the press conference vowed to let their fighting do the talking. These two battled it out, showing much more fundamental fighting skills than prior fights.

In the first round Oliphant crushed Winn with an uppercut, knocking him down for a five count before he was able to get back up again.

“I took a tough shot in the beginning of the first round,” Winn explained. “It really messed up my energy. I was pretty gassed after that.”

Winn came out of his corner for the final round with a raised intensity and landed a few solid hits on Oliphant in return to try and grab a few points, but it wasn’t enough.

Oliphant stuck to the game plan and ran away with the win, fighting smartly and keeping control of the pace. He dedicated the fight to his wife and child who were in the crowd cheering him on.

“To show them that if you show up for something and you put in the time and the hours you can do it,” Oliphant said on the message he was trying to send to his family. “If it wasn’t for him, I would’ve been tired out (and) giving up. I kept looking over to the corner of my eye.”

Fight No. 5: Adam “Burfict” Speridakos vs. Hunter “Wraith” Williams

Winner: Williams by unanimous decision

Official scores: 30-27, 30-27, 30-27

Williams-Speridakos was a good test for both fighters from the beginning and, with it being the first main card event of the night, it didn’t disappoint.

Williams, the president of the club, handed Speridakos his first career loss, bringing his record to 1-1 while boosting his own to 3-1.

“I’m honored to step in the ring with Hunter as our president,” Speridakos said. “It’s an honor, as good of a fighter as he is and how ambitious he is, I can only respect that. I love getting in the ring with him.”

Despite Wraith being 20 pounds lighter than Burfict, he kept his guard high and landed a few crucial blows to sway the scorecard in his direction.

“I told everybody. I told everyone. I’m not coming out here to lose. I’m not doing it,” Williams said.

Williams also announced after the fight that it was his last pre-amateur bout as he is planning to go amateur and then pro.

Fight No. 6: Adam “Wildman” Wellens vs. Jason Stroud

Winner: Stroud by unanimous decision

Wellens hinted prior to the fight that he was planning to use antics seen in his first fight, and he stood true to his word by pushing stroud over early into the first round.

“I’m feeling pretty phenomenal. That first round was really rough, especially with that accidental headbutt, me kind of falling into him, but I kept it a good proper fight after that,” Stroud said in regard to accidentally busting Wellens nose.

Stroud kept his composure, lured Wellens into the corner and slammed him with multiple straights and jabs, drawing the first blood of the night.

Wildman continued to fall into his trap and eventually there was no way back for him.

“Next exhibition, next semester, you’ll definitely see me back here again,” Stroud said.

Fight No. 7: Aydin “Monkey” Khosrowshahi vs. Angus “The Rocket” Thompson

Winner: Thompson by knockout

Angus Thompson proved his 3-0 record to be justifiable versus Khosrowshahi, knocking him out just one minute and 35 seconds into the first round.

“I think my defense was lacking,” Khosrowshahi said. “I wasn’t keeping  my eyes on him. I was standing up straight and not really moving with him. He was moving a lot.”

Thompson controlled the short-lived fight and, once Monkey stood still for a few seconds, The Rocket blasted him with multiple consecutive blows straight to the mouth and chin.

“I knew he was going to come out swinging in the first round, so I was just gonna see what he got and just played around. I knew I had the cardio to just wait it out,” Thompson said before being interrupted by Khosrowshahi to shake hands after the quick knockout.

As for what’s next for Thompson? He hopes to take his now 4-0 record and make a push for professional boxing.

“I feel like that’d be pretty awesome,” he said. “I just want to make money and I love fighting. It’s the only thing that speaks to me.”

Fight No. 8: Tyler “2FlyTye” Blakey vs. Terrence Redford

Winner: Blakey by unanimous decision

Official scores: 30-27, 30-27, 30-27

Redford and Blakey were both having a hard time landing hits on one another to start off their much anticipated battle, but Redford landed a jab in the first round knocking Blakey to the canvas which many assumed would win the round for Redford.

Once the second and third rounds got underway, Blakey found his rhythm, landing several hooks to Redford’s headgear that were sure to rattle him.

“I kept landing the same punch over and over on that man’s big head, spamming the same punch of his big head,” Blakey said. “He gets hit by the same punches for seven minutes straight.”

Blakey’s southpaw stance seemed to throw off Redford’s game, using his forward hand to keep distance and slip a cross to his face that landed almost every time.

“I should have been defending that. I should have seen it coming, but I just wasn’t,” Redford admitted.

Fight No. 9: Braden Hough vs. Jackson Hall

Winner: Hall by technical knockout

“I really did not expect a knockout,” Hall said. “I was not really planning for a knockout. I really planned to get him on the gas tank.”

Hough-Hall looked to be a great matchup as the second heaviest fighters slipped under the ropes and, for Hall, this was about to be a great fight, but for Hough… not so much.

From the first round, Hall was focused on breaking Hough down through body shots and he connected on consecutive liver shots that visibly hurt and tired him out.

“Man, I took a knee because I just could not move my body,” Hough said. “I couldn’t throw anything at a certain point and my vision was getting destroyed.”

Despite the tough result, Hough felt better about the fight than he did his first in the spring.

“I think it was a better showing for my skill as it comes to my boxing coordination, I don’t think it was nearly as good of a show of my endurance,” Hough said.

After the win, Hall is ready to fight any opponent placed in front of him with confidence. 

“Whoever’s in front of me, I’ll take it because win or lose, as long as I show out and do the best I can, I’m happy,” he said.

Fight No. 10: Aidan Greenwell vs Declan Ochoa

Winner: Ochoa by split decision

Official scores: 29-28, 30-26, 30-27

Greenwell-Ochoa, the closing fight between two menacing heavyweight boxers, was no disappointment to the fans who waited all night.

Through the first round, Greenwell looked to be ahead after landing hard jabs on Ochoa, who wasn’t repaying the favor. Ochoa went back to his corner for some guidance after the first round and came out swinging in round two.

“My coach told me to throw my jab more, set my other shots up,” Ochoa said. “Once I started to jab, I could set up my hooks way better than I was before. I think (in the) first round I was just blindly throwing, but (in the) second round I started to connect more by setting it up first.”

Ochoa joined the boxing club a week and a half before the fight night and accepted the bout one week prior. With no regrets, he went into the ring and took down a fierce competitor in Greenwell.

“Hey, you know, boxing is a rough sport, but you got to take it as it is,” Greenwell said. “The winner of a fight is simply the better opponent. That’s kind of why I love this sport so much.”

As for Ochoa, who admitted he expected to lose the bout, he intends to continue fighting and taking boxing more seriously in the future.