By John Fry
Special to the Gazette
On Saturday July 7, 2012, the Seminole Casino Immokalee will host the King of Casino Mixed Martial Arts event. Doors open at 7pm. The event starts at 8pm.
in Immokalee July 7.
Lehigh Acres local gym Pitt’s Pen ‘s Joel Bayon will take on Shawn “Lights Out” Fields of Fort Myers Fight Zone.
The Seminole Casino of Immokalee has been hosting Mixed Martial Arts events for the past two years. Bayon is an instructor at Pitt’s Pen located at The Gunnery Road Plaza on Gunnery Road in Lehigh Acres. He owns a fight record of 6-2. Fields has a record of 3-3. Bayon is the current King of the Casino champion, with Fields the opponent.
Mark Shopp, the owner/operator of Pitt’s Pen in Lehigh Acres, was in the first legally sanctioned Mixed Martial Arts Fight in the United States back in February 2000 at Atlantic City, New Jersey, which is still one of the biggest Mixed Martial Arts events on the East Coast.
For ticket and additional information, contact the Seminole Casino Immokalee’s Casino Event Pavilion at 1-800-218-0007. The Seminole Casino Immokalee is located at 506 South First Street, Immokalee, Fla.