{"id":10145,"date":"2012-06-29T21:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T02:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=10145"},"modified":"2012-07-09T14:09:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T19:09:02","slug":"local-fighter-heads-to-king-of-the-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/06\/local-fighter-heads-to-king-of-the-casino\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Fighter Heads <BR>to &#8216;King of the Casino&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By John\u00a0 Fry<br \/>\nSpecial to the Gazette<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nOn 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.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10147\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10147\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bayon_martial_arts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10147\" title=\"bayon_martial_arts\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/bayon_martial_arts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lehigh Acres&#8217; Joel Bayon takes on Fort Meyers&#8217; Shawn Fields at the &#8216;King of the Casino&#8217; mixed martial arts match <br \/>in Immokalee July 7.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lehigh Acres local gym Pitt\u2019s Pen \u2018s Joel Bayon\u00a0 will take on Shawn \u201cLights Out\u201d Fields of Fort Myers Fight Zone.<\/p>\n<p>The Seminole Casino of Immokalee has been hosting Mixed Martial Arts events for the past two years. Bayon is an instructor at Pitt&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Shopp, the owner\/operator of Pitt\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>For ticket and additional information, contact the Seminole Casino Immokalee\u2019s Casino Event Pavilion at 1-800-218-0007. The Seminole Casino Immokalee is located at 506 South First Street, Immokalee, Fla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John\u00a0 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.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}