{"id":1517,"date":"2009-03-20T18:59:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T18:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2009\/03\/20\/fights-at-the-fairground-ekims-and-nick-tarpeins-host-show\/"},"modified":"2009-03-20T18:59:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T18:59:36","slug":"fights-at-the-fairground-ekims-and-nick-tarpeins-host-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/fights-at-the-fairground-ekims-and-nick-tarpeins-host-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Fights at the Fairground: Ekim\u00e2\u0080\u0099s and Nick Tarpeins Host Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ekim&rsquo;s Karate and Kickboxing and Nick Tarpein&rsquo;s School of Karate hosted a night of MMA action at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds on March 7th, 2009 despite heavy rainfall that night.<br \/> <i><b><\/b><\/i>  <!--more--> <br \/> Sal Macias, a member of Mardy&rsquo;s Martial Arts made his debut that night but is no stranger to MMA.&nbsp; &ldquo;I went from high school wresting to Brazilian jujitsu and practicing with Militech I finally did it at 33.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s never too late.&rdquo;&nbsp; Exclaimed Macias.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> Facing, Tarpein trained, Ben Ledbetter, the fight went to the ground quickly as control switched sides, then on his back, Macias secured a gogoplata submission, pulling his shin over Ledbetter&rsquo;s head and under his throat and pulling his head down for&nbsp; the win. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to focus on my stand up&rdquo; said Sal. &ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t comfortable to stand up with a kick boxer yet.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re going to be working on at our camp at Mardy&rsquo;s.&rdquo;<\/p><div id=\"holaa-1157132810\" class=\"holaa-ad-inside-articles-2\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesperformingarts.org\/whats-on\/series\/summerarts\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" aria-label=\"HI-SummerSeries-300&#215;250-SP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HI-SummerSeries-300x250-SP.jpg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>\n<p> The main event showcased Royce Arnold facing Javier Barrera for the Amateur Lightweight Championship.&nbsp; The fight went to the second round as Royce Arnold kneed his way into victory taking home the belt.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> <b>Fight Night Results*:<\/b><\/p>\n<p> 1.T.J. Wiseman defeats David Malli by armbar submission<br \/> 2.Masin Hardin defeats Race McIntosh by rear naked choke<br \/> 3.Sal Macias defeats Ben Ledbetter by gogoplata submission.<br \/> 4.Gabe Cousins defeats Dwayne Geronzin by knockout<br \/> 5.Lance Walker defeats Chris Hulling by knockout<br \/> 6.Derrick Dannit defeats John Kennedy by rear naked choke<br \/> 7.Dave Nicklaus defeats Eric Winter by knockout<br \/> 8.Todd Monaghan defeats Andy Coffin by knockout<br \/> 9.Krista Johnson defeats Tameeka Lake by a choke submission<br \/> 10.Frank Young defeats Mike Neece by rear naked choke<br \/> 11.Royce Arnold defeats Javier Barrera by a knockout.<\/p>\n<p> <i><b>*Thanks to Shelly Vroman for the fight results.<\/b><\/i> <\/p><div id=\"holaa-1714789714\" class=\"holaa-ad-inside-articles\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/hhs.iowa.gov\/health-prevention\/diabetes-prevention-management\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Diabetes Spanish 300&#215;250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Diabetes-Spanish-300x250-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>\n<div id=\"holaa-4111961848\" class=\"holaa-after-content\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/progressiowa.org\/2023\/08\/take-action-with-progress-iowa\/?utm_source=news&#038;utm_medium=site&#038;utm_campaign=2026&#038;utm_id=News\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Progress Iowa Spanish 300&#215;250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Progress-Iowa-Spanish-300x250-1.png\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ekim&rsquo;s Karate and Kickboxing and Nick Tarpein&rsquo;s School of Karate hosted a night of MMA action at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds on March 7th, 2009 despite heavy rainfall that night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}