{"id":944,"date":"2008-03-05T08:51:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T08:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2008\/03\/05\/hometown-fighter-wins-belt-ifl-back-in-sin-city\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T08:51:11","slug":"hometown-fighter-wins-belt-ifl-back-in-sin-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/hometown-fighter-wins-belt-ifl-back-in-sin-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Hometown Fighter Wins Belt: IFL Back in Sin City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miletich Fighting System&rsquo;s Ryan McGivern won the Middleweight championship belt upsetting Team Quests Matt Horwich as the International Fight Leagues 2008 season went underway at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.&nbsp; Fans on hand in Sin City were treated to 3 Championship Bouts for the evening, as well as many other fights.<\/p>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>McGivern won a unanimous decision over Horowich after both fighters fought through near fight-ending arm bars and strikes.&nbsp; Bettendorf&rsquo;s, Ryan McGivern stepped in to fight Horowich after Tim Kennedy had military obligations to meet.<\/p><div id=\"holaa-2627686094\" 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> Heavyweight Champion Roy Nelson out of Ken Shamrocks Lion&rsquo;s Den defended and kept his belt after knocking out Fabiano Scherner of Tem Quest in the first round.<\/p>\n<p> Lightweight Ryan &ldquo;The Lion&rdquo; Schultz, also retained his belt securing a unanimous decision over the Lions Den&rsquo;s John Gunderson.<\/p>\n<p> The IFL will be at The Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey on April 4th, 2008 where Bettendorf Iowa&rsquo;s, Miletich Fighting System takes on American Top Team, as well as 3 more championship fights with the welterweight, heavyweight and featherweight belts all being up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"holaa-1077291666\" 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>Miletich Fighting System&rsquo;s Ryan McGivern won the Middleweight championship belt upsetting Team Quests Matt Horwich as the International Fight Leagues 2008 season went underway at the Orleans Arena in Las [&hellip;]<\/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\/944"}],"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=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}