The Crown Fighting Championships, St. George, Utah, Jan. 26, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George News
* Warning: Some photos are of a graphic nature and may be offensive to sensitive viewers
ST. GEORGE — An STGnews photo gallery of the wildly popular Crown Fighting Championships in St. George’s Dixie Convention Center Saturday night, as seen through the eyes of STGnews staff photographer Chris Caldwell.
Note: Click on photo to enlarge it, then use your left-right arrow keys to cycle through this story’s photo gallery.
Sam Edwards (left) lost Fight 1 to Brian Dubuc at the Crown Fighting Championships, St. George, Utah, Jan. 26, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George NewsJermaine Tisi (bottom) won Fight 2 over Aaron Camis at the Crown Fighting Championships, St. George, Utah, Jan. 26, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George NewsCody Kesiel (top) won Fight 3 over Matt Arrington at the Crown Fighting Championships, St. George, Utah, Jan. 26, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George NewsBrandon Hart (bottom) won Fight 4 over Cy Nelson at the Crown Fighting Championships, St. George, Utah, Jan. 26, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George NewsRyan Phillips (top) won Fight 5 over Kevin Tarma at the Crown Fighting Championships, St. George, Utah, Jan. 26, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George NewsRyan Beech (right) won Fight 6 over Tino Flores at the Crown Fighting Championships, St. George, Utah, Jan. 26, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George NewsDaniel Sensintaffar (bottom) won Fight 7 over Tico Pringle at the Crown Fighting Championships, St. George, Utah, Jan. 26, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George NewsBoostayre Nefarios (left) won Fight 8 over James Martinez at the Crown Fighting Championships, St. George, Utah, Jan. 26, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George NewsKirt Patterson escaped this headlock and won Fight 9 over Don Moroney at the Crown Fighting Championships, St. George, Utah, Jan. 26, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George NewsTallon Torres (top) won Fight 10 over Mike Crisman at the Crown Fighting Championships, St. George, Utah, Jan. 26, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George NewsDanny Davis, Jr. (left) won Fight 11, the main event, over Chris Kennedy at the Crown Fighting Championships, St. George, Utah, Jan. 26, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George NewsChris Kennedy was bloodied, but endured to the end, losing a decision in the Main Event at the Crown Fighting Championships, St. George, Utah, Jan. 26, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George NewsThe caged ring at the Crown Fighting Championships, St. George, Utah, Jan. 26, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George News
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andy Griffin has been in sports media since 1989 and has covered BYU, Utah State and the Utah Jazz as well as all sports in southern Utah. A journalism graduate of USU, Andy has carried on a dual career as both a sports writer and a sports broadcaster and has been heard around the country. He has also been published in USA Today, Sport magazine, The Sporting News, Fairways magazine, the Los Angeles Times and locally in the Deseret News, the Salt Lake Tribune and the Spectrum. Andy was “The Voice of Region 9 sports,” for many years. He also hosted a daily sports talk show for three years called AG in the a.m.
Andy has been married to his college sweetheart Shelly for 28 years and has five children ages 13 to 25.
Fighting… such a family friendly and child oriented activity for St George