Ringside action at the Chi Garden

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00:00Friday night was fight night at the Chi Garden.

00:11Some of the city's top brawlers displayed their punching power in front of a packed

00:15ringside crowd.

00:17On the bill were boxers and kickboxers eager to make their name on Dubai's fight circuit.

00:22Among them Palestinian fighter Haitham Akel, who lost on points against the tough Romanian

00:27Octavian Lahadis.

00:29Also in action was the young up-and-coming Lebanese kickboxer Nadel El Ahmar.

00:33He clinically dispatched Frenchman Guillaume Domiac to take the inter-club lightweight

00:38kickboxing title.

00:40Heading the bill was UAE resident Richie Black Pearl Comey, who took on Australia's Ben

00:45the Bull Rider Burridge for the Pan-Asian super welterweight title.

00:49It was no holds barred, no punches pulled for five rounds before Comey knocked his opponent

00:54to the floor with a stinging kick to the head.

00:57It's Dubai's first ever sanctioned fight night, but expect to see the city's movers and shakers

01:02at ringside at the next main event.

01:05Ashraf Helmi, Gulf News.