Jo Prestia's Warriors Night Features Lidon vs. Yodsanklai Rematch on March 2

Tuesday, 08 January 2013 15:45

Written by Rian Scalia

France is one of the strongest countries in the world for Muay Thai and kickboxing, as evidenced by the plethora of great events that take place every month there. March 2 will see French legend Jo Prestia put on a card featuring a number of names in Levallois.

Headlining Warriors Night will be a rematch between Yodsanklai Fairtex and Yohan Lidon. The two fought back in 2008 with Yodsanklai taking a second round TKO victory. They were supposed to fight again in 2011 for the MPL, but the fight ended up being cancelled due to injury. Lidon has quite the active year scheduled so far, as e fights in a four man tournament in France on February 2 at La Nuit Des Titans, then heads to Australia to fight Steve Moxon on February 22 before this fight. Yodsanklai recently knocked out Kem Sitsongpeenong last month and will face Gregory Choplin at Lion Fight 8 in Las Vegas on January 25.

Right under that fight is a fight between Abdallah Mabel and Johann Fauveau. Mabel has fought a who's who of fighters and comes off two stoppage wins in a row, over Super X and Bruce Codron respectively. Fauveau was recently signed to GLORY and will fight at GLORY 5 London later on March 23, Before this fight, Fauveau fights Ludovic Millet in France on January 19.

The rest of the fight card features a number of notable fighters like Kaew Fairtex, Bobo Sacko, one of the Bennoui brothers and Steeve Archambault and can be seen below in the official event poster.

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