When Chad Sugden was dispatched, momentarily senseless, to the canvas on an uncomfortable night at Kelham Hall in March, a packed Newark crowd were stunned. Now he’s back.
The boy is back... Chad Sugden is walking tall again after a superb demolition of the man who put him on the canvas at Kelham Hall in March.
The sign of a true champion is not how good you look when you are winning, but how you react to a crushing defeat, and the Newark Martial Arts Club hero had his supporters back up on their feet in Durham on Sunday night in a re-match against the man who ended his proud record.
Ryan “The Body Snatcher” Edmunson is the only fighter to beat Sugden in a full-contact contest, and Chad’s father Dean, the head coach at NMA, thought it would be wiser to get another couple of fights under his son’s belt before going looking for revenge.
“We really wanted him to mature and physically develop before a re-match to settle the score,” said Dean Sugden. “However, when Chad’s original opponent pulled out with an injury three days before, the call went out for a replacement.
“The only answer came from the confident Bristol camp — particularly as it was under Edmunson’s preferred rules of K-1.”
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