By Greg Saks Rick Hawn and Tom Gallicchio stepped into the main event slot of WCF 9 Friday night after an injury forced Mike Campbell off the card, and delivered a grueling, high-level 3 round war. Hawn controlled and outpointed a more experienced and game Gallicchio to win a unanimous 30-27 victory and keep his [...]

World Championship Fighting (WCF) put a ribbon on its ninth offering last night (Feb. 26, 2010) from the Shriner’s Auditorium in Wilmington, Massachusetts. WCF 9 featured a main event between former Olympian and undefeated MMA fighter Rick Hawn against New Jersey native Tom Gallicchio. Hawn — a four-time national champion in Judo and top 10 finisher at [...]

by Jack Encarnacao (Photos by Joe Harrington) WILMINGTON, Mass. – Rick Hawn, one of the highest-level judokas on the American MMA circuit, showed a well-rounded game in keeping his winning streak alive Friday in the main event of World Championship Fighting 9. The 33-year-old welterweight, who represented the United States in the 2004 Olympics, notched a workmanlike unanimous [...]

by Steven Marrocco on Feb 26, 2010 at 3:10 pm ET Former Olympian Rick Hawn (5-0) reached a conclusion that’s well-known to many international competitors: you can’t eat gold medals. With that in mind, the 33-year-old Hawn, who faces Tom Gallicchio tonight in the main event of World Championship Fighting 9 in Wilmington, Mass., scrambled [...]