Scott Lighty

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Fairtex Combat Sports
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Scott Lighty (born October 15, 1978) is a professional Super Heavyweight American kickboxer and mixed martial artist, from San Luis Obispo, California. He currently trains at The Pit alongside UFC veterans, Chuck Liddell and Glover Teixeira.cite web
url=http://www.purecombatmma.com/197.html
title=Lighty……Looking for the Knockout
last=Gilliland
first=James
publisher=www.purecombatmma.com
date=
accessdate=2008-10-05]

Biography & career

K-1 career

Lighty made his K-1 debut as a tournament reserve fighter on the August, 2004 K-1 card in Las Vegas, NV scoring a second round knockout over Frank Cota. In 2005 he finished as a runner-up at "Mayhem At The Mirage" tournament. He knocked out Tatsufumi Tomihira by a high kick in quarterfinals and beat Chalid Arrab by an unanimous decision in semis. In the final bout, Lighty remained on his feet, but took a considerable amount of punishement from the Russian kickboxer Ruslan Karaev and lost the fight after three rounds of action.

MMA career

After 2007, there were not a lot of K-1 fights held in the U.S and Lighty decided to switch from kickboxing to MMA. He made his pro debut on the reality show "TapouT" and won that battle by verbal submission in the first round over Derek Thornton.cite web
url=http://www.purecombatmma.com/197.html
title=Lighty……Looking for the Knockout
last=Gilliland
first=James
publisher=www.purecombatmma.com
date=
accessdate=2008-10-05]

Titles

*2004 Rising Sun Heavyweight tournament champion

See also

*List of K-1 Events
*List of male kickboxers
*List of male mixed martial artists
*List of kickboxing organizations

References

External links

* [http://www.k-1.co.jp/k-1gp/index.htm Official K-1 website]
* [http://www.k-1.co.jp/k-1gp/ctop.htm Scott Lighty K-1 profile]