Mark Sangiao of Lakay Wushu tries to regain his bantamweight title when he battles Justin Cruz of Spike 22 Guam in the Colt 45 Universal Reality Combat Championship (URCC) URCC XV “Onslaught” on November 21 at the World Trade Center.

Sangiao, one of the country’s foremost practitioners of mixed martial arts, is out regain the title he lost to Chinese Peng He in URCC-sponsored “Art of War” showdown in 2005.

URCC founder and president Alvin Aguilar said the other featured bout is the duel between Caloy Baduria and Zhang Tie Quan.

Baduria is seeking redemption after losing his middleweight title to Zhang last year. Baduria is coming off an impressive win over Hybrid Yaw-yan’s Remand Lazaro in their light heavyweight showdown last July.

Zhang is no stranger to URCC’s style, having won over Salvador Domasian via a technical knockout decision in 2005. He won by submission over Baduria the last time they clashed.

URCC had just held the successful University Challenge where fighters from La Salle, led by Meeshal Al-Khuzeem dominated the 15-bout schedule.

Three other La Salle fighters –pinweight Jojo Tabang, lightweight Andrew Laxa and flyweight Mark Limbaga – also prevailed over separate rivals. in the event presented by Colt 45 and backed by Alaxan FR, E-Games, Chris Sports, Seair, Yoshinoya and Tribal Gear.

Lyceum’s Warren Franco, Salvador Almeria, Lexx Sadie of Informatics, (middle), Paolo Enriquez of Samson College (bantam), Jaguar Tang of Enderum, Bryan Tolentino of College of St. Benilde, Miguel Alo of University of the Philippines also produced impressive wins.

Other winners were STI’s Isiah Ordiz (middle), AMA’s Alvin Ramirez and NCST’s Sherwin Pastor.