For many people a four hour drive is a daunting prospect, especially when you are coming back the next day, but for Paul Hickey, Paul Delaney and Jason Quinn it was only the start of the adventure. The first promotion run by Top Pro Kilkenny Lightweight stand out Myles Price in White's Hotel, County Wexford. The event entitled "Hell's Rage" took place in a fantastic venue, the ballroom in White's hotel suited the event, plenty of room for fans and the cage, long bar to keep dehydration at bay, and two big screens so any action on the ground that unsighted the fans and good changing rooms, warm up areas for the fighters. The only hiccup was the event didn't get started until half 8, an hour after the scheduled start time. The delay was caused by the doctor taking too long to do pre-fight checks, but as he was only drafted literally the night before, we can't really blame him either!

First fighter up for Point Blank was Paul Delaney. Paul had put in a tremendous amount of work for this fight and was fiercely determined that he take home the win. Round one started fast with Paul's opponent, Brendan McGarry of Top Pro working into clinch from a lead leg turnging kick, after some scrambling he got Paul down, and worked hard to try and net a submission from on top and guard. Paul remained calm, killed the angles negating any attacks and worked back to his feet. After some more scrmbling the pair wound up on the mat again with Brendan back on the offensive. As round 1 came to a close, Paul hadn't been able to land much offence.

Round 2 told a very different tale however, Paul had figured out McGarry's range and timing and was now able to circle off form any takedown attempts, landing shots in the process. Round 2 was a big round for paul as he began landing heavy shots towards the end of the round as well as dominating throughout. Round 3 had the visibly tired McGarry on the back foot more and more, he attempted a scissors takedown which Paul stepped back out of. Paul landed some big shots again and put the Kilkenny man to the canvas, Brendan couldn't answer referee Dave Jone's calls to get back to his feet and Paul got the win by TKO. Paul semed to have enough in the tank for another two rounds, so all his extra trainign defintely paid off!

Second out was Jason, facing a bit of an unknown quantity in Shootfighter Andrew Connolly. The first round started with a blistering exchange betwene the two big men. Andrew was making use of his slight reach advantage ot land strikes but Jason negated it by closing to clinch and putting the dubliner on his back. Jason kept him down for the duration of the round landing damage and working for submissions that although not successful took a toll on Andrew's cardio. Round 2 and Jason started to land his strikes as Andrew began to slow down. Jason began following up jabs with right hands and started landing more often.The damage accumulated on Connolly and as Jason sent him crashing to the mat after a tremendous barrage the referree called a halt to the contest awarding Jason the win by TKO. Though Jason had certainly felt the effort of dealing with a game opponent like Andrew his fitness carried him to the win for a tremendous debut performance.

Last out was Paul Hickey facing Dean Barry of Next Gen Arklow. It seemed as though Dean had brough the majority of Arkolow with him as calls of "There's only one Dean Barry" clarified that its not as common a name as one might think. Round 1 started badly for Paul as Dean began landing strikes from his slightly superior range right from the off. Paul began trying to implement the game plan and get the taller man on his back, but struggled in doing so, as the Arklow man had great savvy in the clinch. Paul's continued efforts were rewarded toward the end of the 1st round as he got him down and immediately began to land damaging ground and pound. The second round started with Paul struggling from the weight of his constant takedown attempts in round 1. Dean landed a flurry of shots that rattled Paul long enough for Dean to get top position on the ground and force Dave Jones to step in, a disappointing night for the Pitbull, but a good performance nonetheless against a very talented fighter. The main event was particularly entertaining, though unfortunately not for the usual reaosns. BJJ purple belt Marchin took on Miles Price, no stranger to us in Point Blank. Marchin ran across the ring at the start of round one landing a strike then jumping up to pull guard. Marchin's ground was top notch, no doubt abotu it. Myles struggled to keep safe as submission setup after setup were thrown by the groundfighting Pole, but keep safe he did, twice more Marhcin threw guard against Myles and tried to submit him, at one point he had Myles in butterfly guard and had control of Myles weight briefly, this obviously gave Marchin renewed confidence as he shouted "Ha ha I have you now". Myles escaped and got back to his feet. From then on the match consisted of Marchin throwing an ineffective strike and jumping to the ground or being punched by Myles and him jumping to the ground (occasionally being knocked to the ground), each time he would stay there and gesture Myles to come into his guard. Myles would wait for him to stand up and then score with more strikes. The Referee eventually had to dock a point from Marchin as he was continually stalling the fight and very slow to return to his feet. In round two Marchin continued with his antics, which looked to be down to a lack of cardio, and in the end after Myles had landed him on the ground with a particularly solid combination, he stopped the fight awarding Myles the TKO victory. A tremendously succesful night for Myles as a promoter and a fighter!