Titan Entertainment's Combat Sports Championships (www.CombatSC.com) made a triumphant debut on Friday night at the historic Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas.

The nine-bout card featured some of the top rising fight prospects in the Midwest in one of the most well received cards to hit the area in recent years. The event included celebrity attendees such as current World Extreme Cagefighting fighters L.C. Davis and James Krause along with former NBA center Scot Pollard.

In the main event, WEC veteran Brendan Seguin improved to 18-16-1 with an upset decision victory over hometown hero Bobby Voelker of Kansas City, Kansas.

The loss dropped Voelker's record to a still impressive 20-7 in a bout that was tightly contested. The large welterweights spent the vast majority of the bout locked in a clinch position in a war of attrition that Seguin, who hails from Detroit, was able to win thanks in large part to a strong technical display of dirty boxing.

The night's co-main event featured another hometown favorite, blue chip prospect Eric Marriott. The Lee's Summit native faced the toughest test of his career in UFC veteran Ryan Roberts. In spite of a strong showing by Roberts, Marriott passed the test and improved to 15-1 with a unanimous decision victory.

In addition to the two highly-anticipated main events, the debut Combat Sports Championships also featured a major announcement by Titan Entertainment and CSC President Joe Kelly. Kelly's Titan Entertainment was responsible for bringing former PRIDE heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko to the Kansas City-area for appearances at Memorial Hall in both June and August. And now, Titan Entertainment in conjunction with the X-Fights promotion will be bringing a Strikeforce Challengers event to Memorial Hall on Nov. 20.

The Strikeforce Challengers event will be televised live on SHOWTIME and will be the second nationally televised MMA event Titan Entertainment has helped bring to the burgeoning Kansas City MMA scene coming on the heels of August's "M-1 Breakthrough".

"The MMA scene in Kansas has been overlooked for quite some time," stated Kelly. "However, we're bringing bigger and better events to the area and this region is quickly emerging into a hot bed for the sport. We're really looking forward to creating a platform for rising prospects to take their respective careers to the next level. Nov. 20 will be another major step in that direction."

The undercard of the Combat Sports Championships' first-ever card also featured a host of up-and-coming stars with their sights on competing for major national promotions such as the UFC, Strikeforce, and the WEC.

Featherweight Ramiro "Junior" Hernandez, considered by many pundits to be one of Pat Miletich's top proteges, improved to 3-1 with a second round TKO of Brian Davidson of Lee's Summit, Missouri.

After losing round one, Hernandez was well on his way to losing round two against Davidson, an instructor at the Kansas City-area fight gym Team Grindhouse. But, despite Hernandez's strong boxing background, Davidson's traditional martial arts background proved to be confounding in the early duration of the bout. However, the Miletich Fighting Systems product was able to improve to 3-1 after beginning to pressure Davidson towards the end of the second round. Hernandez completed the rally with a second-round TKO via ground and pound.

Following a memorable entrance complete with a quartet of female valets, Joe Wilk of Manhattan, Kansas, improved to 9-1 with a guillotine choke just 40-seconds into his fight against Deryck Ripley of Roland Park, Missouri.

After the bout, the talented lightweight competitor...