Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong with a card is when they end up the best, and that’s exactly what happened Friday night at the Shriner’s Auditorium in Wilmington.

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 undefeated record intact. Over 3,000 were in attendance for the 10 fights at the Shriner’s Auditorium in Wilmington, including familiar local faces from the UFC, an appearance by Butterbean, and several Boston Celtics players.

CFX returned to the Plymouth Jungleplex for the third time on Saturday night for “Rumble in the Jungle 3″ which featured 22 total fights for a monster card in front of a large audience. Continuing with the big, fast-paced, spectacle shows that CFX has become known for putting on, 16 of 22 fights on Saturday ended inside of 2 minutes and 30 seconds. While the number of fights might seem overwhelming, the show moved along at a good clip with 4,162 people reported to be in attendance. The place was packed and full of energy.

Paddy Thompson knocked out Jose Valentin in the AFO main event on Saturday night to retain his welterweight title in impressive fashion. While the event was hurt by a few injuries and cancelled bouts, all the guys that fought delivered good action and the crowd was into it, with Thai Nguyen, Joe Lamoureaux, and Paddy “Thunder Kitten” Thompson getting the biggest support from the fans.

Bad weather didn’t stop a huge crowd of fight fans from showing up Saturday night at the Jungleplex in Plymouth for another installment of Cage Fighting Xtreme. CFX 6 “Rumble in the Jungle 2″ featured 16 fights in total with 5 amateur and 11 pro bouts, including a highly anticipated heavyweight main event between Christian Morecraft and Josh Diekman.

CFX returned on Saturday night with their 5th show: Mayhem in Mansfield. Their last card was an ambitious outdoor event that ended prematurely due to bad weather, but CFX 5 showed why the promotion has emerged as a big local player. The event went off without a hitch, giving the large crowd 17 entertaining fights from bantamweight to super heavy.

AFO was back Friday night at the Sheraton Braintree hotel for its 6th event in less than a year, and a solid lineup that included many exciting up and coming fighters, plus a main event title fight for the vacant welterweight belt.