Cobra Kai FC had opened in June of 2008. Within its first year it took the title of, Promotion of the year. The UFC was outraged and the voting community as this low level regional mma promotional company took center stage. Finding former UFC, Strikeforce, EliteXC stars get cut from their contracts, was how Cobra Kai was able to get casual fans in attendance for the low level company. Fans tuned into to see Kevin Randleman, Ken Shamrock, and Mark Coleman all return to the cage for just one more fight. Ben Rothwell, a top 25 p4p fighter actually agreed to sign over to the small time Cobra Kai when only a week later he shockingly knocked out the pound for pound king, Fedor Emilianko after being rocked heavily in the first, Ben found himself in the top ten shortly after. The roster saw CKFC rise to around 200+ martial artists seeking only competition as no belt has ever been on the line.
Early February 2008 came and a new MMA company with major financial backers came into play. They had started engulfing Cobra Kai FCs Roster. Losing out on Randleman and a few others was almost a tipping point of surrender for the company as they felt they almost had to begin from scratch. The towel was in hand ready to be thrown until both Rothwell and Randlemans last fights with Cobra Kai FC saw them suffer brutal knockout losses on the Co-Main and Main event fights. The two heavyweights who were on winning streaks had just lost and welcomed two new heavyweights into Cobra Kais spotlight as they exited into Dream. With that, Cobra Kai shouted "NEVER DIE!"
In June of 2009 we have witnessed Cobra Kai rise from 11th mma company to 6th and have signed a load of fresh faces. Hosting a variety of one night tournaments as they did when the company first began, Cobra Kai saw some future stars emerge in the middleweight and lightweight division. Seeing as one of the future stars was now 4-0 and quickly hyped up he was pitted against the former rookie of the year who was 3-0 in a match that was over within in minutes. Davis Jr. hit 4-0 and the local hero was then entered into an undefeated tournament with other middleweight fighters at a 5-0 record. With two submission victories and one knockout he sits at 7-0 awaiting his bitter rival Ed Herman a martial artist who had accepted Davis call out on December 30th: Blackout!
With two shows remaining in the year, Cobra Kai had reached the #3 ranked promotion in the world. With their future star, Davis Jr. being highly hyped and carefully matched up with they are expecting to win the Promotion of the Year, Rookie of the Year, and Event of the year and enter into the realm of Low Level National.
Finally being considered an actual threat to the future of their business, UFC and Dream have kept a tight leash on their rosters having fighters agree to 10 years with several fights on exclusive contracts, but every now and then a star falls from the heavens and Cobra Kai tends to make deals that just cant be denied.
Cobra Kai .... NEVER DIE!