Phon Martdee and WBC Super Heavyweight National Champion Steve Bonner travelled to ZhangZhou, China on May 22, 2010 to take on Brazilian K-1 Star Eduardo "Morpheus" Maiorino for the WMA (World Muay Thai Association) Super Heavyweight World Title.

The World Muay Thai Championship was funded by The City of ZhangZhou and saw a capacity crowd of 3,000 spectators packing into the arena to witness the heavyweight monsters go to war.

In the first round Bonner came out hand to hand with opponent, The Brazilian rocked Bonner a little in the first round with a big right hand. At the end of the first round Morais was dropped with a strong right hand followed by a knee for an 8 count.

In the second round the ring lit up as Bonner more controlled and thinking about his combinations, threw left right punches with kicks to the body.  He then employed flying knees on his opponent on the ropes, the crowd loving it.

In the third round, Bonner was instructed to grab and knee fast. He dropped his opponent in the 3rd round with a hand combo then another flying knee to the body and scored another 8 count. Steve also landed a good left uppercut elbow and cut his opponent in the 3rd round which put the Chinese crowd into a fever.

In the middle of the 4th round Bonner landed very good combos with hands, kicks and knees at the speed of a middleweight fighter. Towards the end of the 4th round he landed some more good punches followed by another flying knee to the mid section which dropped him and finished him off and the ref stopped the fight.

Steve crowned the new World Champion and an instant hero as fans flocked to the ring for autographs and photograph opportunities, with trainer Phon Martdee ecstatic with the result. “Steve is the next big thing in Australia; I think he can take on the best and come out best; you will soon see more of the big man Steve Bonner”.

Steve Bonner recently beat Bruce Macfie’s Shane Tilyard by TKO round 2 at Battle Collossal IX winning the prestigious WBC National Title on March 27, 2010. Before moving to Perth two years ago he was also the WKN Celtic, British & European Intercontinental title holder.