A New King Of LA Is Crowned

DC held their very notable, very prestigious, and very sexist King Of LA event this past weekend. Just kidding about the sexist part but come on, let’s see some females take part of this competition. And if there were girls, I apologize I didn’t recognize you. The day started off at one Lockwood Ave Elementary and then continued over at Belmont High’s infamous nine stair and handrail.

Unfortunately, none of my picks for king won the contest. I had Burger King, Lion King, and Rodney King at the top of my King list but it was Nick Merlino who was crowned King of Los Angeles and took home a nice $1,000 prize as well. This event had to be one of the sickest gathering of unsponsored skaters of all time and I’m sure that through this and thanks to DC, many of these young lads will get the attention and sponsorships they deserve. Just watch this video. It’s insane what was going down.

Overall Results:
King of Los Angeles 2008 – Nick Merlino
Lockwood Ave Elementary
1st Place ($1000) – Ray Maldonado
2nd Place ($500) – Kirk Rocha
3rd Place ($400) – Ricky Webb
4th Place ($300) – Billy Davenport
5th Place ($200) – Dwayne Fagundes
6th Place ($100) – Cesar Fernandez

Belmont High
1st Place ($1000) – Nick Merlino
2nd Place ($500) – Ricky Webb
3rd Place ($400) – Kelan Dadd
4th Place ($300) – Trevor McClung
5th Place ($200) – Kevin Romar
6th Place ($100) – Mikey Sanchez