If you're the type of person who says turning 40 makes someone "over the hill," you might want to keep it to yourself around Rodney "Sledge Hammer" Guignet of Allentown.

Guignet, who owns the Lehigh Valley Isshin Ryu Karate Training Center on Front Street in Catasauqua, traveled to Fredericksburg, Va., for an Aug. 4 fight and came back with the Light Heavyweight Championship belt, given to him by the Barbarian Fight Club