GAMMA - From The Start

wshred13 · March 5, 2013

GAMMA 53 VDC vs. Mellberg

Saturday Week 3 of June

Massachusetts

PRELIMS

Light Heavyweight:

Dag “The Viking” Kreuger (0-0) vs. Nilton Fantoni (0-0)

Kreuger dropped Fantoni in round 1, but was outworked in the rest of the fight.

Official Decision: Nilton Fantoni wins by Unanimous Decision (49-46) (5:00 of Round 5) (Decent)

Heavyweight:

Jeff “The Rock” Carlton (0-1) vs. “Polish Power” Grzegorz Boniek (0-1)

Carlton was dominating the fight with wrestling and top control when he got rocked with a punch and then Grzegorz dropped guard with a guillotine that forced Carlton to tap.

Official Decision: Grzegorz Boniek wins by Submission (Guillotine Choke) (1:50 of Round 3) (Decent)

Lightweight:

“The Madman From Michigan” Beau Gorshin (2-1) vs. “G-Force” Rodolphe Gygax (3-2)

Gorshin dominates the fight, eventually submitting Gygax from mount. Gygax blamed his performance on illness.

Official Decision: Beau Gorshin wins by Submission (Americana) (4:57 of Round 2) (Decent)

Featherweight:

Yoshiro Makamori (3-1) vs. Rafael “Slick” Tavares (2-2)

Makamori looked to wear Tavares down against the fence while Tavares looked to get in his striking where he could. It would’ve been a close decision, but Tavares stopped it by dropping Makamori with a head kick and then stomping the crap out of him on the ground.

Official Decision: Rafael Tavares wins by TKO (Head Kick and Stomps) (1:14 of Round 5) (Great)

Welterweight:

Manuel “The Prodigy” Silva (3-1) vs. Dominykas “Slamkovic” Jankovic (3-1)

Silva grapples way more than most expected, which lead to a dull fight. He probably could’ve finished if he kept it standing more.

Official Decision: Manuel Silva wins by Unanimous Decision (48-47, 48-46, 49-46) (5:00 of Round 5) (Poor)

Middleweight:

Affonso “The Cyborg” Villar (4-3) vs. Ieyoshi Yamashita (4-4)

Villar does a decent job of sprawl and brawling to edge out a decision.

Official Decision: Affonso Villar wins by Unanimous Decision (48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Average)

MAIN CARD

Welterweight:

Buddy Garner (5-3) vs. “Dangerous” Darin Blood (4-3)

Garner definitely got his chin tested, but he also got the better of Blood with his ground game, eventually submitting him with an armbar.

Official Decision: Buddy Garner wins by Submission (Armbar) (1:50 of Round 5) (Good)

SOTN Award Winner

Lightweight:

Fiyero Lermentov (3-1) vs. “The Latino Wild Cat” Agustin Gonzalez (3-2)

Lermontov dominates all aspects of the fight, finishing him in the second.

Official Decision: Fiyero Lermentov wins by Submission (Arm Triangle) (2:26 of Round 2) (Decent)

Welterweight:

Vikram “Punishment” Sithalayan (5-3) vs. “Mercenary” Mills Mullally (5-5)

On the feet, Mullally got the better of things with his boxing, but also ate some stiff leg kicks. Sithalayan couldn’t get Mills down early, but in the later rounds he took him down and really threatened with submissions, eventually pulling off a heel hook victory.

Official Decision: Vikram Sithalayan wins by Submission (Heel Hook) (1:49 of Round 5) (Great)

FOTN Award Winner

Heavyweight:

“The Brazilian Bomber” Gladstone Lopes (4-3) vs. “Mr. Saturday Night” Phil Verdigree (10-8)

Lopes wins a really solid fight with heavy punches, leg kicks and ground work. Verdigree also had his moments as he landed a few haymakers, but that didn’t stop him from losing the fight.

Official Decision: Gladstone Lopes wins by Unanimous Decision (48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Good)

Middleweight:

Leonardo da Costa (5-3) vs. Bambang Sriyanto (5-3)

Da Costa dominated the fight with takedowns, but had trouble doing much on the ground because he couldn’t really get out of the guard. Sriyanto came out in the fifth guns blazing for the come from behind stoppage.

Official Decision: Bambang Sriyanto wins by TKO (Strikes) (1:32 of Round 5) (Decent)

Heavyweight:

“The Baddest Man in MMA” Terron Cabal (5-0) vs. “The Reaper” Spencer Rubenstein (7-2)

Everything about this fight was disappointing. It was marketed as a stand up war, but Rubenstein used his clinch wrestling to wear out Cabal in the first few rounds. Then, once Cabal was tired, Rubenstein bloodied Cabal with strikes from clinch. Cabal survived, but the fight ended up being stopped because of the cuts.

Official Decision: Spencer Rubenstein wins by TKO (Doctor Stoppage) (4:17 of Round 4) (Average)

Welterweight Championship:

“The Super Animal” Noach Van Der Capellen (10-2) vs. “The Ice Cold Swede” Lukas Mellberg (7-2)

Mellberg absolutely overwhelms VDC with his pace, beating him in the first couple rounds despite not taking him down. Once Mellberg actually got VDC down it was just a matter of time until a submission was sunk in. However, VDC fought off the submissions, forcing Mellberg to fall back on his ground and pound which ended up finishing the fight.

Official Decision: Lukas Mellberg wins by TKO (Strikes) (3:20 of Round 4) (Decent)

KOTN Award Winner

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 11,989 ($1,198,900)

Buy Rate = 216,550 ($1,299,300)

Critical Success = Good

Commercial Success = Decent

wshred13 · March 7, 2013

GAMMA 54 Benn vs. Andreyev

Saturday Week 1 of July

Ohio

PRELIMS

Heavyweight:

Renato (0-0) vs. “The Hungry Hungarian” Zsolt Hargitay (0-0)

Renato looked like he was going to get an early armbar victory, but Hargitay escaped and got top position. Renato showed grit, withstanding some ground and pound to lock on a guillotine for the tap.

Official Decision: Renato wins by Submission (Guillotine) (3:34 of Round 1) (Great)

Featherweight:

Ryota “Ronin” Sugimoto (0-1) vs. Taizoh Chung Man (0-1)

After a dead even couple rounds, Sugimoto gets Man down and RNC’s him.

Official Decision: Ryota Sugimoto wins by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) (3:53 of Round 3) (Average)

Lightweight:

“Pain Express” Go Yamamoto (1-1) vs. “The Specialist” Darren Southall (0-1)

Southall desperately tries to take Go down, but gets stuffed and viciously knocked out by soccer kicks.

Official Decision: Go Yamamoto wins by KO (Soccer Kicks) (4:39 of Round 2) (Decent)

KOTN Award Winner

Featherweight:

Korekiyo Anzai (1-0) vs. “Black Belt” Jay Dorridge (1-0)

Anzai outpointed Dorridge on the feet early, but gassed, found himself taken down and submitted.

Official Decision: Jay Dorridge wins by Submission (Armbar) (4:28 of Round 5) (Good)

Middleweight:

“Sick” Shozaburo Kuramoto (1-2) vs. Tadao Miyazaki (1-2)

Kuramoto took Tadao down with ease, but struggled to do anything once he got there. Miyazaki scrambled well from bottom, getting top position off a scramble in the second round and then finishing Kuramoto with strikes.

Official Decision: Tadao Miyazaki wins by TKO (Punches) (4:57 of Round 2) (Great)

Welterweight:

Ricardo Fernandes (1-1) vs. “Thunder and Lightning” Tyler Lass (1-1)

Fernandes did an alright job of keeping his distance and counter striking, but Lass outpointed him with takedowns, submission attempts and a bit of ground and pound.

Official Decision: Tyler Lass wins by Unanimous Decision (48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Decent)

MAIN CARD

Featherweight:

“The Banker” Frank Romita (4-2) vs. Henry “The King” Baldwin (3-3)

Baldwin missed weight by a couple pounds. Romita had the edge in all areas, but surprisingly he was taken down in the fourth and armbarred.

Official Decision: Henry Baldwin wins by Submission (Armbar) (4:40 of Round 4) (Decent)

Light Heavyweight:

Yoritomo Ina (6-4) vs. “The Scourge of Europe” Nicolai Mickiewicz (4-4)

This was essentially a dead even fight in all areas. Both guys had mild success with takedowns and on the ground and in the end, the judges had to pretty much flip a coin to pick a winner.

Official Decision: Nicolai Mickiewicz wins by Split Decision (47-48, 48-47, 48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Average)

Welterweight:

Bud “The Rocket” Brockett (2-2) vs. Templeton “The Body” Crumb (3-2)

Brockett went 6 for 6 on takedowns and made every single fan in the arena hate him with his lay and pray. Crumb then woke the fans up with a vicious TKO at the start of the fifth.

Official Decision: Templeton Crumb wins by TKO (Punches) (:34 of Round 5) (Very Poor)

Heavyweight:

Hiro Arai (6-4) vs. “The Bulldog” Harry Milne (3-2)

Milne puts on a quintessential ground and pound performance.

Official Decision: Harry Milne wins by TKO (Strikes) (4:04 of Round 1) (Great)

Lightweight:

Heikichi Shimizu (5-3) vs. “The Peruvian Punisher” Claudio Palacios (6-3)

Shimizu gets the crap beaten out of him on the feet as he was unable to get Palacios down. Finally, after four rounds, Shimizu got it to the ground and finished things off with a kneebar.

Official Decision: Heikichi Shimizu wins by Submission (Kneebar) (2:49 of Round 4) (Great)

SOTN Award Winner

Middleweight:

Thais Antonio Taffarel (7-3) vs. “Brickhouse” Thorbjorn Rekdal (5-2)

This ended up being a great back and forth contest, with Rekdal hurting Thais with strikes multiple times and Taffarel nearly having Thorbjorn tapping multiple times. In the end, Rekdal came out on top.

Official Decision: Thorbjorn Rekdal wins by TKO (Strikes) (1:14 of Round 4) (Fantastic)

FOTN Award Winner

Light Heavyweight:

Osmosis Benn (8-2) vs. Mantas Andreyev (11-5)

Out of the dozens of takedown attempts by both men, only one was completed and that was by Mantas in the fifth round. The rest of the fight, Osmosis was the only one doing any striking and was generally in control of the clinch, which led to him winning the fight. The one time Andreyev took the fight down, he threatened with submissions, but was too tired to finish.

Official Decision: Osmosis Benn wins by Unanimous Decision (49-46, 48-47, 50-45) (5:00 of Round 5) (Decent)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 10,235 ($1,023,500)

Buy Rate = 180,412 ($1,082,472)

Critical Success = Great

Commercial Success = Poor

wshred13 · March 7, 2013

GAMMA 55 Dean vs. Fontes

Saturday Week 3 of July

Nevada

PRELIMS

Light Heavyweight:

Toby “The Judoka Who’ll Choke Ya” Sorkin (0-0) vs. “The Hand Grenade” Valentin Taneyev (0-1)

After a good grappling battle in the first round, Valentin drops Sorkin coming in with an uppercut and doesn’t let up, TKO’ing him with ground and pound.

Official Decision: Valentin Taneyev wins by TKO (Strikes) (1:39 of Round 2) (Decent)

Middleweight:

Guillermo “T-Bone” Morales (1-1) vs. Dwayne “The Pain” Alleyne (0-1)

Morales outwrestles Alleyne and wins a decision despite having an empty gas tank in the later rounds.

Official Decision: Guillermo Morales wins by Unanimous Decision (49-46, 48-47, 49-46) (5:00 of Round 5) (Average)

Welterweight:

Carlos da Guia (3-1) vs. Jim Carpenter (2-1)

As expected, this was a great striker vs. grappler match. Da Guia did some great work on the feet, eventually dropping Carpenter and armbarring him while he was hurt.

Official Decision: Carlos Da Guia wins by Submission (Armbar) (1:27 of Round 5) (Good)

Featherweight:

Kanji Togo (8-7) vs. Taki Inouye (1-2)

Lucky to still have a job after four straight defeats, Togo didn’t mess around in this one. He showed great grappling control, eventually finishing with an armbar.

Official Decision: Kanji Togo wins by Submission (Armbar) (2:06 of Round 5) (Decent)

Heavyweight:

Graham “The Man Mountain” Goodbody (9-5) vs. Stjepan “The Mammoth” Andric (4-4)

Andric utilized a good stick and move strategy. He also ate Goodbody up with leg kicks, but that led to him getting dropped by a counter punch. Goodbody followed up by trying to armbar Andric, but Stjepan escaped and countered with an arm triangle.

Official Decision: Stjepan Andric wins by Submission (Arm Triangle) (2:54 of Round 4) (Good)

Welterweight:

“The Fist of Justice” Ikku Funaki (3-0) vs. Slade Cregg (3-2)

Funaki avoids the takedown in round 1, but succumbs to it in round 2. Cregg passes to back mount and tries to finish with an RNC, but Funaki’s sub defense was too good so he just let go with punches for a stoppage.

Official Decision: Slade Cregg wins by TKO (Strikes) (4:21 of Round 2)

MAIN CARD

Welterweight:

Josh “TNT” Aldarisio (6-5) vs. Carlos Dos Santos (2-2)

This was basically a takedown contest which Dos Santos surprisingly edged out.

Official Decision: Carlos Dos Santos wins by Split Decision (47-48, 48-47, 48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Average)

Middleweight:

“The Russian Nightmare” Fjodor Kanchelskis (4-2) vs. Christian “Overload” Mountfield (6-4)

This ended up being an extremely insignificant fight as the two fighters completely neutralized each other.

Official Decision: Christian Mountfield wins by Unanimous Decision (48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Decent)

Featherweight:

Luiz “The Tarantula” Machado (7-3) vs. Greg Chiang (5-4)

Machado was unable to get the fight to the ground in a conventional matter, but he did get it down with a flying leg lock attempt. He then passed all over Chiang and armbarred him from mount.

Official Decision: Luiz Machado wins by Submission (Armbar) (1:50 of Round 2) (Great)

Lightweight:

“The Lightning Kid” Fumiaki Hayashi (5-0) vs. “The Submission King” Seth O’Breen (4-1)

Hayashi tried to employ his flashy striking, but just ended up getting put on his back. O’Breen took Hayashi’s back, softened him up with strikes and ended his undefeated run with a rear naked choke.

Official Decision: Seth O’Breen wins by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) (4:35 of Round 2) (Great)

SOTN Award Winner

Light Heavyweight:

John “The Ripper” Rivero (4-1) vs. “Blood Spirit” Hyun-Shik Lim (6-2)

Rivero went 3 for 3 on takedowns, but found himself dropped twice and finished the second time.

Official Decision: Hyun-Shik Lim wins by TKO (Strikes) (1:45 of Round 4) (Good)

KOTN Award Winner

Heavyweight:

Lawrence “The Law” Herringbone (3-1) vs. “The Pit Bull” Rick Stanley (11-7)

Herringbone had Stanley mounted for much of the first round. Stanley found himself there again in the second round and had to tap to an Americana.

Official Decision: Lawrence Herringbone wins by Submission (Americana) (2:27 of Round 2) (Great)

FOTN Award Winner

Middleweight:

“The Anarchist” Matthew Dean (6-2) vs. Joaquim “Assassino Silencioso” Fontes (13-6)

Dean was controlling all aspects of the fight when he found himself tapping to Fontes’ signature standing guillotine.

Official Decision: Jaquim Fontes wins by Submission (Standing Guillotine) (3:42 of Round 4) (Good)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 10,573 ($1,057,300)

Buy Rate = 217,050 ($1,302,300)

Critical Success = Good

Commercial Success = Average

wshred13 · March 8, 2013

GAMMA Olympic Finals

Saturday Week 1 of August

Georgia

Finally we've reached the GAMMA Olympic Finals. A best of 5 series between Canada and Japan, with the winning team being awarded gold medals. Originally, GAMMA was throwing around the idea of a bronze medal match between the US and Indonesia, but since there was only 8 teams, they decided they didn't want to hand out medals to nearly half the field.

PRELIMS

Lightweight:

Lubos “The Experiment” Plasil (0-0) vs. Manoel “Colagem” Cabral (0-0)

Plasil outpointed Cabral in every sense of the word, both on the feet and on the ground.

Official Decision: Lubos Plasil wins by Unanimous Decision (50-45, 49-46, 50-45) (5:00 of Round 5) (Very Poor)

Featherweight:

Graeme “Sparky” Spark (0-1) vs. “The Prince of Leglocks” Kaito Akimoto (0-1)

Spark wears Akimoto down against the fence and then quickly TKO’s him in the second.

Official Decision: Graeme Spark wins by TKO (Strikes) (1:42 of Round 2) (Decent)

Welterweight:

John “Hardcase” Harrison (0-1) vs. Procopio “Porco” Golias (0-1)

Despite being hugely outdone in damage statistics, Golias won the fight with his grappling dominance.

Official Decision: Procopio Golias wins by Unanimous Decision (48-47, 49-46, 48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Average)

Middleweight:

“Superstar” Stuart Strange (1-0) vs. Jaromir Grygera (0-1)

Strange was dominating with lay and pray, but gassed and found himself TKO’d.

Official Decision: Jaromir Grygera wins by TKO (Strikes) (3:16 of Round 4) (Decent)

Welterweight:

Lucas (1-0) vs. Alan “Flash” Kendall (1-0)

After a relatively uneventful ten minutes, Kendall woke the crowd up with a powerful takedown followed by hard punches from mount to stop the fight.

Official Decision: Alan Kendall wins by TKO (Strikes) (4:15 of Round 3) (Average)

Light Heavyweight:

Rafael Van Der Moot (1-0) vs. “The Dragon” Tadamasa Yamada (1-0)

This was a brilliant performance by both men. They slugged it out on the feet, but Yamada proved to be way too much for Rafael on the ground, quickly locking him up in an arm triangle as soon as the fight hit the mat.

Official Decision: Tadamasa Yamada wins by Submission (Arm Triangle) (3:46 of Round 2) (Fantastic)

FOTN Award Winner

Heavyweight:

Palmer “Daddy Bear” Lette (1-0) vs. “Grande Urso” Murilo Satinho (1-0)

Satinho puts a beating on Lette. He obliterated his leg with kicks, completely outwrestled him, bloodied him up with ground and pound and tapped him with an armbar.

Official Decision: Murilo Satinho wins by Submission (Armbar) (4:15 of Round 4) (Great)

MAIN CARD

Lightweight:

“The Wing Chun Superstar” Motoki Hojo (6-4) (JAP) vs. “The Blonde Bomber” Nicholas Bretton (3-3) (CAN)

Bretton initiated a clinch battle early, but Hojo was able to turn it into more of a stand up fight. Hojo ended up dropping Bretton, but Nicholas was able to not only survive with his guard, but pull off an armbar victory.

Official Decision: Nicholas Bretton wins by Submission (Armbar) (2:59 of Round 3) (Average)

Welterweight (Non-Title):

“The Devil in Blue” Ichisake Miyagi (4-2) (JAP) vs. “The Amazing” JJ Reid (7-0) (CAN)

Reid outpointed Miyagi on the feet, but was nearly stopped after a failed takedown attempt led to him eating a half dozen huge knees to the head. Reid finally got Miyagi down in the fourth and subbed him, meaning Canada needs only one more win to take home the gold.

Official Decision: JJ Reid wins by Submission (Guillotine) (4:25 of Round 4) (Decent)

Middleweight:

Heiji “The Immortal” Endo (5-1) (JAP) vs. “The Mack Attack” Petey Mack (6-1) (CAN)

Mack immediately takes Endo down and just as quickly finds himself caught in a triangle. Mack tries to powerbomb his way out, but that just locked the hold in tighter and forced him to tap.

Official Decision: Heiji Endo wins by Submission (Triangle) (2:07 of Round 1) (Great)

SOTN Award Winner

Heavyweight (Non-Title):

“Unstoppable K” Kunimichi Kikuchi (6-0) (JAP) vs. Alex Frye (10-6) (CAN)

Frye was outdoing Kikuchi at his own game in the first couple rounds. Kikuchi found his grappling stifled as was getting bullied around by the larger man. Kikuchi showed a new wrinkle in his game, rocking Frye on the feet and putting the Canadian away with more strikes on the ground.

Official Decision: Kunimichi Kikuchi wins by TKO (Strikes) (1:53 of Round 3) (Decent)

KOTN Award Winner

Light Heavyweight:

Sho Kitabatake (8-2) (JAP) vs. “Stormin” Norman Pike (11-2) (CAN)

The entire 1996 GAMMA Olympics came down to this fight. After a tense first round, Sho put on a judo clinic and eventually submitted Pike with a rear naked choke.

Official Decision: Sho Kitabatake wins by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) (3:43 of Round 3) (Great)

After the huge win, Team Japan entered the cage to be awarded their gold medals. The major news out of the celebration was that Motoki Hojo refused to take a medal as he went (0-3) in the Olympics.

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 11,287 ($1,128,700)

Buy Rate = 217,050 ($1,302,300)

Critical Success = Good

Commercial Success = Decent

Stuart Strange is sidelined for 6 months with a back injury.

wshred13 · March 10, 2013

Friday Night Fights Stacked

Friday Week 2 of August 1996

Nevada

With the lightweight division nearing 50 competitors and quite a bit of them being undersized for the division, GAMMA has decided to add a 145 lb division.

PRELIMS

Featherweight:

Sophan Sastrowardoya (0-0) vs. Hovhannes Javakhyan (0-0)

For awhile, this fight was as hard to watch as it is to pronounce or spell these two guys names. Javakhyan was really looking to grind out a decision, but found himself on bottom tapping to a rear naked choke at the end of the fourth.

Official Decision: Sophan Sastrowardoya wins by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) (4:58 of Round 4) (Decent)

Welterweight:

Evan “G-Man” Gardner (0-0) vs. Drazen Gabelich (0-2)

After an uneventful first round, Gardner TKO’s Gabelich from mount after stuffing a takedown. Gabelich missed weight, but it doesn’t matter as he will most likely be cut after an 0-3 record.

Official Decision: Evan Gardner wins by TKO (Strikes) (2:56 of Round 2) (Decent)

Featherweight:

Pedro “The Wolverine” Alves (0-0) vs. Yagi Jokichi (0-0)

Alves kept ending up on his back because instead of sprawling, he would go after low percentage guillotines. After several rounds of Jokichi top control, Yagi blitzes Alves with strikes at the beginning of the fourth.

Official Decision: Yagi Jokichi wins by TKO (Strikes) (:45 of Round 4) (Good)

Heavyweight:

Chuck “The Laughing Man” Dooley (0-0) vs. “Silent but Violent” Wilson Franklyn (0-0)

Franklyn drops Dooley with a big punch, but gets swept and mounted as he pursued a finish. Dooley then got a finish of his own with punches from mount.

Official Decision: Chuck Dooley wins by TKO (Strikes) (4:13 of Round 1) (Great)

FOTN Award Winner

Welterweight:

Evgeni Medtner (0-0) vs. Sebastian “The Bruiser” Fernandez (0-0)

Medtner utilized leg kicks better than anyone in mma history, actually dropping Fernandez with them. After dropping him with leg kicks, Medtner easily passed to mount and locked on an Americana.

Official Decision: Evgeni Medtner wins by Submission (Americana) (2:16 of Round 5) (Good)

Middleweight:

Adam “Hollywood” White (1-0) vs. “The Doctor” Wayne McKellen (0-1)

Official Decision: Adam White wins by Submission (Americana) (3:11 of Round 1) (Decent)

Lightweight:

“The Sharpshooter” Georges Nouri (3-2) vs. Benny “The Jet” Danare (2-2)

After a relatively even fight, Danare got an armbar victory from bottom.

Official Decision: Benny Danare wins by Submission (Armbar) (3:43 of Round 4) (Average)

SOTN Award Winner

Light Heavyweight:

Matti “The Hammer” Kurri (2-0) vs. “The Modern Day Gladiator” Bryan Van Den Hauwe (4-0)

Kurri slams Bryan down and TKO’s him from mount.

Official Decision: Matti Kurri wins by TKO (Strikes) (3:57 of Round 1) (Decent)

MAIN CARD

Light Heavyweight:

“The Punisher” Marlon John (3-0) vs. “The Man of Steel” Ken Peters (4-0)

After a back and forth wrestling round in the first, John brutally stops Peters with strikes in the second.

Official Decision: Marlon John wins by TKO (Strikes) (:34 of Round 2) (Decent)

Heavyweight:

“Swedish Superman” Gunnar Nilsson (6-4) vs. Josimar Martins (7-4)

Nilsson employed his dirty boxing to perfection in round 1, but a misstep in round 2 led to him getting knocked out.

Official Decision: Josimar Martins wins by KO (Punch) (1:12 of Round 2) (Good)

KOTN Award Winner

Middleweight:

Tora “Bull” Mizwar (7-5) vs. “Mr. Awesome” Carl Ratcliffe (6-5)

Mizwar was only able to get Ratcliffe down once, and found himself outpointed on the feet in the rest of the fight.

Official Decision: Carl Ratcliffe wins by Split Decision (48-47. 47-48, 49-46) (5:00 of Round 5) (Poor)

Welterweight:

“The Showstopper” Jack Humphreys (6-3) vs. “The Strategist” Rufus Stephens (3-1-1)

After a couple minutes of battling for takedowns, Stephens gets Humphreys down, quickly mounts and pounds him out.

Official Decision: Rufus Stephens wins by TKO (Strikes) (4:11 of Round 1) (Poor)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 5,146 ($514,600)

Buy Rate = N/A

Critical Success = Average

Commercial Success = Good

Benny Danare will be out for 5 months with an arm injury.

wshred13 · March 12, 2013

GAMMA 56 Champion vs. Champion

Saturday Week 4 of August 1996

Nevada

After being cut by GAMMA, Tonson Ono went on to ISL and became their Middleweight Champion, going on a 7-0 run and defending the title twice before coming back to the company that got him started. He's being given champion billing in his return, as he challenges Easton Frye for his belt and his undefeated record.

PRELIMS

Middleweight:

“The Sandman” Rob Baines (1-1) vs. Glenn Lane (1-1)

Lane takes Baines down from against the fence, but gets caught in a triangle. He slams Baines, but that doesn’t get him out of the submission and he’s forced to tap.

Official Decision: Rob Baines wins by Submission (Triangle) (4:46 of Round 1) (Great)

FOTN Award Winner

Welterweight:

Jonathan “The Locust” Huang (1-0) vs. Iain “The Elite” Fussell (1-0)

Huang couldn’t get Fussell down in round 1 and ate some blows because of it. Once he did get a takedown, it was an easy rear naked choke finish.

Official Decision: Jonathan Huang wins by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) (4:13 of Round 2) (Good)

Heavyweight:

“The Great Bear” Aleksander Ivanov (2-1) vs. Ari “The Finnisher” Peltonen (1-0)

Ivanov was so close to a top position decision victory when Peltonen caught him with a standing guillotine for the win.

Official Decision: Ari Peltonen wins by Submission (Standing Guillotine) (3:14 of Round 5) (Decent)

SOTN Award Winner

Featherweight:

“Ice Cold” Lars Bohlin (2-0) vs. “The Bruiser From Belfast” Liam O’Donnell (2-0)

Bohlin’s grappling proved to be too much for O’Donnell.

Official Decision: Lars Bohlin wins by TKO (Strikes) (4:28 of Round 2) (Decent)

Featherweight:

“The Tropical Tornado” Azor Portela Nunes (2-2) vs. H.M. Menzel (2-3)

Menzel bloodies Nunes up with ground and pound from mount, but found himself out cold after a flying knee.

Official Decision: Azor Portela Nunes wins by KO (Flying Knee) (1:11 of Round 2) (Good)

Heavyweight:

“The Bringer of Pain” Khru Duangjan (3-2) vs. Yoshikazu “Fat Boy” Inamoto (6-5)

Khru almost finished the fight in the first minute, but Inamoto was able to survive and smother Duangjan for the next ten minutes. Khru then loaded up on his punches for a second time, finally putting away the sumo.

Official Decision: Khru Duangjan wins by TKO (Strikes) (4:39 of Round 3) (Decent)

MAIN CARD

Lightweight:

“The Man of Steel” Marko Prochazka (10-7) vs. George “Full Force” Astaire (5-3)

Prochazka was doing an excellent job of controlling Astaire when George pulled guard on a tight guillotine and forced a tap.

Official Decision: George Astaire wins by Submission (Guillotine) (4:23 of Round 3) (Decent)

Middleweight:

“The Islander” Neil Napier (3-0) vs. Humberto “The Hit Man” Falcao (4-4)

Official Decision: Humberto Falcao wins by KO (Punch) (1:47 of Round 1) (Good)

KOTN Award Winner

Light Heavyweight:

“The Iron Man” Junior Patinkin (6-3) vs. “The Gladiator” Niko Soldo (6-3)

These guys had a couple of really good scrambles on the ground in the first two rounds, but the fight was decided on the feet by a hugo Niko head kick.

Official Decision: Niko Soldo wins by KO (Head Kick) (:21 of Round 3) (Decent)

Featherweight:

Kenji “Star” Akita (4-0) vs. Atep of Indonesia (4-2)

This fight can be summed up in three words: Leaping Head Kick.

Official Decision: Atep of Indonesia wins by KO (Head Kick) (:46 of Round 1) (Good)

Welterweight:

“Fury Awoken” Sukarno (8-2) vs. “Dangerous” David Allen (5-3)

Sukarno landed some big shots, but also got taken down in almost every round. This lead to a close decision which Sukarno edged out.

Official Decision: Sukarno wins by Split Decision (48-47, 47-48, 48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Poor)

Heavyweight:

“The Big Bad” Hassan Fezzik (4-0) vs. “The Tower of Power” Tim Boyer (6-2)

Fezzik showcased a full set of MMA skills and dominated Boyer. Unfortunately, he got caught by a punch and found himself KO’d.

Official Decision: Tim Boyer wins by KO (Punch) (4:51 of Round 3) (Good)

Lightweight Championship:

Easton “Small” Frye (11-0) vs. Tonson Ono (12-6)

Ono certainly put Frye in danger, at one point sweeping to top with a kimura, but this fight ended just like all the rest of Frye’s, with the champ violently pounding his opponent out.

Official Decision: Easton Frye wins by TKO (Strikes) (4:40 of Round 1) (Good)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 11,505 ($1,150,500)

Buy Rate = 218,600 ($1,311,600)

Critical Success = Decent

Commercial Success = Average

wshred13 · March 12, 2013

JULY, AUGUST & SEPTEMBER NEWS

GAMMA Signings:

Bill Cumming, ALPHA-1 (11-5-1), Kurt McDonald (0-0), Iancu Trailescu (0-0), Po-Han Yue (0-0), Helio ALPHA-1 (4-1), Yevgeni Sipatov (0-0), Norbert Vinkus (0-0), Konstantin Georgiades (0-0), Efren Luat (0-0), Ranieri Fernanda (0-0), Naizen Hamacho (0-0), Jiroemon Hasegawa (0-0), David Webb (0-0), Truck Gleeson, WVTC (3-0-1), Doug Hansen, WVTC (0-0)

GAMMA Releases:

Wayne McKellen (0-2), Graham Goodbody (9-6), Gunnar Nilsson (6-5), Yoshikazu Inamoto (6-6), Shozaburo Kuramoto (1-3), Ieyoshi Yamashita (4-5), Josh Aldarisio (6-6), Mills Mullally (5-6), Drazen Gabelich (0-3),

Retirements:

Milton Harvey (6-7), Cliff McAddam (2-6)

Slaughterhouse MMA, European Paris Fight Team Gyms Open

wshred13 · March 12, 2013

GAMMA 57 Kikuchi vs. Boyer

Saturday Week 3 of October 1996

Michigan

GAMMA has acquired the financially troubled UCFF promotion. They will keep the promotion open and will look to use it as a feeder league. With the acquisition of UCFF, GAMMA will at least for the time being not be having any more preliminary fights.

Heavyweight:

“Grande Urso” Murilo Satinho (2-0) vs. Ari “The Finnisher” Peltonen (2-0)

Satinho impressively slams Peltonen down early, but then bores the crowd to tears with 3 minutes of nothing top control. In the second round, Peltonen pursued the takedown, but was stuffed. Satinho blasted him with a soccer kick and followed up with punches for the stoppage. The stoppage was booed because Peltonen was grabbing at Satinho, trying to pull him into the guard as the fight was stopped.

Official Decision: Murilo Satinho wins by TKO (Strikes) (1:37 of Round 2) (Average)

Heavyweight:

“The Great Bear” Aleksander Ivanov (2-2) vs. “Mr. Saturday Night” Phil Verdigree (10-9)

Verdigree had some success early, but once again his takedown defense and ground skills failed him. After three straight minutes of ground and pound from mount, the fight was stopped in the second round. Verdigree, now 34, may find himself looking for a new employer after his recent slide.

Official Decision: Aleksander Ivanov wins by TKO (Strikes) (3:43 of Round 2) (Decent)

Heavyweight:

Hiro Arai (6-5) vs. Stjepan “The Mammoth” Andric (5-4)

Andric was never able to get inside on Arai and was battered with strikes as a result. Arai finally dropped Andric with a hook and finished the fight off with punches from mount.

Official Decision: Hiro Arai wins by TKO (Punches) (2:45 of Round 3) (Average)

Heavyweight:

Alex Frye (10-7) vs. “The Pit Bull” Rick Stanley (11-8)

Frye immediately takes Stanley down and never lets him back up, steadily pounding him on the ground until the referee stopped it. Stanley’s been an entertaining fighter throughout his career, but his GAMMA run may have come to an end.

Official Decision: Alex Frye wins by TKO (Strikes) (4:10 of Round 1)

Heavyweight:

“The Bringer of Pain” Khru Duangjan (4-2) vs. Josimar Martins (8-4)

In these two men’s 18 fights, they had never seen the judges scorecards. Everyone expected this to be a rock em sock em robots match until one of the men fell, but Martins looked to show was the more well rounded fighter. He took Duangjan down multiple times, passing the guard and doing solid ground and pound. The few rounds he didn’t take Khru down made the fight a lot closer than it should’ve been.

Official Decision: Josimar Martins wins by Unanimous Decision (48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Poor)

Heavyweight:

“The Bulldog” Harry Milne (4-2) vs. “The Brazilian Bomber” Gladstone Lopes (5-3)

In a battle of dark horse heavyweights, both men showed why they have cult fan bases. Lopes really worked his clinch striking in the first round, but Milne was able to drag him down in the second and armbar him.

Official Decision: Harry Milne wins by Submission (Armbar) (2:08 of Round 2) (Great)

FOTN & SOTN Award Winner

Heavyweight:

“The Big Bad” Hassan Fezzik (4-1) vs. “The Baddest Man in MMA” Terron Cabal (5-1)

Both highly touted prospects were knocked down a few pegs in their last matches and look to rebound at the expense of one another. Fezzik didn’t take Cabal down right away as he should have and paid for it by being knocked out in his second straight fight.

Official Decision: Terron Cabal wins by KO (Punch) (:45 of Round 1) (Good)

KOTN Award Winner

Heavyweight:

“The Reaper” Spencer Rubenstein (8-2) vs. Lawrence “The Law” Herringbone (4-1)

Rubenstein dropped Herringbone with punches immediately. Herringbone didn’t look too out of it, but Rubenstein threw his legs to the side and relentlessly pounded Herringbone from side control for the stoppage. Rubenstein definitely wants his belt back.

Official Decision: Spencer Rubenstein wins by TKO (Punches) (1:16 of Round 1) (Good)

Heavyweight Championship:

“Unstoppable K” Kunimichi Kikuchi (7-0) vs. “The Tower of Power” Tim Boyer (7-2)

Kikuchi’s takedowns and top control never allowed Boyer to get his striking going.

Official Decision: Kunimichi Kikuchi wins by Unanimous Decision (49-46, 50-45, 50-45) (Average)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 11,030 ($1,103,000)

Buy Rate = 218,600 ($1,311,600)

Critical Success = Good

Commercial Success = Decent

wshred13 · March 14, 2013

GAMMA 58 Asanovic vs. Lim

Saturday Week 1 of November 1996

Nevada

Light Heavyweight:

John “The Ripper” Rivero (4-2) vs. “The Man of Steel” Ken Peters (4-1)

Rivero completely outclasses Peters in the first 3 rounds with takedowns and top game. Rivero gasses in the fourth and gets outpointed on the feet. He looks to hold Peters up against the fence and ride out a decision, but Peters slapped a standing guillotine on him for the win.

Official Decision: Ken Peters wins by Submission (Guillotine Choke) (3:02 of Round 5) (Good)

SOTN Award Winner

Light Heavyweight:

Mantas Andreyev (11-6) vs. “The Modern Day Gladiator” Bryan Van Den Hauwe (4-1)

After a very competitive scrappy clinch fight, Andreyev got a guillotine locked in during a transition for the submission.

Official Decision: Mantas Andreyev wins by Submission (Guillotine Choke) (4:43 of Round 2) (Decent)

Light Heavyweight:

“The Bad Element” Curt Kitson (3-1) vs. “The Scourge of Europe” Nicolai Mickiewicz (5-4)

This fight mainly came down to the takedowns, with each guy getting two in the first four rounds, splitting the rounds 2 a piece. The 5th round was an incredibly close clinch war, but Kitson came out ahead on all scorecards.

Official Decision: Curt Kitson wins by Unanimous Decision (48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Average)

Light Heavyweight:

“The Iron Man” Junior Patinkin (6-4) vs. Yoritomo Ina (6-5)

Ina had some success with a stick and move stand up strategy, but got knocked out by a huge overhand right.

Official Decision: Junior Patinkin wins by KO (Punch) (2:57 of Round 1) (Great)

FOTN & KOTN Award Winner

Light Heavyweight:

Matti “The Hammer” Kurri (3-0) vs. “The Dragon” Tadamasa Yamada (2-0)

They exchanged pressing each other to the cage in the first round. Yamada was able to get Kurri up against the cage at the start of the second and take him down. He quickly mounted him and then tapped him with an Americana.

Official Decision: Tadamasa Yamada wins by Submission (Americana) (3:42 of Round 2) (Poor)

Light Heavyweight:

“Stormin” Norman Pike (11-3) vs. “Wild” Bill Cumming (11-5-1)

Official Decision: Norman Pike wins by TKO (Strikes) (1:46 of Round 1) (Good)

Light Heavyweight:

Osmosis Benn (9-2) vs. “The Gladiator” Niko Soldo (7-3)

Without Benn’s constant stalling, this fight would’ve been amazing. There were plenty of twists and turns, with Soldo nearly finishing Benn a couple times. In the end, Benn’s wrestling won him the decision he set out for.

Official Decision: Osmosis Benn wins by Unanimous Decision (48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Decent)

Light Heavyweight:

Sho Kitabatake (9-2) vs. “The Punisher” Marlon John (4-0)

John gets the big upset, blitzing Sho with strikes on the feet right off the bat.

Official Decision: Marlon John wins by TKO (Strikes) (1:07 of Round 1) (Good)

Light Heavyweight Championship:

Zvonimir “The Croatian Sensation” Asanovic (6-0) vs. “Blood Spirit” Hyun-Shik Lim

Asanovic got the better of the stand up, but the fight was stopped anticlimactically after a clinch knee opened a gash on Lim.

Official Decision: Zvonimir Asanovic wins by TKO (Cut) (4:44 of Round 2) (Average)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 11,627 ($1,162,700)

Buy Rate = 219,100 ($1,314,600)

Critical Success = Decent

Commercial Success = Decent

wshred13 · March 15, 2013

<div style="text-align:center;">GAMMA 59 Reid vs. Dorosklov

Saturday Week 3 of November 1996

California

Middleweight:

Jaromir Grygera (1-1) vs. “The Sandman” Rob Baines (2-1)

Grygera press Baines to the cage and works his dirty boxing, but Baines drops guard on a guillotine and forces a tap.

Official Decision: Rob Baines wins by Submission (Guillotine) (2:43 of Round 2) (Good)

SOTN Award Winner

Middleweight:

Adam “Hollywood” White (2-0) vs. Guillermo “T-Bone” Morales (2-1)

White just doesn’t show up to fight. Morales takes White down and pounds him out from mount.

Official Decision: Guillermo Morales wins by TKO (Punches) (2:23 of Round 1) (Great)

FOTN Award Winner

Middleweight:

“The Russian Nightmare” Fjodor Kanchelskis (4-3) vs. Tadao Miyazaki (2-2)

Fjodor smothers his way to a decision.

Official Decision: Fjodor Kanchelskis wins by Unanimous Decision (48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Poor)

Middleweight:

“Brickhouse” Thorbjorn Redkal (5-3) vs. “The Islander” Neil Napier (3-1)

Napier judo trips Rekdal down and struggles his way out of guard. As soon as Napier passes the guard, he locks on an arm triangle for a tap.

Official Decision: Neil Napier wins by Submission (Arm Triangle) (4:58 of Round 1) (Good)

Middleweight:

Affonso “The Cyborg” Villar (5-3) vs. Christian “Overload” Mountfield (7-4)

Mountfield gets stuffed on a takedown and eats some really big knees and punches. Mountfield was certainly hurt, but the stoppage was questionable.

Official Decision: Affonso Villar wins by TKO (Strikes) (4:03 of Round 1) (Good)

Middleweight:

Tora “Bull” Mizwar (7-6) vs. Leonardo da Costa (5-4)

After fighting for underhooks, Mizwar presses da Costa to the cage and drops him with a huge uppercut. Mizwar then pounces on him with strikes for a stoppage.

Official Decision: Tora Mizwar wins by TKO (Strikes) (1:50 of Round 1) (Good)

Middleweight:

Bambang Sriyanto (6-3) vs. “Mr. Awesome” Carl Ratcliffe (7-5)

A lot of this fight was quite boring, as the fighters didn’t really engage much on the feet. Sriyanto mixed things up and ended up winning the fight because of his takedowns.

Official Decision: Bambang Sriyanto wins by Unanimous Decision (48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Poor)

Middleweight:

“The Anarchist” Matthew Dean (6-3) vs. “The Mack Attack” Petey Mack (6-2)

Dean’s takedowns proved to be too much for Mack. Dean couldn’t do much from top, but that didn’t stop him from winning a decision.

Official Decision: Matthew Dean wins by Unanimous Decision (50-45, 49-46, 49-46) (5:00 of Round 5) (Average)

Middleweight:

Thais Antonio Taffarel (8-3) vs. Humberto “The Hit Man” Falcao (5-4)

Taffarel took Falcao down and passed all over him. He went after an armbar, but he lost it and the fight went back to the feet. It didn’t end up mattering as he locked Falcao up in the Thai Clinch and knocked him out with a knee.

Official Decision: Thais Antonio Taffarel wins by KO (Knee) (4:57 of Round 1) (Decent)

KOTN Award Winner

Middleweight:

Heiji “The Immortal” Endo (6-1) vs. Joaquim “Assassino Silencioso” Fontes (14-6)

Endo takes Fontes down right away. He fends off submissions for a couple minutes as he struggles to pass. As soon as he gets out of the guard, Endo pounds Fontes out for a stoppage.

Official Decision: Heiji Endo wins by TKO (Strikes) (4:58 of Round 1) (Good)

Middleweight Championship:

“The Amazing” JJ Reid (8-0) vs. Oleg Dorosklov (15-2)

Reid really stuck and moved well in the first round, but Dorosklov got in on Reid and wore him down against the fence in the middle rounds. Oleg looked like he just might win a decision when Reid got a shocking one punch KO.

Official Decision: JJ Reid wins by KO (Punch) (1:58 of Round 5) (Decent)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 11,715 ($1,171,500)

Buy Rate = 284,074 ($1,704,444)

Critical Success = Decent

Commercial Success = Great

In the post fight press conference, Adam Davids announced that there will be a 32 man featherweight grand prix beginning in December to crown the first ever 145 lb champion. Many lightweights, including Lightweight Champion Easton Frye are making the ten pound cut to be a part of the field. With Frye most likely preoccupied with the featherweight tournament for the next year, there will be a 16 man lightweight grand prix to determine a #1 contender for Frye's belt.

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wshred13 · March 17, 2013

<div style="text-align:center;">GAMMA 60 Mellberg vs. Sukarno

Saturday Week 1 of December 1996

New Jersey

Welterweight:

“The Savage” Datuk Ong Ka Ting (3-1) vs. “Thunder and Lightning” Tyler Lass (2-1)

Datuk dominates with his grappling, but Lass showed impressive submission defense. In the end it took a chain of submission attempts in the fourth round to put Lass away.

Official Decision: Datuk Ong Ka Ting wins by Submission (Arm Triangle) (3:14 of Round 4) (Decent)

Welterweight:

Jim Carpenter (2-2) vs. Carlos Dos Santos (3-2)

Carpenter outwrestles CDS early, but both guys end up gassing midway through the fight, leading to two poor rounds to close out the fight that dos Santos was able to edge out.

Official Decision: Jim Carpenter wins by Unanimous Decision (48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Poor)

Welterweight:

Jonathan “The Locust” Huang (2-0) vs. Alan “Flash” Kendall (2-0)

After exchanging leg kicks, Kendall mixes things up and gets a huge one punch KO because of it.

Official Decision: Alan Kendall wins by KO (Punch) (3:09 of Round 1) (Good)

KOTN Award Winner

Welterweight:

“Dangerous” Darin Blood (4-4) vs. Dominykas “Slamkovic” Jankovic (3-2)

Blood shows off his striking skill early, but threw one too many leg kicks, as he got one caught and was taken down. Once the fight hit the ground it was just a matter of time until Jankovic put it away.

Official Decision: Dominykas Jankovic wins by TKO (Strikes) (3:36 of Round 1) (Great)

Welterweight:

“The Devil in Blue” Ichisake Miyagi (4-3) vs. Bud “The Rocket” Brockett (2-3)

This match was all about takedowns, especially Brockett’s, as he was cruising his way to a decision. Miyagi’s corner gave him a real sense of urgency and he came out in the fifth with a come from behind KO.

Official Decision: Ichisake Miyagi wins by KO (Punch) (:50 of Round 5) (Decent)

Welterweight:

“The Show Stopper” Jack Humphreys (6-4) vs. Templeton “The Body” Crumb (4-2)

Going into this one, everyone knew Humphreys was the better grappler and Crumb was the better striker. This one took place more on the feet, so Crumb got the slight edge on the scorecards.

Official Decision: Templeton Crumb wins by Unanimous Decision (48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Decent)

Welterweight:

Carlos da Guia (4-1) vs. Slade Cregg (4-2)

Da Guia picks Cregg apart on the feet in round 1 and stuffs his takedown in round 2. After stuffing the takedown, he unleashed some vicious knees to the head for the stoppage.

Official Decision: Carlos da Guia wins by TKO (Knees to the Head) (3:17 of Round 2) (Good)

Welterweight:

Vikram “Punishment” Sithalayan (6-3) vs. Buddy Garner (6-3)

This was a battle of two mirror images which led to a dull fight. Both guys also gassed early which made it a slopfest. Garner did finish with a guillotine, but all that did was save the fans from another two rounds of this fight.

Official Decision: Buddy Garner wins by Submission (Guillotine) (1:57 of Round 4) (Average)

SOTN Award Winner

Welterweight:

“The Strategist” Rufus Stephens (4-1-1) vs. Manuel “The Prodigy” Silva (4-1)

Stephens was able to control the dangerous Brazilian against the cage and on the mat en route to a one sided decision. He did have on scary moment, as he was rocked by a fantastic spinning back elbow, but was able to take Silva down and recover.

Official Decision: Rufus Stephens wins by Unanimous Decision (50-45, 49-46, 49-46) (5:00 of Round 5) (Average)

Welterweight:

“The Super Animal” Noach Van Der Capellen (10-3) vs. “Dangerous” David Allen (5-4)

Both guys had each other in trouble several times, Noach with strikes and Allen with submissions. In the end, Allen gets the upset over the former champ, locking him up with a triangle for the win.

Official Decision: David Allen wins by Submission (Triangle) (4:11 of Round 4) (Great)

FOTN Award Winner

Welterweight Championship:

“The Ice Cold Swede” Lukas Mellberg (8-2) vs. “Fury Awoken” Sukarno (9-2)

This ends up being a very controversial fight. Both guys showed up with very conservative strategies, which everyone expected from Mellberg, but no one saw Sukarno’s stick and move strategy coming. Almost nothing happened in the first or last round. The second and third rounds easily went to Sukarno because of his striking. The fourth round was clearly Mellberg’s, as he took Sukarno down and was constantly threatening with submissions. In the end, two of the three judges gave it to Sukarno.

Official Decision: Sukarno wins by Split Decision (48-47, 47-48, 48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Decent)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 10,633 ($1,063,300)

Buy Rate = 220,600 ($1,323,600)

Critical Success = Good

Commercial Success = Average

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wshred13 · March 18, 2013

<div style="text-align:center;">Friday Night Fights Lightweight Opening Round

Friday Week 3 of December 1996

Nevada

PRELIMS

Lightweight Opening Round:

“The Peruvian Punisher” Claudio Palacios (6-4) vs. Helio (4-1)

Helio did well on the feet, but struggled to keep it standing. Helio gave the judges a sigh of relief when he head kick KO’d Claudio in the fifth.

Official Decision: Helio wins by KO (Head Kick) (:44 of Round 5) (Decent)

Lightweight Opening Round:

“The Mad Man From Michigan” Beau Gorshin (3-1) vs. “The Sharpshooter” Georges Nouri (3-3)

For as close of a fight as this was, the scorecards certainly didn’t reflect it. A toss up decision ends up going very much in the favor of Nouri.

Official Decision: Georges Nouri wins by Unanimous Decision (50-45, 49-46, 49-46) (5:00 of Round 5) (Average)

Lightweight Opening Round:

Tonson Ono (12-7) vs. “Pain Express” Go Yamamoto (2-1)

Yamamoto was completely unable to get Yamamoto down and ended up being TKO’d. The stoppage was certainly early, but the result would’ve been the same either way.

Official Decision: Go Yamamoto wins by TKO (Strikes) (1:27 of Round 3) (Great)

Lightweight Opening Round:

Fiyero Lermentov (4-1) vs. Procopio “Porco” Golias (1-1)

Golias tries to muscle Fiyero around, but just ends up getting taken down and guillotined.

Official Decision: Fiyero Lermentov wins by Submission (Guillotine) (3:52 of Round 1) (Poor)

MAIN CARD

Lightweight Opening Round:

“The Man of Steel” Marko Prochazka (10-8) vs. “The Fist of Justice” Ikku Funaki (3-1)

Prochazka used leg kicks incredibly well, but became too predictable and Funaki countered a leg kick with a knock out punch.

Official Decision: Ikku Funaki wins by KO (Punch) (3:37 of Round 2) (Fantastic)

FOTN & KOTN Award Winner

Lightweight Opening Round:

George “Full Force” Astaire (6-3) vs. “The Truck Man” Truck Gleeson (3-0-1)

Astaire got the better of the fight in all aspects, but unbelievably lost after a lazy takedown attempt was stuffed. The ref thought Astaire was out of it as Gleeson threw hammerfists, but Astaire was just switching positions. As soon as the fight was stopped, Astaire jumped up to his feet, completely enraged.

Official Decision: Truck Gleeson wins by TKO (Strikes) (1:54 of Round 4) (Good)

Lightweight Opening Round:

Seth “Submission King” O’Breen (5-1) vs. Bhumibol Ektawatkul (2-3)

Bhumibol tried to win the fight from the clinch, as he was outgunned on the feet and on the ground. Unfortunately for him, O’Breen outwrestled him in the clinch and eventually finished him with a guillotine.

Official Decision: Seth O’Breen wins by Submission (Guillotine) (2:56 of Round 2) (Good)

SOTN Award Winner

Lightweight Opening Round:

Heikichi Shimizu (6-3) vs. “The Latino Wild Cat” Agustin Gonzalez (3-3)

Shimizu never makes things easy on himself. He again struggles to get the fight down for several rounds and gets beat up on the feet. Once he got it down, he got a mounted triangle. If he can just become a faster starter, Shimizu could be a force in the lightweight division.

Official Decision: Heikichi Shimizu wins by Submission (Triangle) (2:12 of Round 5) (Good)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 4,364($436,400)

Buy Rate = N/A

Critical Success = Great

Commercial Success = Decent

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wshred13 · March 19, 2013

<div style="text-align:center;">GAMMA 61 Featherweight Opening Round

Saturday Week 4 of December 1996

Florida

Featherweight Opening Round:

Yoshiro Makamori (3-2) vs. Lucky Lyman (1-0)

Lyman was winning a very tactical stand up battle, but as soon as Makamori took him down, he was tapping.

Official Decision: Yoshiro Makamori wins by Submission (Americana) (2:17 of Round 3) (Great)

Featherweight Opening Round:

Rafael “Slick” Tavares (3-2) vs. Yagi Jokichi (1-0)

Tavares shoots in for a takedown, but gets caught with a counter hook.

Official Decision: Yagi Jokichi wins by KO (Punch) (1:51 of Round 1) (Good)

Featherweight Opening Round:

“The Blonde Bomber” Nicholas Bretton (4-3) vs. Sophan Sastrowardoya (1-0)

Bretton was edging out the decision and putting the fans to sleep when Sophan got the huge come from behind KO.

Official Decision: Sophan Sastrowardoya wins by KO (Punch) (3:44 of Round 3) (Poor)

Featherweight Opening Round:

“The Tropical Tornado” Azor Portela Nunes (3-2) vs. “G-Force” Rodolphe Gygax (3-3)

Gygax got the better of Nunes on the feet. He eventually stalked him to where his back was against the cage and flurried on him for a TKO.

Official Decision: Rodolphe Gygax wins by TKO (Punches) (2:25 of Round 2) (Average)

Featherweight Opening Round:

Kanji Togo (9-7) vs. “The Bruiser From Belfast” Liam O’Donnell (2-1)

O’Donnell lit Togo up on the feet, but his grappling let him down.

Official Decision: Kanji Togo wins by Submission (Armbar) (4:07 of Round 2) (Fantastic)

FOTN & SOTN Award Winner

Featherweight Opening Round:

“The Wing Chun Superstar” Motoki Hojo (6-5) vs. Pedro “The Wolverine” Alves (0-1)

Alves gave Hojo some nervous moments with his submissions, but overall Hojo did a good job of avoiding the ground game and beating Alves up on the feet.

Official Decision: Motoki Hojo wins by Unanimous Decision (49-46) (5:00 of Round 5) (Decent)

Featherweight Opening Round:

Greg Chiang (5-5) vs. “The Prince of Leglocks” Kaito Akimoto (0-2)

Chiang worked a wall and stall strategy and was close to winning a decision. Akimoto dropped guard on a guillotine, but gave up on it and locked on a triangle for the win.

Official Decision: Kaito Akimoto wins by Submission (Triangle) (4:48 of Round 5) (Average)

Featherweight Opening Round:

“The Banker” Frank Romita (4-3) vs. H.M. Menzel (2-4)

Romita was the better grappler and Menzel sacrificed his striking defense to try and scramble back to his feet, which lead to him getting TKO’d.

Official Decision: Frank Romita wins by TKO (Strikes) (2:21 of Round 2) (Average)

Featherweight Opening Round:

Henry “The King” Baldwin (4-3) vs. Manoel “Colagem” Cabral (0-1)

Cabral gets a workmanlike decision, based on his slight edge in grappling and striking and being the aggressor throughout the fight.

Official Decision: Manoel Cabral wins by Unanimous Decision (49-46, 48-47, 48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Average)

Featherweight Opening Round:

“The Lightning Kid” Fumiaki Hayashi (5-1) vs. Korekiyo Anzai (1-1)

Anzai had a slight edge in all areas except for the gas tank. Anzai either needs to find a better method of cutting weight or he needs to move up to lightweight because he got tired early in this one.

Official Decision: Korekiyo Anzai wins by Unanimous Decision (48-47) (5:00 of Round 5) (Good)

Featherweight Opening Round:

“Ice Cold” Lars Bohlin (3-0) vs. “The Specialist” Darren Southall (0-2)

Bohlin completely outgrappples Southall, but isn’t a natural finisher. After a barrage of submission attempts, Bohlin got the TKO after Southall pretty much covered up and waited for the ref to intervene.

Official Decision: Lars Bohlin wins by TKO (Strikes) (3:54 of Round 3) (Decent)

Featherweight Opening Round:

Kenji “Star” Akita (4-1) vs. Hovhannes Javakhyan (0-1)

Official Decision: Kenji Akita wins by TKO (Strikes Standing) (1:58 of Round 1) (Good)

Featherweight Opening Round:

Luiz “The Tarantula” Machado (8-3) vs. Ryota “Ronin” Sugimoto (1-1)

Machado completely dominates and almost toys with Sugimoto in the first round. He’ll wish he would’ve put it away as he was knocked clean out by the first punch of the second.

Official Decision: Ryota Sugimoto wins by KO (Punch) (:26 of Round 2) (Fantastic)

KOTN Award Winner

Featherweight Opening Round:

Francesco Marazzina (10-5) vs. Taki Inouye (1-3)

This was a nothing, stalemate grappling match. It ended a bit before the 25 minute mark because Marazzina made Taki pay for a lazy takedown attempt with a D’arce choke.

Official Decision: Francesco Marazzina wins by Submission (D’arce Choke) (2:02 of Round 4) (Average)

Featherweight Opening Round:

Atep of Indonesia (5-2) vs. Graeme “Sparky” Spark (1-1)

Atep outpointed Spark early with his unorthodox stand up, but Spark came back huge in the last couple rounds. The final round, Spark slammed Atep to the ground and bloodied him with ground and pound, but just couldn’t finish it. The final round was scored 10-8 on all three scorecards, which led to a unanimous draw.

Official Decision: Unanimous Draw (5:00 of Round 5) (Good)

Featherweight Opening Round:

Easton “Small” Frye (12-0) vs. “Blackbelt” Jay Dorridge (2-0)

New weight class, same exact fight for Frye. Takedown, guard pass, ground and pound.

Official Decision: Easton Frye wins by TKO (Strikes) (3:00 of Round 1) (Great)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 9,074 ($907,400)

Buy Rate = 186,384 ($1,118,304)

Critical Success = Great

Commercial Success = Poor

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wshred13 · March 19, 2013

<div style="text-align:center;">1996: Year in Review

GAMMA has finally toppled ALPHA-1's attendance record of 10,391 with an attendance of 11,989 at GAMMA 53 VDC vs. Mellberg. The old buy rate record was shattered at GAMMA 59 Reid vs. Dorosklov, going from 170,877 to 284,070.

Show of the Year (ALPHA-1 War), Fight of the Year (Bunrakuken Abe vs. Quintino Setubal, WVTC, Excellent), Worst Fight of The Year (Otto Cascudo vs. Jorge Hormazabal, WVTC, Awful), and Main Event of The Year (Tonson Ono vs. Chojiro Goto, ISL) were all awarded outside of GAMMA.

For the third straight year, American Cage Fighters has won Team of The Year.

The Upset of the Year oddly goes to what was a match up of 2-0 fighters, with Murilo Satinho defeating Ari Peltonen. Murilo also surprisingly took home the Rise of The Year award.

Fall of the Year went to Rick Stanley, who lost all three of his bouts this year, but probably didn't deserve the award as he is obviously past his prime.

Sho Kitabatake was involved in both the KO & Submission of the Year, both of which took place in the GAMMA Olympics. He was on the wrong side of the KO, as Zvonimir Asanovic knocked him out in the Quarterfinal Round. Sho bounced back with the huge submission win over Norman Pike at the Olympic finals, edging Team Japan over Team Canada to win the gold.

Both the Rookie of the Year and Fighter of the Year Awards go to men who look to have bright starts to 1997. ROTY Winner Marlon John went 3-0 in 96, finishing off the year with a TKO victory over Sho Kitabatake. He will be fighting for the Light Heavyweight Championship to start next year. Fighter of the Year went to Heiji Endo. Endo went 3-0 in the GAMMA Olympics and won a gold medal. Endo capped off his year with a win over Joaquim Fontes and will be looking to take JJ Reid's Middleweight title at the start of next year.

The Award Ceremony concluded with Adam Davids announcing that GAMMA will be closing UCFF, a promotion they bought several months ago. Originally, UCFF was going to be a feeder promotion for GAMMA, but they've been poorly run and GAMMA officials don't have time to run both companies. Word is that the UCFF fighters contracts will be absorbed and they will compete in a large scale openweight grand prix. </div>

wshred13 · March 24, 2013

I'm not abandoning this, just taking a break at the moment. Should be more shows up this week.

MOS182 · March 29, 2013

Good read. Keep up the good work.

You have some really nice ideas like the tournaments, really liked the olympics idea

wshred13 · April 1, 2013

Friday Night Fights VDC vs. Cregg

Friday Week 1 of February, 1997

Nevada

Although this is called VDC vs. Cregg, it could easily be called Friday Night Fights: Filler. With big fights all over the place in the next few months, GAMMA offers a lukewarm effort to kick off the year. It hosts the first 8 man openweight tournament consisting of former UCFF fighters. The winner gets a contract in GAMMA and a spot in a “Winners Bracket” which takes place later in the year. The tournament along with several prospect vs. prospect matches occupy the prelims, while the main card consists of just 3 fights, all of which have competitors on a bad run of form. If not for Noach in the main event, this card would be almost completely irrelevant.

OPENWEIGHT TOURNAMENT

QF – Bobby Castillo (FW) (0-0) defeats Bret Clement (WW) (0-0) in a very close stand up bout by decision.

QF – Felipe Luiz Rosa (HW) (8-3) insta TKO’s Alceu de Castro (LHW) (1-2).

QF – Edilberto (LHW) (1-1) subs Brian Hirst (LW) (0-0) with a rear naked choke after dropping him with his superior power.

QF – Allan Plotcheck (MW) (4-7) defeats Bastian Neske (0-0) (HW) after taking a lot of punishment with a kneebar from bottom. (FOTN)

SF - Felipe Luiz Rosa (HW) (9-3) insta KO’s the much smaller Bobby Castillo (FW) (1-0) (KOTN)

SF - Allan Plotcheck (MW) (5-7) again takes a beating on the feet just to overcome Edilberto (LHW) (2-1) with an arm triangle.

Final - Allan Plotcheck (MW) (6-7) defeats tournament favorite Felipe Luiz Rosa (HW) (9-3) by submission, but again got rocked before he could make it happen.

OTHER PRELIMS

HW – Sylvester Collins (0-0) wins by TKO over Kurt McDonald (0-0) after getting the short end of the stick for the first few rounds. (1:09 of Round 4)

LHW – Jiroemon Hasegawa (0-0) beats Ranieri Fernanda (0-0) with superior ground technique. He pulls guard, sweeps with a kimura and ends up getting the tap via armbar. (4:20 of Round 2)

LHW – In the battle of Toby’s, Toby Sorkin (0-1) ends up coming on top after finally being able to take Toby Dingleberry (0-0) after a half dozen attempts and finishing him with strikes (4:51 of Round 3)

HW – Jeff Carlton (0-2) was getting sprawl and brawled to death by Zsolt Hargitay (0-1). Eventually he was able to get the Hungarian down by dropping him with a punch and then finished him with an Americana. (2:16 of Round 4)

HW – Gyokusho Fujimoto (1-0) engaged Wilson Franklyn (0-1) in a stand up affair. The notorious brawler was unable to connect on one of his big haymakers which lead to Fujimoto outpointing him on the feet to a decision. (5:00 of Round 5)

HW – Aleksander Ivanov (3-2) tools Stanislaw Lipnicki (5-0) the former HILITE Heavyweight Champion for a quick arm triangle victory. (1:44 of Round 1) (SOTN)

LW – Lubos Plasil (2-0) edged Benny Danare (3-2) out in every aspect of MMA for a 50-45 decision victory. (5:00 of Round 5)

MAIN CARD

Middleweight:

“Brickhouse” Thorbjorn Rekdal (5-4) vs. Humberto “The Hit Man” Falcao (5-5)

Rekdal dominates Falcao on the feet en route to a third round stoppage. (3:27 of Round 3)

Welterweight:

“Dangerous” Darin Blood (4-5) vs. “The Show Stopper” Jack Humphreys (6-5)

Humphreys presses the fight the entire time, looking to hold Blood against the fence or on the ground to avoid his devastating striking. Again, Blood’s ground game fails him as Humphreys is able to take his back and TKO him. (4:40 of Round 3)

Welterweight:

“The Super Animal” Noach Van Der Capellen (10-4) vs. Slade Cregg (4-3)

As far as matchmaking goes, this one was obviously put together to get the former champ back in his winning ways in impressive fashion. He did win, but it was far from impressive. He conservatively outstruck Cregg on the feet while defending takedowns, but again displayed a horrible gas tank which almost cost him. Cregg had a rear naked choke locked in during the final seconds of the fifth round, but VDC was saved by the horn and won the decision 49-45 across the board (5:00 of Round 5)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 4,678 ($467,800)

Buy Rate = N/A

Critical Success = Decent

Commercial Success = Great

Get Hyped For: GAMMA 62 Kikuchi vs. Rubenstein 2

Rubenstein might end up being the first true gatekeeper of the heavyweight division. He’s won 3 straight fights by TKO over Frye, Cabal, and Herringbone and deserves a title shot. Unfortunately for him, Kikuchi is still champ. Has Rubenstein improved his TDD or will Kikuchi control him to a boring decision yet again?

The rest of the main card consists of great heavyweight clashes, including the uber hyped Hassan Fezzik coming off back to back KO losses taking on the always game Rick Stanley. Harry Milne and Terron Cabal go at in a possible #1 contender match up. The prelims have unknowns looking to be become knowns and another UCFF Openweight Tournament with the winner getting a GAMMA contract and a place in the Winners Bracket alongside Allan Plotcheck.

wshred13 · April 5, 2013

GAMMA 62 Kikuchi vs. Rubenstein 2

Saturday Week 2 of February, 1997

Nevada

OPENWEIGHT TOURNAMENT

QF – Davi Carlos Ramos (2-5, FW) edges out Hans Peter Schneider (2-5, MW) in all areas for a decision win.

QF – Evgeni Medtner (1-1, WW) shows that technique can beat size as he triangles Gavriil Sviridov (2-0, LHW).

QF – Louis De La Torre (0-0, LW) slams Holden Strant (0-0, MW) down and TKO’s him from mount in the first round.

QF – Haranobu Oshiro (3-5, MW) upsets Henrik Berg (6-4-1, SHW), the worlds foremost super heavyweight, by staying on his bike and picking the overweight giant apart with quick strikes for a decision.

SF – Evgeni Medtner (2-1, WW) was just barely better than Davi Carlos Ramos (3-5, FW), winning the fight 48-47 across the board.

SF – Haranobu Oshiro (4-5, MW) vs. Louis De La Torre (1-0, LW) ended up being a back and forth and bloody battle which Oshiro edged out 48-47.

Final - Evgeni Medtner (3-1, WW) had Haranobu Oshiro (5-5, MW) on the ropes several times before finally KO’ing him in the fourth.

OTHER PRELIMS

HW – Sly Twinge (0-0) vs. Carter Potter (0-0) – After a failed takedown, Potter was wrestled to his back. It didn’t end up mattering as Potter was still able to snare Sly with a triangle for the win. (FOTN)

HW – Iancu Trailescu (0-0) outpointed Efren Luat (0-0) with his near 7 foot frame giving him a huge reach advantage.

HW – Pai Cheng (0-0) runs through Linton Renn (0-0) in the first round with a prototypical ground and pound performance.

HW – Renato (1-0) defeats Chuck Dooley (1-0) by decision in what was essentially a takedown contest.

HW – Palmer Lette (1-1) muscled Grzegorz Boniek (1-1) around early, but tired quickly and got caught in a standing guillotine in the second.

HW – Ari Peltonen (2-1) makes quick work of Roy Gurgel (3-1) with a guillotine less than two minutes in.

MAIN CARD

Heavyweight:

“The Brazilian Bomber” Gladstone Lopes (5-4) vs. “The Bringer of Pain” Khru Duangjan (4-3)

In a battle between disappointing prospects, Lopes goes away from the expectation to stand and bang, putting Duangjan away with heavy ground and pound.

Heavyweight:

Lawrence “The Law” Herringbone (4-2) vs. Stjepan “The Mammoth” Andric (5-5)

This was supposed to be a return to form for Herringbone. Instead, Andric completely outwrestled and outlasted his opponent for a decision victory.

Heavyweight:

“The Big Bad” Hassan Fezzik (4-2) vs. “The Pit Bull” Rick Stanley (11-9)

Fezzik learns from his past mistakes, not wasting any time to take Stanley down and tap him with an RNC.

Heavyweight:

“Grande Urso” Murilo Santiho (3-0) vs. Josimar Martins (9-4)

Satinho came in looking to grind Martins down for a decision victory. He was two minutes away from successfully doing that when Martins KO’d him with a right cross. (KOTN)

Heavyweight:

“The Tower of Power” Tim Boyer (7-3) vs. Hiro Arai (7-5)

The one time title challenger just didn’t show up in this one. Arai picked him apart for twenty five minutes and nearly stopped him a time or two, but instead had to settle for the dominant decision win.

Heavyweight:

“The Bulldog” Harry Milne (5-2) vs. “The Baddest Man in MMA” Terron Cabal (6-1)

Cabal was putting on a great sprawl and brawl performance, avoiding the takedowns and rocking Milne with heavy punches. Unfortunately for Cabal fans, Milne was able to get him down in the fourth and submit him with an armbar. (SOTN)

Heavyweight Championship:

“Unstoppable K” Kunimichi Kikuchi (8-0) vs. “The Reaper” Spencer Rubenstein (9-2)

Rubenstein avoided the takedown in round 1 and landed some decent strikes in the stand up. Kikuchi turned the tide in the next two rounds by getting top control and avoiding submissions. He didn’t shoot early enough in the 4th however, as he was dropped by a huge right hand and then finished off with a half dozen more shots on the ground.

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 10,868 ($1,086,800)

Buy Rate = 222,700 ($1,336,200)

Critical Success = Good

Commercial Success = Decent

Much of the focus post fight was who would be next in line for 2 time Heavyweight Champion Spencer Rubenstein. Rubenstein said he was fine fighting either Milne or Kikuchi, as both would be attempts at avenging his only two losses. Through a translator, Kikuchi said he deserved a tie breaking 3rd match with Spencer. Milne (who's defeated Rubenstein and lost to Kikuchi) stated that either option makes sense and as long as he's one fight or less from a title shot, he's content.

Other speculation about potential match making included Josimar Martins possibly fighting Hiro Arai in the battle of unlikely title challengers.

Up Next: GAMMA 63 Asanovic vs. John

Two undefeated light heavyweights go at it in the main event of GAMMA 63 for the 205 championship. Will Zvonimir continue his stand up reign of terror or will Marlon John's ground and pound be too much?

The rest of the card consists of another openweight tournament bracket and mainly match ups between light heavyweights. Mantas Andreyev and Bill Cumming will square off in a battle of some of the sports first true veterans. The Co Main Event pits "Stormin" Norman Pike against Osmosis Benn. Both guys have had a lot of success since changing weight classes (Pike down from HW and Benn up from MW) and the winner will most likely solidify their weight change with a title shot.

wshred13 · April 12, 2013

GAMMA 63 Asanovic vs. John

Saturday Week 4 of February, 1997

California

OPENWEIGHT TOURNAMENT

QF – Konstantin Georgiades (1-0, MW) weakens David James Diggle (0-0, FW) with ground and pound in the first round and then knocked him out with one punch on the feet in the second.

QF – Gekko Goto (3-0, LHW) takes Jin Yamane (0-0, WW) down and submits him from mount for a quick victory.

QF – Kadonomaro Deguchi (0-0, MW) moves past Marek Warzycha (0-1, LW) with a quick armbar victory.

QF – Ikuhisa Tamura (3-1, HW) plays it surprisingly safe against Geoff Cahill (0-1, WW), going the full 25 minutes to eke out a decision win.

SF - Konstantin Georgiades (2-0, MW) knocks Gekko Goto (4-0, LHW) out with the first punch of the fight. (KOTN)

SF - Ikuhisa Tamura (4-1, HW) fights exhaustion more than his opponent Kadonomaro Deguchi (1-0, MW) as he again has to go the full 25 minutes to win the fight.

Final - Ikuhisa Tamura (5-1, HW) wastes no time against Konstantin Georgiades (3-0, MW), finishing him off in under two minutes with strikes.

OTHER PRELIMS

LHW – Rafael Van Der Moot (1-1) proved to be a scary striker against Dag Kreuger (0-1), finishing him off in the fourth round with a violent combination. Kreuger had some awesome ground and pound of his own, but came up on the short end of the stick. (:54 of Round 4) (FOTN)

LHW – Mark Cohen (0-2) is able to edge out Glenn Lane (1-2) by split decision, despite gassing a minute into the second round. (5:00 of Round 5)

LHW – Nilton Fantoni (1-0) and William Harrison (1-0) battled back and forth in a fight that took place in all areas until Harrison pulled out an armbar last minute. (3:27 of Round 5)

LHW – Valentin Taneyev (1-1) completely dominates Marcos Maciel (3-1) with his ground game for nearly 3 whole rounds before finally submitting him with a rear naked choke. (4:35 of Round 3)

LHW – John Rivero (4-3) takes Bryan Van Den Hauwe (4-2) down and submits him with an Americana just before the end of the round. (4:57 of Round 1)

MAIN CARD

Light Heavyweight:

“The Iron Man” Junior Patinkin (7-4) vs. “The Scourge of Europe” Nicolai Mickiewicz (5-5)

Not much happened in this one other than the two men exchanging takedown attempts. Nicolai ended up winning on all 3 scorecards with varying scores. (5:00 of Round 5)

Light Heavyweight:

Matti “The Hammer” Kurri (3-1) vs. “The Dockland Destroyer” Jerry Bogdonovich (3-0)

Kurri was putting on a top control clinic for the first few rounds, but then saw his chin checked a few times in the 3rd and 4th. Unfortunately for him, his chin couldn’t take the abuse and he was TKO’d. (2:21 of Round 4)

Light Heavyweight:

“The Dragon” Tadamasa Yamada (3-0) vs. “The Bad Element” Curt Kitson (4-1)

Yamada gets a couple takedowns but struggles to do anything with them. Kitson looks to work his dirty boxing, but ends up tapping to a standing guillotine instead. (3:01 of Round 3) (SOTN)

Light Heavyweight:

Mantas Andreyev (12-6) vs. “Wild” Bill Cumming (11-6-1)

In the battle of wily old vets, Cumming actually dropped Andreyev in the first, but ended up tapping to an RNC in the second. Despite the win, it looks like Andreyev’s days at the top of the division are definitely over. (4:37 of Round 2)

Light Heavyweight:

Sho Kitabatake (9-3) vs. “The Man of Steel” Ken Peters (5-1)

Kitabatake didn’t shoot a takedown in the four minutes that this fight lasted. Because of his head scratching strategy, he wound up on the wrong end of a TKO loss. (3:59 of Round 1)

Light Heavyweight:

“The Gladiator” Niko Soldo (7-4) vs. “Blood Spirit” Hyun-Shik Lim

Soldo roughed Lim up against the fence in the first couple rounds, but also depleted his own gas tank. He was saved by the horn in round 2 and finally finished off with blows in the 3rd by Lim. (3:12 of Round 3)

Light Heavyweight:

“Stormin” Norman Pike (12-3) vs. Osmosis Benn (10-2)

Benn peppered Pike with blows on the feet, taking the first round by a decent margin. Pike went under a big right hand for a takedown in the second, but didn’t do anything other than lay there for the remainder of the round. In the third round, Benn connected on that big right that he missed in the previous round and dropped Pike with it. He then mounted him and rained down with punches until the ref pulled him off. (1:34 of Round 3)

Light Heavyweight Championship:

Zvonimir “The Croatian Sensation” Asanovic (7-0) vs. “The Punisher” Marlon John (5-0)

John makes the previously undefeated champ look more like a chump. John took Zvonimir down, passed on him easily and punished him with ground and pound for the stoppage. (3:38 of Round 1)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 11,104 ($1,110,400)

Buy Rate = 283,018 ($1,698,108)

Critical Success = Great

Commercial Success = Good

Up Next: GAMMA 64 Reid vs. Endo

The next GAMMA offering is centered primarily around the middleweight division, with top 5 pound for pound champion JJ Reid taking on Heiji Endo. Reid has faced a lot of tough grapplers in the past, but his submission game has always left him coming out ahead. Will Endo be able to avoid Reid's dangerous jujitsu or will he end up being just another tap out on the champs record?

The card also includes middleweight match ups between Mountfield/Ratcliffe, Fontes/Mizwar and Taffarel/Sriyanto. On top of all that great action there is a rematch of the featherweight grand prix opening match between Atep of Indonesia and Graeme Spark, as their first fight ended in a draw.

wshred13 · April 20, 2013

GAMMA 64 Reid vs. Endo

Saturday Week 1 of March, 1997

New Jersey

OPENWEIGHT TOURNAMENT

QF – Matsuta Satou (3-4, MW) defeats Gu Ueda (0-0, FW) handily, but the scorecards looked a bit sketchy. All 3 judges scored it 50-45 and while Ueda was rocked several times, Satou ate his own share of blows and certainly lost at least a round or two.

QF – After a good exchange on the feet, Jon Silvers (1-2, LHW) pours it on Jungo Futagawa (0-0, WW), TKO’ing him in the second round.

QF – Marinho Gomes (0-0, MW) beats Melvin Custard (0-0, LW) down, dropping him in all three rounds before finally finishing him. Gomes really created himself a highlight reel, dropping Custard twice with head kicks and once with a flying knee.

QF – Kevin Portman (1-0, HW) drops Jules Dupuit (0-0, WW) and then finishes him off with an arm triangle before the close of the first round.

SF – Really the only significant strikes between Jon Silvers (2-2, LHW) and Matsuta Satou (4-4, MW) were leg kicks. After nearly four rounds of that, Silvers KO’d Satou with one punch.

SF - Marinho Gomes (1-0, MW) stays quick on the feet against Kevin Portman (2-0, HW), beating him 50-45 on the scorecards.

Final - Marinho Gomes (2-0, MW) and Jon Silvers (3-2, LHW) both land some big shots on each other, but Gomes ends up winning out, dropping Silvers and then stopping him with strikes on the ground.

OTHER PRELIMS

MW – Isaiah Monroe (0-0) outwrestles Dwayne Alleyne (0-2), but struggles to finish him. It takes Monroe nearly 20 minutes to finally TKO his exhausted opponent.

MW – Stuart Strange (1-1) runs through Sebastian Schiller (0-0) with a quick takedown and an even quicker submission to a tight arm triangle.

MW – Evan Gardner (1-0) and Jaromir Grygera (1-2) exchange takedowns and top control, with Grygera having a bit more of both leading him to win a 48-47 decision.

MAIN CARD

Middleweight:

Adam “Hollywood” White (2-1) vs. Tadao Miyazaki (2-3)

Miyazaki had great success with spinning techniques in this fight, twice rocking White with spinning back fists, but it also ended up being his downfall. White countered a spinning back kick with a big right hand and followed up on the ground for a TKO stoppage. (:29 of Round 4)

Featherweight Opening Round:

Atep of Indonesia (5-2-1) vs. Graeme “Sparky” Spark (1-1-1)

After their first fight ended in a draw, Atep made sure there was no doubt about who won this one. He was taken down early, but able to sweep Spark over with a kimura. From there he mounted his opponent and bloodied him with ground and pound, eventually getting the stoppage. (3:23 of Round 1)

Middleweight:

“The Islander” Neil Napier (4-1) vs. Guillermo “T-Bone” Morales (3-1)

Napier really bloodies Morales from crucifix in round 1. Morales is able to avoid the ground game from then on out by clinching up with Napier and putting him against the cage. That too proves to be a bad move as Napier is able to slap on a standing guillotine for the win. (2:51 of Round 3)

Middleweight:

Affonso “The Cyborg” Villar (6-3) vs. “The Sandman” Rob Baines (3-1)

Villar is able to avoid the takedown and TKO Baines. (3:13 of Round 1)

Middleweight:

“The Russian Nightmare” Fjodor Kanchelskis (5-3) vs. Leonardo da Costa (5-5)

After controlling da Costa for the majority of round 1, he gets a jaw dropping one punch KO to start out the second. (:29 of Round 2) (KOTN)

Middleweight:

Christian “Overload” Mountfield (7-5) vs. “Mr. Awesome” Carl Ratcliffe (7-6)

After an extremely dominant first round that saw Ratcliffe almost stopped by both strikes and submissions, Mountfield doesn’t do much else in the other rounds and is only able to pull off a split decision victory. (5:00 of Round 5)

Middleweight:

Joaquim “Assassino Silencioso” Fontes (14-7) vs. Tora “Bull” Mizwar (8-6)

Fontes got tagged on the feet quite a few times in round 1, but as soon as he got it to the ground in the second his superiority was obvious. It wasn’t long before Mizwar was tapping to a mounted triangle. (3:27 of Round 2) (FOTN & SOTN)

Middleweight:

Thais Antonio Taffarel (9-3) vs. Bambang Sriyanto (7-3)

This was a very good fight for the first couple rounds. Sriyanto had Taffarel hurt in round 1, but finished the round with Thais on his back looking for an RNC. In round 2, Sriyanto did some solid ground and pound, but found himself caught in a triangle that he had to slam his way out of. From there on, both guys were exhausted and Taffarel was able to fight through the exhaustion a bit better, but still came out on the short end of a 48-47 decision.

Middleweight Championship:

“The Amazing” JJ Reid (9-0) vs. Heiji “The Immortal” Endo (7-1)

Reid peppers Endo with his jab and then shockingly takes the Japanese wrestler down. He immediately starts hitting him with a barrage of submission attempts which Endo is able to survive. Heiji tries to scramble back to his feet, but in the chaos, Reid locks on an Achilles lock for the victory. (3:59 of Round 1)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 10,558 ($1,055,800)

Buy Rate = 291,428 ($1,748,568)

Critical Success = Fantastic

Commercial Success = Good

wshred13 · April 20, 2013

GAMMA 65 Sukarno vs. Mellberg 2

Saturday Week 3 of March, 1997

Nevada

OPENWEIGHT TOURNAMENT

QF – Vagner (3-3, LHW) picks Taizoh Chung Man (0-2, FW) apart for a first round TKO.

QF – Wilson Morais (0-0, LW) impressively ends up TKO’ing the much larger Titus Mostel (0-1, LHW) after clearly outclassing him on the feet for the better part of five rounds.

QF – Rory Rusterholz (0-1, MW) annihilates Ruben Ericcson (0-0, FW) with one punch 30 seconds into the fight.

QF – Ramon Thatcher (0-0, SHW) never set up his takedowns, so he just ate jabs from Wyatt Ashur (0-2, WW) while he recklessly plodded forward and lost a unanimous decision.

SF – Vagner (4-3, LHW) blitzes Wilson Morais (1-0, LW) with strikes, both on the feet and on the ground, before getting the tap with a rear naked choke in the 1st.

SF – For going the full 25 minutes, shockingly little action took place betwen Rory Rusterholz (1-1, MW) and Wyatt Ashur (1-2, WW). In the end, Rory took a snoozer of a decision win.

Final –Vagner (5-3, LHW) wins the final 50-45, partly because he picked his opponent apart, but also because Rory Rusterholz (2-1, MW) did absolutely nothing the entire fight.

Other Prelims:

WW – John Harrison (0-2) vs. Sebastian Fernandez (0-1) was uneventful for several rounds as both guys neutralized each others takedowns. As soon as Harrison got Fernandez down, he utilized heavy ground and pound for an impressive stoppage. (2:19 of Round 3)

WW – Felix Mattherson Jr. (0-0) shows an impressive takedown against Konosuke Shirahata (0-0), but his ground and pound left something to be desired. He was able to put Shirahata away in the second round with a rear naked choke. (3:40 of Round 2)

WW – David Webb (0-0) easily dispatches Yevgeni Sipatov (0-0) with a rear naked choke. (3:37 of Round 1)

WW – Lucas (1-1) vs. Iain Fussell (1-1) – Lucas lay and prays in the first round and shot in, looking to do the same in the second, but Fussell countered brilliantly with a one punch KO. (1:20 of Round 2)

MAIN CARD:

Welterweight:

Carlos Dos Santos (3-3) vs. Ricardo Fernandes (1-2)

Fernandes had some success sprawl and brawling, but also found himself taken down twice. The second time ended up being one too many, as he found himself tapping to a rear naked choke. (3:56 of Round 4)

Welterweight:

Jonathan “The Locust” Huang (2-1) vs. “Thunder and Lightning” Tyler Lass (2-2)

Huang was completely unable to take Lass down and thus lost a unanimous decision and took a bit of a beating. (5:00 of Round 5)

Welterweight:

“The Devil in Blue” Ichisake Miyagi (5-3) vs. Dominykas “Slamkovic” Jankovic (4-2)

Miyagi edges out a grapple-centric decision against Jankovic. (5:00 of Round 5)

Welterweight:

Jim Carpenter (3-2) vs. “Dangerous” David Allen (6-4)

After a gritty fight that lasted nearly four rounds, Carpenter allowed the judges to breathe a sigh of relief when he guillotine Allen, making their services unnecessary. (2:24 of Round 4) (SOTN)

Welterweight:

“The Savage” Datuk Ong Ka Ting (4-1) vs. Alan “Flash” Kendall (3-0)

Almost a mirror image of the Carpenter/Allen fight before this, the fight between Datuk and Kendall was pretty dead even. It was anyone’s call who would win the decision when Ong Ka Ting locked on a guillotine from bottom to win with just 20 seconds left on the clock. (4:40 of Round 5)

Welterweight:

Vikram “Punishment” Sithalayan (6-4) vs. Manuel “The Prodigy” Silva (4-2)

Silva was definitely superior on the feet, but the ground game was more of an even battle. Sithalayan got multiple takedowns, but Silva proved to be dangerous from off his back. They had exciting scrambles and Silva ended up winning the fight from bottom with a triangle. (3:22 of Round 4)

Welterweight:

Buddy Garner (7-3) vs. Templeton “The Body” Crumb (5-2)

Both guys had mild success in the fight. Crumb was only taken down once and he was able to pepper Garner with blows on the feet, but wasn’t overly damaging. When Garner got Crumb down, he wasn’t able to do much with it. Just as it looked like it was going into a 3rd round, Crumb got a buzzer beating KO with a big hook. (4:59 of Round 2) (FOTN & KOTN)

Welterweight Championship:

“Fury Awoken” Sukarno (10-2) vs. “The Ice Cold Swede” Lukas Mellberg (8-3)

Mellberg took Sukarno down and held him down for much of the first round. It looked like this fight might be going down the dull road that the first match went down. However, the champ erased the doubt of his split decision victory over Mellberg in the second round. He dropped the former champion with a punch and then stomped the holy hell out of him to retain his championship. (:45 of Round 2)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 10,373 ($1,037,300)

Buy Rate = 232,471 ($1,394,826)

Critical Success = Good

Commercial Success = Average

Up Next: GAMMA 66 & Friday Night Fights

We've got a couple of huge cards coming up for GAMMA, especially in regards to the lower weights. GAMMA 66 hosts each of the four quarterfinal bouts in the lightweight grand prix (Georges Nouri/Go Yamamoto, Seth O'Breen/Helio, Fiyero Lermentov/Truck Gleeson, and Heikichi Shimizu/Ikku Funaki). The Co Main Event pits top contender welterweights Carlos da Guia (5-1) against Rufus Stephens (5-1-1). The main event has Oleg Dorosklov (15-3) continuing to show he's not finished, even at 37 years of age. He's got a tough task in front of him in the form of excellent grappler Matthew Dean (7-3).

Not even a week later, Friday Night Fights will determine 7 of the 8 featherweight grand prix quarter finalists. Easton Frye's second round bout has put on GAMMA 67, probably because he's one of GAMMA's biggest draws.

wshred13 · May 7, 2013

GAMMA 66 Dean vs. Dorosklov

Saturday Week 1 of April, 1997

Nevada

OPENWEIGHT TOURNAMENT

QF – Nigel Malley (5-7, MW) dominates Noah Smithee (6-7, FW) in the stand up, getting the KO victory in the 3rd round.

QF – Pete Shilton (0-2, LHW) quickly TKO’s Paul Duffell (1-2, WW) for his first career victory.

QF – Nick Detroit (0-1, MW) wins an exciting stand up split decision over Nshan Ramazyan (0-0)

QF – Norbert Vinkus (0-0, SHW) obliterates Kenneth Toadspew (4-3, WW), KO’ing him in just over a minute. (KOTN)

SF – Pete Shilton (1-2, LHW) and Nigel Malley (6-7, MW) have a solid, back and forth stand up exchange. In the end, Shilton’s slight weight advantage probably made the difference as he was able to stop Malley in the fourth with strikes.

SF – Nick Detroit (1-1, MW) utilized a stick and move strategy pretty well against Norbert Vinkus (1-0, SHW), but the behemoth’s power proved to be too great of an equalizer as Vinkus finished Detroit with strikes just before the end of the first round.

Final – Norbert Vinkus (2-0, SHW) shows more than just a power punching game against Pete Shilton (2-2, LHW). He got the better of him on the feet for nearly 15 minutes before finally finishing him off with strikes.

OTHER PRELIMS

LW – Chan Kim Huat (0-0) vs. Procopio Golias (1-2) – Golias was so close to a decision victory or possibly even a stoppage as he dropped Huat in the fifth round. As he eagerly pursued the finish, he found himself snared in a guillotine and forced to tap. (4:14 of Round 5)

LW – Jake Keane (0-0) vs. Naizen Hamacho (0-0) – Keane got a couple of takedowns, but couldn’t do anything with them. He found himself outgunned in other areas and came out on the wrong end of a 49-46 decision. (5:00 of Round 5)

LW – Luke Hilton (3-1) picks Sammy Newton (1-0) apart for a quick TKO victory and an impressive GAMMA debut. (3:22 of Round 1)

LW – Aaron McBroom (2-1) vs. Harald Hubner (4-0) – Hubner puts on a ground and pound clinic for a second round stoppage (1:41 of Round 2) (FOTN)

MAIN CARD

Lightweight:

“The Madman From Michigan” Beau Gorshin (3-2) vs. George “Full Force” Astaire (6-4)

Astaire spends much of the fight trying to take Gorshin down. He falls multiple times and when he finally does get the takedown, he is rewarded by being locked up in a triangle and forced to tap. (2:24 of Round 3)

Catchweight (158 lbs):

“The Man of Steel” Marko Prochazka (10-9) vs. “The Peruvian Punisher” Claudio Palacios (6-5)

Marko missed weight by 3 pounds and certainly didn’t look himself in the fight. Palacios took him down at will and eventually finished things off with a rear naked choke. (3:52 of Round 3)

Lightweight:

Toson Ono (12-8) vs. “The Latino Wild Cat” Agustin Gonzalez (3-4)

Ono embarrassingly flailed around for 25, desperately trying to employ his submission game. Gonzalez was able to avoid and do enough to win a decision. Two judges scored it 50-45 while a third curiously called it 48-47. (5:00 of Round 5)

Lightweight Quarterfinal:

“The Sharpshooter” Georges Nouri (4-3) vs. “The Pain Express” Go Yamamoto (3-1)

Nouri wins a split decision where the judges valued effective grappling and at least a dozen near submission attempts over Yamamoto’s effective striking and damage. (5:00 of Round 5)

Lightweight Quarterfinal:

Seth “Submission King” O’Breen (6-1) vs. Helio (5-1)

Helio effectively defends O’Breen’s takedowns for the first round, but gets off no offense because he was so focused on staying off his back. In the third round he finally lets his hands go and ends up dropping O’Breen and stopping the fight with furious stomps. (1:06 of Round 3)

Lightweight Quarterfinal:

Fiyero Lermentov (5-1) vs. “The Truck Man” Truck Gleeson (4-0-1)

Lermentov gets an uncontested victory with a takedown, some smooth ground passes and a rear naked choke. (3:28 of Round 1) (SOTN)

Lightweight Quarterfinal:

Heikichi Shimizu (7-3) vs. “The Fist of Justice” Ikku Funaki (4-1)

Shimizu again starts slow, but this time he doesn’t survive the onslaught and is TKO’d. (2:44 of Round 1)

Welterweight:

Carlos da Guia (5-1) vs. “The Strategist” Rufus Stephens (5-1-1)

For the most part, Stephens was able to dominate da Guia with takedowns and superior ground game. He did overcome adversity in the third round where da Guia dropped him on the feet and nearly finished him with ground and pound. In the end, Stephens got the TKO victory from mount, moving himself very close to another title shot. (2:39 of Round 4)

Middleweight:

“The Anarchist” Matthew Dean (7-3) vs. Oleg Dorosklov (15-3)

This was a great back and forth grappling match with both guys having some really close submission attempts. It would’ve been a tough fight to score, but Dorosklov ended the need for the judges with an armbar for the mild upset, letting everyone know he isn’t done just yet. (2:20 of Round 4)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 9,882 ($988,200)

Buy Rate = 232,986 ($1,397,916)

Critical Success = Great

Commercial Success = Decent

Agustin Gonzalez is out for 6 months with a groin injury.

wshred13 · May 7, 2013

Friday Night Fights Featherweight Second Round

Friday Week 2 of April, 1997

Nevada

PRELIMS

HW – Iancu Trailescu (1-0) vs. Sylvester Collins (1-0) – The first two rounds were a very even stand up affair. Collins came out hard in the third round and finished Trailescu with punches. (1:02 of Round 3)

HW – Pai Cheng (1-0) vs. Carter Potter (1-0) – Cheng was superior on the ground while Potter was superior on the feet. It was going to be a close decision, but Potter dropped Cheng and then armbarred him for the win. (4:22 of Round 5)

FW – Nuno Valentino (0-0) vs. Lucky Lyman (1-1) – Lyman wins a very close split decision over debuting Nuno Valentino. His victory was centered around his ability to defend takedowns and work his jab.

FW – Freddy Lomax (0-0) vs. Ivan Bokhour (0-0) – After going four for four on takedowns and attempting numerous submissions, Lomax finally got the finish in the fifth round with a one punch KO. (2:17 of Round 5)

FW – Hans Christian Bloch (0-0) vs. Liam O’Donnell (2-2) – Liam’s Achilles heel has always been his grappling. This fight was no different as Bloch took him down in both rounds and armbarred him in the second. (1:44 of Round 2)

FW – Masahiro Maeno (0-0) vs. Pedro Alves (0-2) – After dominating with top control early, Maeno was only able to pull out a split decision after gassing midway through. (5:00 of Round 5)

FW – Markus Waller (0-0) vs. Hovhannes Javakhyan (0-2) – Much of this fight was dirty boxing against the cage, but it was decided on the ground, with Waller triangling Hovhannes from bottom. (4:09 of Round 5)

FW – Brian Claremont (4-0) vs. Shuler Eigenberg (2-0) – Claremont comes out aggressive. He throws a speedy combination, Eigenberg covers up and comes back with a big overhand right to KO his eager opponent. (:22 of Round 1) (KOTN)

FW – Azor Portela Nunes (3-3) vs. Rafael Tavares (3-3) – Tavares immediately takes Nunes down and gives him five minutes of submission hell. Nunes was able to make it out of the round and KO Rafael with a head kick at the start of the second. (:37 of Round 2) (FOTN)

FW – Henry Baldwin (4-4) vs. Nicholas Bretton (4-4) – These two have very similar styles and very similar career trajectories. After the full 25 minutes, Bretton proved to be a better, more well rounded version of Baldwin, outdoing him both on the ground and the feet. (5:00 of Round 5)

FW – Luiz Machado (8-4) vs. Jay Dorridge (2-1) – Machado makes up for his huge misstep in the first round of the featherweight tournament, RNC’ing Dorridge in the first round. (4:44 of Round 1)

Featherweight Second Round:

“Ice Cold” Lars Bohlin (4-0) vs. Ryota “Ronin” Sugimoto (2-1)

Bohlin runs through Sugimoto with a quick ground and pound victory. (2:09 of Round 1)

Featherweight Second Round:

Kenji “Star” Akita (5-1) vs. Manoel “Colagem” Cabral (1-1)

Akita had pummeled Cabral for nearly 25 minutes with dirty boxing, probably breaking his nose and swelling up his eye in the first round. Manoel hung in there and eventually turned Kenji’s strength against him as he slapped on a standing guillotine for the tap. (3:56 of Round 5) (SOTN)

Featherweight Second Round:

“The Banker” Frank Romita (5-3) vs. “The Prince of Leglocks” Kaito Akimoto (1-2)

After both guys fail to take the other down, both fighters must fall back on their plan B, their stand up. Romita’s plan B blows Akimoto’s out of the water as he gets a violent TKO victory. (4:17 of Round 1)

MAIN CARD

Featherweight Second Round:

“The Wing Chun Superstar” Motoki Hojo (7-5) vs. “G-Force” Rodolphe Gygax (4-3)

They come right out and exchange punches like crazy. Gygax comes out on the wrong end of a KO loss. (:42 of Round 1)

Featherweight Second Round:

Yagi Jokichi (2-0) vs. Atep of Indonesia (6-2-1)

Both guys drop their opponent with punches in the first round. When Jokichi dropped Atep, he wasn’t able to follow up at all. When Atep dropped Yagi, he finished the fight. (4:26 of Round 1)

Featherweight Second Round:

Francesco Marazzina (11-5) vs. Korekiyo Anzai (2-1)

After being dropped by punches in both of the first two rounds, Marazzina gets his stuff together and outgrapples Anzai in the next three rounds to edge out a decision. (5:00 of Round 5)

Featherweight Second Round:

Kanji Togo (10-7) vs. Yoshiro Makamori (4-2)

Makamori takes Togo down in every round and threatens with submissions. It looked like Yoshiro was going to have to settle for a dominant decision victory when he finally got Togo to tap to an RNC. (2:47 of Round 4)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 4,648 ($464,800)

Buy Rate = N/A

Critical Success = Good

Commercial Success = Good

Cabral is out for 2-3 months with a facial injury. Makamori is out for 4 months with a back injury. It is unknown whether they will be replaced or whether the grand prix will be pushed back to accommodate their healing.

Up Next: GAMMA 67 Rubenstein vs. Milne 2 and GAMMA 68 John vs. Benn

GAMMA 67 is heavy on heavyweight fights, but will also decide the final spot in the featherweight grand prix quarterfinals as potential two division king Easton Frye (13-0) takes on undefeated, but untested Sophan Sastrowardoya (2-0). There are a dozen heavyweight bouts on the card with the most noteworthy obviously being the headlining fight, a rematch between 2 time heavyweight champ Spencer Rubenstein taking on Harry Milne. Milne beat the current champ in the first match. Also, Hiro Arai and Josimar Martins square off in what could be an unlikely title eliminator.

GAMMA 68 pits Osmosis Benn (11-2) against undefeated champ Marlon John (6-0). Benn's only struggle in MMA has been making the 185 lb limit. Now that he's at 205, can he win the belt? The card also has several significant light heavyweight scraps including Yamada/Peters, Asanovic/Bogdonovich, Andreyev/Lim and Pike/Rivero.

The two cards will conclude the first part of the openweight grand prix that consists of former UCFF fighters. Each one night, 8 man tournament winner receives a GAMMA contract and a spot in a winners bracket later on in the year. Allan Plotcheck, Evgeni Medtner, Ikuhisa Tamura, Marinho Gomes, Norbert Vinkus and Vagner have all made it through.

wshred13 · May 10, 2013

GAMMA 67 Rubenstein vs. Milne 2

Saturday Week 4 of April, 1997

Ohio

OPENWEIGHT TOURNAMENT

QF – Dokuohtei Kuroki (4-4, MW) dominates Boyd Cooper (0-0, FW), but is unable to finish him off and has to settle for a decision.

QF – Doug Hansen (1-0, LW) uses his speed and technique advantage to beat Faas Smit (5-1, LHW) by decision.

QF – Dexter Darling (2-3, MW) gets the ground and pound stoppage in under two minutes on Fujimaro Hidaka (1-0, LW)

QF – Edgar Van Den Hoogenband (0-0, MW) picks his heavyweight opponent Giovanni de Matos (0-0, HW) apart en route to a decision.

SF – Doug Hansen (2-0, LW) again shows his technical prowess, this time taking Dokuohtei Kuroki (5-4, MW) down and submitting him in the second round.

SF – Dexter Darling (3-3, MW) again runs through his opponent with a first round TKO, this time beating Edgar Van Den Hoogenband (0-0, MW) in just under the five minute limit.

Final - Dexter Darling (4-3, MW) vs. Doug Hansen (3-0, LW) – The first couple rounds were really competitive ground fights, with Darling taking them via solid ground and pound and solid submission defense. Hansen was game in the first couple rounds, but he really started to have success in the later rounds. Hansen was able to outlast Darling to win a split decision.

OTHER PRELIMS

HW – Efren Luat (0-1) vs. Linton Renn (0-1) – Luat got the better of Renn in all areas to win a 49-46 decision. (5:00 of Round 5)

HW – Kurt McDonald (0-1) vs. Bastian Neske (0-1) – McDonald picks Neske apart on the feet, drops him and TKO’s him with shots on the ground. (3:19 of Round 1)

HW – Jeff Carlton (1-2) vs. Chuck Dooley (1-1) – Dooley takes Carlton down right away. Carlton keeps his ground and pound to a minimum by utilizing an active guard, but almost as soon as Dooley passed the guard, the ref was stopping the fight because of “The Laughing Man’s” vicious ground and pound. (4:23 of Round 1)

HW – Palmer Lette (1-2) vs. Wilson Franklyn (0-2) – Lette fought the smart fight against Franklyn by taking the dangerous brawler off his feet, but didn’t have the gas tank to keep up and ended up dropping a decision to the previously winless Franklyn. (5:00 of Round 5)

HW – Gyokusho Fujimoto (2-0) vs. Renato (2-0) – Fujimoto almost finished Renato with strikes in the first. Despite not being able to finish, he was able to keep his takedowns at bay and pepper him throughout with blows to win a one sided decision. (5:00 of Round 5)

MAIN CARD

Heavyweight:

“The Bringer of Pain” Khru Duangjan (4-4) vs. “Mr. Saturday Night” Phil Verdigree (10-10)

Duangjan picks Verdigree apart, but as seems to be a trend tonight, wasn’t able to put his opponent away. (5:00 of Round 5)

Heavyweight:

“Grande Urso” Murilo Santinho (3-1) vs. Alex Frye (11-7)

Frye successfully wall and stalls in the first round, but gets knocked out by one hell of a haymaker by Murilo in the second. (:45 of Round 2) (KOTN)

Heavyweight:

“The Baddest Man in MMA” Terron Cabal (6-2) vs. Stanislaw “Big Daddy” Lipnicki (5-1)

Cabal sprawl and brawled to perfection early on in the bout, but all the grappling defense gassed him out quickly. That allowed Lipnicki to take him down in the later rounds and eventually ground and pound him for the stoppage. (3:05 of Round 4) (FOTN)

Heavyweight:

“The Big Bad” Hassan Fezzik (5-2) vs. Stjepan “The Mammoth” Andric (6-5)

Andric pinned Fezzik to the fence for much of round 1, but was taken down and busted open with an elbow. In the second round, Fezzik took Andric down earlier, passed on him quite easily and ended up tapping his bloody opponent with an RNC. (4:58 of Round 2) (SOTN)

Heavyweight:

“Unstoppable K” Kunimichi Kikuchi (8-1) vs. “Swedish Superman” Gunnar Nilsson (6-5)

Nilsson was surprisingly able to outgrind Kikuchi to a rather dominant decision victory (49-46). (5:00 of Round 5)

Heavyweight:

Josimar Martins (10-4) vs. Hiro Arai (8-5)

Arai tediously outpoints Martins before finally ending the fight in the third round via strikes. (2:48 of Round 3)

Featherweight Second Round:

Easton “Small” Frye (13-0) vs. Sophan Sastrowardoya (2-0)

Another first round ground and pound TKO for Easton Frye, potential two division MMA king. (4:11 of Round 1)

Heavyweight Championship:

“The Reaper” Spencer Rubenstein (10-2) vs. Harry “The Bulldog” Milne (6-2)

Rubenstein wins every round with a good sprawl and brawl game plan. He was put on his back once, but his active guard kept Milne on the defensive and even won him the round from bottom. (50-45 Rubenstein) (5:00 of Round 5)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 10,714 ($1,071,400)

Buy Rate = 235,098 ($1,410,588)

Critical Success = Decent

Commercial Success = Decent

wshred13 · May 10, 2013

GAMMA 68 John vs. Benn

Saturday Week 2 of May, 1997

California

OPENWEIGHT TOURNAMENT

QF – Ramon da Silva Ramos (0-0, MW) beats Po-Han Yue (0-0, FW) down in exactly a minute for a TKO stoppage.

QF – Petey Barnum (4-8, LHW) was just too good for Sawyer Hines (0-0, WW) on the feet, eventually overcoming him with a second round TKO.

QF – Pip Mercurial (0-0, MW) bullied Rogelio Quesada (0-0, LW) around in the first round, but was taken down in the second and armbarred.

QF – The fight between Oliver Fiderer (1-0, HW) and Pavel Radulov (0-0, WW) was certainly a case of Radulov being the better fighter, despite being much smaller. Had the two been equal size, Radulov probably would’ve gotten a finish, but as things stand, he had to settle for a decision victory.

SF – Ramon da Silva Ramos (1-0, MW) picks Petey Barnum (5-8, LHW) apart and finishes him with strikes in the second frame.

SF- Pavel Radulov (1-0, WW) rocks Rogelio Quesada (1-0, LW) on the feet and then drops guard with a tight guillotine, forcing the tap a little more than two minutes into the bout.

Final – Pavel Radulov (2-0, WW) shoots in on Ramon da Silva Ramos (2-0, MW) a couple times, but fails to get him down. He gets dropped by a stiff counter punch on a telegraphed takedown attempt and was never allowed to recover. Ramon wins by first round TKO.

OTHER PRELIMS

LHW – MacGregor Dare (0-0) vs. Toby Dingleberry (0-1) – Neither man has any problem with going toe to toe in the center of the cage which results in Dingleberry getting KO’d. (3:32 of Round 2) (FOTN & KOTN)

LHW – Joshua Hope (0-0) vs. Dag Kreuger (0-2) – Hope completely outwrestles Dag and finishes him with strikes in the third, almost assuredly giving “The Viking” his walking papers from GAMMA. (1:51 of Round 3)

HW – Sly Twinge (0-1) vs. Wally Bryant (0-0) – After a grappling match wore the overweight men out early on in the fight, the fans were saved what could’ve been a terrible fight by a TKO victory in the second round for Twinge. (1:27 of Round 2)

HW – Marvin Hayes (0-0) vs. Nate MacReary (0-0) – After a back and forth fight, MacReary takes Hayes down and bludgeons him with elbows for a stoppage. (2:54 of Round 2)

MAIN CARD

Heavyweight:

“The Brazilian Bomber” Gladstone Lopes (6-4) vs. Ari “The Finnisher” Peltonen (3-1)

After a dead even, nearly 15 minute clinch battle, Peltonen gets the surprising one punch KO over his Brazilian foe. (4:32 of Round 3)

Heavyweight:

“The Great Bear” Aleksander Ivanov (4-2) vs. “Polish Power” Grzegorz Boniek (2-1)

Boniek wins a pretty forgettable split decision over Ivanov. Aleksander started off solid, slamming Boniek down once in each of the first two rounds, but couldn’t do much from top and ended up gassing, which allowed Boniek to squeak by him on the scorecards. (5:00 of Round 5)

Light Heavyweight:

“The Gladiator” Niko Soldo (7-5) vs. “Wild” Bill Cumming (11-7-1)

Soldo rocks Cumming with his first punch of the fight and drops him just a few punches later. After a short flurry, the ref called the fight to an end. (3:18 of Round 1)

Heavyweight:

“The Tower of Power” Tim Boyer (7-4) vs. Lawrence “The Law” Herringbone (4-3)

Boyer does a great job of fighting his fight in the first couple rounds, but he just couldn’t keep it up for the whole fight and eventually saw himself on his back eating punches until the ref saved him from further damage. (2:48 of Round 3)

Light Heavyweight:

“Stormin” Norman Pike (12-4) vs. John “The Ripper” Rivero (5-3)

After a boo inducing clinch fest in the first round, Pike provides some fireworks in the form of a quick TKO in the second. (:57 of Round 2)

Light Heavyweight:

Mantas Andreyev (13-6) vs. “Blood Spirit” Hyun-Shik Lim (8-3)

Lim runs through Andreyev with an insanely fast TKO. The main question on everyone’s mind was would this be Mantas’ last bout? (:22 of Round 1)

Light Heavyweight:

Zvonimir “The Croatian Sensation” Asanovic (7-1) vs. “The Dockland Destroyer” Jerry Bogdonovich (4-0)

Bogdonovich shows how tough he is, fighting with a broken nose and swollen eye for nearly the full 25 minutes while taking a beating throughout. Asanovic couldn’t put him away, but he certainly ran away with the decision. (5:00 of Round 5)

Light Heavyweight:

“The Dragon” Tadamasa Yamada (4-0) vs. “The Man of Steel” Ken Peters (6-1)

Both men battle against the cage for a takedown for the first couple rounds. During the battle in the third, Yamada locked up a brutal standing guillotine that forced Peters to tap. (2:21 of Round 3) (SOTN)

Light Heavyweight Championship:

“The Punisher” Marlon John (6-0) vs. Osmosis Benn (11-2)

John shockingly takes Benn down without any resistance, passes all over him and pounds him out from back mount. (3:53 of Round 1)

Post Fight Report:

Attendance = 11,719 ($1,171,900)

Buy Rate = 299,510 ($1,797,060)

Critical Success = Good

Commercial Success = Good

Up Next: GAMMA 69 Reid vs Sriyanto

GAMMA 69 hosts a handful of LHW and MW bouts, but when it comes down to it, it is all about the main event. The consensus #2 pound for pound fighter in the world, (10-0) JJ Reid looks to defend his middleweight strap against dangerous Brazilian striker Bambang Sriyanto (8-3).

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