What's Going on in YOUR Game?

[aya_]

<p>I have been playing a save I started with WEFF. I left WEFF because my champions kept retiring early but then I took over GAMMA in 2005. I've poached pretty much all the world's top talent and started FW and BW divisions, as well as BW and FLW female divisions. It's now October 2011, I'm going to rant about my champions for a while.</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Super heavyweight</strong> - Kanbe Sassa (July 2008, 5 defenses): a big japanese regen, impossible to take down on account of him being 440 lbs. He dominated for a long time and had six defenses in ALPHA before i poached him. Recently, he's seemed vulnerable and his chin is cracking. He was beaten by an Irish regen Taylor Cope, who submitted him from guard but popped for PEDs immediately afterwards. Cope then got injured and is out for a year so a rematch is unlikely. However, I finally got OMEGA's champion to sign for me. Enrique Campos, who got TWELVE (!!!) title defenses in OMEGA. him and Sassa are scheduled to fight for my year-end show.</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Heavyweight</strong> - Kanezane Fujji (December 2010, 1 defense): he had been the #1 P4P fighter when I signed him but he never got to fight for the ALPHA belt. after beating Sylvester Collins, he lost to GAMMA champion Aleksander Ivanov in his first defense by TKO after a close fight. After two years in which Ivanov racked up five defenses against very tough competition, Fujji rematched him in the year end show for 2010 and channeled Cro Cop with a head kick KO to win the title.</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Light heavyweight</strong> - Crow Leddy (April 2011, 1 defense): no one has been able to hold to the light heavyweight title for long, with Sharaku Kon having the longest reign since I took over, with two defenses. Leddy beat Matti Kurri, who beat William Harrison, who beat Valentin Taneyev, who beat Sharaku Kon, who beat Marlon John, who beat William Harrison, etc.</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Middleweight</strong> - Mortimer Grenfell (May 2011, 1 defense): Adam White was the long time middleweight champion, having held the title several times, losing it to Matthew Dean and Neil Napier as part of multi-fight sagas before I took over. then, Dwayne Alleyne beat him with a KO and since then the title has also changed hands often. Toby Sorkin went on a great run after I moved him down from light heavyweight, but then he ran into Mortimer Grenfell, who ragdolled him and submitted him in round 4. Grenfell is 27 and seems poised to be the champion for a long time, but he injured his hand on his last fight and is now out for six months.</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Welterweight</strong> - Guy Moss (April 2011, 1 defense): I cheated on this one, I had moved down Sojuro Iriye to welterweight and he beat everyone to win the title. But his fights were all boring and low-rated, because he was the poster boy for lay-and-pray. And since he was bigger than everyone, no one could do anything. So I moved him up to middleweight. Evan Gardner, who was the previous champion, won back the title but lost it to Guy Moss. And that's where karma kicks in, because all of Moss's fights are also low-rated borefests.</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Lightweight</strong> - Hatsu Nishijima (September 2011): The wonderkid himself. Helio was the long-time lightweight champion, beating the shit out of his challengers with leg kicks and getting decision wins, but then wiley vet Manoel Cabral caught him with a weird looping head kick in the first round. Nishijima was already an ALPHA champion at 24 when I signed him, and he earned the next title shot by beating two top 10 opponents in his first two GAMMA fights. He knocked out Cabral in round 2 of a dominant performance. Nishijima vs. Helio would be a great fight it seems like, provided Helio can get a bounce-back win over former ALPHA title challenger Sinali Shomen.</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Featherweight</strong> - David James Diggle (November 2010, 1 defense): Yoshiro Makamori was the long time featherweight champion after beating Hans Christian Bloch, the inagural champion. He became a star with lots of submissions of the night and fights of the night. Eventually, he lost to Diggle. Diggle out-struck him and stuffed most of Makamori's takedowns and got a unanimous decision win.</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Bantamweight</strong> - vacant: Currently holding a tournament for the inagural bantamweight title, the semifinals are Richard Yang vs. Masahiro Maeno and (former FW champ) Yoshiro Makamori vs. Wallace Everett. Yang is a replacement for Britt Dickering, who went on hiatus after winning the quarterfinal. Maeno is 41, but he keeps grinding out wins. Makamori and Everett are former featherweight champions.</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Womens bantamweight</strong> - Piper Evergood (January 2011, 1 defense): This was a surprise. Evergood was a roster fighter when I ran WEFF but on January she beat long-time champion Katy Jayne Paulson. Paulson had seven title defenses between WEFF and GAMMA and Evergood was the first to finish her with a round 3 TKO. Now, Paulson seems shot, since she lost by KO to Japanese fighter Reiko Nakao.</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Womens flyweight</strong> - Florinda Bergeron (September 2010, 1 defense): Bergeron won the first strawweight title after a tournament I held in WEFF. Then she went over to FLB and won their flyweight title. She was unbeaten until I held a catchweight fight against former bantamweight champion Gianna Russo, who submitted her with a guillotine choke in round 1. Russo had a four-fight saga against Paulson and she won one and lost two split decisions, so she's pretty good but I didn't expect her to beat Bergeron. I've moved Russo down to flyweight and will hold a rematch for the title next.</p>

[Marcelini]

<p>I'm running a SIGMA save using the default mod, and I'm currently in June 2005, just after a PPV. After years of fighting other companys to keep my best fighters (I spend a lot of money so that most of them would sign the standard fighter contract, I still lost Grzegorz Boniek, Luis Basora and Aleksander Ivanov who was my Heavyweight Champion at the time, all to Alpha-1) in 2004 I managed to become National so I could sign fighters to exclusive contracts, and since I also made a good profit over the years, I had money to sign big names, which made my featherweight division the strongest in the game (signed Yoshiro Makamori and Phillip Ziskie, which meant that at one stage I had all Top 3 FW's in the world) and improved my middleweight division (signed Matthew Dean and Braulio Moura who is #1-3 P4P depending on the week). I run an end year show called Dynamite!! (original <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> ) which I usually stack with 3-4 title fights, and because of the lack of depth in my HW division, I had a TV show called The Fighter. I'm thinking of running one for LW now.</p><p> </p><p>

Champions:</p><p> </p><p>

Heavyweight Champion</p><p>

<strong>Rafael Van der Moot</strong></p><p>

Actually managed to snatch him for the standard contract after his Alpha-1 contract ran out. Since then he is 6-1, won the Light Heavyweight belt, lost it to Matti Kurri, went up to beat Lefter Oktay for the Heavyweight belt and defend it in a rematch and now is going back down to LHW to challenge for the title again.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Light Heavyweight Champion</p><p>

<strong>Matti Kurri</strong></p><p>

One of the most consistent fighters on my roster, made two title defences so far, finishing both challengers, as he's getting ready to rematch Van der Moot. His only loss since I took over is to Valentin Taneyev in the LHW GP Final (during which Kurri def. Fjodor Kanchelskis in the semis, who moved up to LHW and was bound to become a king in two divisions).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Middleweight Champion</p><p>

<strong>Braulio Moura</strong></p><p>

The biggest signing in the history of SIGMA. He's 2-0 so far, defeating Jaromir Grygera in his debut, followed by a dominating performance ending in a vicious knockout of Fjodor to end his long reign. He's set to defend the title against Heath Kaladris.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Welterweight Champion</p><p>

<strong>Filip Hristov</strong></p><p>

Proud to say he's pretty much home grown, but his style is boring as hell. Hasn't gotten a finish since 2001 and for the last three years running won the award for the worst fight of the year. With that said he was the 2003 fighter of the year. He took the belt from Fiyero Lermontov and defended it 5 times. He's coming off a very controversial SD win over David Webb (one of the fighters I'm promoting the most), and is out for 2 months still, so a third fight with Webb is probably on the cards.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Lightweight Champion</p><p>

<strong>Manoel Cabral</strong></p><p>

I signed him to give a challenge to Fiyero Lermontov (at one stage Fiyero had both LW and WW belt, and defended the LW belt 9 times before fighting Cabral), and he ended up totally dominating. His first title defense is set for my debut show in Brazil against Lubos Plasil as the co-main event to Moura vs. Kaladaris.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Featherweight Champion</p><p>

<strong>Georges Nouri</strong></p><p>

Two time champ, just won the belt off Phillip Ziskie with a slick leg lock. First time around he won it from Snorri Gunnarson before losing it to Hans Christian Bloch. After 4 straightwins he was given a shot at Ziskie for the belt. I'm not sure how long his reign will be as he's 36 years old and featherweight is my most stacked division with Ziskie, Makamori, Bloch, Bohlin and Gunnarrson all aiming at the top as well as the rise of young guns Heiko Pander, Pedro Alves and Roman Danielyan, he's in for tough time as champ.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Bantamweight Champion</p><p>

<strong>Nuno Valentino</strong></p><p>

He's basically the fighter I'm trying to build into the face of the company. 19-0, 26 years old, 9-0 in SIGMA with 5 title defences. His fights are exciting and he's a finisher. He won the belt off the first champion Freddy Lomax (who won the GP to crown inaugural champion) and since then defended it successfully against Dovydas Grabowski (a great regen), Jay Dorridge, Jason Dalglish, Markus Waller and Stephen Conti. He'll defend the belt against Willy Bassett. After that I'm considering giving him a super fight at FW while a clear contender comes out, or maybe moving Snorri down to BW (wanted to do that for years) to give him a fresh challenge.</p>

[Gunslinger]

<p>I know I should explore other games before WMMA5 comes out, but I can't get away from my most recent vanilla XCC save.</p><p> </p><p>

I'm in August 2008 now, and I was VERY aggressive in signing overseas/GAMMA talent. I'm at high level national now, although I spent a lot of time capped at mid level national to let some of my talent grow. </p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Middleweight</strong></p><p>

This is my newest, and by far weakest division, and so far I've only had a total of 4 fights in it. Plenty are booked though. My champion is <strong>Pepe</strong>, who beat Julio Gutierrez by TKO in the division's first fight in June 2008. There isn't a whole lot of exceptional talent here, but it will come.</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Welterweight</strong></p><p>

This is another new division, although it is substantially deeper than Middleweight. <strong>Martin Cupples</strong> beat David Webb for the first time in their trilogy last week, and moved to 4-0 in the XCC. I have high hopes for Danny Rowan, who is also 4-0. As long as he stays unbeaten, I foresee him getting a shot in three fights. He's been on a tear thus far, beating Sarich, Delaney, Sneep, and Cooper Richardson all by submission. If only he wasn't at 20% marketability...</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Lightweight</strong></p><p>

This division has been quite the mess, with early GAMMA and ALPHA-1 poaching doing a number on its success and prestige. By the time I was able to book a title bout, my top three contenders had already been signed away. I was able to pick up Benny Danare, who submitted Kenny Magilton to win the vacant title. The poaching resumed, and my champions were almost exclusively over-the-hill GAMMA veterans. Southall, Gleeson, Siemaszko... decent fighters, to be sure, but no one hang your hat on. In recent years, I've made some progress, and now my division is enough to compete with the big boys. Bobby Brubaker knocked out a chinny Siemaszko, defended against Fiyero Lermontov via first-round head kick, and after his scheduled challenger Atep of Indonesia went down with a groin injury, had to deal with a game Patrik Pedersen... who sent Brubaker into the astral plane with an uppercut. Pedersen defended valiantly against <strong>Atep of Indonesia</strong>, but went down via a surprisingly close UD a few months later. Atep is now scheduled to meet Sukarno in what is sure to be one of the biggest fights of the year in any promotion.</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Featherweight</strong></p><p>

Philip Ziskie was the man to beat here for years, defending against Gaffigan, Machado, and Romita, and splitting a two-fight series with Frye. And then, <strong>Lamont Banner </strong>happened. His rise to the top was meteoric. Aside from a horrendously-judged decision loss to Quincy McGarry, Banner's career has been perfect. He was built up carefully, being matched with limited strikers and wily, but chinny veterans. While he has never NOT been the main event of an XCC card, his matchups were of little renown or skill until he faced Luiz Machado, former Featherweight Champion, and two-time title challenger. Banner beat him from pillar to post, earning a clear 50-45 victory and announcing to the world that it was finally his time to shine in the spotlight of World MMA. His ground game was tested yet again against former title challenger Rafael Tavares, and Banner yet again won without dropping a single round. Finally, Banner was given the title shot he had so long desired. The fight itself might have been uneventful, but true fans of MMA appreciated the masterclass performance Banner put on when he turned out yet another unanimous 50-45 performance and took the crown from the head of the legend Philip Ziskie. Since then, Banner has showed a desire to endear himself to all potential doubters. No longer a decision machine, Banner has finished fights against Kenkichio (TKO), Ziskie (TKO), Li-Kong Ho (arm triangle), and McGarry (RNC), and had Kenji Akita on the verge of quitting before walking away with another flawless decision win. All but McGarry were the cream of the crop, the best challengers the company had to offer. Banner deserved the chance to clear the one blemish on his record that had come against McGarry, even though the 14th ranked McGarry may not have deserved to even smell a title shot. Yoshiro Makamori is the only true test left in this division, although David James Diggle has shown great improvement. His last title eliminator against Kenkichio resulted in a close split decision loss, but his drastic wrestling improvements may just be what he needs to earn his place in the cage with Mr. Banner. However, if Banner can't be tested, he may need to look into becoming XCC's first two weight champion against the winner of Atep and Sukarno.</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Bantamweight</strong></p><p>

An early regen, <strong>Dillon Gurgel</strong> has had a literal stranglehold on the Bantamweight division since he showed up in May 2001. After running through the usual suspects in the XCC - Travers, Byng, Ash, and Rockmetteller - the 22 year-old Gurgel strangled Willy Bassett and Aubrey Bassington-Bassington back-to-back to earn a shot against the inimitable Markus Waller. Waller was on quite the streak of his own - but Gurgel hadn't allowed a single opponent to get out of the first round. In their first fight, Gurgel was throwing up subs every minute of every round. Triangles, kimuras, guillotines - there may have even been an omoplata or two in there. Waller defended everything with grace and had a few good positional moments of his own. But the creativity and activity of Gurgel weren't to be denied, and Gurgel went home with a split decision victory. The rematch - booked immediately - went much the same way, although Waller appeared to be a little more aggressive. That only served to allow Gurgel to prove that he was equally effective while attacking or defending. Gurgel has since defeated Claremont (sub round 6), Spode (sub round 5), Alcala (sub round 4), and Lyman (sub round 2) and there doesn't seem to be any sign of him stopping or slowing down. He is still only 27, and has finished every fight outside of his two with Waller. Waller took a long hiatus to refocus after his back-to-back - and so far only - defeats, and there is no doubt that a few more wins will place Waller right back into picture. Perhaps his improved takedown defense and kicking game will allow him to find an opening that did not present itself before - or perhaps Gurgel is one of those fighters that come around only once in a lifetime. No one could ever call him well-rounded, but his savant-like mastery of the ground game - and the skills he developed to make it inevitable that the fight will, at one point, get to the ground - has allowed a kind of mystique to envelop him. A chin of iron, a grip of steel, an endless gas tank - this man is not one who will be denied, and the Bantamweight title appears to be as secure in his grip as each of his opponents' limbs or necks.</p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Flyweight</strong></p><p>

I ran a few reality shows for this, but there has never been that great of talent here. <strong>Stefan Champion</strong> and Bonzo Anstruther are the top two fighters here - easily beating all those below them, and they've already split a trilogy with Champion having the edge. Nathan Cronin, and young submission artist out of Florida, will take Champion on - but as of yet no fighter has proved to have the mettle to outwit or outmuscle the longtime XCC vet.</p><p> </p><p>

Also have a Women's Bantamweight Division but it's so boring lol</p>

[BigINMoldova]

<p>Matthew Dean is nuts. He's beaten Fontes, De Guia, Beaumont, Mizwar and Moura since my game began.</p><p> </p><p>

It's crazy because Foster lost his title to Kikuchi and the other belts have changed hands multiple times in the last year and a half but Dean just keeps beating everyone I throw up against him.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

I guess Endo is his next opponent. Technically Buddy Garner is higher in the rankings but he's beat him in twice in the path so Endo is probably his next opponent and I don't high hopes for him since De Guia beat Endo and Dean beat De Guia.</p>

[AQuebman]

Its been quite a while since ive played due to other games and waiting for WMMA5 but last big thing when I played was Matthew Dean who dominated the middleweights moved up to try to become Gamma's first two belt champion and got mashed by Marlon John then came back to Middleweight and got wrecked with a decision that wasn't close at all. Unfortunately I can't remember exactly who it was who beat him though. It appears the change in weight threw off the champ and he's been off his game ever since.

[cymru96]

<p>Decided to play just one last game in anticipation of the new one recently, and have powered through to 2007 as BCF. Going real good, but just had a huge upset.</p><p> </p><p>

Nigel Collett beat Seth O'Breen by Unanimous Decision to take home the Lightweight title. Properly schooled him too, defended every takedown, and picked him apart on the feet. O'Breen's been pretty legit, avenging losses to Keane and Freddy Lomax. Collett though has been on a different level, not having lost since my game began. Have never seen him be this successful before. Wild.</p>

[ATOFU]

<p>I finally achieved national level with XCC in June 2003 and started my first KDM raid. Male FW and BW are my favourite divisions so this feels sooo good!</p><p> </p><p>

Also I have Easton Frye as the current FW champion after he beat Ziskie and Machado- I don't think I had this scenario in any game ever.</p>

[Marcelini]

<p>Thought I'll do a little update on my last post, on what's going on, just finished year end Dynamite!! 2006 show.</p><p> </p><p>

Heavyweight Champion</p><p>

<strong>Jeffrey Stallings</strong></p><p>

Van der Moot never actually lost his HW title, but he took a long hiatus (still on it...) so I created an Interim title for which Stallings beat Sam Hoynes and defended it against Lucas Teixeira. After Van der Moot been out for too long and no set date to return (plus his contract ran out) Stallings was made the main champion, with first defense against Bienvenido Romulo. Now he's set to defend it Matej Zielinski in a rematch. Heavyweight is by far my weakest division I'd say.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Light Heavyweight Champion</p><p>

<strong>Datsakorn Pratoomwong </strong></p><p>

Since Kurri this belt has been a hot potato. Kurri lost it to Van der Moot, who lost it to Cory Bradburn, then Dag Kreuger got it and just lost it to Patoomwong at Dynamite!! He really came out of nowhere, was a champion in TOP and is 3-0 in SIGMA. I signed Hasegawa and Marlon John in the big moves, and set them against each other at Dynamite!! with John winning, so he might get the next title shot, or fight Kurri, because Pratoomwong broke his hand beating the crap out of Kreuger.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Middleweight Champion</p><p>

<strong>Shaun Dico</strong></p><p>

Moura lost his belt to Kadonomaro Deguchi, who after 1 defense lost it to Shaun Dico. 11-0 in SIGMA, Dico has been built slowly over the years, but still came in as underdog in his fight against Deguchi but ended up dominating 5 rounds. He's set to defend it against Heath Kaladaris, and he's the underdog again. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Welterweight Champion</p><p>

<strong>Evgeni Medtner</strong></p><p>

Welterweight has been crazy. Hristov lost the belt to Dominykas Jankovic in a Split Decision, David Webb has been screwed with the decision twice already. Medtner then completed the full circle, by beating Jankovic via SD (having already lost twice to him) to regain the title he lost to Kenneth Toadspew over 7 years earlier. Funny enough after struggling for some time, Toadspew managed to build himself a win streak and might be the next in line to complete the trilogy.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Lightweight Champion</p><p>

<strong>Tarcisio Dantas</strong></p><p>

Two title defenses from Manoel Cabral were dominant against Lubos Plasil and rematch with Fiyero but then lost it to Tarcisio Dantas in an all Brazilian headliner. Dantas' first defense was at Dynamite!! against Patrik Pedersen in a great 5 round war. Not too sure what's next for him yet.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Featherweight Champion</p><p>

<strong>Georges Nouri</strong></p><p>

Somehow he is still the champion. To be fair though, his challengers haven't been really top notch as the top contenders couldn't build a win streak. He submitted Heiko Pander, Milenko Rudonja and Wallace Everett. Up next for him is the biggest challenge yet in the rematch with Ziskie. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Bantamweight Champion</p><p>

<strong>Nuno Valentino</strong></p><p>

THE BEST FIGHTER ON THE PLANET. Dominating at 10 consecutive title defenses. Willy Bassett, Hyobe Kamioka, Fernando Peragon had their shots while Grabowski and Markus Waller had their rematches and all failed. All that's left for Nuno to do is 2 more title defenses to equal James Foster in game record for title defenses at 12 in GAMMA. But he's really running out of challengers, so I hope some top fighters from XCC become available over the next few months.</p>