batsnumbereleven Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 July 1998 With coaches allocated, sixteen Featherweight contenders all signed and free from other commitments and injury ready to start, GAMMA's new reality TV show began in July, and was broadcast for free on East Coast today in the United States and Euro Cable Sports 4 in Europe, Russia and the UK. The first episode, airing in America on Friday 12th July, took in various training room antics, in which Britt Dickering featured heavily and he would make a name for himself as one of the more charismatic cast members as the series progressed. The opener also saw Gregg Grable submit Hetcher Durante to progress to the next stage of the competition. It apparently wasn't everyone's cup of tea though, despite very good ratings, and the quality of the training segments varied from week to week, but the networks seemed happy with the ratings and the output, even if it did result in some headaches. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/LanceDecker.gif Lance Decker The reality show starting costing us a fortune in legal fees. It wasn't something that had been seen on US TV before, and it really drew a reaction, particularly negatively, from those who naturally thought the worst of MMA, and those who felt they had a duty to “protect” people from seeing MMA on TV. All sorts of lawsuits started springing up, from complaints about how the show was promoted and the violence that was shown, to the state in which some of the competitors get themselves into through their weight cutting, and emotionally with the stress of the competition. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/PeteyMack.gif Petey Mack You always get some heroes who think that they are the world's moral guardian and that if they don't like what they see then nobody else should be entitled to enjoy it either. I have to say I started enjoying it once we got into the swing of things, and getting information out there about how dedicated our fighters are, how athletic and skilled they are, and the sorts of sacrifices that they have to make in order to be successful in MMA was just the sort of thing that helped. These 'TV guardians' should have been glad that we were showing what it was really like to train to be successful, rather than kids trying it out on their own and getting seriously hurt. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MichaelFrankley.gif Michael Frankley It was a tricky time. We had to balance the lawyers' views with what we knew the TV executives were thinking about the sort of reaction that was being generated. We were lucky in some ways that East Coast Today were very supportive of us – they knew what was being aired before it went out, of course, but even the negative reactions brought them more on our side, because they could see that it was just “Outraged from LA” that was venting their spleen at something they didn't like. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/8e3192ed-a2c2-4138-93e8-d9d08ef4c622.png GAMMA 28 card for picks Main Event GAMMA Light-Heavyweight Championship Spencer Rubenstein © v Linfield Ballard Co-main Light-Heavyweight - Bryan Van Den Hauwe v Lawrence Herringbone Undercard Welterweight - Jim Carpenter v David Allen Middleweight – Isaiah Monroe v Jakuchu Abe Lightweight – Ian Linderman v Moss Gilbert Welterweight – Gideon Navarro v Tyler Lass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CageRage Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Main Event GAMMA Light-Heavyweight Championship Spencer Rubenstein © v Linfield Ballard Co-main Light-Heavyweight - Bryan Van Den Hauwe v Lawrence Herringbone Undercard Welterweight - Jim Carpenter v David Allen Middleweight – Isaiah Monroe v Jakuchu Abe Lightweight – Ian Linderman v Moss Gilbert Welterweight – Gideon Navarro v Tyler Lass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedMachine Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Main Event GAMMA Light-Heavyweight Championship Spencer Rubenstein © v Linfield Ballard Co-main Light-Heavyweight - Bryan Van Den Hauwe v Lawrence Herringbone Undercard Welterweight - Jim Carpenter v David Allen Middleweight – Isaiah Monroe v Jakuchu Abe Lightweight – Ian Linderman v Moss Gilbert Welterweight – Gideon Navarro v Tyler Lass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottie Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Main Event GAMMA Light-Heavyweight Championship Spencer Rubenstein © v Linfield Ballard Co-main Light-Heavyweight - Bryan Van Den Hauwe v Lawrence Herringbone Undercard Welterweight - Jim Carpenter v David Allen Middleweight – Isaiah Monroe v Jakuchu Abe Lightweight – Ian Linderman v Moss Gilbert Welterweight – Gideon Navarro v Tyler Lass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batsnumbereleven Posted February 3, 2015 Author Share Posted February 3, 2015 http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/acacda65-55a4-441a-a5e7-e1004fb29a47.png Spencer Rubenstein made a successful second defence of his GAMMA Light-Heavyweight championship last night with a decisive third round knockout of Linfield Ballard. Rubenstein looked in control throughout the fight and never in any danger. The fight was characterised by the success of Rubenstein's dirty boxing, which he used throughout, and his ability to maintain a tight Muay Thai clinch and strike from that clinch. Indeed, the denouement came from the clinch when Rubenstein levelled Ballard with a powerful elbow to the face that was enough to knock the Texan out cold. Rubenstein had already opened up a cut on Ballard's forehead in the first round with a vicious elbow from the clinch, and his control of grappling that forced Ballard around the cage at will. In the third round the champion even pulled guard on Ballard, though that was fairly ineffective as Ballard was able to smother any submission attempts fairly easily, and it was only after a scramble saw both men back in standing position that Rubenstein was able to finish it. Rubenstein deservedly took a Knockout of the Night bonus for his efforts, and will no doubt be looking to the winner between Junior Patinkin and Marlon John for his next challenger. Herringbone Submits Van Den Hauwe Lawrence Herringbone showed off his skills in a good co-main event with an armbar submission of Bryan Van Den Hauwe in the first round. Herringbone was able to take control of the grappling that Van Den Hauwe initiated, and plant him on his back with a slam, before passing into side control and transitioning slickly into an armbar that Van Den Hauwe had no choice but to tap out from. Herringbone will be looking for a big name opponent after such a convincing performance, which will no doubt see him rise up the 205lb rankings. On the Undercard Veteran Jim Carpenter extended his winning run with a unanimous decision victory over Gilbert, Arizona's David Allen (30-27, 29-28, 29-28) in an excitingly tight contest. Neither fighter really showed themselves to be notably the better until Carpenter was able to land some heavy strikes in the final round. GAMMA Debutants Isaiah Monroe and Jakuchu Abe went at it in the Middleweight division, with Monroe putting Abe down halfway through the first round with a powerful left hook and finishing him off with more powerful lefts almost immediately. In a great fight in the 155lb class, Moss Gilbert knocked out Ian Linderman with a stunning right hook in the third round, having put him on the canvas with a right cross in the second. Gilbert asked to face Luke Hilton in his next fight. At Welterweight, Gideon Navarro got the better of a stand-up contest against Tyler Lass, winning all three rounds on all scorecards, with better timing and more powerful strikes than his opponent in a good contest. GAMMA 28 Quick Results http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/345e78fa-88c3-47e6-806a-a6713e8e07af.png Pick Results CageRage - 5/6 (26/36 total) BigRedMachine - 5/6 Scottie - 5/6 Good effort from everyone, and you all picked a different loser! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batsnumbereleven Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 GAMMA 28 was rather less commercially successful than some of the previous events, though it wasn't clear as to why – the main event had been considered one that many wanted to see for the GAMMA Light-Heavyweight title, and the undercard featured some very good fights. To make matters worse, a week later it emerged that David Allen, who had lost to Jim Carpenter at the event, had tested positive for Performance Enhancing Drugs, and would be suspended for a year. Allen wasn't considered to be one of GAMMA's top stars, but it certainly had a negative impact on the perception of the organisation in the media. At the time of the discovery, Allen indicated that he had “made a mistake” and would put it behind him and make sure he was clean in future. We would like to have heard from him directly to put his side of the story forward but he declined to be interviewed on the subject. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MichaelFrankley.gif Michael Frankley It was the first time that we’d had a positive test come out of one of our events, and we didn’t have a set policy in place to deal with it. We needed to consider our actions carefully, because whatever sanction we came up with internally would set a precedent that we would have to apply to any future failures. Allen was an ideal test case, in that respect, because it meant that we could come up with a policy on the basis of the facts, rather than having the first case be one of our highest profile fighters or one of the champions. In the end, we decided that for a first offense, the 12-month suspension applied by the Athletic Commission would normally be sufficient enough, though if the offender was a title holder he would also be stripped of his title so that it could be up for grabs and defended in his absence. It would be difficult enough to promote such a fighter as a champion representing GAMMA with the stigma of a failed test in his background, but we couldn’t afford for them to continue to hold the title whilst they were under such a suspension. Any subsequent offenses would result in the termination of a fighter’s contract, whoever they were. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/RickStanley_1.gif Rick Stanley It looked like I had retired at about the right moment. There was a brief wave of positive tests across a number of organisations, and you could see that there was uncertainty lingering about who was clear and who was not. It put a real downer on any loss you’d had to a guy who was later caught taking PEDs, ‘cos you never knew if they’d been using that advantage when you fought them, and that was the reason they beat you. I never believed any of the guys that stated that they’d made a mistake, and they regretted it. You got the impression that the only thing they regretted and the only mistake they thought they’d made was getting caught. Fighting in MMA’s a tough thing to do, and I understand why guys would take drugs to make their training more effective, to help them get over injuries more quickly, to bulk up their muscle mass, or whatever, but it’s no excuse for doing it, and finding the cheats was only the first step in stopping them. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MichaelFrankley.gif Michael Frankley We actually found that the Futurestars programme helped us when we started having fighters get caught out on drug tests, because it had raised awareness among the public of the lengths that MMA fighters would go to during their training, and how difficult and painful it could be, which gave some of those who got busted a little bit of sympathy. Some of the recently retired fighters like Rick Stanley and Beau Gorshin did sterling work on a couple of the late night chat shows in explaining in layman’s terms exactly what the benefits and drawbacks of PEDs are, and why people might use them. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/LanceDecker.gif Lance Decker I was disturbed by the precedent that had been set and the policy that was agreed by Frankley for GAMMA’s rules on drug test failures. I didn’t think that we could afford to lose one of our top stars just because they failed a drugs test for the second time. It was only natural that athletes like these would seek any possible advantage, and the physical commitment that a MMA career required meant that they were pushing their bodies to the limit almost all the time. I was just waiting for a decision to have to be made when one of our title holders tested positive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batsnumbereleven Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/LanceDecker.gif Lance Decker The weird thing about the signings that Frankley was making was that none of them were known in America. You might have thought that he would be trying to sign up the best of SIGMA or ALPHA-1's talent, or picking up the best of the Brazilians from FLB, but it looked as though he was adamant that GAMMA would make its own stars out of people who the vast majority of the audience had never heard before. It was a missed opportunity, in my book. There were some great fighters out there that GAMMA could have picked up for very little cost, but because they were contracted to other companies, Frankley was ignoring the opportunity of building someone like Affonso Villar or Rav Kapur up to be a superstar in GAMMA. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MichaelFrankley.gif Michael Frankley At first, the key was to put GAMMA in a position where it became the place to go for young, desperately talented fighters that hadn't already been picked up by another company. Sure we could have signed up the very best of the smaller companies' fighters, but they were already big fish in small ponds where they were, and they needed to develop from that before we could bring them in as ready-made superstars to challenge the best that GAMMA had to offer. By picking up unsigned talent, we gave them the chance to develop more slowly and within GAMMA, so that they might develop a loyalty to the company that would serve us well at a later date. We also had to be sure that cherry picking the best from smaller organisations didn't land us in hot water with their various legal teams. BCF and SIGMA were already sharing talent to a certain degree, and to pull fighters out of those companies might well have sent them to the wall at a time when the popularity of MMA was growing internationally but was still in its nurturing stage, and the perception of MMA was something that was quite fragile at the time. As much good will as we could get for the sport as a whole was the aim, rather than looking to put potential competitors out of business. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/NapiervStrange.jpg GAMMA 29 card for picks Main Event Middleweight – Neil Napier v Stuart Strange Co-main Light Heavyweight – Junior Patinkin v Marlon John Undercard Light Heavyweight – Jiroemon Hasegawa v Hyun-Shik Lim Heavyweight – Giovanni de Matos v Tony McCall Lightweight – Carl Chenoweth v Min-Soo Sik Welterweight – Evan Pizzarro v Datuk Ong Ka Ting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CageRage Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Main Event Middleweight – Neil Napier v Stuart Strange Co-main Light Heavyweight – Junior Patinkin v Marlon John Undercard Light Heavyweight – Jiroemon Hasegawa v Hyun-Shik Lim Heavyweight – Giovanni de Matos v Tony McCall Lightweight – Carl Chenoweth v Min-Soo Sik Welterweight – Evan Pizzarro v Datuk Ong Ka Ting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedMachine Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Main Event Middleweight – Neil Napier v Stuart Strange Co-main Light Heavyweight – Junior Patinkin v Marlon John Undercard Light Heavyweight – Jiroemon Hasegawa v Hyun-Shik Lim Heavyweight – Giovanni de Matos v Tony McCall Lightweight – Carl Chenoweth v Min-Soo Sik Welterweight – Evan Pizzarro v Datuk Ong Ka Ting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batsnumbereleven Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 <p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><span>http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/5d1e06ce-031e-4cc4-9a79-b99f5d09340a.png</span></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:14px;">What was billed as a close contest between two potential Middleweight title contenders turned into a one-sided showcase for the strength and skill of Stuart Strange, as he dominated Neil Napier from start to finish of their GAMMA 29 main event.</span> </p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;">The only blemishes on his performance were that he spent a lot of time in smothering top control rather than going for a finish, and that he relied on the judges to score the contest instead of taking it into his own hands. In the end two of the judges actually score a round each to Napier, which seemed frightfully generous given the level of control that Strange demonstrated.</span></p><p> </p><p> The first round probably had the least action, with an exchange of strikes that Strange definitely scored a better percentage of. Strange got a takedown in the middle of the round and hit a few punches, but referee Herbert Osborne adjudged him to be doing too little and stood the fighters up with just under a minute remaining. The rest of the round saw more circling and a couple more exchanges of strikes, but nothing notable.</p><p> </p><p> In the second, Strange took control of a grapple and forced Napier up against the cage where he was able to control him and then take him down. Napier initially tried to secure an arm, but Strange was alert to the danger. Strange continued his smothering tactics, interspersed with a few small strikes, but again they were stood up, and although Napier got the better of the next few exchanges on the feet, Strange finished the round with a second emphatic takedown.</p><p> </p><p> In the third, Strange again took Napier down, having muscled him back up against the cage. This time he was able to take Napier's back, and made several attempts to hook in a rear naked choke, but Napier was able to defend effectively, even though he wasn't able to break free of the hooks.</p><p> The fourth started off with a fairly even striking exchange, but Strange again initiated a clinch and pushed Napier back against the fence, utilising some dirty boxing and foot stomps. Strange tripped Napier down where he was left sitting with his legs trapped underneath, and used the position to get mount, from where he hit a few nice shots, but Napier was able to cover up well until the buzzer sounded.</p><p> </p><p> The final round saw much of the same. Strange scored his sixth takedown of the fight, and lay smothering Napier for almost a minute before Osborne decided he'd seen enough inaction. After the stand up, Strange utilised the clinch again, and hit some nice short strikes up the middle, then took Napier down again, straight into side control. .He tried a few strikes, but wasn't especially busy and the referee stood them up once more. The fight ended with Strange again taking control of a clinch and pushing Napier back against the fence.</p><p> </p><p> Neil Napier will be very disappointed with his performance, but offered up no excuses in the post-fight interview. Strange, on the other hand, can look forward to the prospect of a title match or an eliminator next time out, where he will hopefully face a stronger opponent.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;">John Takes Comfortable Decision Win Over Patinkin</span></p><p> </p><p> The early stages of what looked like a title eliminator at Light-Heavyweight went the way of Marlon John, who took control of a grapple that opponent Junior Patinkin had initiated and used his leverage against the cage to get Patinkin to the floor, immediately going for an Arm Triangle. Patinkin was able to block the submission attempt and also kept John's strikes out fairly comfortably, too, preventing John from advancing from side control all the while. In the second, Patinkin tried pulling John into his guard inside the first minute, but he was only slammed hard into the mat for his troubles, and John moved swiftly into side control. </p><p> </p><p> A couple of minutes of fighting for position was enough for the referee, who stood them back up, but John repeated the dose when Patinkin again tried to pull him down into guard. An attempted sweep saw Patinkin only give up his back, and John hit him with a few strong shots, but the end of the round prevented any further action.</p><p> </p><p> The third started with some hefty grappling for control, but little in the way of direct action. Patinkin again tried pulling guard, but John shrugged him off, and opted to clinch and take him down himself, only ending up in Patinkin's guard anyway. John passed to side control with relative ease, but was unable to get mount despite several attempts, and that was where the fight ended. The judges scored the contest 30-27, 29-28, 29-28 to John, which was something of a surprise, as we had John winning all three rounds comfortably. John looks like a serious contender for Spencer Rubenstein's GAMMA Light-Heavyweight championship in the near future.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:10px;"> On the undercard</span></p><p> </p><p> Also in the 205lb division, Jiroemon Hasegawa took on Hyun-Shik Lim. Lim had the better of the striking in the first round, but Hasegawa scored with a takedown. He didn't do much with it though, and the fight was brought back to standing after less than a minute of top control. Hasegawa's striking was much crisper and frequent in the second round, though Lim probably landed the best shot, with a thudding right jab that briefly rocked Hasegawa. Hasegawa clearly thought that his strength was his grappling in the third, and from the middle of the round he tried several times to get Lim to the mat. On the third occasion he succeeded, but once again was unable to do anything from Lim's guard, and the referee stood them up in the last action of the fight. It was enough for two of the judges though, as Hasegawa took the split decision by 29-28, 29-28, 28-29. </p><p> </p><p> Veteran Heavyweight Tony McCall had much the better of an entertaining scrap with GAMMA debutant Giovanni de Matos, with the heavier punches and more varied arsenal. He put de Matos down hard towards the end of the second round with a powerful right cross, but couldn't put him away with the ground and pound before the end of the round. McCall repeated in the third with a right head kick and a big right hook putting his opponent down again but was again unable to finish the fight. The judges scored the fight 30-26, 30-27, 29-28 to McCall, whose post-fight interview was highlighted by him calling out GAMMA Heavyweight champion Tim Boyer.</p><p> </p><p> At Lightweight a close encounter saw Min-Soo Sik edge a split decision victory (30-27, 29-28, 28-29) over Boston's Carl Chenoweth,where the biggest moment was a hard elbow from Sik that opened up a cut on Chenoweth's forehead. Otherwise, it was a decent striking battle, but nothing memorable. Finally, a fairly dour though even opener between Evan Pizzarro and Datuk Ong Ka Ting went to the judges scorecards, where Pizzarro came out on top in another split decision (29-28, 29-28, 28-29) that was considered a robbery by some of the fans present, who booed the judges for it.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-size:14px;">GAMMA 29 Quick Results</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/GAMMA29results.png</span></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-size:10px;">Pick Results</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p> BigRedMachine - 5/6 (10/12 Total)</p><p> CageRage - 2/6 (28/42)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batsnumbereleven Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MichaelFrankley.gif Michael Frankley For some reason, almost all GAMMA's fighter contracts came due in September 1998, which led to a flurry of activity among the staff. I'd had it made clear to me when I started though, that I was to give everyone on the roster a fair chance to impress me, and we ended up making offers to all of those fighters who would otherwise have been free to leave, whatever the result of their most recent fights. We also had the chance to renew with the US, Canadian and Australian Pay-per-View broadcasters we'd been working with in the early part of the year. Interesting news from elsewhere in the world was that new Russian MMA organisation Tap Out Promotions (TOP) had signed up some of the talent that was also signed to SIGMA, meaning that talent in Europe was shared three ways, with BCF involved as well. All three organisations were of a similar size at his point, and there was a battle to be fought for dominance in the European region over the next several years. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/LanceDecker.gif Lance Decker GAMMA 30 was looking like a complete shambles. I had to hope to God that the top two fights pulled something out of the bag for this event, because Frankley had booked it heavy with newly-signed fighters that the Texas public knew nothing about. We were already slipping further behind ALPHA-1, who Blurcat.com were describing as a “Mid-level National” company compared to our “Low-level National”, and cards like this were unlikely to boost the perception of GAMMA as being a strong, top-ranked MMA organisation. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MichaelFrankley.gif Michael Frankley Decker was panicking by this point. He kept pointing out that we were falling behind ALPHA-1 and that we weren't putting enough guys who everyone knew on the card. Problem was, if we did it his way we'd end up running about 6 events a year, because he'd have used up all the fighters that the public already knew. This way we were putting top quality cards out on a regular basis, whilst still being able to have development guys on the undercard and pull in decent numbers. The GAMMA-watching public seemed to be happy enough with this, given the numbers that were tuning in, and it was getting these fighters the sort of exposure they would need when we started looking for new main event level talent in the next few years once the likes of Dean, Carlton, Hughes and Morrison had all retired. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MatthewDean.gif Matthew Dean It had been good to have had a break for the first part of the year, but by the time August came round I was more than ready to get back into the cage. Dexter had been positioned by the previous management as my next contender, though there were times when I felt this was a PR exercise rather than a reflection of him deserving to have a shot at the title, and Mr Frankley stuck with the plan as far as this particular fight was concerned. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/DeanvDarling.jpg GAMMA 30 Card for Picks Main Event GAMMA Middleweight Title Matthew Dean (c ) v Dexter Darling Co-main Middleweight – Buddy Garner v Patrick Thomas Undercard Heavyweight – Chuck Dooley v Kanezane Fujii Lightweight – H. M. Menzel v Tarcisio Dantas Heavyweight – Sam Hoynes v Sylvester Collins Light-Heavyweight – Guillermo Morales v Nilton Fantoni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CageRage Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Main Event GAMMA Middleweight Title Matthew Dean (c ) v Dexter Darling Co-main Middleweight – Buddy Garner v Patrick Thomas Undercard Heavyweight – Chuck Dooley v Kanezane Fujii Lightweight – H. M. Menzel v Tarcisio Dantas Heavyweight – Sam Hoynes v Sylvester Collins Light-Heavyweight – Guillermo Morales v Nilton Fantoni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedMachine Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Main Event GAMMA Middleweight Title Matthew Dean (c ) v Dexter Darling Co-main Middleweight – Buddy Garner v Patrick Thomas Undercard Heavyweight – Chuck Dooley v Kanezane Fujii Lightweight – H. M. Menzel v Tarcisio Dantas Heavyweight – Sam Hoynes v Sylvester Collins Light-Heavyweight – Guillermo Morales v Nilton Fantoni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batsnumbereleven Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/ad08b18a-3e92-4021-861b-db459bd4e4ef.png Matthew Dean demonstrated last night to everyone why he is considered to be on of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world, and why he holds the GAMMA Middleweight Championship. Last night's challenger at GAMMA 30, Dexter Darling, might have been the darling of the GAMMA PR machine, but he proved to be no match for the experience and skill of Dean, who toyed with him, before putting him away in the fourth round of their title fight. Darling started off well enough, exchanging strikes with Dean, but although he was able to match the champion in number, he didn't have the ferocity behind them, and three times Dean put him on the back foot with solid strikes. Darling attempted a takedown midway through the first round, but was unable to get the champion to the mat and had to settle for pushing him up against the fence and employing some dirty boxing. He did manage to score a snap takedown up against the cage, but with only five seconds remaining in the round it was too little too late, and most present will have scored the round to Dean. The second round saw an early exchange of strikes, but was characterised by a lack of willingness from the challenger to engage. Dean dealt with the frustration well, and at the four minute mark put Darling down with a big right hand, and followed up with some nasty ground and pound from side control. Darling was able to prevent Dean getting the mount, but was certainly starting to look in trouble by the time the buzzer sounded, and it must have been a 10-8 round on most cards. The third round was much the same, with exchanges of strikes only ending with the champion having the final and more telling say. About the midpoint of the round Dean rocked Darling with a straight right, and the challenger was on unsteady legs. Dean tried to take advantage but grabbing a guillotine and pulling the challenger into guard, but Darling was able to escape from the guillotine and run down the clock in top position with just enough activity to keep the referee from standing them back up. Both fighters seemed to be taking a break at the start of the fourth, with little action for the first two minutes, before an exchange of strikes saw Dean hit a couple of left hands then a right cross that staggered Darling. A jab and a right hook saw the challenger circling away and trying to evade any further contact, but a straight right from Dean put him on very rubbery legs, and the champion finished him off with a brutal right hand that send him to the mat, and out cold, to take the KO victory. Dean's defence of the Middleweight title in such ruthless and comprehensive fashion leaves the next challenger with a big task if he is to take the belt from the Californian, but there are several contenders lining up waiting. Thomas KOs Garner In what was the fight of the night, Patrick Thomas staked his claim to be the next Middleweight title contender, with a devastating knockout of Florida's Buddy Garner with mere seconds remaining at the end of the very first round. Thomas had the better of what was an engaging striking encounter, and put his left hook to good use throughout the round, scoring and hurting Garner several times before scoring the telling blow. Garner tried clinching up to reduce the impact of Thomas's strikes, but the Shreeveport, Louisiana native was able to break away with ease, and casually defended Garner's attempts to take him down. The end came with a nice right hand that was followed by a vicious left cross, and that was enough to put Garner's lights out. Thomas will have a case to make, based on previous performances from the likes of Petey Mack and Stuart Strange, but if GAMMA match-maker Michael Frankley chose to go with Thomas over either of those as the next challenger to Dean. then I don't think there can be many complaints. On the undercard A Heavyweight battle between two highly-hyped youngsters saw Japan's Kanezane Fujii take down Chuck Dooley and he had the Canadian in serious trouble with two kimura attempts, the second only being prevented by the end of the round. Dooley responded in the second with a takedown of his own, but was unable to force Fujii into any difficulties, and a late scramble saw Fujii back to his feet and pushing Dooley up against the cage. Half-way through the final stanza, Fujii got what looked like the decisive takedown, but with confidence took a risk and tried to ensnare the trapped Dooley in a guillotine to finish the fight, and with a minute remaining the Canadian was forced to tap. After a very even first round, Brazilian Lightweight Tarcisio Dantas dominated the second with a takedown of opponent H.M. Menzel and some hefty ground and pound. Menzel tried a takedown of his own in the third, but to no avail, and it was Dantas who scored once more about halfway through the round, eventually securing the mount, but running out of time to finish the fight. All three judges scored the fight 30-27 to Dantas. Texan Sam Hoynes impressed his home-state crowd with two takedowns in the first round of his Heavyweight battle with Canadian Sylvester Collins, and followed up with a third in round two. After blocking a couple of attempts in the final five minutes, Collins was unable to prevent Hoynes from sealing what turned out to be a very dull unanimous decision win (30-27 on all cards) with one more takedown and retention of top control to the buzzer. The opener saw something of a miscarriage of justice, as Guillermo Morales stole a split decision victory (29-28, 29-28, 28-29) over Nilton Fantoni. The first two rounds were definitely one apiece, as each fighter scored a takedown and managed to control from top position for more than half a round, but the third saw a stand-up battle that Fantoni clearly dominated, with twice as many significant strikes as Morales. Post-fight, Morales asked to fight Derek South next. GAMMA 30 Quick Results http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/GAMMA30results.png http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/LanceDecker.gif Lance Decker I don't think that Dexter knew what had hit him. He was never quite the same after he'd faced Dean. Over the next month or so, he announced his intention to switch camp away from Halvorsen's but I don't think it was anything to do with the preparation that he needed to shake up, it was just that going up against “The Anarchist” was too much for him. What was slightly weird, was that just two days later Matthew quit the Animal House camp after a bust up with Jim Carpenter, and went straight into Halvorsen's instead, and Patrick Thomas joined him there as well! Pick Results CageRage 4/6 (32/48 Total) BigRedMachine 3/6 (13/18) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batsnumbereleven Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 October 1998 Having originally planned to run a Heavyweight bout between Jack Cobblepot and Frank Sheedy after their respective wins earlier in the year, GAMMA 31 was thrown into chaos when Sheedy went down with a shoulder injury less than three weeks before fight was due to take place. A replacement fight needed to be dragged up quickly if the event was still going to attract the same sort of audience, many of whom would have followed Cobblepot since his early days in the cage. Canadian Nate MacReary answered the call, and with only a small inducement to his fight pay check agreed to step in for Sheedy. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/NateMacReary.gif Nate MacReary I'd signed with GAMMA right at the start of the year, so I'd been waiting for a fight for about ten months by this point, eh? I was just eager to get into the cage and get my career started properly. To do it against a semi-legend like Jack Cobblepot was the icing on the cake. I was a little bit in awe of his career, but I knew I had to put that to one side, 'cos I knew I was good enough to beat anyone, legend or no, eh? http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/JackCobblepot.gif Jack Cobblepot Taking a revised fight was somethin' of a mixed blessin' ya know. I'd been training for several weeks already, for the Sheedy fight, and at 37, having to wait for another fight was prob'ly one less fight that I'd have left in my career, so, yeah, I was keen to go on the original date if they could find a willin' dance partner. Still, I doan know where they dug Big Mac up from 'cos he's a real beast of a man, and I knew, rookie or not, I'd my work cut out to beat him. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/JamesFoster.gif James Foster The uncertainty about whether the event would still run, and how many fights would be on, was a bit of a distraction, yeah, but I knew that as the main draw of the day it wouldn't make a lot of difference who was fighting on the undercard – everyone was goin' to come to see me fight in the Main Event, not the guy in fight number three, or number six. Sure, it didn't help my preparations, but Frankley and Decker were just worrying about nothin' by worrying about old Jackpot. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MichaelFrankley.gif Michael Frankley I think I was aware that we had a short, limited window in which we could keep Jack marketable and winning fights, both to draw in an audience that could appreciate his rugged style, but also to establish the next generation of GAMMA stars. Nate MacReary was one of those we were hoping to be a star down the road, but I wasn't completely sold on having him fight so high on the card this early in his career, and against such a high profile opponent, when we hadn't got his skills or his character established with the fanbase. But, he was the only one of the Heavyweights prepared to fight on such short notice at the time, and he was confident he would do himself justice, so we rode with it. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/FostervRoy.jpg GAMMA 31 Card for picks Main Event Heavyweight – James Foster v Fatuma Roy Co-main Light-Heavyweight – Anthony LeToussier v Jerry Bogdonovich Undercard Heavyweight – Jack Cobblepot v Nate MacReary Middleweight – Sutton Ripley v Dwayne Alleyne Lightweight – Benny Danare v Gregory O'Hara Light-Heavyweight – Bill Cumming v Dag Kreuger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thesnake101 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Main Event Heavyweight – James Foster v Fatuma Roy Co-main Light-Heavyweight – Anthony LeToussier v Jerry Bogdonovich Undercard Heavyweight – Jack Cobblepot v Nate MacReary Middleweight – Sutton Ripley v Dwayne Alleyne Lightweight – Benny Danare v Gregory O'Hara Light-Heavyweight – Bill Cumming v Dag Kreuger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CageRage Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Main Event Heavyweight – James Foster v Fatuma Roy Co-main Light-Heavyweight – Anthony LeToussier v Jerry Bogdonovich Undercard Heavyweight – Jack Cobblepot v Nate MacReary Middleweight – Sutton Ripley v Dwayne Alleyne Lightweight – Benny Danare v Gregory O'Hara Light-Heavyweight – Bill Cumming v Dag Keugrer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedMachine Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Main Event Heavyweight – James Foster v Fatuma Roy Co-main Light-Heavyweight – Anthony LeToussier v Jerry Bogdonovich Undercard Heavyweight – Jack Cobblepot v Nate MacReary Middleweight – Sutton Ripley v Dwayne Alleyne Lightweight – Benny Danare v Gregory O'Hara Light-Heavyweight – Bill Cumming v Dag Kreuger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batsnumbereleven Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/92cba0d9-a4c7-4b6b-8dfe-6b0e23208c96.png James Foster returned to his habit of winning inside the cage at last night's GAMMA 31 event, but with a performance that will have many questioning his tactics. The “King of Ground n' Pound” spent most of the fight trying to impose his will on the resilient and resolute Fatuma Roy, but with little success other than grinding through the rounds, yet when it came to the final round, demonstrated his excellent takedown skills, crisp passing and the devastating ground strikes that earned him his nickname. Why it took into the fifth round for Foster to utilise what has long been his strength as a MMA competitor is a mystery that only he will be able to answer, and after a lackluster performance in his last fight, where he lost the GAMMA Heavyweight Championship to Tim Boyer, this wasn't quite the performance that would have justified his demands for a re-match with the champion. Foster dominated the first round, which comprised primarily striking exchanges. Roy's chin was tested a number of times, and held out, though he may have suffered a broken nose during one of the exchanges. The second saw a lot more clinch work and both fighters working for position against the cage. Neither man could dominate, though Foster had the greater success with his diorty boxing and landed rather more strikes at short range, and the damage to Roy's nose looked to be closing his eye. The third started with Foster attempting to grapple with Roy and get a takedown, but he struggled to do so. Again, there was a lot of work up against the cage, and the referee brought them back to the center at one point. This was repeated in the fourth round, with Roy regularly managing to reverse Foster's control of him against the cage, but neither man able to get a takedown or connect with any decisive strikes. The final round began with Foster finally effecting a takedown, straight into side control, and passing quickly into mount. He began firing away with his trademark ground an d pound, and Herbert Osborne was forced to step in and save Roy from any further punishment with just under two minutes remaining in the fight. LeToussier progresses with little trouble LeToussier was the aggressor throughout the fight, with a variety of strikes, and landed a few heavy ones that rocked Bogdonovich, but the American kept his head (and his feet) to shake them off. This was a pattern that repeated through the three rounds, with neither man really ever threatening to finish things. The fight stayed standing throughout and no takedowns were even attempted, which was probably to be expected from these two strikers, but did lead to a rather one-dimensional contest that the crowd got a little tired of at times. The judges scored all three rounds to LeToussier to take the unanimous decision, and you would expect him to be looking towards the title next time out, or possibly a match-up with someone like Marlon John, who should test out the grappling as well. Jackpot calls time after 50 fights Canadian Nate MacReary took his fight with the wily veteran Jack Cobblepot on very short notice, but didn't appear to lack for motivation, effort, skill or readiness, as he turned in a worthy performance. The first round remained standing and was very close indeed, but the key moment came a minute into the second, when MacReary was able to take Cobblepot down, and immediately went for an arm triangle, which Cobblepot had to tap to. Cobblepot announced his retirement in his post-match interview. Dwayne Alleyne tried some creative moves in his Midddleweight encounter with Sutton Ripley, including pulling the Edmonton, Alberta native into his guard and getting gsome nice glancing elbows that opened Ripley up. Ripley responded in the second with a vicious right cross that put Alleyne down, and landed some good ground and pound. The third was a techincal striking battle, with Alleyne showing the greater activity, but Ripley the greater impact with his strikes, and two of the judges saw that as the greater threat, and scored the round to the veteran to give him a split decision victory (29-28 twice, 28-29). Despite an eye-poke early in the first round, Irish Lightweight Gregory O'Hara was able to pick up a unanimous decision victory over Benny Danare (30-27, 30-27, 29-27). He dominated the remainder of the first, putting Danare to the floor with a left hook, then made the most of two rounds that the crowd seemed to love, but mostly seemed to be exchanges of strikes that failed to land. In the evening's opener, it took Sweden's Dag Kreuger just a minute and a half to find the chin of Bill Cumming with a powerful left uppercut that put him out for the count immediately. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/JackCobblepot.gif Jack Cobblepot That was it. I knew I were done. He might be the next Heavyweight champ, but for me, if I couldn't beat the guy who'd come in as a late replacement, then the eight weeks I'd been preparin' for the fight were wasted, and there weren't much point in me tryin' to go through it again. After that night, they weren't gonna be givin' me another shot at the title, an' too right they were, and I just didn't see me bein' the entry point for the best newcomers any longer – I'd been doin' it for a couple years a'ready. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/LanceDecker.gif Lance Decker Jack was treated pretty shabbily, if you ask me. He'd been a stalwart for GAMMA since just after we opened the company, and deserved better than to be forced into retirement the way he was. You can't expect a guy to be able to prepare for a completely different opponent just three weeks before the fight when he'd been preparing to fight someone else. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MichaelFrankley.gif Michael Frankley As I said, we knew that Jack had a limited remaining lifespan as a MMA fighter, but I was disappointed that he chose to quit straight off. I still think he had another year or so left in him. In retrospect, yes, it probably was a mistake to put MacReary in with him, but on the other hand, we had a fight card to fill, and you can't be holding a guy back from fighting when he wants to. Jack was happy to take the fight, and I think he knew that it was as much a test for him as it was for Nate, in that if he won handsomely there might be one last run at a top contender like Foster or Hughes, even if there wasn't another title shot, but a big payday as the main eventer on a shot that would put money in his pocket. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/JamesFoster.gif James Foster Cobblepot had been toast for a long time, and I'm amazed it took so long for him to realise that he didn't cut it any more. Maybe Lance had protected him too much in his last few fights, but the next generation are obviously too quick and too skilled for him. My own fight went more-or-less as planned. I dominated Roy from the start and had him in trouble even in the first round. He could barely see out of his left eye, and there was no way he was going to be able to get me to the ground, with or without the help of being pushed up against the cage. I thought I showed clearly that he wasn't going to be able to bully me into fighting how he wanted me to, and then, when I decided I wanted to finish things, I did just that. It only took the one takedown, the one guard pass, and I was in mount and closing his other eye as well, even if the ref did call things to a halt a bit soon, Fatuma wasn't getting out from under there, and I was only going to do more damage to him. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MichaelFrankley.gif Michael Frankley I was more disappointed in the LeToussier fight. I'd hoped that a big win might set up a super showdown for the number one contender spot with Marlon John, but he just didn't give me a lot of good feelings that he could adapt his game. He stood there and struck with Bogdonovich, whose forte was always as a slugger, and never really tried to utilise his own strengths. I would have loved to have seen him hit with some really good kicks, and while he tried a few, he more-or-less made it a boxing match. By now we had coverage almost all over the world, so money wasn't really as much of a problem at that point, though we didn't really expect what was coming along in the next year or so! GAMMA 31 Quick results http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/GAMMA31results.png Pick results CageRage - 4/6 (36/54 Total) BigRedMachine - 4/6 (17/24) Thesnake101 - 3/6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batsnumbereleven Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 GAMMA had extended pay-per-view coverage to Australia, Canada, Asia, the UK, Europe, Russian and Japan, as well as the USA, but still lacked coverage in central and southern America and in Africa. Meanwhile, over in Japan, Hassan Fezzik (27-0) made the fourth successful defence of his ALPHA-1 Heavyweight championship, defeating Armen Sarkisian by submission after around seven minutes. This also brought an end to Sarkisian's contract with the Japanese company, so whilst everyone was analysing Fezzik's win, GAMMA were weighing up a bid for the defeated challenger. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MichaelFrankley.gif Michael Frankley There were pros and cons to signing Sarkisian. Among those who argued against it, there was a justifiable line that we shouldn't be taking ALPHA-1's cast-offs and putting them into a position where they would fight our best guys, because if he was successful it made our fighters look much weaker than the giant that is Fezzik. On the other hand, Sarkisian had outstruck and taken Fezzik down, and that could play to our advantage. That he eventually lost when Fezzik was able to get top position during the scramble could go either for or against him, depending on how much you believe that the outcome of that was luck and how much was skill. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/LanceDecker.gif Lance Decker And while Frankley was worrying the board over whether Sarkisian would be a good signing, our Light-Heavyweight champion was stirring things up on the internet message boards, putting up a foul-mouthed rant about Derek South for no apparent reason, and completely assassinating poor Derek's character. Nobody had realised there were even issues between them, with not having fought one another, no being scheduled to, and being supported by two different camps, though I guess some of the rivalry between the Pittsburgh Steel team and American Cage Fighters, who Rubenstein was training with at the time, might have had something to do with it. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/DerekSouth-1.gif Derek South Initially I thought it was completely out of character for him, but I guess he had a really strong issue with me for some reason. We were never the best of buds, but I sure hadn't gone outta my way to offend him or anything, and what I did on my free time I considered my business and none o' his. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MichaelFrankley.gif Michael Frankley We had to talk quite seriously to Spencer about it, in the end. While I still think it was largely out of character for him, we had to have a sit-down and explain the expectations we had for someone carrying GAMMA's name as one of our champions, and the way in which he needed to behave to prevent the company's image from being damaged. It does no good to GAMMA if he goes off on that sort of rant, but I don't know how much of it he really took in. And then the big news hit us... Nine days before being scheduled to take on Sean Morrison for the GAMMA Lightweight championship, Brandon Sugar pulled up with a thigh injury that was bad enough to force him out of the fight, and GAMMA were scrambling for a replacement. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MichaelFrankley.gif Michael Frankley We looked at possible replacements. I talked to Beau Gorshin about coming out of retirement for a title shot, but he wasn't prepared to do it, and we had nobody willing to take on a title match-up at such short notice. Even if we had, putting many of them in on 9 days notice wasn't going to be conducive to a realistic chance for them to win. We considered cancelling the fight entirely, but one avenue of possibilities eventually fell available, as Bruce Steven agreed to switch from fighting Nicholas Bretton on the undercard to re-matching Morrison for the title. We knew we'd take a hit from repeating a main event so quickly, but it was by far the best of a bunch of very poor options available to us. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/SeanMorrison.gif Sean Morrison I didn't feel that Steven deserved another shot at the title, especially so soon after I'd beaten him, but I guess his view was that he'd taken me close and could do better the next time. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MichaelFrankley.gif Michael Frankley And then, two days later, all the card got thrown up in the air again, as Steven badly injured a knee and had to pull out himself. The card was looking completely jinxed at that point. We shuffled things again. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/NicholasBretton.gif Nicholas Bretton It seemed to be one thing after another. One minute I was fighting Bruce Steven, and the next I was off the card completely as Bruce got pulled out of our fight to go up against Morrison. Then a couple of days later I got another call – was I still training and would I be prepared to take a title fight against Morrison myself? Well, you don't turn down title fights if you're in the sort of shape that you can give your best, so I snapped their hands off! http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MichaelFrankley.gif Michael Frankley Nick was a star, to be honest. We'd already messed him about with pulling Bruce out of his fight, and now, two days later we wanted him to go up against Morrison. I would totally have understood if he had said no, but he really came through for us and we owed him big time for it. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/LanceDecker.gif Lance Decker Nobody turns down a title opportunity. Not if they're already training and going to be able to make weight for the fight. I couldn't see why Frankley gave Bretton so much credit for stepping up, when in fact it was us doing him the favor, not the other way around. If anyone could have had any complaints about the whole mess it would have been Sean Morrison. He was the one whose title was at risk and was having his opponent changed every couple of days. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/SeanMorrison.gif Sean Morrison It got to a point when I thought that they would cancel the card rather than try to find another opponent. Everyone else in the division was booked to fight elsewhere or was still recovering from their last fight. I just kept on training as normal, because I didn't have a clue when they would re-schedule for if they did cancel it, and I wasn't going to be the one going into a title defence unprepared. http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy352/batsnumbereleven/MorrisonvBretton.jpg GAMMA 32 card for picks Main Event GAMMA Lightweight Championship Sean Morrison (c ) v Nicholas Bretton Co-main Welterweight – Julio Regueiro v Dan Halvorsen Undercard Middleweight – Ashley Ballard v Mac Fuller Welterweight – Bobby Brubaker v Yevgeni Sipatov Heavyweight – Pai Cheng v Jutaro Honma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclops Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Really digging this dynasty. I like the "talking heads" approach you take. Keep it coming! GAMMA 32 card for picks Main Event GAMMA Lightweight Championship Sean Morrison (c ) v Nicholas Bretton Co-main Welterweight – Julio Regueiro v Dan Halvorsen Undercard Middleweight – Ashley Ballard v Mac Fuller Welterweight – Bobby Brubaker v Yevgeni Sipatov Heavyweight – Pai Cheng v Jutaro Honma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottie Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 GAMMA 32 GAMMA Lightweight Championship Sean Morrison © v Nicholas Bretton Surely Morrison takes this. Bretton the last minute replacement to be ground into the dust. Co-main Welterweight – Julio Regueiro v Dan Halvorsen Julio is the king. Halvorsen has had a fine career, but the Spaniard continues his emergence. Undercard Middleweight – Ashley Ballard v Mac Fuller Fuller past his best and unable to deal with Ballard's striking. Welterweight – Bobby Brubaker v Yevgeni Sipatov Tough one to call. I've never had any luck with Brubaker, and I back Sipatov to avoid his strikes and grind out a victory. Heavyweight – Pai Cheng v Jutaro Honma Cheng is a decent fighter, but I don't think he can match Honma.I like the layout of this dynasty - as said above, the talking heads stuff is nice and gives a bit of insight into your match-making. Is it possible for your card previews to include fighter records, too? It gets a bit hard to keep track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thesnake101 Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Main Event GAMMA Lightweight Championship Sean Morrison (c ) v Nicholas Bretton Co-main Welterweight – Julio Regueiro v Dan Halvorsen Undercard Middleweight – Ashley Ballard v Mac Fuller Welterweight – Bobby Brubaker v Yevgeni Sipatov Heavyweight – Pai Cheng v Jutaro Honma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batsnumbereleven Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 Really digging this dynasty. I like the "talking heads" approach you take. Keep it coming! I like the layout of this dynasty - as said above, the talking heads stuff is nice and gives a bit of insight into your match-making. Is it possible for your card previews to include fighter records, too? It gets a bit hard to keep track. Thanks very much, both of you. I've leaned heavily on the way that Phantom Stranger did his TCW diary and (is doing) his HGC/DaVE diary, which are probably the best I've ever read. It's slightly different for WMMA, since you don't really have all the personalities living on each others' pockets like in a wrestling organisation, but I was taken by the idea of doing it as some sort of retrospective, and so far it seems to have panned out okay. Scottie - I've tried to avoid putting the records in to date, because it was one of the biggest pains in the backside when I was writing my last WMMA diary. I'll certainly consider it when I get to the next phase of writing though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CageRage Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Main Event GAMMA Lightweight Championship Sean Morrison (c ) v Nicholas Bretton Co-main Welterweight – Julio Regueiro v Dan Halvorsen Undercard Middleweight – Ashley Ballard v Mac Fuller Welterweight – Bobby Brubaker v Yevgeni Sipatov Heavyweight – Pai Cheng v Jutaro Honma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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