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MAIN CARD
Main Event
Lightweight Title Fight
#3 Neeyo Collin (7-2, 4-1 NGF) v #1 Tolek Banan (10-1, 3-0 NGF)
A unbelievable main event to a unbelievable card. The lightweight title will be on the line, both fighters are unbeaten in their last 3, both are 6-1 in their last 7 and both fighters are exciting. Neeyo Collin has won his last 3 fights, the last 2 by decisions. Collin will try and get this fight to the mat almost immediately, where he can use his fantastic grappling skills. He’s a strong boxer, but he doesn’t land many heavy shots, he is only landing 15% of his head punches, so it’s been a bit of time since he’s really did damage to a fighter standing. He does most of his damage on the mat, 12 average ground strikes in his 9 fights. Tolek Banan is a fantastic, well rounded champion, he’ll be a slight underdog on the ground and a heavy favorite standing. Banan enters the fight on a 5 fight winning streak and is fresh off a TKO win over James Jameson at NGF 32. Banan will get into any type of battle his opponents want; he usually has very exciting, plenty of strike fights. He’s averaging 31 head punches a fight and opponents against him average over 20 stand up strikes, so there is plenty of standup action. He isn’t a high percentage lander, nor does he allow a high percentage to land, but he does have KO power. Collin will have to get this fight to the ground and out wrestle Banan, Tolek is simply too strong of a standup fighter for Collin. This is going to be awesome! PREDICTION: Banan 3rd round TKO
Co-Main Event:
Featherweight Title Fight
#3 Vaughn Shaunessey (13-5, 1-0 NGF) v #1 Vito Ferrari (9-4, 2-0 NGF)
Now on to title fight number 2 on this card. Vaughn Shaunessey disposed of John Johnson quickly in his NGF debut with kicks and punches at NGF 36 and quickly got a title shot. Just 1-0 in the NGF, he already has 18 career fights at just 23 years old. Shaunessey has a kick boxing back ground, so he has some of the best kicks in the NGF. He has good KO power having 5 KO’s in his career, but not one since 7/15/2012. He will use the leg kicks as his primary tactic; chopping legs and slowing down his opponent. Vito Ferrari has won 3 straight fights and he too has excellent kicks, having won his last fight with a head kick KO and 2 head kick KO’s in his last 3. He has won all 9 of his wins by stoppages and he can do it in a number of ways, head kicks, punches, flying knees, he is very exciting. He has spent most of his fights standing up, but he is very good in the clinch as well. The problem for him so far is he’s been taken down over 40% and although his grappling and wrestling skills are good, he’s taken most of his punishment while on the mat. This is another fight I just get full body shivers thinking about, it’s such a good matchup. Shaunessey has big power, he has massive kicks, but I think Ferrari is a little more unpredictable. Ferrari holds the reach advantage and I think he’ll end up out striking Vaughn. PREDICTION: Ferrari 3th round KO
Co-Co-Main Event
Middleweight Title Fight
#2 Artur Ross (8-1, 7-1 NGF) v #1 Purpura Mortis (7-2, 1-0 NGF)
And now on to title fight #3 on this card! Finally, Artur Ross will get his much deserved title shot after 6 straight wins. He’ll bring his counter striking, sensational Muay Thai game to this one and try and out work Purpura Mortis. Ross has fantastic cardio, so he should be fine if this fight gets into the championship rounds. His last 3 wins have all come by decision, so he has tested his cardio the last 3 fights. Purpura Mortis has much more power than Ross and he looks to finish fights quickly. He probably doesn’t have as good of conditioning as Ross since he’s only been out of the 1st round 1 time in his career. Mortis entered the NGF and instantly got a title shot, which he won at NGF 34. Mortis doesn’t have many if any holes in his game. He lands a lot of strikes and he avoids strikes well. He has been very good in the clinch, which is good because I think that’s where this fight will be a good portion. Ross spends a good portion of his fights in the clinch; he is averaging over 25 strikes in the clinch where he lands over 80% of them. Mortis will have the advantage on the mat, but neither of these fighters likes to fight there. Ross has not been taken down in his career yet, so I think we’ll see these two in a slug fest. I can’t wait! PREDICTION: Mortis 4th round TKO
Super Heavyweight Fight
#11 Andrzej Gajewski (12-2-1, 0-0 NGF) v #2 Yngwie Malmsteen (6-1, 5-1 NGF)
This fight is so great, two high profiled fighters, two guys who are popular with the fans and a fight that should be a main event if there weren’t 3 title fights already on this card. Andrzej Gajewski will finally make his NGF debut, he’ll come into this one 7-1 in his last 8, but did have the 1 loss his last fight. Gajewski has a well-rounded game, he can stay standing and be devastating, but he can also wrestle and be really difficult to control on the mat. He has one of the highest takedown percentages in the NGF with 49%. I’m not really sure there is a weakness to exploit in his game. Yngwie Malmsteen was passed up for a title shot, but if he wins this one, actually, who wins this one maybe the next contender. Malmsteen has won 3 straight, but this will certainly be his biggest test. He is coming off a 1st round TKO win at NGF 36 over Jon Erik Andersen where he landed 25 of 38 strikes. Malmsteen, just 22 years old, is one of the rising stars in the NGF and he has exceptional boxing skills and is a brown belt in bjj, but hasn’t had to use those skills yet. He’ll keep it standing, he has good power and he’ll throw a lot of punches, he’s averaging 32 head and body punches per fight. The one area that you can see is that he’s been pretty much a 1 trick pony so far, he has not had any kicks so far in his 7 fights and he hasn’t attempted a single takedown. So as good as he is, he can be kinda predictable. It’s a great matchup, two very good fighters and both deserving of a title shot with a win. I think the more seasoned fighter in this one will expose the areas that still need to be worked in the younger kid. PREDICTION: Gajewski 2nd round TKO
Light Heavyweight Fight
#4 Rogerio Mustacho (7-2, 6-2 NGF) v #7 Dmitry Boitsoff (10-5, 2-3 NGF)
This will be the 2nd time these two fighters have faced each other, Rogerio Mustacho won in a unanimous decision the first time at NGF 14. Mustacho comes in loser of his last fight at NGF 37 to Johnny Jackson. A win here will put him right back in the title contender talks. Rogerio, a tall man, but he doesn’t seem to have as much power as others in the division. Where he makes hay though is on the mat. He is a exceptional wrestler and he’ll get anyone down, once there, he averages over 9 ground strikes. His ground and pound is feared by everyone in the division and it’s a area where every fighter game plans to stay away from. Mustacho has landed 82% of his ground strikes and those have led to his 3 TKO wins. Dmitry Boitsoff fell from #2 to #7 when he lost at NGF 37 in the title fight to Jack Poldi. Boitsoff is your definition of a grappler or jiu jitsu fighter, all 10 of his wins have come by submission and he holds 7 SOTN awards. Boitsoff does so little standing up I don’t think you can say he has any boxing skills, as he averages less than a strike per fight. He goes for takedowns and then just attempts submissions, that’s it, that’s his game, boring, but has given him 10 career wins. Now he does have 5 career losses too and is only 2-3 in the NGF, so there are holes in his game, one hole would be he allows too many strikes to land, 81% off attempted punches land, so a well-timed punch could knock him out at any time. You just DO NOT want to go to the mat with him, which is where Mustacho lives. PREDICTION: Mustacho 2nd round TKO
PRELIM CARD
Bantamweight Fight
#5 Jack Judo (4-0 NGF) v #4 Lutz Knitter (11-5, 2-3 NGF)
A bantamweight matchup that could produce the next title contender. Jack Judo enters on a 4 fight winning streak where he’s mopped the floor up with each of them. He is a bjj brown belt, but his wonderful wrestling skills are what allow him to control on the mat, then he’s able to use his grappling skills to get submissions, all 4 of his wins have been by submission. He’s another guy who does nothing but look for takedowns and submissions; he hasn’t attempted a strike yet standing. Lutz Knitter wants the belt back, but he’s lost 2 straight and with another loss he might drop out of the top 10. He is going to be at a distinct disadvantage in this one in grappling skills, he has good submission defense skills, but he’s not great at improving or getting off the mat, so that’s something he’ll have to really focus on. He will throw a lot of punches, assuming he doesn’t have to spend the whole fight trying to get off his back; he averages 25 head punches a fight. He has heavy punches but doesn’t use kicks at all. He is not great in the clinch and he has not been very good on the mat. Judo doesn’t play into the strengths of Knitter and Lutz will have to maybe try and go for quality not quantity in his punches. PREDICTION: Judo 1st round submission
Lightweight Fight
#13 Mitch Mitchel (8-3, 0-0 NGF) v #15 Oswaldo Barra (10-8, 1-0 NGF)
21 year old Mitch Mitchel will make his NGF debut in this on against 23 year old grappler Oswaldo Barra. Mitchel is young and still improving; thus far in his career he’s shown signs of brilliance in his stand up game. He has shown he can rock opponents and end fight with 7 (T)KO wins. He is averaging over 31 head and body punches per fight and with his power that he has shown, his 79% will bring plenty of opportunities to wobble legs. He has a pretty big hole in his game though; he just isn’t “there” yet in the clinch or on the ground. He has only improved his position 10% successfully and he has let 73% of strikes land while on the mat. Also there is some question about his chin with his 2 KO losses. Oswaldo Barra won his NGF debut at FN 15 over Junior Sanchez by way of a RNC. He is a pretty much a submission or nothing type of fighter, spending very little time standing and trying to get to the mat any way possible. He will throw the occasional strike to set up his take downs, but not doubt about it, his home is on the mat. On the mat he spends most of the time softening up his opponents then looking for triangle submissions. He does have problem areas, one is you can brutalize him in the clinch, he has very poor clinch defense and also, he tends to stand right in front of opponents looking for takedowns, so if your timing is right, a good striking fighter can land plenty of strikes. PREDICTION: Mitchel 2nd round TKO
Super Heavyweight Fight
#8 Samson Miodek (5-2, 0-0 NGF) v #3 Vyacheslav Romanov (7-0, 0-0 NGF)
I’m so giddy with excitement about this one; I mean these two guys are gigantic men who can throw down. Samson Miodek is probably less tested fighter as he has only 1 fight other the QFC fights and that one fight in the PCL was a loss. The 6’3”, 233 lb Miodek will be giving up 40 lbs in this fight to the 6’6” 273 lb behemoth of Vyacheslav Romanov. Miodek has spent time in all areas of fighting in his fights, he is a very good kicker, he’ll land a high percentage of those, and he is also successful on 80% of his take down attempts while standing and 43% from the clinch. He will use a great deal of ground and pound once he brings the fight to the mat; he is averaging almost 10 ground strikes a fight. He doesn’t or hasn’t to this point shown much bjj skills, he hasn’t attempted a single submission and he has been submitted once. Vyacheslav Romanov will also make his NGF debut in this one, but he comes in a little more tested as all but two of his fights have been in some sort of organization. Romanov is one of the strongest humans I’ve seen, he can and will take anyone down and when that happens, it’s very difficult to move this huge man off. He is improving his position 75% of the time, which is scary good and he also has 2 submission wins. He is landing a very high percentage of strikes standing up and he barely has been touched as he’s only averaging 1.5 strikes landed on him per fight. He has been a monster thus far, this is a test, but one I think he is ready for. Miodek is a good young fighter, but this being his first fight at super heavyweight, and the first fight with this caliber of fighter, I don’t think he’s quite there yet. PREDICTION: Romanov 1st round TKO
Welterweight Fight
#10 Lance Rock (7-7, 5-2 NGF) v #15 Ed Gein (11-6, 1-0 NGF)
We have a past NGF fighter back again making his 1st fight in his 2nd go round…I’m confused. Lance Rock last fought at NGF 25 a win, and then he decided he wanted to test other waters. He left NGF and was 6-4 and 5-2 in the NGF; he comes back with a 7-7 record. He’ll try and snap a 3 fight losing streak with a win over Ed Gein. “DJ” has very good power, having 5 KO wins in his career. He is a gifted, well rounded fighter who likes to spend the majority of his time on the mat. He can strike with anyone, but he’ll average around 4 takedown attempts per fight and he’ll succeed on at least 1 of them. When he’s on the ground, he uses more of his wrestling to grind out a fight, he only has landed 22% of his ground strikes and hasn’t attempted a submission as of yet. As skilled as I think he is, he constantly loses the strike land game, he has a pretty low land percentage while he allowing a pretty good percentage to land, including 63% head punches, 97% head strikes in the clinch and 63% of leg kicks. Ed Gein is a “old” 23 year old with 17 career fights. He is coming into this one on a NGF debut win at FN 16 over Lionel Cascara. He takes this fight after being called out by Lance Rock as the guy he wanted to face when he came back to the NGF. When we talked to Gein he had no idea why Rock would call him out, but he said hell yeah he’d take the fight. Gein has gotten beat up in the clinch, that is his weak spot of his game, but he can hold his own grappling. He has pretty good power and he is a solid stand up fighter, he averages over 14 head punches per fight. I don’t know if Gein can handle Rock in this one, but it is certainly a test for him. PREDICTION: Rock 2nd round KO
Light Heavyweight Fight
#13 Mads Rosenkilde (9-4, 0-0 NGF) v #8 Dragon Warfist (3-1 NGF)
How big is this card that this is the first fight? Hey people, don’t be late to this one, if you are, you’ll miss a fantastic fight, one that might be in the running for FOTN. Mads Rosenklide will make his NGF debut in this one and he comes in trying to break a 2 fight losing streak. Rosenkilde has kinda been a drifter in his career so far, never staying with an organization very long, but let’s hope he makes camp with NGF. Mads is a good stand up fighter and so far not a good ground fighter. He lands a high percentage of strikes boxing and in the clinch and he has shown good defense in those areas too. All 4 of his losses have come by submission and he hasn’t shown he can improve his position or keep opponents from improving very well. Dragon Warfist is coming off a 1st round head kick KO win at FN 16 over Jack Mcgillicutty and will look to make it 3 in a row with a win. To this point it’s been all stand up for Warfist. He is said to have sensational Muay Thai skills but through 4 fights he hasn’t spent any time in the clinch. He has massive kicks and usually fires off around 8 per fight, he actually will throw more kicks than any other strike. He has good power and is quick to move in on a hurt foe. His weak area right now is his take down defensive skills have not been very good. He is getting taken down 56% of the time and once down, he has shown good ground defense by allowing only 29% strikes to land, but when there are 18 ground strikes attempted, 29% of them is still a lot. This one’s too close to call, they both like to finish, but it just might go the distance. PREDICTION: Rosenkilde 3rd round TKO
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