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MAIN CARD
Main Event
Light Heavyweight Fight
#13 Ivan Grozni (10-5, 3-3) v #7 Dongmin Oh (16-2, 0-0 NGF)
Now after a number of ground battle where you may or may not be entertained, we get the main event which will be a way and will end with major fireworks. Ivan Grozni is a killer, no doubt about it, he has 1 punch KO power and he will look to finish every fight he’s in, all 10 of his wins have been by (T)KO and all of his wins have come in the 1st round. Grozni is a sensational kick boxer and wrestler, he will load up with punches, more often than not, he’ll throw wild, power punches but miss as he’s landing 46% of his head punches and 41% of his body punches. He has good defensive skills as he’s only getting hit 30% of the time by head punches and 35% by body punches. He has been pretty good on the ground, he uses his wrestling skills to defend take downs, and he’ll get a take down, and when he’s there, he can KO someone there as easily as when he’s standing. How you can hurt Ivan is by kicking, he really struggles in his kicking defense and he offers no kicking offense. Dongmin Oh will make his much anticipated NGF debut in this one. He comes to the NGF riding a 4 fight winning streak where’s he’s won 2 awards, he has 9 FOTN awards and 2 KOTN awards. Dongmin Oh is the son of two prominent Korean university professors, who wanted nothing more than to have their child follow in their footsteps. He grew up with tremendous pressure, receiving poor marks at all of his after school academies except for one: taekwondo. Labeled a failure by his parents, Dongmin has forged a path to success his own way: by force. He’s a interesting mix of power and finesse as he has 9 (T)KO wins and 7 decision wins so he can adapt his game plan very well. He has very good kicking and he likes to use them, averaging 5 head kicks, 14.2 leg kicks and 9.6 body kicks per fight. He has decent punching and he has very good Muay Thai skills as he likes to use nasty elbows in the clinch, he is averaging 12.4 of them per fight. This is going to be a very interesting fight and I think it will be very entertaining. It is proven; if you get Grozni out of the 1st round his terrible conditioning slows him to a snail’s pace which makes him a punching bag. I think Oh can have his way with Grozni, but he has got to watch out for the power of Ivan. I also think if Grozni could change things up a bit and get this fight to the mat, he would have an advantage there. PREDICTION: Oh 2nd round TKO
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Light Heavyweight Fight
#12 Lamont Banner (11-6-1, 1-0 NGF) v #3 Dmitry Boitsoff (12-5, 5-3 NGF)
We will continue with the ground fighting, this one is sure to be a bjj battle and will probably produce our SOTN. Lamont Banner will bring his super boring, but successful style to the cage in this one. Banner does little other than look for take downs and go for submissions, he’s only averaging 1.7 strikes landed per fight, while averaging 5.2 take down attempts and 4.7 submission attempts per fight. He is good on the ground, he will improve his position and then attempt submissions until he will get one, he has 10 submission victories in his career and he has 6 SOTN awards. He can be struck, he can be beaten up, you just have to stay off the mat or if you do go down, just pray you don’t make a mistake. Dmitry Boitsoff won’t make many mistakes, in fact, he is almost a mirror image of Banner in the fact that he does little to nothing other than go for take downs and submissions. Boitsoff is not a fan favorite, but who cares when your 12-5 in your career? He is only averaging .9 stand up strikes and .8 ground strikes, it’s almost like he’s not a fighter, but he is very good a bjj. He is averaging 6.8 submissions per fight and eventually, when you average that many, you will lock one up. He is so weak in all areas, he gets pounded standing, he’s been torn apart in the clinch and opponents land 83% of their ground strikes on him, but somehow, he finds a way to win. Not sure how exciting this one will be, but we will have a submission. PREDICTION: Boitsoff 2nd round submission
Featherweight Title Fight
Joko Diaz (18-7, 0-0 NGF) v #11 Jean Van Dam (14-4, 0-0 NGF)
Two very seasoned MMA fighters are going to make their NGF debuts in this one, Jiu Jitsu specialist Joko Diaz will face wrestler Jean Van Dam. Diaz broke a 4 fight losing streak by getting a KO by slam in his last fight. Diaz is a former Vegas Fight World and Torment MMA Amsterdam champion. He is a brown belt in bjj and he looks to get a fight on the mat so he can use his excellent submission skills, he has 13 submission victories. He puts up no fight what so ever as far as take down defense, he will fall to the mat if his opponent even breaths on him. He is averaging 6.5 take down attempts per fight and is successful on just 26% of them, but 1 take down is usually all he needs. He will get his opponent down, throw some ground strikes, quickly improve his position and start looking for submissions; he averages 4.1 submissions per fight. He has no stand up game, although he does have pretty decent striking defense. His weakness is if he doesn’t lock up a submission, he usually is out struck, so if it goes to the judges, he tends to be on the wrong end. Jean Van Dam is a sensational wrestler with devastating ground and pound, which is his attack of choice. He’s an awful kick boxer, he lands just 21% of his head punches, even though he attempts a fair amount with 9.9 per fight and on top of the poor offensive skills, he has terrible striking defense, getting head punched on average 2.9 times per fight, while leg kicks land at 81% of the time. His strong area is on the mat and his ground attack, he averages 10.1 ground strikes per fight and he’s landing 66% of them and with his power, he can simply put people to sleep. The week part to his game is he just gets hit way too much standing and he can get submitted at time when he’s too aggressive on the ground and gets sloppy. This will be a ground battle and my pick for SOTN. PREDICTION: Diaz 2nd round submission
Lightweight Fight
#14 Mitch Mitchel (10-4, 2-1 NGF) v #4 James Jameson (10-3, 5-3 NGF)
Mitch Mitchel will look to move one step closer to making it inside the top 10 with a win over James Jameson, a fighter he’s lost to already once. Mitchel is a super aggressive fighter; he’ll push the pace and control the center of the octagon from the opening bell. He is averaging 22.7 head punches and 13.9 body punches while standing, but he doesn’t have any kicking skills. He will land a good amount of his punches also, 65% of his head punches and 72% of his body punches land. Mitchell has shown fantastic take down defense by defending 88% of take downs, but when he has been taken down, he’s been brutal on the ground, only improving 6% of the time while allowing 62% of ground strikes to land. James Jameson was the better stand up fighter in the last meeting between these two, he landed 16 leg kicks to none from Mitchel, which probably was the difference in the eyes of the judges in that one. Jameson is a stand up fighter, but unlike Mitchel, when he has been taken down, he’s improved his position 73% of the time, so keeping Jameson on the mat has been a hard thing to do. Jameson lands 62% of his averaged per fight 14.6 head punches and he has been really good in the clinch. This is clearly going to be a stand up fighter and unless Mitchel has really worked on his kicking game, I don’t see this going any different than the first fight. PREDICTION: Jameson decision win
Heavyweight Fight
Jimmy Jones (8-5, 0-0 NGF) v #3 Oleg Alekseev (10-6, 6-4 NGF)
This is a huge first fight and opportunity for NGF rookie Jimmy Jones as he’ll take on the #3 ranked heavyweight Oleg Alekseev. Jones will enter just 1-3 in his last 4 fights where he has been KO’ed twice. In 13 fights Jones has done nothing offensive standing or in the clinch, he wants ONLY to fight on the mat with his sensational wrestling skills and his bjj brown belt. Jones will look only for take downs, while he waits for his opening, he’ll just get picked apart standing, but he will get the fight to the mat. On the ground he has such good skills it’s almost not fair. He controls the ground, he averages 11.2 ground strikes and he is landing 83% of them. He has also locked up 33% of his submission attempts. Oleg Alekseev is trying to make another title run, but is just 1-2 in his last 3 fights. Alekseev is made out of some sort of sharp object, he has won 6 fights in his career by cut stoppages and he usually cuts his opponents. The biggest problem with Alekseev is his questionable chin, he has been KO’ed 4 times out of his 6 loses. He too will look to use his sensational wrestling skills to get a fight to the mat and ground and pound his opponents into la la land. He averages over 19 ground strikes a fight and is landing 43% of them. He doesn’t use his brown belt bjj skills much other than submission defense. The weakness with Alekseev, besides the chin, is his striking defense; he gets hit way too much for a guy with a questionable chin. I like the rookies chances in this one, but it will certainly be a ground fight and with Alekseev allowing 50% ground strikes to land, that could be trouble with Jones raining down bombs. PREDICTION: Jones 2nd round TKO
PRELIM CARD
Middleweight Fight
#11 Jack Kessler (8-4, 0-1 NGF) v #5 Randall Cunningham (11-2-1, 1-0 NGF)
Jack Kessler will try and move inside the top 10 with a win, but will probably drop out of the top 15 with a loss. Kessler looked good in his first NGF fight, but he was caught by a wicked punch vs Purpura Mortis and got TKO’ed early. Kessler has big power, but he’ll take a fight to the mat as soon as he can. He is averaging 14.9 ground strikes per fight while landing 67% of them. He has excellent take down skills, he’s completing 68% of his take downs, and he also has excellent striking defense. Randall Cunningham has won 3 straight and he’ll look to move one step closer to a title shot with a win. He has never been finished in his MMA career yet, so this will be a great battle. Cunningham is fantastic on his feet, he has deadly kicks, he’ll look to chop out legs from the bell, averaging 21.6 leg kicks a fight. He is light on his feet and shows brilliant striking defense. He hasn’t done much on the mat, but he has shown he can get sweeps and reversals if he does get taken down. This one should be so good, I think this will be up for FOTN. Kessler will try and get the fight down and Cunningham will try and keep standing, who will tire out first? PREDICTION: Cunningham 2nd round TKO
Featherweight Fight
#3 Jack Brown (6-2-1, 3-0 NGF) v #2 Marcos Silva (10-5, 2-1 NGF)
A number 1 contender fight here between boisterous Jack Brown and Marcos Silva. Brown has moved right up the featherweight ranks in the NGF going 3-0, but he for being very confident, he insists he’s not ready for a title shot. If he wins this fight, I don’t know if the NGF can hold back on the offer any longer. Brown is just 22, but he fights like a seasoned veteran in the fact he knows what he does best and he doesn’t do anything fancy. He is a sensational wrestler, he has decent stand up skills, but more than stand up offense, he has fantastic striking defense. He is getting 56% of his take downs and once he gets a fight there, he is dominating. He averages 35 ground strikes per fight and he is landing an amazing 77% of them. Marcos Silva is 31 years old, 9 years older than Brown, but he doesn’t look like he’s lost anything. He is still very fast and can submit just about anyone. He can fight in all areas, but he has shown good success in the clinch and on the mat. He can hold his own standing, but he’ll try to get a fight to the mat as soon as he can. He is landing 48% of his ground strikes, but he is excellent at submissions. This fight will 100% end on the mat, it will come down to Silva’s ground defense and submission skills. Brown has just been a monster on the mat; I think he’ll end up chewing up and spitting out Silva on his climb to the top. PREDICTION: Brown decision win
Heavyweight Fight
#15 Wei Pei (5-0, 0-0 NGF) v #8 Gniewomir Polaniecki (10-6, 0-0 NGF)
Two NGF rookies battle it out in this one, Wei Pei and Gniewomir Polaniecki will show us all what type of fighters we can expect to see. Pei is one HELL of a fighter, unbelievable power, he is 5-0 and all 5 have been KO’s. WOW! No fight has gotten out of the 1st round, no fight has gone longer than 1:55 and all KO’s have come on punches. He’s never fought on the mat, but we hear he’s a brown belt in bjj. Polaniecki has a knack for cutting his opponents, but he tends to get cut himself on a regular basis. He also has very good punching power with 8 (T)KO’s in his career. Polaniecki does fight on the mat, he is averaging 6.6 ground strikes per fight and he is successful on 36% of his take downs, so he may look to move this fight to the mat. I think we might finally see how Pei fights on his back, but I still think his power will come through in this one. I can’t wait to see these two fight. PREDICTION: Pei 2nd round KO
Featherweight Fight
#13 John Farson (3-0, 2-0 NGF) v #6 Barry Allen (9-2, 1-1 NGF)
John Farson will try and move inside the top 10 with a win over #6 ranked Barry Allen. John Farson has established himself as an exciting KO artist in the featherweight division. He has 2 KOTN awards already in his 3 career fights. Farson’s biggest threat is his kicks, he has killer head kicks and he lands a ton of them, he averages 7.7 leg kicks a fight and he’s landing 7.3 per fight, so not only can he take your head off, he’ll chop you down too. Barry Allen moved right into a title fight in his last fight, but lost by being KO’ed in the 3rd round. Allen is a very good all around fighter who likes to stay in kick boxing for most of his fights. Like Farson he has very good kicking and he’ll use it a lot during a fight. Neither one of these fighters like to go to the mat so we should see a fantastic stand up brawl where someone is going to get kicked and kicked hard, I can’t wait for this one. PREDICTION: Allen 2nd round TKO
Super Heavyweight Fight
#13 Buddy Threadgood (6-4, 5-4 NGF) v #10 Ted Bundy (7-3, 2-1 NGF)
A top 15 fight to start this card off between the inconsistent Buddy Threadgood and heavy puncher Ted Bundy. Threadgood after a fantastic start to his career is now just 2-4 in his last 6 fights. He can look fantastic in one fight than just look like a waste in the next. He’s all punching and no defense, he has 6 (T)KO finishes and he has been (T)KO’ed in his 4 loses. He just gets hit too much to be any good, if that doesn’t change, he’ll retire soon. Bundy is much the same as Threadgood in the fact that he will keep a fight standing. He hasn’t shown great skill in any area besides kick boxing, but he has shown, like Threadgood, good power. He doesn’t get hit as often as Threadgood, but he will look for big finishing strikes. Bundy has the superior conditioning in this one and that could be the difference if he wants to try and wear out Buddy. PREDICTION: Bundy TKO 2nd round
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