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 Main Event
Featherweight Fight
#4 Vaughn Shaunessey (17-6, 5-1 NGF) v #2 Pip Gonzalez (9-2, 1-0 NGF)
Vaughn Shaunessey fighting…not in a title fight…that sounds weird, why? Because that hasn’t happened since 2/2/2013. Ever since Shaunessey lost his belt, the talk has been all about he lost his focus, he wasn’t hungry, he took Koji Murosaki lightly, everything that is said when a great fighter finally loses. The talk now is, best camp in a long time, totally re-focused, got the hunger back, everything that is said when a great fighter is ready to make his next fight after a loss. Shaunessey can cut his opponents, he can beat them up boxing and with his Muay Thai, he has excellent striking defense and he will finish fights. Vaughn has deadly head kicks, which he averages 4.2 attempts per fight and he can batter his opponent’s legs with kicks. He has excellent counter punching and he will clinch up with his opponents when needed. He is landing 84% of his clinch head punches, 64% of his body punches and 86% of his elbows and he will also work over his opponents with knees in the clinch as well. What you can do is take Shaunessey down and he can be beaten there, ground fighting and defense is not his strength. Pip Gonzalez will try and beat the former champion and get a title shot himself. He is a sensational wrestler with a black belt in bjj. Gonzalez tends to be a little up right with his fighting stance which allows him to get hit a little more than you would like while on his feet, but he can shoot in very quickly to get take downs. He does most of his damage on the ground where he is very strong and can control his opponents very well and doesn’t allow them to improve or escape very easily. He also is averaging 13.8 ground strikes and 3 submissions per fight and he is holding his opponents to just 1.6 ground strikes on average per fight. This is one of those boxer vs wrestler matchups and in this one, the boxer has such a big advantage with his standup and the wrestler has such a big advantage with his ground game. Shaunessey can punish and do his thing if he can fight off the take downs from Gonzalez, but Pip will dominate and punish Shaunessey if he does get him down before he’s exhausted. PREDICTION: Shaunessey 2nd round TKO
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Heavyweight Fight
Anthony Brown (14-5, 0-0 NGF) v #5 Oleg Alekseev (12-7, 8-5 NGF)
Anthony Brown will make his NGF debut in this one and he’ll look to win his 2nd in a row. Brown is a former longtime Dynamic Fighting Championship champion and he’ll look to make NGF his next target. Brown has excellent power in both hands, but more than just rocking and KO’ing, those hand can do some cutting too, he usually cuts his opponents in his fights. He is a solid kick boxer, but he will load up on big shots which makes him less accurate, but he still have fantastic striking defense and he doesn’t take a lot of punishment when he does swing and miss. He has very good dirty boxing and he is landing 74% of his clinch head punches. He is very good at getting take downs and on the mat, on top, he can be dominating averaging 6.9 ground strikes and landing 42% of them. Oleg Alekseev was right up to a #1 contender fight and lost, so he will try and climb the ladder again, first rung, NGF rookie, Brown. Alekseev is a big man who moves very fast, averaging 4 take downs from standing per fight. He doesn’t have the best striking defense and he does take some shots when he’s trying to set up his take downs. He doesn’t want to fight in the clinch and he is strong enough to push away when his opponents get close to him. He’s fantastic when he’s on top, he dominates at time, he will often get a take down and go right to work, averaging 17.3 ground strikes per fight. This one will be a ground battle, these guys are both very strong and can do major damage with ground and pound. I feel like Alekseev can pull this one out, but Brown has all the ability in the world to be the winner, just a pick’em fight for me. PREDICTION: Pick’em
Light Heavyweight Fight
#6 Rogerio Mustacho (10-5, 9-5 NGF) v #10 Dmitry Boitsoff (13-7, 6-5 NGF)
This will be the 1st fight for Rogerio Mustacho since losing his title fight at NGF 60. Mustacho may have the best mustache in the game, if not, it’s up there. He doesn’t have a lot of power for a light heavyweight and that’s a little concerning, but he is very strong on the ground. He uses solid stand up, where he will work on his opponents legs with kicks and look for opportunities to land counter take downs. One he’s there, he controls very well and can grind out round wins by landing 77% of his ground strikes and averaging 1.6 submissions per fight. He fights well in the clinch, but he hasn’t stood out there. Dmitry Boitsoff is a ground specialist, he does nothing standing, as you might here, he wants to avoid the ground at all costs, well Boitsoff wants to avoid standing at all costs. He doesn’t show any striking defense and he puts up no take down defense, because he wants to be on the mat, on his back or on top, it doesn’t matter to him. I’ve wrote about it before, he doesn’t impress much, he doesn’t show great take down skills, he has no defense anywhere and he is only landing 21% of his ground strikes and 8% of his submissions, but when he averages 8.6 submissions per fight, he will lock one up eventually. Mustacho has got to bring out his power; he needs to end this fight before Boitsoff is able to get a submission. These guys are both good on the mat, but Boitsoff just seems to be able to take punishment and still get his submissions. PREDICTION: Mustacho decision win
Bantamweight Fight
#1 Boris Yurinov (9-4, 7-4 NGF) v #2 Park Doo Man (15-4, 1-0 NGF)
Russian fighter, Boris Yurinov will take on South Korean Park Doo Man in this #1 contender fight. Yurinov is 4-1 in his last 5 fights and comes in on a 2 fight winning streak will get his 3rd title shot if he wins. Yurinov is a super quick fighter, he darts around the octagon landing a ton of strikes, he averages 17 head punches and 20.3 leg kicks landed per fight, but nothing with any sort of power. He’s so elusive and he uses that to make opponents miss and he has excellent counter striking if he needs it. He is alright in the clinch, but he has no offense on the ground, but he is excellent at defending ground striking and getting back to his feet. Park Doo Man will get his 3rd title shot also with a win, his first with the NGF. Doo Man is 5-1 in his last 6 fights and comes in on a 4 fight winning streak. Man is a super aggressive guy also; he is averaging 29.9 punches per fight standing and 39.6 kicks per fight. He has a very deadly head kick and he attempts 7.6 of them per fight and lands 50% of them. He has good striking defense, but he can be controlled and beaten up on the ground. This fight is just going to be action, action, action, a ton of strikes with a lot of leg kicks. Doo Man has the better power, but they both aren’t finishing fights at this point. I think that changes in this one, Yurinov is extremely hard to hit, but Man doesn’t need many of his head kicks to land. I like Man in this one with a head kick KO. PREDICTION: Man 3rd round KO
Featherweight Fight
Joko Diaz (19-9, 1-2 NGF) v #13 Benjamin Belleville (13-3, 0-0 NGF)
This looks to be the last fight in the career of Joko Diaz. He has performed well and he’s won some championships, but after going 2-6 over his last 8 fights, it looks like the desire just isn’t there anymore. He does everything he can to get a fight to the mat, on top or on his back, it doesn’t matter. He is dangerous and very difficult to contend with on the ground as he averages 3.3 ground strikes, 4 submissions and 7.1 position improvements per fight and he has 13 submissions victories. Benjamin Belleville will make his NGF debut in this one, the former Galaxy Fighting Championship champion enters having lost his last fight, but he is 3-1 in his last 4 fights. Belleville has solid power, but he will fight very smart. He has solid stand up where he’ll do more punching than anything, but he is landing 66% of his body punches, 64% of his leg kicks and 43% of his body kicks. He had decent striking defense and superior submission defense. He fights well in the clinch and he can hurt his opponents with knees and elbows. On the mat he is fights well, he can control when he needs it, but he doesn’t improve his position at a very high rate, but he can grind out rounds on the ground for sure. I think Belleville will impress in his debut and Diaz will end his career on a sour note. PREDICTION: Belleville decision win
PRELIM CARD
Featherweight Fight
#14 John Farson (4-1, 3-1 NGF) v Incan Bulb (8-2, 0-0)
John Farson is just 22 years old and he keeps looking better and better after each fight. He’s a brilliant kick boxer with a emphasis on the KICK! He has 2 head kick KO’s and he is averaging 3 head kicks per fight and 11.2 total kicks per fight. He has scary accuracy with them also. He has shown pretty good striking defense and exceptional take down defense. Farson has also shown elite position improvement skill and he can escape and get back to his feet very well. Incan Bulb will have to be watching his bulb in this one, because one of those head kicks can put out his bulb…ok, I’m done with the bulb jokes. Bulb’s power has dried up of late and he hasn’t had a stoppage in almost a year. He uses a lot of stand up strikes to win rounds with an aggressive style. He has fantastic striking defense and on average he is out striking his opponents 62.2 to 13 with stand up strikes which includes an astounding 32.4 leg kicks. Bulb hasn’t been very good in the clinch and on the mat, he shows outstanding defense, but he isn’t offensive at all and if he can’t escape he will lose rounds there. We have the “head kick” vs the “leg kick” in this one. Bulb is fantastic at taking out his opponents legs and winning rounds, but Farson has the superior fight finishing skills. Farson is going to have to land his head kicks early, because if this goes into a round 3, he might not be walking by then, because Incan is one bright bulb…okay, that’s the last bad joke. PREDICTION: Farson 2nd round KO
Middleweight Fight
Fair Child (10-8, 0-0 NGF) v #7 Mikhail Rakhmanov (8-3, 5-3 NGF)
I am very interested to see Fair Child fight for his first time. I think the problem that stands out about Child is that he can get cut rather easily and he’s had 4 cut stoppage losses. Child has solid stand up and he’s landing over 60% on all strikes besides body punches, and that’s 54%. He can be very tuff in the clinch as well, he can control well and he’s landing 70% of his thrown elbows. He eats up points with a grinding style on the mat and this allows him to keep from getting cut. Mikhail Rakhmanov has been grinding out decisions of late, but he does have power to end fights. Rakhmanov fights everywhere well and he is landing 63% of his ground strikes, he’s been successful on 14% of his submissions and he is successful on 67% of his take downs. I think Child can take Rakhmanov down, but Rakhmanov should be able to land enough strikes to probably open up a massive cut on Child and cause all sorts of problems for the NGF rookie. PREDICTION: Rakhmanov 2nd round TKO
Super Heavyweight Fight
Andre Rene Roussimoff (5-5, 3-5 NGF) v #2 Chilemba Murithi (4-1 NGF)
This is a strange fighte, Andre Rene Roussimoff is just 3-5 in the NGF but he got a fight with the #2 ranked super heavyweight…ok. Roussimoff is only in quick fights, only 1 fight has gotten out of the 1st round. Roussimoff has pretty much a glass chin, but he can be a monster when he’s on top on the ground landing 67% of his ground strikes and improve his position at a 75% success rate. Chilemba Murithi is closing in on a title shot, he has deadly head kicks and he averages 6.8 of them per fight. He fights like his arms are broken, he hasn’t attempted a single punch yet, he only kicks and he’s averaging 24.6 kicks per fight. He has exceptional striking defense, but he isn’t much of a fighter on the ground or in the clinch, but he’s spent so little time in both areas. I think Murithi probably kicks the head off of Rossimoff in this one, but Rossimoff can test Murithi if he can shoot in and get this fight to the mat. PREDICTION: Murithi 1st round TKO
Middleweight Fight
Benjamin Siegel (3-2, 0-0 NGF) v Andrej Kavelin (8-6, 6-6 NGF)
23 year old Benjamin Siegel will make his NGF debut in this one. Siegel has solid stand up skills, he is pretty accurate, he has deadly head kicks which he lands 43% successful and he has shown very good striking defense. He will take a fight to the ground where he has averaged 3.8 ground strikes per fight, but he has been beaten up a bit there so far, giving up 3 ground strikes and .2 submissions per fight. Andrej Kavelin is 3-6 over his last 9 fights and he just doesn’t look like he can compete with the high level competition in the NGF. He has shown pretty good stand up skills and he has done very well on the ground with 45% success rate on his submissions and 5 submission wins. Kavelin has shown a bit of a problem where he can get rocked easy and his chin is in question now. This will be a super ground battle I think, I would have to give it to the more experienced fighter. PREDICTION: Kavelin 2nd round submission
Bantamweight Fight
Ron Paul (5-3, 2-3 NGF) v Tony Chu (4-3, 2-3 NGF)
Ron Paul is a super accurate striker with exceptional striking defense. Paul will take a fight to the clinch where he has been almost a god, he lands deadly elbows at a 96% success rate and he is successful on 63% of his take down attempts. He will grind out rounds when he’s on the mat. Tony Chu hasn’t been on the ground yet in his career, that could change in this one. He has been a little more counter striking and clinching so far, but he has shown good power. He is landing 95% of his clinch head punches and 81% of his knees to the body. Paul is accurate, but I think Chu has more power, especially in the clinch. PREDICTION: Chu 2nd round TKO
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