GAMMA: The best ever "Jeremy Tonal"

Fighter profile of Jeremy Tonal by Mentor Guru Corleone

Jeremy started his career way back in the early GAMMA days as a rookie with 1 QFC experience. The org was still growing with just a few months in the market and Jeremy was a "decent" up and coming 205lbs fighter. When i say decent, that is basically all he was, he had a 8-4 record with us, so he was not exactly lighting up the 205lbs division.

Then came the decision to participate in the first Millionaire 205lbs tournament to take part in Syn. I remember that tournament vividly and it probably one of the best we have ever seen. Jeremy went into that one as one of the lowest seeds and nobody knew anything about him. When he got Earl Lee Swagger in the next round me and Deamus (Jeremy's manager, also known as Richard Davenport in game) did not expect us to get past the 2nd round. What nobody knew was Early would be the first of a total of 19 fighters ranked in the top 100 p4p to lose in the greatest streak ever seen.

Jeremy has lost just 1 time in his last 20 fights and that was against Jigoro Kane, a guy he later decisively demolished. Here is the people he beat and their peak p4p ranking:
Snake The Pendulum (48406) 5 p4p
Budo Rei (125922) 8 p4p
Merrimac Mjolnir (24699) 2 p4p
Jigoro Kane (1357) 1 p4p
Moses Diggs (73449) 15 p4p
Kalle Reinikainen (82669) 2 p4p
Golden Glory (86108) 1 p4p
Lucas LaVey (51013) 7 p4p
Bubba KillsInWater (10357) 1 p4p
Johnny Juggernaut (24646) 40 p4p
Raz Matazz (25622) 18 p4p (beat him twice)
The Rhino (67644) 64 p4p
Bubba Clem (30075) 35 p4p
Bill Hickok (34221) 10 p4p
Berkshire Hathaway (24633) 9 p4p
John Keynes (27279) 2 p4p
Zirry Swan (18101) 7 p4p (Syn tournament final)
Jerry Millen (29923) 12 p4p
Earl Lee Swagger (22621) 21 p4p

Most of those he was fighting at their very peak in their career, several of them were HW fighters! His great streak started with the Millionaire tourney, which he ended up winning to the surprise of everyone. That put Jeremy (and to an extent GAMMA) on the map. The Jerry Millen win was HUGE back in the day.

Straight after the tourney everyone wanted to fight Tonal and a super fight against the then Syn champ John Keynes happened straight off the bat which he won by decision. That was the first major fight to ever take place in GAMMA.

What most people do not know is that when his career was starting out, Jeremy was a LOT worse than his opposition. He basically grinded out wins via decision.

Tonal then came back to GAMMA to try and win back the title he lost. Unfortunately for him, he never got a shot against his old nemesis Mikhail Yudovich which he lost the title to, mainly because Mikhail was on the down and was virtually inactive by then. However the 205lbs was packed with HUGE talent such as Raz Matazz

Bubba Clem, Bill Hickok and Berkshire Hathaway, making it our deepest division ever. He ended up steamrolling through all of them with 4 defenses of the title. The first Raz Matazz fight was probably the most hyped fight among GAMMA fighters to date. Raz won the first round, but ended up losing the fight to a cut, the rematch was a decisive win to Tonal though.

After that, both me and Deamus decided to push Jeremy to the limits and put him up against the worlds best and since September 2011 he has been on his world tour beating top 10 p4p fighters one after one and the rest is history.

What made Jeremy so successful? He has great hidden's, fantastic KO power, untouchable chin, he got the right training to become the complete fighter, so now he can finish you standing, on the ground (with gnp) or even via dirty boxing in the clinch. But most of all it id down to Deamus and his right management and strategy, he seems to always find a "way" in every fight to get himself the win. Do not get me wrong, some of the success comes down to luck, some fights could of went the other way, but overall it was the combination of all those factors.

In honor to Jeremy, dinooo made a great video on the new UFC Undisputed engine for Jeremy, you can see in this video some of his greatest KO's. dinooo tried to emulate some of the KO's as they happened and in the fashion they happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34mMV80dn5M

The order of the KO's:

Jerry Millen
Kalle Reinikainen
Jigoro Kane
Moses Diggs
Budo Rei
Raz Matazz

Jeremy has been #1 p4p since last November

and what happens from this point onwards does not really matter, Jeremy Tonal is easily the best the MMATycoon world has ever seen and probably the best it ever will see.

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