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Boba Fett: The Legend Returns

Fighter profile of Calvin J. Candie by Johnny Wonnut

Bold and brash, Boba Fett burst onto the MMA Tycoon scene at just 21 years old. He ripped through the regional circuits with a 9-0 record before he entered the world’s best organization at the time, Blitzkrieg. Blitzkrieg didn’t handle Boba with kid gloves either. His first test was against Sunny Disposition, a beast with vast experience over the young challenger. Hall of Fame manager, Chris Partridge said, “Asking anyone to fight a guy like Sunny Disposition in their first fight in the big leagues is a hell of a thing to ask.”Disposition exploited the weakness that Fett had in his muay thai and, in a very close fight, Disposition handed Boba his first loss. Boba, however, took the loss in stride and utilized it as a learning experience. Sunny’s manager, Gunmetal Grey, boastful with a touch of bravado noted that the Boba “hype train was derailed.” However, the hype train wasn’t derailed…it was only getting started. Igor Psycho, manager of top-ranked Middleweight, Igor Glozman (a man Boba would later knock out), emphatically said that Boba was “the future best fighter in the game.” It’s the promise that Boba has tried to live up to.

After winning two straight fights to follow-up on the Sunny loss, Boba found himself on the precipice of greatness once more. However, he needed to climb over his own personal Mt. Everest, Sunny Disposition. The rematch was ugly. Real ugly. The ugliest fight of either man’s career. However, with his evolving wrestling game, Boba was able to take down Sunny time and time again, en route to a split decision victory. Next up for Fett was the world’s greatest Middleweight, Manny Baddabing.

Boba joined Blitzkrieg for his chance at the greatest and at greatness. At the time he said, “[Baddabing] is the man…[he] hadn’t lost in over four years. Someday, I’d like to be mentioned in the same breath as guys like Baddabing, guys I respect and look up to. To do that, I feel like I’ve got to beat the man.” He went on to say that Baddabing was the number one middleweight in the world and if anyone laying claim to that title would have to beat Baddabing…or whoever beat him.

That’s what Boba did. After surviving a first round scare on the ground, Boba managed to clinch up Baddabing and rocked him with a short right before finishing him off with a massive uppercut. Boba was now the man and anyone wanting that title would have to go through him.

Starting with the second Sunny Disposition fight, Boba went through six straight top ten middleweights. At a time when the number one pound-for-pound spot was controlled by Golden Glory and then Jeremy Tonal, Boba Fett was always there, breathing down their necks. He took on strikers, grapplers, clinch artists, he took them all…

…Until December 31, 2011, when Tito Hopkins handed him the worst loss he had at that point. Relying too heavily on his power and wrestling game, Boba became predictable as Hopkins dominated him in rounds two and three before a doctor’s stoppage late in the third. It didn’t get any better from there for Boba. He travelled to Helsinki to fight Lauri Torni. Boba has said publicly that this was the last time he would travel to fight in Helsinki due to the corrupt nature of the judges. Despite landing almost 25 more strikes than his opponent, and putting his opponent on his back twice, the judge’s scored the fight for Torni.

Boba was lost. He went to the top and crashed back to Earth. He accomplished nearly everything he wanted to in his career, except reach #1, and now, that goal seemed unattainable. In order to put his career back on the right track, he entered the Synchronicity $2,000,000 tournament. The old Boba Fett look like he was back. He blazed out to the elite 8 before he ran into the buzzsaw, Big Pox. Fett had beaten Pox earlier in his career via first round TKO. He assumed this match would yield more of the same on Fett’s march to glory and the final four, but Pox was a different fighter now. Pox, in the rematch, handed Boba the worst loss of his career. Pox went on to win the entire tournament. Boba went back to the drawing board again.

For the first time in his career, Boba went up a weight class to fight at light heavyweight. The results were a mixed bag against Ryo Narushima, but Boba escaped with the victory.

Then, Boba took on former Middleweight of 2011 contender, Karl Denke, and then, the man who beat Jeremy Tonal, William Mackenzie King. In defeating the GAMMA 185 and 205 champions, Boba had positioned himself to fight Big Pox in their trilogy battle.

In a complete turnaround from their last fight, Boba dominated Pox in a way that no one had for months since the Syn tournament began. Up three rounds to none, in the fourth round Boba managed to land a takedown directly into the mount where he pounded away on Big Pox before the fight was called.

With that victory, Boba did what very few have accomplished. He returned to the top ten pound for pound list after being absent for more than seven months. Boba is back on the precipice of greatness, looking to achieve the one goal that eluded him, the #1 ranking. He continues that goal against #9 pound-for-pound fighter, the light heavyweight, Mason Archer, on August 18. A victory, with the right amount of luck, could push him to be number one.

 

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