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 Introduction
Our last weekly review went down well. Got some good mails about it and a few of you have been posting in the Smack Talk thread which I love to see. This week we've managed to have 3 straight events over a 70 rating. Highland 8 was the first event with a very solid profit, so we've paid off the initial loan and have LOADS of arenas booked and fight offers flying out. Some of those upcoming fights feature inaugural title shots as well, so we have an exciting couple of weeks ahead.
IXF has managed to go ahead of us in the Island rankings, but this was completely expected. Our strategy is to focus on those lower hype fighters and work on building loads of fighters up at the once, so it does take us a little bit of time to hit the ground running. Other orgs will focus on higher ratings at the start, while we're more of a long game kind of outfit.
The current gameplan is to get some champions sorted, start working towards filling out the Underground arena, getting the first set of renegotiations sorted and trying to get everyone as active as possible.
The Events
So alas, that brings us to the events themselves. At Highland 6, it was actually myself who reigned supreme in the main event. I don't know what alternate reality I'm living in where I'm winning main event fights, but I'll take it. Shug Skinner (2-0) managed to go through Rory Gracie (1-1) with his strong clinch game. The timing of this worked perfectly as Highland 8 featured another Welterweight bout between Maurice Tillet (3-0) and Tam Calderwood (3-1), with the former winning in destructive fashion. With the ground work laid, Skinner and Tillet will now compete for the first ever Highland Welterweight Title at Highland 16.
Another title fight build from the past week is Jovan Markelic (3-0) against Cathair McKay (3-0) in the Middleweight division. Jovan went through Dalton Dekker (1-1) at Highland 6, while Cathair went the distance with Island Guy (2-1) at the next event. This fight will main event Highland 14.
Some other performances needing to be pointed out include Needle Dick (3-0) who harnessed the power of 1000 micrometers to take out Captain Chaos (2-1). It's now expected that the man with no girth will fight for the inaugural Heavyweight Championship. Sean Martin (2-0) head kicked his way to bonus money against Mike Cozad (1-1), but Apollo Turner (1-2) might feel slighted as he needed just 5 seconds to knock out Kim Tae Won Lumihi (0-3).
Managerial History
Rodrigo Rojas
This Week's Fighters - Ludwig Lachmann (2-1, Highland 6)
Historic Fighters - Pedro Sauer (3-2, 4x Highland Fighter), Rodrigo Rojas (19-15, 25x Highland Fighter, former HG LHW Champion), Benjamin Miles (13-12, 17x Highland Fighter), Leandro Leite (5-5, 2x Highland Fighter), Oliver Dickens (13-9, 19x Highland Fighter, 3x HC WW Champion), Sam Dean (3-3, 5x Highland Fighter), James Krause (23-18, 16x Highland Fighter, 2x HG FW title challenger), Will MacDonald (6-4, 8x Highland Fighter, former HI BW Champion), Thomas Hanson (8-5, 9x Highland Fighter, HI HW title challenger), Rich Casey (2-1, 1x Highland Fighter), Charles Patoshik (1-1 Kickboxing, 2x Highland Fighter), Otto Fibonacci (5-4, 8x Highland Fighter)
Al Van dal
This Week's Fighters - Dalton Dekker (1-1, Highland 6)
Historic Fighters - Lou Hole (16-14, 5x Highland Fighter), Paul Maul (31-29, 12x Highland Fighter), Luna Ploy (6-4, 6x Highland Fighter), Gunnar The Eastern Assassin (3-4, 4x Highland Fighter)
W J Rivers
This Week's Fighters - Piston Hurricane (1-1, Highland 7)
Historic Fighters - Walter White Iv (7-10, 1x Highland Fighter)
Bear Stevenson
This Week's Fighters - Larry Shark (1-0, Highland 3)
Historic Fighters - Some Dude (0-1, 1x Highland Fighter), Harvey Danger (2-2, 1x Highland Fighter), Nuke Laloosh (41-35, 14x Highland Fighter, 2x HG LHW title challenger, Island S4 Winner), Tall Dude (1-0, 0-1 Kickboxing, 1x Highland Fighter), Johnny Beefcake (3-1, 4x Highland Fighter), Tweedle Dum (16-7, 4x Highland Fighter)
Alika Webb
This Week's Fighters - Billy Crawley (2-0, Highland 7)
Historic Fighters - Charles Crawley (11-6, 15x Highland Fighter, former HC LHW Champion)
Power Shark
This Week's Fighters - Needle Dick (3-0, Highland 8 )
Historic Fighters - Darth Vader (38-11-1, 22x Highland Fighter, 3x former HG BW Champion, HG Hall of Fame), Darren Brooks (2-1, 3x Highland Fighter), Texas Pete (31-9, 17x Highland Fighter, former HG LHW Champion, HG Hall of Fame), Darth Mauler (17-5, 7x Highland Fighter, HG FW title challenger), Rick James (27-13, 6x Highland Fighter, former HI WW Champion, Island S5 Winner), Ted Getstoned (7-6, 4x Highland Fighter), Darth Sidious (46-31, 4x Highland Fighter, HI LHW title challenger), Rice Aroni (8-5, 9x Highland Fighter, former HG LHW Champion)
Johnny Lee
This Week's Fighters - Grover Montoya (1-0, Highland 8 )
Historic Fighters - Wilson Wills (22-6, 4x Highland Fighter, former HG FW Champion, Island S4 Winner), Chest Rockwell (11-4, 7x Highland Fighter, former HI LW Champion), Gabriel Munoz (6-3, 3x Highland Fighter)
Crocodile Dundee
This Week's Fighters - Thierry Bailly (0-2, Highland 8 )
Historic Fighters - Portia Perez (0-3, 2x Highland Fighter)
Callum McGregor (Hey that's me)
This Week's Fighters - Shug Skinner (2-0, Highland 6)
Historic Fighters - George Alvarez Jr (5-2, 5x Highland Fighter), Anatoly Petkrovic (5-4, 5x Highland Fighter), Patrick Dean (4-3, 3x Highland Fighter), Teuvo Loman (10-5, 5x Highland Fighter, former HG LHW title challenger), Razor MuayThai (13-13, 22x Highland Fighter, former HG MW Champion), Arnavut Sevket (29-10-1, 22x Highland Fighter, 2x former HG MW Champion, Island S3 Winner), Keijo Virtanen (14-10, 19x Highland Fighter), Tatsuzo Fukuda (8-4-1, 8x Highland Fighter), Tim Woods (12-10-1, 11x Highland Fighter), Warren Parker (16-14-1, 21x Highland Fighter), John Smith (7-5, 3x Highland Fighter), DJ Palmer (4-6, 8x Highland Fighter), Dang Sai (10-12, 18x Highland Fighter, former HC FW Champion), Adisa Afolabi (4-4, 5x Highland Fighter, 2x HC LW title challenger), Dan Small (16-14, 24x Highland Fighter, 2x HG BW title challenger), Shoddy Body (13-11, 2x Highland Fighter), Dick Wad (19-16, 16x Highland Fighter), Ty Semerad (16-10, 17x Highland Fighter), Razval Saraev (19-7, 10x Highland Fighter), Grant Morrison (22-15-1, 23x Highland Fighter, 2x former HG MW Champion), Neil Drake (21-11, 14x Highland Fighter, 4x HG BW title challenger), Dave Kopp (14-8, 12x Highland Fighter), Eric Ryder (0-1, 0-2 Kickboxing, 2x Highland Fighter), Decha Sai (5-4, 7x Highland Fighter), Chuck Everett (3-3, 4x Highland Fighter), Tam MacDuff (4-3, 5x Highland Fighter)
Outro
That manager history section took WAY longer than I expected, so enjoy it!!! Haha. I also feel that it's important to say that my massively impressive managerial history isn't massively impressive at all. I created and trained basically none of those guys. Most of them were just me saving already established HG fighters before promptly running them into the ground! But it's fantastic to get to add that Power Shark resume. One of the greatest we've ever had.
Thanks for reading as always. We have some big weeks coming ahead as we start to crown our new champions so be on the lookout. You'll likely see from above that that we haven't actually had a lot of champions over the years. 105 champions were crowned across 4 organisations and a 2 year span with probably thousands of fighters involved.
More will be added in the very near future.
STAY LOCKED IN!
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