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All time rankings for managers now updated:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PUBoZ76tUVYpy_catEueWyYOFJmuzuShj9IpdqmsMX0/edit?gid=396796386#gid=396796386

Some comments:

Laz Staz (82447) is now pretty much the leader in almost all categories, including wins, total fights, title fights, profile fights and leads the all time points table with 2443 wins. Although it was not his most productive year, he still added to his numbers and the nearest 4 challengers are retired from the game.

Laz's biggest challenger on the top is Runt . (108617) who gained some ground as he added over 40 points during the period. He also moved up a place to 6th all time, surpassing Alika Webb (62511) who is still in the game but with little volume.

As mentioned earlier this week, Action Jackson (123097) had arguably one of, if not the best years, now he is ranked 11th all time and a mere 9 points off the #10 spot.

Marky Mark (22640) also climbed the all time rankings by 3 positions, now 12th all time. Aleksey Nikulin (48376) was also one of those who jumped up the rankings this year, he essentially doubled his totals and is now 22nd all time.

The biggest climbers though, were without a doubt Hare Rumpler (126014) and Alexander Biro (81823). Both are 100% Hall of Fame candidates and will be entering the HOF some time in this year.

My predictions are that the future HOF candidates could be Outlaw Bleak (129257), Akira Shigeru (140932) and P J Jones (123962). They need a solid year to get there, but they are on a good pace at the moment.

Phew! I just completed the yearly stats update for all our managers. This is something i do usually only once a year and it takes a good 3-4 hours to complete. What i basically do is, i update all the stats of our top level managers. The only managers i update are managers who are competing in GAMMA and have won a GAMMA title at some point in their GAMMA career, everyone else is excluded, because it is pretty much impossible to update everyone.

I have been doing this update for over 15 years now and frankly speaking, it is what keeps me interested. I generally love my stats and history and legacy is probably the most important part of the game, comparing the best of today vs those of the past.

Our scoring system is as follows:

4 Points for Win
4 Points for title fight
2 Points for draw
1 Point for loss

Note: Super fights are also worth 4 points, however i do not record them in the update, because it is very difficult to separate such fights in all the data, so i update those during the year on the all time manager list.

Anyway, lets get started!

I would like to start with our NEW ENTRIES! These are managers who managed to win a GAMMA title in the past 102 events (note: I updated the stats from the previous update, which was GAMMA 1044 until the latest event which was 1146). Our new champs are:

Akira Shigeru (140932)
Freak Ja (141668)
Blue Aurora (141089)
Zuc Nibali (131958)
Johnny Marquis (13920)

Among these new entries, Akira Shigeru (140932) had the best year. He ended up with some crazy stats, 26-10 record with 11 of his fights being for the title! His winning % of 72.2% for the period is actually the highest among all managers, even though his total fights of 36 is significantly lower than the fights some of the others had.

Top 10 Based on total Points for the year:

Hare Rumpler (126014) 409
Alexander Biro (81823) 361
Action Jackson (123097) 326
Aleksey Nikulin (48376) 288
Frank Abbot (49418) 223
Runt . (108617) 186
Joe River (13987) 178
Akira Shigeru (140932) 172
Estevão Belmiro (95056) 163
Bloody Gutz (3074) 157

Top 10 by winning % (Minimum of 20 fights)

Akira Shigeru (140932) 0.7222222222
Action Jackson (123097) 0.7115384615
Outlaw Bleak (129257) 0.7096774194
Bowser Big Dog (66844) 0.6363636364
Pablo Spezziale (16996) 0.625
Estevão Belmiro (95056) 0.59375
Laz Staz (82447) 0.5714285714
Aleksey Nikulin (48376) 0.5492957746
Nas Bare (129101) 0.5454545455
Jimmy Normal (121872) 0.5357142857

Top 10 Based on total title fights:

Hare Rumpler (126014) 35
Action Jackson (123097) 34
Runt . (108617) 14
Estevão Belmiro (95056) 12
Akira Shigeru (140932) 11
Aleksey Nikulin (48376) 9
Frank Abbot (49418) 8
Alexander Biro (81823) 5
Laz Staz (82447) 4
Jimmy Normal (121872) 4

It is hard to say who had the best year, Points is a hard one to compare, because there is some managers who had 100 fights and others on the list who had 20 fights. The same applies for winning %, it is hard to compare people who had 2 or 3 times more fights as it is much more difficult to be consistent over a long period of fights.

But, titles, that is a different subject! More title fights means more overall success, so i would say it is between Hare and Action, they essentially won as many titles (Hare had 35 vs 34 title fights for Action), Action won at a higher winning %, but Hare brought in the most numbers, so i guess it between those 2. In the head to head record between the 2, over that same period (Only including the GAMMA fights), Hare was 4-2 vs Action, so lets say that Hare deserves the win :-)

For the full stats for the year, go here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PUBoZ76tUVYpy_catEueWyYOFJmuzuShj9IpdqmsMX0/edit?gid=2081486050#gid=2081486050

GAMMA has announced that the legendary champion, Anthony Falcone (327510) has been inducted to its Hall of Fame!

Anthony Falcone competed in GAMMA from 2020-02-29 until 2022-01-15 and was managed by the all time great, Hall of Fame manager Action Jackson. At his highest level, he achieved #9 ranking in the game.

In total he had 29 fights, ending with a record of 17-11-1, with 13 of those being Fight of the night winners and 10 were by finish.

His biggest success was a 185lbs, where he became a 3 time champ, competing in a total of 12 GAMMA title fights.

He was involved in many memorable fights, the biggest wins being against Bill Newton, Dragomir Savic, Shane Raffington, Blake Phoenix, Papa Moosh Dambullah, Robert MacArthur Jnr.

With this induction, Action Jackson has a total of 2 fighters in the GAMMA HOF and has moved up to 17th in the all time listings among managers.

I plan to be updating the yearly rankings among managers next weekened, so we should see some changes there.

Sunray Spike (275440) HOF Induction

He competed in GAMMA as part of the GAMMA Contenders back in 2018-08-22 and left GAMMA in 2020-09-12. Managed by the legendary Pablo Spezziale who is a Hall of Fame GAMMA manager.

Sunray is a former #7 ranked fighter, who has an all time GAMMA record of 22-11-1, with 20 of those wins being via finish. He also had 12 fights of the night awards. He is a 3 time Super Heavy Weight champion for GAMMA, with 10 total title fights.

Some of his most memorable wins against top 100 competition in GAMMA were over Zdravko Saric, Hennan Hoyce, Dustin Kruger, Brandon Vee, Diarmuid Curry, Closet Case Conservative, Pony Pony, Jason Steele, Hiro Manowaru, Andy Grabber, Thierry Paulin among others.

This is the first GAMMA HOF fighter induction for Pablo Spezziale (16996), shooting him up the GAMMA rankings among managers from 44 to 31.

With Hawk Fleximario being the current MMA Tycoon king of the world and #1 ranked fighter, it was interesting to see how many fighters from the Tycoon Hall of fame competed in GAMMA over the years.

I did some digging up and I just counted that a total of 38 MMA Tycoon Hall of fame fighters have competed in GAMMA over the years! These are fighters who competed in the org either as GAMMA fighters or came over for super fights. That is a total of over 29% from the whole MMA Tycoon Hall of fame.

GAMMA has just got itself a new merch partnership and not just any partner, the #1 ranking clothing company in the game NARCOS!

In the great history of GAMMA, we have had a total of 13 merch partnerships, going back to 2011, when such partnerships were first introduced to the game.

Here is the list of all our partnerships over the years:

Sublime Nutrition - February 2011 till July 2012
Black Hand Fight Gear & Laundry - July 2012 till October 2012
Crippler's Corner - October 2012 till September 2013
Affordable Quality - September 2013 till March 2014
Green160! - March 2014 till December 2015
MayheM sportswear - December 2015 till April 2016
Voodoo Nutrition (4660) - April 2016 till November 2016
Nuggetori's Nutritionals 10% (5044) November 2016 till January 10th 2017
Humanoid Nutrition (160Q for 160$) January 10th 2017 till 30th September 2017
Urban Fighter October 1st 2017 till now November 11th 2023 till November 2023
30th Century Beer Store (7128) November 2023 November 2024
BuriedAlive/ Fight Gear (3653) November 2024 till December 2024
NARCOS (6933) December 2024 Ongoing!

I wish for a long and successful partnership with NARCOS! To buy your NARCOS merch go to the store here:

https://www.mmatycoon.com/clothingpublic.php?cid=6933

Congratulations to Frank Abbott (49418), he became the 50th inductee to the manager wing of the GAMMA hall of fame!

Frank is one of those old school Fin's, part of one of the greatest alliances in MMA Tycoon history, the FinnFighters. He joined the game, way back in early 2011 and has a 868-773-21 in game record. His highest all time rank being #12.

He first competed in GAMMA, way back in 2014-09-28 and his first fighter was Atlas Kivi. At the latest stats update (which was a while ago, last spring), he already had a solid record of 59-59-4, which is 122 total fights, ranking him 26th all time in this category.

Frank has also competed for the title on 2 occasions and also been involved in a super fights as well.

His total of 315 points rank him as the 48th all time greatest manager, but that will go up in the next update.

Overall, one of the most reliable and consistent managers in the game. Never rejects fights and gets the job done, more often than not.

This has been the closest fighter of the year award ever, with it all going to the wire on the last event of the season! We finally have a winner! Here are the final standings:

Hawk Fleximario (381495) 57 Points (14 fights)
Gunner Bond (385133) 57 Points (15 fights)
Oliver Robson (371838) 51 Points (14 fights)
Kurt Zweihander (380144) 51 Points (15 Fights)
Surianglek Sitsongrit (364851) 50 Points
Wusan Ritori (379189) 43 Points
Janko Godwin (385182) 42 Points
Milo Andrianakis (365202) 42 Points
Luuk Benjamin (383963) 41 Points
Sean O Malley (366772) 40 Points
Richard Mesquita (383074) 40 Points

Essentially we have a draw for 1st and 3rd place! However Hawk edged Gunner as he achieved his result with 1 fight less! Oliver also edged out Kurt for the same reason, he had 14 fights, Kurt had 15 fights during the year!

As a reminder, this is how the points are accumulated:

+3 points for a win,
+1 point for a draw,
+1 point if the fight was a title fight or super fight (between other orgs),
+1 point for fight of the night award.
-In the case there is a draw, we take into consideration total fights in GAMMA during the year (fewer the better)
-In the case of a draw again we take into consideration finishes.

Note: Only fights in GAMMA (including super fights) are taken into consideration.

Preview for Fighter of the year awards

GAMMA has been holding it annual awards going back to to when we started the organization, back in 2009, older that some of the people playing the game today.
In that period we have had some all time greats, that are among the best the game has ever seen. Former winners include fighters such as Mikhail Yudovich, Raz Matazz, Jeremy Tonal, Anton Chigurh, Renan St Juste, Jesse Custer, Gunnar Steigelmann, Gerbert Bryant, Bubba Gumption, Thomas Bolleke, Papa Moosh Dambullah, Karim Johnson and last years winner Tam Yu Tai.

Winners of the award are given a total of 100 points that go towards their GAMMA legacy points, 75 to 2nd place and 60 points for 3rd place. So getting a top 3 placing matters long term.

The awards are based using the following ranking system (since 2015):

+3 points for a win,
+1 point for a draw,
+1 point if the fight was a title fight or super fight (between other orgs),
+1 point for fight of the night award.
-In the case there is a draw, we take into consideration total fights in GAMMA during the year (fewer the better)
-In the case of a draw again we take into consideration finishes.

Note: Fight of the night awards are always given to fighters in the top couple of fights on the card, almost always to a title fight or the most hyped fight on the card. Special cases are for KOs or Submission awards, if there is nobody in the main 2-3 fights with a KO or Submission.

Only Fighters with 30+ points as of the 20th of December 2024 and only fighters who won the title during the year are ranked:

Gunner Bond (385133) 53 Points (Fights on 21/12)
Hawk Fleximario (381495) 51 Points (Fights on 21/12)
Surianglek Sitsongrit (364851) 50 Points (Fights on 28/12)
Kurt Zweihander (380144) 48 Points (Fights on 21/12)
Oliver Robson (371838) 46 Points (Fights on 28/12)
Janko Godwin (385182) 42 Points
Milo Andrianakis (365202) 42 Points
Wusan Ritori (379189) 40 Points (Fights on 28/12)
Sean O Malley (366772) 40 Points
Richard Mesquita (383074) 40 Points
Luuk Benjamin (383963) 38 Points (Fights on 28/12)
Alphonse Fuguego (378535) 38 Points (Fights on 21/12)
Miet Cleever (385181) 36 Points
Katsu Yamasaki (387319) 34 Points
Charles Mesquita (383076) 33 Points
Giant Benandonner (386383) 33 Points (Fights on 28/12)

It is extremely close as you can see! In fact, it will be decided in the last 2 weeks of the year. Gunner goes in as major favorite to win the fighter of the year award, with a win he can gain a minimum of 3 points + he can get an extra point if he wins one of the FON awards. However, he is not competing in a title fight, which is what Surianglek and Hawk are doing on the 21st and 28th of the month respectively. It is not impossible for Kurt or even Oliver to sneak into the top 3 with wins at the end of the year, so it will be interesting to see how this ends, good luck to everyone for the final 2 weeks!

Edward Kenway (253483) HOF Induction

Edward was a fighter who competed in GAMMA from 2018-11-17 until 2020-02-22 and was managed by GAMMA legend Power Shark (94407).

After competing on the regional circuit and winning the UGD and DUEL titles, he joined GAMMA late in 2017 and his stay was not very long but highly memorable. In total he had 20 fights for the org, going 12-8-0, competing for the 155lbs belt on 6 occasions.

His biggest wins in the org were against Farboleous Ricard x2, Pat Verbeek, Sala Barbo and Abdel Mumu in a super fight. It was the win against Abdel that gained him world renown as he became the #1 ranked fighter in the game and joined the game's Hall of Fame!

With a total of 191 points, Edward is ranked 63rd in the all time GAMMA rankings. This is also the first induction of Power Shark (94407) in the GAMMA HOF, helping Power increase his own standing among GAMMA legendary managers to now rank 32nd in the all time rankings.