2013-10-26
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SPNY 124 Preview by R.George

Event Preview: SPNY 124: Surov - Van Winkle
Steel Penn - ICON
2013-10-26, New York, Liberty Dome
Author:The Dictator

Welcome to the Liberty Dome in New York for SPNY 124. Tonight’s MMA rules card will be headlined by the Middleweight Title fight between Champion Alexei Surov and the challenger Robert Van Winkle. The undercard will be headed up by what most are expecting to be a Light Heavyweight Title eliminator between Oscar Salcedo and Haloti Gnata.

Main Event: Middleweight Title

Alexei Surov (c) 24-10 (2-0 SPNY) vs Robert Van Winkle 19-8 (2-0 SPNY)

Back from his latest round of Superfights to defend his title Surov represents the pinnacle of ground fighting; not only was he a champion wrestler in his native Russia he is also a red belt in BJJ. Surov has near perfect grappling technique, managing to submit his opponent in half his wins. His only true weakness in the past has come against fighters trained in Muay Thai boxing.

Van Winkle faces the amazing situation that as a former USA Olympic wrestling representative and a bl
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SFL 61 Review.

Event Review: SFL 61 Stanley vs Tyson
Evil Empire
2013-10-25, St Petersburg, Kazan Sambo Center
Attendance:7,708, Event Rating:300
Author:Jax Rostenkowski

SFL 61: Stanley vs. Tyson kicked off last night (this morning? Afternoon? Who knows what time it was in Russia. It may have been tomorrow afternoon.) at the Kazan Sambo Center, and by all accounts was a roaring success. The two main themes of the evening were watch out for uppercuts and last minute subs. all three submission victories were by triangle, and two of the victims tapped with less than five seconds left in the round. The event scored a 299.79 rating, the highest at SFL (at least in recent history) and featured a full night of exciting fights. If you were unfortunate enough to miss it, here's what happened:

145 lb- CAOL UNO def ASHLEY HENDRICKS via TKO 4:55 R2 Hendricks won the first round with a takedown, but was unable to mount an offensive plan from the top. Uno kept chipping away with jabs and combos, and eventually landed a nice shot that put Hendricks to sleep late in the second round.

155 lb- JOSEPH MONTFERRAND def YO ESHIM
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Taj al Din defeats AJ Hearts via TKO @ SPFT 129

Fighter profile of Taj al Din by Chris Karter

RP: Huge win for you tonight! Congrats. How do you feel coming off your KOTN victory over AJ Hearts?

Taj: Thank you, but I am very disappointed with my performance.

RP: I wasn't expecting that reply, why do you feel that way? The crowd and the owners really enjoyed the show tonight.

Taj: I had his back early in the first round but I couldn't secure the submission. I was full of energy but I couldn't lock it in. This is something we will need to
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Steel Penn Joins GEG

Global Association of MMA, Fight Organization, London
Company profile by Mentor Guru Corleone

It is a proud day for GAMMA and for the general community because as of today, one of the world leaders of the org business, Steel Penn - Hilo, becomes an official member of the Global Elite Group (GEG).

GAMMA has always been famous for being one of the beacons and homes of top level super fights and over our history we have arranged well over 100 of them against other top level competition worldwide and In July 2013, GAMMA became one of the founding members together with Versus in London and TTFC in
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GAMMA Gossip#40

Global Association of MMA, Fight Organization, London
Company profile by Mentor Guru Corleone

Coming to you is the Tycoon worlds greatest one man show Mentor and i present to you edition #40 of the world famous GAMMA Gossip!

***General news***

- This week GAMMA bid fairwell to Las Vegas in the Wandalay Bay with a 400+ rating PPV headlined by current 205lbs champ Adis Djurdjevic. As of this week our events will be held in LA and London.

- Balthasar Oosteroom beat Marco Maganin in their "loser retires fight". Marco has now officially retired, where as Balthasar has moved down to the GAMMA: Battleground to continue his development.

- Syn rejected the annual events with GAMMA after GAMMA had already positively reacted to their proposal. Apparently they had some "72 hour deadline" to their offer which nobody knew about. Inside informants say that they simply wanted to prolong their fighters careers due to the obvious beating they were likely going to receive.

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HFC 22

Event Preview: HFC 22 (185)
Hopkins Athletics Fight Club (210k+)
2013-10-26, London, The Underground - London
Author:King Scooby

Hopkins Athletics Fight Clubs has put together an exciting event set for this Saturday at HFC – 22 to follow up Dominance last week. Check the smack talk threads as Juju said he’s the guy everyone needs to watch out for.

Johnny Rocket and Bonanza Cartwright we square off in the battle of winless wonders and Paris Alexandros and Ricky Figuera will have a Muay Thai contest. Both Manong Emong brothers will get an opportunity to improve their record in the cage, 1 will take on Gray Vick and 2 will take on Gary Vines and also The hound Baskerville will look to outmuscle Rory Dino.

The 3-0 Nightmare Farmery is looking to extend his unbeaten streak again but it wont come easy for him as Ovlla Joikhaaja stands in his way, literally. Ovlla is I no form an excellent standup fighter, but he however has a strong advantage in the standup over Farmery. He is a fairly average striker who generally looks to take his opponents down and control
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Unlikely success - Zane Peltier"s rise to Syn.

Editorial by Jolon Williams

Zane Peltier

22 - 6 - 0

If anyone had said early on in Peltier's career, that he would be destined for greatness, that person would have probably been met with, in the least, a rather skeptical gaze. An unremarkable fighter under the management of an unremarkable and then barely known Jolon Williams, Peltier didn't have a lot going for him. With Williams' stable still in the dawn of it's creation, and the world's economy being a far weaker one that it is now, the fighters in his care could not afford the private training that Williams stable fighters enjoy today. Peltier spent the majority of his youth in a dirty, ill equipped and cramped public gym for his training purposes, and despite his eagerness to learn, simply was unable to reach any true potential.

''It was terrible, absolutely terrible. This absolutely rundown gym in the middle of nowhere, even for Rio. But it was the only place available at the time, the only place we could afford. I had to make the best of it, but always in the back of my mind, I kept thinking. What if? What if this is why I lose? Because I simply didn't have access to the same kind of training as I kn
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Catching up with the Fatu Brothers

Editorial by Jonah King

So King Arthur sent me a text about a month ago and ask me if I'd check and see what the Fatu brothers have been up to since leaving Fallen Champions. So being the good little reporter that I am, I got started by doing some research on the interweb.

I found that Eddie Fatu, who fought 4 times for Fallen Champions at Super Heavyweight and went 2-2 but his 2 losses were against 2 future Champions in Icarus Ritter and Cyrus the Virus, has recently moved down to 265lbs and joined up with Hilo Fight League where he won hes last fight by cut stoppage in the first round!

Solofa Fatu has recently signed up with the newly reinvented Syracuse FC and has a fight scheduled for the first of November. Solofa who started out his FC career at Heavyweight, but after he lost a pair of fights to Charlie Clock he decided to make the move to Light Heavyweight he fought 10 times total and finished with a record of 6-4 but seemed like he just couldn't get the job done when it counted most. There was talks going around before both fighters left they were going to fight one another in a loser retires match, but the match kinda fell through.

After I got this information, I gave a call to Mr Cropper over at Hellraiser's INC, he gave me the address to where I could find Eddie, but he said that he hadn't seen Solofa for awhile but when he did he would give him my information! So I headed over to the east side of the Island to the address t
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BFT - 243 Review

Event Review: BFT-243: Atsushi vs Malaipet 2
Blunt Force Trauma
2013-10-20, Sydney, Hard Knocks - Sydney
Attendance:3,000, Event Rating:283
Author:

 BFT - 243 Review

Heavyweight - The former BFT Heavyweight Champion Laguna "Buzzsaw" Lunaris Unanimous Decisioned finisher in all his victories "The Freak" Brock Lesnar
 
The first round started and Lunaris went for the takedown. He didn't doo to much, but he got Lesnar on his back. On the feet, they clinched up. That is where Lunaris works best. He worked on Lesnar with some elbows, cutting him open. Round 2 got started and Lesnar cut open Lunaris with a stiff right hand. Lunaris clinched things up, but Lesnar took the fight to the mat. The ref stood them up, but lesnar took the fight back to the mat. He went for an armbar, but it was no dice. Lunaris clinched things up and the round closed up. The third round got started and Lunaris was able to hop in the clinch once more. Lunaris was able to to cut Lesnar some more and Lesnar dove down for the takedown. He couldn't get anything off, and it was Lunaris that was able to walk away with the decision. 
 
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