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NGF 44

Event Preview: *NGF 44*
New Generation Fighters
2013-03-30, St Petersburg, Hard Knocks - St Petersburg
Author:Chad Didion

MAIN CARD

Main Event

Light Heavyweight Fight

#3 Scotty Bennet (13-0, 0-0 NGF) v #17 Noob Saibot (7-2, 1-0 NGF)

What a main event, two monsters in the light heavyweight division will battle it out.  We finally get to see Scotty Bennet in action, this exceptional fighter has not lost yet and he has 12 TKO wins.  Noob Saibot has just 2 loses in his career and he is coming a 1st round submission win at NGF 38.  Bennet, a stand up fighter, has monster power; he’ll look for the big punch and rock an opponent early.  The amazing thing about Bennet is he has fought his last 6 fights as a super heavyweight, so he’s 7-0 at light heavyweight and 6-0 at super heavyweight.  He has a brown belt at bjj, but he’ll spend no time there.  He’ll take a fight in the clinch, where he has deadly elbows; he is landing over 65% of his punches so far in his career.  He also has fantastic defensive skills, he just doesn’t get hit that often for a guy who’s fought at the heavier weight classes.  Noob Saibot, a black belt in bjj is very deadly on the ground.  He has completed 20% of his sub attempts, one of the highest % in the NGF.  He averages close to a takedown and a half per fight and he has completed 46% of them.  Once he’s on the mat, he’s all about improving and getting a submission quickly.  He can stand also, he has wonderful boxing skills and he averages 18 punches per fight.  This looks awesome on paper.  I think Bennet will finally have to work on the ground, but while the fight is standing, this is FOTN material.   PREDICTION:  Bennet 2nd round TKO/ BETTING LINE:  Bennet -182, Saibot +147

Co-Main Event: 

Welterweight Fight

#12 Yusuke Urameshi (8-4, 0-0 NGF)v #4 Allan Starsky (9-2, 1-1 NGF)

Allan Starsky will try to move back into the title picture and get back to his winning ways against NGF rookie Yusuke Urameshi.  Starsky got a title shot pretty early in his NGF career, after getting a win in his debut he was given his opportunity.  He lost by a 2nd round TKO at NGF 36, but he has said he’s hungrier than ever to get back to the top.  Urameshi is a former Torment MMA champion and he brings a real nastiness to the NGF.  Urameshi fights with a edge and he’s pretty damn scary out there.  He has 7 TKO victories and he can end fights with nasty head kicks as much as he can with punches.  Yusuke is a wonderful striker; he is landing 79% of his head punches, including 11 for 11 in his last fight.  He also has deadly kicks and what is real scary is he is not only deadly with the kicks, but super accurate, he averages over 15 leg kicks, 8.9 body kicks and 5.6 head kicks and he lands at 86%, 77% and 64% respectively, in a word…damn!  It’s clear what his weakness is, his chin.  He has been KO’ed in all of his 4 loses and for a guy who gets struck so few times, that is a real concern.  Starsky will test that chin, Allan is a huge striker with 1 punch KO power.  An exceptional boxer with wonderful wrestling, Starsky is strictly a stand up fighter.  He has not been good in the clinch, which is an area Urameshi may attack, and he hasn’t been on the mat much, but he in the little time he has been there, he’s been submitted.  Starsky doesn’t possess much in the way of a kicking game, in fact, it’s almost nonexistent.  What Allan does possess is a brutal punch and when you land 69% of them, watch out.  Can’t see this one going more than a round or maybe a round and a half, a great stand up fight that could see the KOTN.    PREDICTION:  Starsky 1st round KO/ BETTING LINE:  Urameshi -117, Starsky -104

Heavyweight Fight

#6 Oleg Alekseev (9-5, 5-3 NGF) v #4 Polish Engineer (8-4, 3-1 NGF)

Oleg Alekseev is trying to get back to a title fight, he feels he can, but he will first have to go through Polish Engineer who is 4-1 in his last 5.  Alekseev was KO’ed in his last fight by Patricius Satanae by a superman punch.  Oleg, I’m sorry, is one of the most boring fighters in the entire organization.  He has remarkable boxing skills but he refuses to show them.  He will not throw a stand up strike, ok, I should say, he will not, he’s averaging just UNDER a strike per fight.  He will shoot for takedown from the start of the fight, he’s averaging 3.8 per fight and he’s completing 26% of them.  Once on the ground, Alekseev will go to work, averaging 21 ground strikes per fight and he lands 43% of them.  If Alekseev takes you to the mat, it’s usually over; his sensational wrestling skills are a clear advantage over anyone he faces.  Polish Engineer has a tuff matchup here; he is a polar opposite of Alekseev.  Where Alekseev wants to get a fight to the mat, Engineer wants to keep it standing.  Engineer has very good power with 7 (T)KO wins and he can do it with his feet and fists.  He holds a clear advantage standing, but his weakness is his ground work, he is an exceptional wrestler, so this one will be interesting.  Alekseev isn’t great at defense, he gets hit a lot and Engineer could end this fight if he can catch Alekseev enough.  This will be a battle of Alekseev’s chin vs Engineers takedown defense.   PREDICTION:  Engineer 2nd round TKO/ BETTING LINE:  Alekseev +106, Engineer -130

Lightweight Fight

#8 Lance Rock (8-7, 6-2 NGF) v #3 Clean Jaude Damn Vame (4-2 NGF)

Lance Rock will make his lightweight debut in this one against a very tuff opponent in Jaude Damn Vame.  Rock came back to the NGF after being away for about 3 months.  When he came back he called out a lesser opponent in Ed Gein, who took the fight, and after a anticipated beat down of Gein, Rock moved to the 155 division.  Rock is well rounded in every area, a sensational boxer and wrestler and also holds a brown belt in bjj.  What he does well is land heavy punches, he has 5 KO wins out of his 8 wins and he looks for that one devastating punch.  He doesn’t land at a real high percentage, but he has some of the best power in the division.  Out of his 15 career fights, he’s only had 5 go past 1 round and he’s 2-3 in those 5 fights.  His conditioning is in question and so is his style, he will tend to load up for the one big punch too much, and he can get worn down if a fight goes longer than 1 round.  Clean Jaude Damn Vame has just 6 fights in his career and he already has 2 OTN awards.  An uber exciting fighter, Vame will come at you with a arsenal of weapons, kicks, punches and flying knees to name a few that he likes to use.  He has mainly stayed on his feet in his 6 fights; he loves to use kicks, averaging over 27 kicks per fight.  He also likes to use his wrestling skills to get late takedowns to win rounds and he lands 33% of ground strikes too.  He has very good defensive skills; quick feet and head movement have caused opponents to land only 40% of punches.  This is gonna be good, I’m super excited about this one!   PREDICTION:  Vame 2nd KO/ BETTING LINE: Rock -141, Vame +115

Lightweight Fight

#22 Jack Fry (11-6, 0-1 NGF) v #11 Varshik Gerich (9-3 NGF)

We have a fight between a 30 year old mma veteran in Jack Fry and a 12 fight NGF veteran in Varshik Gerich.   Jack Fry lost his NGF debut at Fight Night 17 vs Kyun-Chul Kim by a decision.  Fry looked good in that fight and he’ll look to even his record a 1-1 with a win.  Fry his a strange fighter to watch, it’s almost like he’s upside down or something, meaning instead of his hands he uses his feet for jabs.  He is averaging 32.8 leg kicks a fight and over 56 kicks total per fight.  He is a marksman with his accuracy, he lands head punches at an 81% rate, body punches at 64%, and kicks at 67%.  His weak points are one he doesn’t hit with a lot of power, his kicks are very powerful, but he doesn’t have great punching skill and also, he’s terrible on the mat.  If Fry gets taken down it’s almost like he gives up, he doesn’t improve and he usually can get grounded out.  Varshik Gerich also doesn’t have much skill or power in his punching, but he can kick like a mule.  Just like Fry, Gerich will kick more than he’ll punch, he also averages 56 kicks per fight, but he has a slightly less land percentage.  Gerich has shown good defensive skills, he is hard to strike and unlike Fry, he has been pretty good on the ground.  Gerich is a more rounded fighter I feel then Fry, Gerich could get this fight to the mat where I think he could dominate.   PREDICTION:  Gerich 2nd round TKO/ BETTING LINE:  FRY -199, Gerich +160

 PRELIM CARD

Welterweight Fight

#25 Jongsanan Fairtex (6-2, 0-2 NGF) v #21 Pavel Petrov (5-5, 1-3 NGF)

Jongsanan Fairtex came into the NGF on a 6 fight winning streak, he is now 6-2 after back to back loses in the NGF.  Fairtex came in with such hype, he was an exciting fighter who was said to have a good gas tank and fight well in 2 of 3 areas of mma, he hasn’t shown those skills yet.  Fairtex is a strong stand up fighter and surprising, he’s shown great skill with his Muay Thai, which wasn’t the book on him.  He averages over 22 punches a fight, but he’s only landing 38% of them.  He hasn’t shown a single kick yet either.  I’m not sure what the weakness or strength is for Fairtex, he’s a very good fighter, he’s just gone up against two very good fighters who out fought him in the NGF.  Pavel Petrov is a really good fighter, he has shown very good conditioning, he has power, but he can tend to just stand there in front of his opponents, staying in their range and when he gets frustrated it leads him to throw wild strikes that are not going to land.  Petrov has wonderful wrestling skills, and I think he should probably use them more, although he’s a dangerous striker, he just doesn’t land as many strikes as you would like.  Fairtex has striking advantage in this one, I like him to be able to land a lot more strikes in this one then Petrov, and I think he can get the win.  PREDICTION:  Fairtex 3rd round TKO/ BETTING LINE:  Fairtex +106, Petrov -130

Middleweight Fight

#25 Bennie Wilson (5-5 NGF) v #13 Ivan Dulin (5-2, 0-0 NGF)

Another promising NGF rookie will make his debut on this card, Ivan Dulin will face the NGF veteran Bennie Wilson.  Dulin comes into this one on a 4 fight winning streak after answering some questions about his conditioning after going the distance in his last fight.  Dulin has a lot of power, but more than power, he seems to have an ability to really cut people with slicing elbows and quick punches, he has cut his opponent in 5 of his 7 fights, with 2 of them being stopped due to those cuts.  He’s a sensational stand up fighter, he prefers to be in the Muay Thai clinch, if things go according to his plan, he’ll spend most of the fight in the clinch.  He is a very accurate striker; landing high percentages in all areas, but where he’s deadly and flat out scary is with his elbows in the clinch, he is landing 53% of his averaged 22 a fight.  After 7 fights, it looks like has one weakness, it’s his wrestling and bjj, he hasn’t been very good once he has gotten to the mat.  A glaring weakness is his submission defense, it has been terrible so far as both of his losses have come by submission and he hasn’t been able to fight off a submission yet.  Bennie Wilson has pretty much settled into his career path, a guy who’s going to lose one, win one.  He is a average skilled fighter who does have good power.  He has 4 (T)KO wins and he has been (T)KO’ed 5 times.  He’ll throw a ton of strikes in a fight, but he doesn’t land a high percentage of them, he will load up and look for the big blow.  He has been fine on the mat, although he hasn’t spent much time there.  He does work the clinch, but if he does in this fight he’ll get destroyed.  Is biggest weakness is he tends to stand right in front of someone, becoming a punching bag.  His defensive skills have been awful, but he has been solid against takedowns.  This fight will go to the clinch and Dulin will dominate this fight.     PREDICTION:  Dulin 2nd round TKO/ BETTING LINE:  Wilson +117, Dulin -144

Heavyweight Fight

#18 Armand Battailen (6-3, 2-2 NGF) v #19 Dwayne Johnson (4-1, 2-1 NGF)

This is a fight between two young fighters trying to move up the ranks and make a name for themselves in the NGF’s heavyweight division.  Armand Battailen is a lost fighter right now, after starting off his NGF career 2-0, he stepped up in competition and he has lost 2 straight now.  He has gone back to training in areas that he thought he was weakest at, so let’s see how that has worked.  Battailen is a very good stand up fighter, he has power to KO and he has kicks that are accurate and deadly.  What Armand likes to do is get in the clinch and punish opponents head and body with knees, his knees to the body has been a very good weapon so far, he has landed 74% of his knees to the body, and he averages almost 13 per fight.  A possible problem is the cuts Battailen has been getting lately; he has been cut in his last two and 3 of his last 4 fights.  Quick note, Armand Battailen was once John Turner, but changed his name and appearance when he joined the NGF.  Dwayne Johnson  will be over 25 lbs heavier than Battailen in this fight and that might cause problems for Armand.  Johnson has remarkable wrestling skills, but he has yet to attempt a takedown in his career from standing, he has gotten 50% of his takedowns from the clinch.  He has been pretty great in the standup positions, boxing and clinch.  He has been simply awesome in the clinch, this is where he has beaten up his opponents, he has landed 100% of his head punches and he has landed 95% of his elbows, he is averaging 8 elbows per fight.  Through 5 fights, DJ has been pretty dominating, so he hasn’t shown many weaknesses, his only loss has been against a massive puncher in Kullervo Pelli who knocked him out in 5 seconds…Pelli tends to do that to a lot of fighters.  I think all signs point to Johnson in this one, but I think it could be a really good fight and maybe a FOTN candidate.  PREDICTION:  Johnson 3rd round TKO/ BETTING LINE:  Battailen -111, Johnson -111

Featherweight Fight

#21 Mark Reynolds (1-0 NGF) v #20 Dirk Diggler (4-4 NGF)

 This one is a pick’em fight between two young guys, one with more experience than the other.  Mark Reynolds came into the NGF and won his debut with a FOTN award winning victory over Stefan Burczymucha at Fight Night 18.  Reynolds looked impressive in that one, landing all his strikes, avoiding all of Burczymucha’s strikes and showing good finishing power.  He’ll be tested in this one with a NGF veteran in Dirk Diggler.  Diggler hasn’t been able to get on any sort of winning streaks, but what he is very entertaining, he has 3 FOTN awards and he was part of the Slugfest of the Season for season 4.  The “Dong” is decent in all areas, but he looks stronger as a boxer.  Diggler is averaging 39.5 punches per fight, so he can be overwhelming at times.  He has looked solid in the clinch as well as he has been the more active fighter in clinch situations.  He has not been great on the ground, but he has improved his positions at 71% so that’s ok.  He hasn’t shown great defense against any sort of kicks, so this could be an area that Reynolds tries to go after, although we do not know Reynolds kicking skills yet.  This could be a really good stand up fight, I’m actually really looking forward to seeing how this fight shakes out. PREDICTION:  Diggler decision win/ BETTING LINE:  Reynolds +178, Diggler -233

Featherweight Fight

#25 Josef Urrah v #24 Harrold Scott

Here is a fight between two MMA rookies making their career debuts with the NGF.  Both these guys are 21 years old and both look very promising.  The book on Josef Urrah is he’s a very good boxer with decent wrestling skills and developing Muay Thai skills.  We’ve also learned he’s a former soccer goalkeeper with a degree in electrical engineering…all this by 21?  Huh, wow.  Anyway, he is said to have quick feet and will look to do damage on his feet.  Harrold Scott is said to be a skilled stand up fighter who has superb Muay Thai skills.  We are told he has good elbows and knees, but his kicks are his best skill.  Not much we know about these two guys, lets learn together.   PREDICTION:  Pick’em/ BETTING LINE:  Urrah -111, Scott -111
 

 

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