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 MAIN CARD
Main Event
Bantamweight Title Fight
#1 Harald Andersson (8-1, 7-1 NGF) v C-Andrzej Gajewski (17-2-1, 5-0 NGF)
A huge opportunity for Harald Andersson who lost out on his previous title opportunity to NGF Hall of Famer Arthur Pirozhkov at NGF 39. Andersson has won 3 straight since that loss and he has 2 finishes in that time. Andersson is a pure stand up fighter, which may not be good in this matchup, but he has elite take down defense, defending 88% of take down attempts. He can fight aggressive, but he can counter very well. He is outstanding in the clinch, landing 77% of his head punches and 55% of his body punches. He has very good defensive skills, and he is improving his position at a 62% clip. Andrzej Gajewski has been perfect since coming into the NGF; he is 5-0 and has defended his title 3 times. There isn’t anything Gajewski doesn’t do well, he is quick, he can land strikes, he can shot in and get take downs at ease and he can control a fight in the clinch and on the ground. He is averaging 19.9 punches per fight standing and 14.1 kicks so he can hurt you with his feet and hands. This should be one hell of a fight, Andersson can hurt people, he has good power and he can rock his opponents with a single punch. Gajewski is a little more rounded, but he also can knock an opponent down with a punch and then ground and pound until the fight is stopped, but he has stand up power as well. If Harald can defend the take downs, we’ll have a great stand up battle and that could go either way. Take down defense vs take down offense in this one. PREDICTION: Gajewski 3rd round TKO
Co-Main Event:
Light Heavyweight Fight
Gunner Malone (16-7, 1-3 NGF) v #12 Johnny Jackson (12-5, 3-2 NGF)
Gunner Malone is back with the NGF, he came to the organization on a 9 fight winning streak and promptly lost his first 3 fights in NGF. After winning his last against Travis Jones, Malone and NGF inked another contract. Malone will try to start a winning streak by beating Johnny Jackson. Malone has sensational kick boxing and strong Muay Thai but he has a suspect chin and no ground game to speak of. Malone has very good power, he can end fights very quickly, all 16 of his career wins have come by (T)KO. He is super accurate in the clinch, landing 94% of his head punches and 93% of his body punches. He is in every single fight as long as he doesn’t go to the ground, he has lost 3 fights by submission. Johnny Jackson may have corrected things after bouncing back in his last fight after losing 2 straight. Jackson is a very good striker who can hurt someone quickly, but he is also very accurate, he is landing 78% of his stand up head punches, 82% of his body punches 59% of his head kicks and 75% of his leg kicks. It’s his head kicks that you have to defend the most, he has 3 head kick KO’s and a bunch more that have rocked or cut opponents. He’ll take and completely take over a fight in the clinch, he is averaging 15.6 clinch head punches and 7 body punches, he can just overwhelm opponents in the clinch. This is a great fight, neither fighter is much of a ground fighter, so I think we’ll get a pure stand up battle. I can’t wait! PREDICTION: Jackson 2nd round TKO
Heavyweight Fight
#3 Henkka Seppala (4-0 NGF) v #2 Randall Cunningham (12-2-1, 2-0 NGF)
This will be a #1 contender fight between 21 year old KO artist Henkka Seppala and 24 year old striker Randall Cunningham. Seppala has been awesome in his early career, he has finished all 4 fighters the NGF has put in front of him and when he beat Dennis Bird, it was time for him to get a huge test. Seppala is all stand up, he has exceptional wrestling skills, but he uses them more for take down defense more than anything else. He is all power, looking to bash someone’s face in as soon as he can, but he’s not overly wild; landing 62% of his head punches. He uses kicks to take out legs and he counters with nice combinations to earn points. Seppala isn’t a great ground fighter, but he hasn’t been on his back very often. Randall Cunningham is a great fighter, he is smart, he is quick and he is strong. His weapon of mass destruction is his head kick, man; this guy can lift a fool right off his feet with a perfectly placed kick. Cunningham averages 21.7 leg kicks, 7.1 head kicks and 5.5 body kicks per fight in comparison to 8.2 punches. He has done a pretty decent job in the clinch, but he tends to use all knees and not much else there. His defense has been elite as he is holding his opponent to under 43% on all strikes. He is not a ground fighter, but the little time he’s been there, he has shown good ground striking defense. Cunningham tends to be all kicks and knees, and one problem he has, if 2 losses is what you call a problem, is if those aren’t landing, he will be beat. I like Seppala’s power, but Cunningham has the defense to avoid the big power and counter with kicks. These guys both have monster head kicks so who knows, I love this match up. PREDICTION: Cunningham 2nd round KO
Heavyweight Fight
Roman Kowalski (9-6, 6-4 NGF) v #7 Stevie Gonzales (12-1, 1-0 NGF)
10 career fights inside the NGF makes Roman Kowalski one of the organizations vets, he’ll look to fight someone other than Karl Pope! Kowalski is a good fighter, he is pretty good offensively in all areas, but he is just terrible at defense. He has a fighting style that has him with his hands down, often walking straight in and he gets clipped all the time. It’s weird that nobody has changed him at all. He is allowing 75% of head punches to land, 91% in the clinch. The good thing with Kowalski is he usually is the aggressor and he will out strike his opponents. The one area he has not been good at is on the mat, he has been submitted 3 times and he is allowing 48% of opponent’s ground strikes to land. Stevie Gonzales was successful in his first NGF fight and he showed incredible power and strength with a 1st round TKO of Third Dag at SNF 6. Gonzales is 12-1 in his career with 6 KO’s and 4 other TKO’s. He’s a powerful striker who can accurately land punches and leg kicks; he is landing 84% of his head punches and 80% of his leg kicks per fight. He can push away from clinching very well; he likes to stay at kick boxing range for most if not all the fight. He has no ability on the ground; he averages 2.5 take downs from standing per fight and hasn’t completed a single one. His stand up defense is bordering on unbelievable, he is holding opponents to 41% success on head punches and 10% on combos and head kicks, and 22% on leg kicks. We have to see if Roman has been working on anything, but if it’s not on striking defense, then training has been a waste. Gonzales is too powerful and too elusive in my opinion. PREDICTION: Gonzales 2nd round KO
Bantamweight Fight
#5 Matti Teitsi (5-3, 2-0 NGF) v #3 Yoshiteru Goto (10-7-1, 4-1 NGF)
Matti Teitsi is coming into this fight on a 3 fight winning streak with a KO, decision and TKO win. Teitsi is a superb Muay Thai fighter, he will take the fight to the clinch as soon as he can, he is averaging 30.1 punches in the clinch, mostly a dirty boxer fighter, but he has excellent clinch skills. He isn’t a great striker standing, but he is a good counter striker when he needs it. He has shown amazing take down defense and he is successful on 33% of his take downs. On the ground he is a frustrating fighter, he can look so good, but he is so sloppy. He is landing 83% of his ground strikes and he improves his position 78% successfully, but he has been submitted 3 times. It’s hard to believe Yoshiteru Goto was 6-6-1 when he entered the NGF, he is such a good fighter, you would thing he would have 1 or 2 loses. Goto uses an aggressive style, where he’ll get into inside, land big shots and get out, he is excellent at avoiding strikes, he is holding opponents to under 40% on all strikes. Goto has exceptional wrestling, but he is NOT a ground fighter, he is a stand up fighter looking to land strikes with violence and destruction behind them. He has very good kicking and when he’s not pushing the fight, he’ll land on average 9.3 leg kicks a fight, trying to slow down his opponent. This one is not going to be on the ground, we may see kick boxing and clinch fighting, but this will not be a ground fight. I like Goto and his experience in this one, he has only been really weak on the ground, so eliminate that and he’s been dominating, I think that continues in this one. PREDICTION: Goto 2nd round TKO
PRELIM CARD
Super Heavyweight Fight
Paulo Cesar Silva (4-3 NGF) v #11 Vic Miller (6-3, 2-0 NGF)
This is Paulo Cesar Silva’s chance to break into the top 15 by beating #11 ranked Vic Miller. Silva is a different type of super heavyweight, instead of big punching, KO you out power, he has nothing in the way of a stand up game, he is all take you down and wrestle you to death. Silva, shamefully, hasn’t landed a single stand up strike in his 7 fights, he has attempted 3.9 take downs per fight and he has attempted on average, 6.3 ground strikes. He will hurt you with his ground and pound if he gets you down. You couldn’t ask for a more even match up, who hasn’t landed a single stand up strike? Two thumbs pointing at these two guys, weird. Miller has averaged 1.8 head punches per fight, but hasn’t landed a single one. He is successful on 67% of his take down attempts and he then averages 4.6 ground strikes and 2.3 submissions. I don’t think we are in for much in the way of excitement in this one. PREDICTION: Miller 2nd round submission
Light Heavyweight Fight
Vinicius Oliveira (5-4, 5-3 NGF) v Travis Jones (10-4, 6-3 NGF)
Vinicius Oliveira will try and use his bjj skills to work a ground victor in this one. Oliveira isn’t bad standing, he will land a good share of strikes, but he doesn’t have any kicking in his attack. He can be one dimensional and he can be hit too much. He has good submissions skills, so when the fight goes to the mat he will always have a shot. Travis Jones asked for better competition and he got it in his last fight, he was promptly beaten down in the 1st round. Jones is one of the weakest punchers in the division, but he is impressively accurate, he is landing 79% of his stand up head punches, 83% of his body punches and 63% of his leg kicks. Jones will not knock anyone out, but he will out strike everyone, which makes him a judge’s darling. He can be out pointed on the ground, but he has decent submission skills so he can capitalize on a mistake. PREDICTION: Jones decision win
Super Heavyweight Fight
#14 Leopold Stotch (7-4, 2-3 NGF) v #12 Buddy Threadgood (6-5, 5-5 NGF)
This will or should be a fun stand up battle between two good, powerful strikers. Leopold Stotch is a very aggressive big man, he averages 18.2 stand up head punches, but he is only landing 48% of them. Stotch will throw big hay makers and sacrifice accuracy, but he can KO anyone when he connects. Buddy Threadgood began and ended pretty quickly. He has no chin and his career will not last long with the way he gets knocked out. He is skilled and he has KO power, but his defense stinks and he allows too many strikes to land. Someone is getting KO’ed in this one, that’s one thing you can count on. PREDICTION: Stotch 1st round KO
Middleweight Fight
Nigel McHughes (9-9-1, 1-3 NGF) v Meg Didion (5-3, 2-2 NGF)
Oh picking on the girl huh? Nigel McHughes will take on Meg Didion to see if the boy can beat up the girl, ok, not really, but they will fight anyway. McHughes is just not good, he has decent conditioning, but he tends to wear out as the fights go. He can strike well, but he can be out worked in fights, he does a lot like, back up, counter and gets beat up on the ground that causes him to lose decisions. Meg Didion is a woman, that’s right, she is allowed to take TRT to compete with the boys, but it doesn’t seem to give her much of an advantage. We had one training partner that said she learns at a turtles pace, so her skills don’t look like they have improved much from her 1st fight. She is powerful and she can KO someone with her big punching, but she is nothing anywhere else. She is a boxer, no dangerous kicks, no clinching, nothing as far as wrestling skills. She can be taken down and then she is just not strong enough to do anything. We’ll see if we have a stand up battle or McHughes wants to end this fight quickly by taking Didion down. PREDICTION: McHughes 2nd round TKO
Super Heavyweight Fight
Stef Jalz (5-7, 0-3 NGF) v Sawyer Hume (2-0, 0-0 NGF)
Stef Jalz is talented, no doubt, but he just doesn’t have the wrestling skills to compete with the competition he’s faced so far. He has a black belt in bjj, but Jalz is under the impression he’ll be able to use his black belt skills whenever he goes to the ground, the reality is he gets pounded while he goes looking for the submissions. He is a decent stand up fighter, but his NO take down defense kills him, he has been taken down 100% of the time. Sawyer Hume will make his NGF debut in this one and he could be the match up that Stef Jalz has been waiting for. Hume has not gone to the ground in his 2 fights, he is still training his bjj skills, so he doesn’t like to fight on the mat yet. He is a strong fighter, he is quick and he has been a MONSTER in the clinch so far. He just killed Jemarcus Quinn and Grigory Stensky in the clinch, he blitz them by landing 100% of his head and body punches, he destroyed them with elbows, he averaged 11.5 over the 2 fights. He has not been tested yet, he will in this one, so let’s see how good Hume is, because I know Jalz is good if he doesn’t have to worry about getting taken down. PREDICTION: Hume 2nd round TKO
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