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Tonight, from the Pipeline Arena in Hilo, we are LIVE for Fallen Champions: Lost Legends 35. We have an action packed line up for tonight, and below we will look into the upcoming match ups as well as make predictions on who we think might take the win.
Thioon "Amarrão" Phitch (3-3) Vs Nathan Porter (2-1)
-Phitch by TKO (Strikes)-
Karl Eriksson (0-2) Vs "Thumbs Up" Pekka Kaukalo (5-5)
-Eriksson by KO (Punch)-
Jim Dandy (6-5) Vs "Rampage" Matthew Beaver (9-4)
-Dandy by Unanimous Decision-
"The Gilead Gunslinger" Will Dearborn (10-3) Vs Ifeanny Isa (5-2)
-Ifeanny Isa by KO (Head Kick)-
Pops Cama (10-5) Vs Bors "The Elder" Ban (6-2)
-Cama by KO (Punch)-
"Dragon" Boca Naga (10-5) Vs Bolo "Mister B" Young (5-0)
The man with the best hair in martial arts, Boca Naga will re-enter the Fallen Champions cage on Friday night. Naga suffered a decision loss in his last fight, and will want a win to rebuild his reputation here. Boca looks to take opponents down and beat them up, and constantly looks for opportunities to finish the fight.
Mister B has trained MMA for years, but only made his professional debut in September. Since then, he has went 5-0, finishing every opponent with strikes. Young is dangerous from every position, having finished his last two opponents from both the ground and the clinch. To beat him, you must be able to dominant him in one aspect of the game, which will be no easy task.
A difficult one to predict, given the places Young might be able to finish a fight from. I imagine this fight will go crumbling to the floor at some stage. Even though Naga is a good wrestler, I think Young will capitalise on a mistake and that's where they will end up. After working him over with GnP, I predict a Young win.
-Young by TKO (Strikes)-
Tom Waits (8-4) Vs Julio "The Juggernaut" El Torro (6-0)
Tom Waits didn't have the ideal start in MMA. Going 2-4 in his first 6, it didn't really seem like he would amount to much. No one expected him to bounce back with a 6 fight winning steak, including a KO at FC 45. Waits is a very solid Muay Thai striker with very accurate kicks and dangerous knees inside the clinch.
The Juggernaut is a ground and pound specialist. Finishing all 6 of his opponents with punches, in the first round, he is not a man you want to be across the cage from. To some, such a nickname might come across a little self absorbed, but when you look at his abilities, they describe El Torro perfectly.
In another piece of great match making, this should be a barn burner. El Torro will want to take the fight to the ground, work Waits over with ground and pound and perhaps look for a submission. Waits will want to keep the fight on the feet, and if El Torro comes in for a takedown, punish him from the clinch. My prediction is that The Juggernaut will be took powerful, and will take the fight down before finishing with his patented ground and pound.
-El Torro by TKO (Strikes)-
"The Wicker Man" Roman Kersikov (8-0) Vs "Masterbater" Freddy Lee (14-6)
Roman Kersikov has tasted only success in his pro MMA career, having gone 8-0 inside the cage. In his last fight, Roman won the Immortals New York Featherweight Championship, and has relinquished it to get the honour of competing in Fallen Champions. Kersikov's style is to take the fight down when he can. Once on the ground, he will try and work his opponent over with ground and pound, then work for a submission. One strange note in his career is in 2012, when he faced his own brother in a Heavyweight contest, winning by submission. Peculiar to say the least.
Freddy Lee is a veteran of Mixed Martial Arts in New York, and has a lot of fights under his belt. Last November, he made is FC debut, winning by TKO. One month later, he mirrored his first by added another TKO to his resume. In the cage, sometimes Lee can be a bit tentative. He can lose rounds by allowing his opponent to dictate the pace. An opponent thinks they are in control, then BOOM, Lee comes out with a head kick to change the game.
This is actually a very difficult fight to call. If Kersikov can take the fight to the mat, somewhere we haven't really seen Lee, then he might be able to tire him out a bit and earn some rounds. Kersikov is no slouch on the feet either, but I don't feel that he wants to trade with someone as devastating as Lee. One interesting thing to note is that Kersikov is only travelling to Hilo the day before the fight. You have to imagine he may still have some jet lag afterwards. I think this will come down to the takedown defence of Lee, and I think he'll be able to keep the fight up.
-Lee by TKO/KO (Specifically being set up by a headkick)-
Razor Maya (12-4) Vs "The Deliverer Of Siam" Nai Khanom Tom (8-3)
The former Fallen Champions Heavyweight Champion, Razor Maya's last fight did not go the way he planned. After a dominant 5 fight winning streak, each being finished inside allotted time, Maya, despite dominating the fight early on, suffered a TKO loss to Purple Aki. Now, he comes back looking to get back to winning ways, and steak a claim at earning his belt back.
Nai Khanom Tom is a Thailand native, using the Thai boxing style which made his country infamous. Stepping into this fight, Tom is 4-0 in FC, winning his last two fights by TKO. Going up against the former champion is a very big deal, and a win here will put him right in the title picture to face the Heavyweight Champion, whom he has shared the cage with twice in his professional career.
With both men being Muay Thai specialists, this fight is guaranteed to be a spectacular spectacle. Despite both men holding great standards of wrestling and jiu jitsu, history tells us that these guys will want to trade shots on the feet. Between them they have 4 post fight bonuses, and you can only imagine that one, if not both, will add another to their trophy cabinet on Friday Night.
If I have to make a prediction, I would say Razor Maya by KO, based solely on the fact that he's been at the top of the ladder in Fallen Champions and succeeded, while this is Nai's first shot at the big stage.
-Razor Maya by KO (Punch)-
"Bastard" Torrelio Sacana (16-4) Vs Tim "Larix" Askarian (11-5)
At Lost Legends 14, these two warriors met each other in the cage for the first time. Sacana managed to take the fight down straight away, and worked on submissions until he finally locked one in, 6 minutes into the first round.
The second showdown took place just 2 months ago, at Fallen Champions 44. Askarian managed to keep the fight standing and get off some offence early, but a missed kick saw the fight go back to the floor, where Sacana executed the fight as a complete mirror image of their first encounter, working for submissions until one finally finished.
Torrelio Sacana, 16-4, is an outstanding jiu jitsu player with submission finishes to his name. In his last fight, he had a 13 fight win streak halted by Tyson Kahn, and his Light Heavyweight belt snatched away from him. The most impressive thing about Sacana is his improved ground and pound. In his last 5 wins, he has finished opponents with shots on the ground.
Tim Askarian, 11-5, is a Muay Thai kickboxing expert who is 9-3 under the Fallen Champions promotional banner. Opponents have been met by heavy hands, with 7 of them being stopped within the scheduled distance. "Larix" can usually keep the fight standing, a place an adversary doesn't want to be, which allows him to avoid the ground positions where he shows most of his weaknesses.
If Askarian can finally fight off the takedowns of Sacana, this fight should be very interesting, but the smart money goes on a 3rd submission victory for the former champion.
-Sacana by Submission (Kimura)-
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