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 This is the most storied rivalry in the game's history dating back to May 2009.
Syn was established a little earlier than GAMMA in the era prior to the diminishing returns. I remember when they were running 3-4 events per week and cashing in on the obvious flaw. By the time we launched the diminishing returns penalty was in place, but by then Syn had already accumulated a bucket load of cash and we were fighting an uphill battle from day 1...........man those were the days.
Syn was the household name at that time, (together with Pride in Tokyo) and we was the start up local org running a close knit product. I am pretty sure that then owner Franky Sin had no idea who we were.
The first "soft exchanges" between the orgs started in that tourney. I remember the time when Syn was against the addition of the "renew contract" option. They were basically making a living from the expiring contracts, so when the admin added the renew contract option late in 2009, it basically saved us from losing a lot of our top talent. One of those top talent was a rookie called Jeremy.
The rivalry heated up when GAMMA decided to send their first fighter outside our borders to compete in what was the greatest event this game has ever seen...........the Original Millionaire tourney! There have been many such tourneys over the years, but to be frank, that was easily the best ever run. For all of you which know their history, you should know that in that tourney the greatest fighter in history was born, Jeremy Tonal.
After the win of the tourney, we got an offer to "sell" Jeremy to Syn, which we rejected (dispite being on a very low budget at the time). This infuriated Syn and the rivalry from that point on was pretty much official. GAMMA started off with 5 straight wins (all by Tonal vs mostly Syn champs at 205lbs and 265lbs). Syn since balanced out the score which now stands at 6-4 in favor of GAMMA.
There have been multiple owners of Syn over the years though, funny enough is that the relationship has always been very prickly with whoever was in charge accross the road. The last super fight between the orgs was way back in June 2014, a win for Syn in a fight between Anderson McGinley v Leighton Matias.
Anyway, we have put our differences on the side for 2 major fights:
Gunnar Steigelmann (196145) vs Chick Bowdrie (210333), Fight taking place on the 23rd of September.
and:
Renan St Juste (102580) vs Ricky Rocker (177654), this fight is taking place on the 10th of October.
Gunnar is the current GAMMA 265lbs champ and is going up against Chick Bowdrie, the current Syn 265lbs champ. Where as Renan is facing the Syn 170lbs champion Ricky Rocker in a fight which could determine the #1 p4p fighter.
With 2 wins Syn can level up the rivalry at 6 wins each, so a lot is at stake here.
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