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 Welcome HARDCORE fans!
We had another great night of fights tonight, and overall the longest lasting event in HFC history in HFC 19 - Qanar vs Vandoren!
In front of 5000 screaming fans, fighters from the HFC as well as some newcomers from both Madness MMA and recently signed prospects threw down their gauntlets and put it all on the line. A show to make ancient Romans jealous, these gladiators went above and beyond tonight.
We saw brutal KO's, slick submissions, a fight so close that the judges couldn't determine a winner, leading to a draw, and not one, or even two, but four decisions left in the hands of the judges. Not the way I like to do business, I like my fighter to take the outcome into their own hands by finishing, but sometimes, the other guy is just another hardcore tough SoB that has no desire to end up on his back.
So without further ado, a quick review of tonight's fights!
205 Dro Qanar DEF Bruce Vanorden (Main Event) Fight of the Night
Our main event of the evening featured Dro Qanar, a long time Madness standout making his bid at a contender spot for the recently vacated championship by the former champ, Aaron "The Runaway Prince" Wolf, and Vanorden, a hungry young fighter who after a quick start found himself with back to back losses and trying to rebound under new management.
In the tale end of round one, Qanar caught Vanorden with a big uppercut putting Vanorden on this ass. Clearly dazed, Vanorden makes his way back to his feet at the bidding of Qanar, seconds later, Vanorden is down again. Again, Qanar waves him to his feet only to knock him down a third time.
Not sure if he should have followed him to the ground and finished off Vanorden then and there, but after somehow surviving that first round, Vanorden fought his way back, cut his opponent, and made it a competitive fight again in the 2nd.
In the third round, Qanar changed things up and from the clinch, dropped the fight to the ground and started working in some BJJ working in nine submission attempts in the final round and controlling the fight from the ground.
Leaving the fight to the judges, Qanar walks away with a unanimous 29:28 decision victory over Vanorden. A dominating performance by Qanar, but despite the loss, Vanorden showed that he's as hardcore as they come, and I look to see him get back up and turn this ship around.
185 Vernon Wells DEF Feaqeuin Bizihwaeile (KO of the Night)
"Bizi" off a loss to former champion Wolf found himself in a new weight class facing a new foe. Vernon Wells with equally as impressive accomplishments in the cage was ready to welcome him to the division.
In a bout predicted to remain standing until one man was put to sleep, this fight did not disappoint as a devastating knee from Wells did exactly that.
Wells looked like the more impressive striker of the two limiting Bizi to only landing just over 30% of his strikes while landing closer to 70% of his own. To add to the impressive display, he mixed his strikes up very nicely throwing a wide variety of strikes from rang and the clinch.
Bizi fought his ass off and didn't seem to worried about the loss here as in his post fight interview he was referring back to "Skitters" in which he referred to the former Wolf of HFC.
155 Shay O Donnelly DRAW Marco Silva
In one of our most experienced fights, O'Donnelly vs Silva was set to be a war, and a war it was. These two fighters have a combined 19 wins between them leading into this fight, and they put that experience to work.
O'Donnelly was far more aggressive from range, but less accurate than Silva, and Silva dominated the clinch. This fight never went to the ground, as expected. This is one of those times that you have nobody to blame but yourself for not finishing the fight, and you could say this one cost either fighter depending on how you scored the bout.
Unfortunately, the judges couldn't determine a winner and the fight was called a Draw.
145 Teshima Shigochiyo DEF Sonny Gilchrist
In a nearly pure BJJ match, as predicted by our very own BH, this was a beautiful display of ground work between two grappling machines. The only miss on his prediction was the end being via a nasty tap out... Neither of these fighters was willing to submit, both probably have ligament damage, and only one would be satisfied with the result.
As the judges scored it, a unanimous decision for the winner, Teshima Shigochiyo.
170 Dixon Ulster DEF Herlock Von Ryan
This fight pitted two warriors with some well rounded skills against each other as Von Ryan took on Ulster to make their bid for the upcoming post-merger rankings.
Another fight without a finish, these two refused to give up. We had a beautiful display of a fight that was all over the place. Strikers slugging it out from range, Ulster pushing the envelope with the clinch, and even found this fight on the ground where neither could better the other.
Overall, Ulster looked the far better striker, more accurate and aggressive, and the judges must have agreed as they awarded him the decision win.
265+ Matthaus Gold DEF Li Qiang
In one of our shorter fights of the evening, super heavyweight contender Matthaus Gold took down the always dangerous Li Qiang by way of first round TKO. Gold had a plan to take this fight into the clinch and work his opponent, and he did exactly that. Not much striking from range in this one, but an amazing clinch display from Gold that would make Randy proud.
With no desire to leave this fight to the judges, Gold finished the job in just under 4 minutes of the first round. The crowd loved it, and Gold showed the fans love after his big win.
There were some very good undercard fights, including one beautiful submission of the night going to Hamada after an impressive display to tap out Flexner. These fighters all deserve an award for their gritty performances, and the HFC is proud to bolster such a talented lineup of gladiators who put it all on the line every time they step into that cage.
Undercards:
170 Ryo Hamada DEF Rovi Flexner (Submission of the Night)
155 Brandin Duncan DEF Albert Lawrence
185 Samson Komua DEF Dre Battle
145 Kevin Walters DEF Charlie Patch
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