1) CHRISTIAN GRAUGART vs. SONNY NIELSEN: This is at 77KG which is like, not heavyweight. 3 5 minute rounds.
Graugart gets a TD and mounts pretty early on. BOMBZ are thrown and the other dude is no good, so he just gets hit and flails a lot until using the fence to reverse position and end up inside the guard. Graugart sweeps him momentarily and is utilizing a high closed guard to prevent anything from happening while he's on his back. Nielsen tries to get out and is armbarred. Graugart has done nothing since. (0)
2) JOAKIM ENGBERG vs. SKI SVIRSKIS: At 77KG again.
Engberg with takedown immediately, and lies inside the guard. Svirskis is kinda active off his back with punches that do nothing. engberg pushes him into the fence. Svirskis goes to rubber guard, fails to do anything, Engberg escapes, and starts throwing punches and elbows, most of which land. this continues for some time until the inevitable stoppage. Engberg is still on the European circuit. (0)
3) MARIO STAPEL vs. THOMAS HYTTEN: 77KG bout. Stapel is the biggest MMA fighter in Germany, capable of selling out venues that seat 2000. Its like being the most famous grindcore band in Japan.
Staple with a flying front kick that doesn't land, into clinch. Hytten is able to pin him against the cage and get underhooks. Stapel is much bigger, actually. Did I mention that being the best MMA fighter in Germany doesn't mean you're very good? If some nobody from Norway can get underhooks and take you down, your chances with like, Tyson Griffin are not good. Hytten stands out Stapel's guard and in an attempt to punch him gets his leg hooked. He punches his way out, Stapel rolls around a little, and Hytten is in half guard, then to side control. Stapel regains half guard, then sweeps, goes for a single, and is caught in a guillotine. Hytten can't sink it, and Stapel pops his head out after some frightening moments. Much laying occurs, and the crowd is stunned with such excitement, they are speechless. Round ends.
We enter the second round, and it starts with bad linear standup into a clinch, this time initiated by Hytten. Stapel is looking for a single and eventually succeeds, but just ends up standing out of it so they can clinch again against the cage. Slow dirty boxing until Stapel pulls guard. More laying. Hytten stands, throws some half hearted leg kicks, Stapel gets a heel trip, and then stands again to throw leg kicks of his own. Butt scoot inactivity = worst. It goes on for awhile too. Stapel jumps through the guard, is kinda slow doing it and doesn't succeed, then tries to get a leg lock. They trade heel hooks for the rest of the round and are motionless doing so.
A third round! Thrilling! They paw at each other for awhile this time, only ceasing to do so to throw big kicks that don't land. Hytten throws awful punches, Stapel spins him around, but then gets spun himself and Hytten takes his back standing. Somehow, they both go to the ground and they are looking for leglocks. Hytten gives up a knee bar and Stapel tries rolling into it to lock it up, but ends up losing the leg and has Hytten in half guard on top. A punch is thrown by Hytten, meaning that they're just not good enough to remember to GnP, not that this is a gentleman's agreement. Stapel sweeps, passes guard to side control, and Hytten turns over and goes for a single to get back in top where he can be delightfully inactive. He pushes for it and pushes for it and there is more grappling where no one actually moves. Stapel briefly tries to get up and fails. Hytten tries to pass guard by going through the right leg of Stapel. Round ends. Dull fight that I give to Stapel 29-28. Hytten wins, and since this, he's gone on to lose to Sergey Golyaev in ZST. Stapel will probably lose to someone in the UFC. (1)
4) KIM HOVGAARD vs. AARON BLACKWELL: 70KG bout. Blackwell looks to be 14.
Headkick by Hovgaard real early on that is awesome. Blackwell responds by shooting a double, and he does get the fight down. He stands out of the guard and starts throwing some spinning kicks and shit. Another single leg attempt is defended by Hovgaard, so he goes for a double. Hovgaard spins to Blackwell's back and puts in both hooks, but he's high enough up that Blackwell can turn himself around. Lots of scrambling on the mat and both men end up standing again. Not a bad fight, though a little substandard technically. Kicks and clinching again, with Hovgaard getting Blackwell down and mounting him. Blackwell gets half guard but still absorbs a lot of punishment. Hovgaard goes for a leg lock, but can't sinch it up, and the ref stops the fight for a low blow by Blackwell, and stands them up. Hovgaard with a big right hook, then follows with a flying armbar, which he actually gets and wins by. Sadly, Hovgaard hasn't fought since 2004. (1)
5) MARK EPSTEIN vs. TRAVIS LUTTER: Woah. That's an upgrade in matchmaking.
Epstein with some punches that don't land, Lutter with a takedown and into half guard. Epstein is going for a guillotine he has no chance of getting. In wasting his time, Lutter passes to side control and pops his head out. Knee on belly and some punches from Lutter, who is just controlling poor Epstein. Very transparent armbar setup, but Lutter just grapevines the arm and lands some shots in the Hughes crucifix position before giving that up. More knee on belly, and that finally leads to an armbar attempt. Epstein defends it and somehow bucks out, but again Lutter is on top, this time in mount. He returns to side control/knee on belly, then transitions back to mount and doesn't do much initally. Epstein tries to bridge and isn't even close. Lutter is taking us to lay and pray city with his Sherk like fight method of "change position once every 30 seconds, do nothing". Round ends.
Second round mirrors the first. Lutter with immediate takedown. This time they edit the fight and we see Lutter go from side control to mount back to side control. Usually I hate clipped bouts and don't rate them. This will be different. Epstein finally tries a serious escape and gets his back taken and a choke sunk in almost instantly. (3)
6) MARTIN KAMPMANN vs. TONI VIVAS: Another interesting fighter in Kampmann, Vivas is a step down from Epstein though.
Vivas has no standup and Kampmann lands some short shorts that are rather bothersome. Vivas clinches and holds on tight. Waltz around the ring with Kampmann throwing knees to the body and trying to shake off the spaniard. Eventually they separate and Kampmann ilands a bunch of stuff to the head. Vivas tries to go to buttscoot and more punches land. The ref stops it and vivas complains. No one cares to listen. (2)
7) SCOTT IRELAND vs. LARS BESAND: Is this a swing bout?
Big slam to start things from Besand, and he is in side control. He passes to mount and then throws some punches. If you are stoked to see a skinny white dude get punched in the face by a tatted up guy who looks 10 years older than him, you are in luck. It sounds like a bizarre fetish film, honestly. Once mounted, Besland punches him for about 4 minutes until Ireland taps out. Two fights later, Besand was stopped by Jordan Radev in 8 seconds. (0)
8) GUY MEZGER vs. DANIEL BERGMAN: The final fight in the career of Mezger.
Bergman looks huge in the ring. Doesn't mean much though with Mezger. Clinch early after some jabbing by Mezger and he and Bergman push each other around. Bergman ges a trip takedown but position is reversed almost instantly, with Mezger getting on top in side control, then mount. Bergman gives up his back and it appears that it should be over soon. Bergman turns over a few times and is popped in the face consistently between mount/having Mezger on his back. Mezger gets one hook in and lands a lot of body punches over a long period of the round in control of Bergman, along with the occasional hammer strike. Bergman rolls back into having Mezger in guard, which isn't that much better, as he is now getting hit in the face instead. Bergman simply lacks answers to the questions posed by Mezger. The ref separates them and the round ends.
Round 2 opens with some standup, which Bergman is much better at, but after some even trading, Mezger scores a takedown and is in the half guard of Bergman. More strikes are landed and its a repeat of the last round in terms of Mezger domination. Bergman keeps looking like he'll give his back up only to turn back over and take more punches to the dome. He does eventually do a fine job of momentarily escaping but Mezger just pins him back against the cage and throws punches till the ref stops it. (3)
Fight Of The Night: Hovgaard/Blackwell
KO Of The Night: Mezger/Bergman
Submission Of The Night: Hovgaard/Blackwell
OVERALL FOR THE EVENT: 4 out of 10. Short as the whole kit and caboodle came in at under 54 minutes. Some interesting stuff historically (Mezger pre-stroke! Lutter pre-weight fail!) along with a couple winners and the ability to say that you've seen Mario Stapel fight and that he is not any good.
D&R Rating: 10/40 (25%)
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