Tuesday, January 27, 2009

KING OF THE CAGE: NO HOLDS BARRED (7/14/07)

This event has Inman and Kanoba on the mics and claims to be from Soaring Eagle, but NO, it is really from Eagle Mountain Casino in CA.

1) RONNIE KRUGER vs. STAN DRESSLER: Heavyweights with an 82lb difference. Kruger looks 52 and Dressler looks like a fat mexican woman.

Why do I watch this crap? Horrid ground work and striking. They are gassed at exactly 59 seconds into the fight. Kruger taps from a guillotine. (0)

2) DEMETRIAH JOHNSON vs. PEDRO MERCADO: More heavyweights. Sorta. One is 198, the other 224. 

More terrible. Literally looks like a bar brawl, right down to Mercado's wife beater. Johnson by KO with punches. (0)

3) TRAVIS DAVENPORT vs. BARNEY GARFIELD: Holy shit, MORE heavyweights? Barney is in considerably better shape at 5'11' 254.

Both wearing rash guards. When shirt wearing fighters fight one another, we all lose. Davenport eats a low kick to the groin. They push each other around for the rest of the two 3 minute rounds after he recovers. Fucking horrible. (0)

4) ERIC OLSEN vs. JASON DRAKE: Lightweights! Both are 0-2.

Drake lands a ton of shots and needs to be pulled off. (0)

5) LEWIS STEEL vs. BILLY TERRY: Steel is 5-8, Terry 2-2. Lightweight action.

Steel looks like a crank addict in training with his Liddel mohawk. Terry with an easy single, straight to side control. Steel has no clue. There are strikes and he eventually goes for an armbar. Steel accidentally defends it. Somehow he eventually reverses position and gets a really weak looking RNC. (0)

6) FRANCISCO ROMERO vs. DOUG HUNT: Romero has a Mistico mask on. That is what I know.

Hunt gets this down early and has Romero's back really early. He fails there but gets mount, and Romero isn't defending well at all, giving up his back and then trying to stand up. He absorbs some knees and gets taken down again. This cycle repeats a couple more times: Romero fights his way back up, gets taken down again, absorbs more blows. The final time this happens in round 1, Romero is choked out. (0)

7) JOSE TORRES vs. MARK DE LA CRUZ: Welters.

Torres shows the uncanny capability to get a dude off of him while he's mounted. Unfortunately, he does nothing else well. All the offense, all the takedowns, etc: De La Cruz controls it. He wins a unanimous decision due to his inability to finish in spite of repeatedly getting dominant positions. (0) DLC lost his next fight in Palace Fighting Championships.

8) ROLANDO TORRES vs. TOM CONTRERAS: Light heavyweights, both have .500 records.

Torres gets a takedown and attempts to strangle Contreras. Torres taps out and there is confusion. Like, can you win by an illegal choke? They decide to let this restart, and Contreras gets hit a bunch. Front snap kick wins this for Torres. Contreras looks like he might have gotten a toe in the eye. (0)

9) DARVIN WATTREE vs. JEREMY YBARRA: Welters. Apparently this is the "main card".

Ybarra has his own t-shirts, so you imagine he might be good. You are wrong. Wattree throws him to the mat and beats the crap out of him as Ybarra has given his back. BUT WAIT: There was a punch to the back of the head! The fight is restarted after some time, and it goes much the same way. Ybarra throws a flying knee and is jabbed out of the air. On the mat, he's pounded on again, and Ybarra tries to scramble. When he does, he's in a deep standing guillotine. (0)

10) BRYSON KAMAKA vs. DUSTIN ARDEN: Kamaka is a well known awful fighter, and is given a record of 17-11. This is not actually true: In fact, Kamaka was 7-13. Arden I have seen years ago against Brian Foster.

Kamaka throws some leg kicks, eats a right hand, fails at a desperation takedown, and then he is pounded out. Not a shock. (0)

11) TONY VERA vs. WILLIAM JOHNSON: Native. American. Heavyweight Title. OF THE WORLD.

Vera wins the vacant title that Warpath once held. He is also crap. Who cares? (0)

12) JAMES FANSHIER vs. RONALD JHUN: What a bizarre fight, and yet, how appealing!

Pretty awful fight to watch. Jhun came into this in the midst of a losing streak, and so you'd think Fanshier would look strong being a blue chipper, but he's not. The first was horrible, with the fans losing while both men fought to a virtual stalemate in an embrace against the cage for most of the 5 minutes. Round 2 featured flashes of action with Fanshier being cut by a shot and getting taken down and hit a few times, but it was still not doing a good job of fending off the thought of napping. In round 3, Fanshier is taken down early and catches the arm. Jhun taps out and this one is over. (1)

FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: Steel/Terry

SUBMISSION OF THE NIGHT: Jhun/Fanshier

KO OF THE NIGHT: Torres/Contreras

OVERALL FOR THE EVENT: 1 out of 10. Simply dreadful.

D&R Rating: 2% (1/60)


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