1) George Sullivan vs. Dave Porter: Weight classes and stuff? Yeah, no idea.
FIGHT: Sullivan TKO Rnd 1. (0) Porter has a very karate influenced stance, but this fight goes to the ground early anyhow. He is on top, actually, but Sullivan sweeps him with a kimura attempt and ends up inside the guard. From there he just grabs the head, pushes down to create separation, and lands punches until Porter can't take it anymore.
2) Seth Tiringer vs. Anthony LaDonna: Who?
FIGHT: LaDonna Unanimous Decision. (0) Two men attempting to do very similar things, its just that one of the two does more and does more well. The big keys in this fight:
A: LaDonna has a guillotine attempt in the first round and Tiringer uses his strength to stand up and hold LaDonna while he does it. And he shakes LaDonna. Problem is that he resorted to small joint manipulation of the right thumb to do it. He loses a point. Basically doomed to a draw at best.
B: LaDonna shows an ability to both pass the guard and sweep from the bottom with an armbar attempt/omaplata transition. When Tiringer gets down there, he's tied up and a standup comes swiftly.
3) Marc Stevens vs. Landon Showalter: Middleweight semifinal fight as part of an ROC tournament. Stevens is on this season of TUF.
FIGHT: Stevens TKO Rnd 1. Stevens hurls Showalter to the mat to start and I have a sense of dread. He spends most of the round on top, and when they're separated to stand, he gets right back to business with a takedown and control. Showalter goes for an armbar very late in the round but Stevens escapes, lands some punches, and Showalter scrambles to his feet only to eat more punches and get stopped while getting ready to fall down in the corner. (1)
4) Jason House vs. Erick Tavares: Tavares is from Brazil, House from the US. Both aren't guys you are likely to recognize, but this was part of a middleweight tournament for ROC.
FIGHT: House TKO Rnd 2. Tavares is a terrible, terrible striker. He's an adequate wrestler who might be overly reliant on being a big middleweight, and he's swept and generally nullified on the mat even when on top. But standing, he doesn't even try to check any of House's kicks. He is getting chopped down from the start to the end. House drops Tavares' hands with all those leg kicks and eventually drops him with a series of punches, forcing a ref stop. (0)
5) Colin O'Rourke vs. Todd Moore: And now time for a welterweight tournament. These guys? don't know them at all.
FIGHT: Moore wins by stoppage. Doesn't matter because the video doesn't work.
6) Phillipe Nover vs. Jay Coleman: Coleman beat a young Mike Massenzio. Nover was supposed to be the next Anderson Silva and didn't really pan out. Now he is panning for change. He enters here with a samurai sword.
FIGHT: Nover Submission Rnd 1. If I had seen this before TUF, I would have bet everything on Escudero. Nover is a terrible wrestler here and now, and while he won with a kimura, it was from his back while Coleman was in half guard apparently dumbfounded as to how to not get submitted like he was Giant Silva. It was actually sorta embarrassing and sad. (1)
7) Ian Loveland vs. Richard Boine: Loveland is a Team Quest product I'm familiar with from Sportfight and IFL. Boine is a Tiger Schulman product I saw fight Joe Bentz in his debut. This, his third pro bout, is for the ROC Welterweight Title. DOIN IT RIGHT.
FIGHT: Loveland Submission Rnd 1. Boine rushes to clinch under a Loveland high kick at the start and gets put on his back for his trouble. He balls up and tries to go for a single, but this is a TQ guy. What is he thinking? He puts his neck into a guillotine and taps 1:22 in. (0)
8) Jay Estrada vs. James "Binky" Jones: Jones I saw on an EXC show years ago and will never forget the name of. Gofightlive couldn't tell the difference between Jay Estrada and Jason "Big Six" Estrada, the former US 2000 Olympian boxer. And actually, it seems that the video doesn't even work. So it doesn't matter. Jones won a decision, I guess?
FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: The one with Nover
KO OF THE NIGHT: Pick one at random
SUBMISSION OF THE NIGHT: Loveland/Boine because I don't feel like searching
OVERALL FOR THE EVENT: 1.5 out of 10. Its tough to separate this from what I was able to watch because, hey, I'm missing at least two fights and the commentary and sound. So, yeah. Do you need to see this? No. Do you want to see Nover flop around on the mat and Marc Stevens wrestle a little? No, but I guess if you want to you can. You might want to at some point, right? Whereas the rest of this is irrelevant.
D&R Rating: 5% (2/40) I'm rating it against what I should have seen, yeah. Too bad for them.
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