1) Robert Jocz vs. Hracho Darpinyan: Jocz lost to Bahadazurada on last years Golden Glory anniversary show reviewed here.
FIGHT: Darpinyan TKO Rnd 1. Dudes trading punches early on, and eventually Jocz (who keeps going to the ropes) gets caught squared up and drops, taking some more punches as he slinks down the corner cover. (0)
2) Roan Carniero vs. Luis Ramos: Interesting fight between two BJJ guys. Ramos is the South American Shooto welterweight champ. Carniero is a UFC vet/reject with lots of other stops elsewhere in the MMA world.
FIGHT: Carniero Unanimous Decision (2)
Carniero: Fought with a single goal in mind - close distance, takedowns, control. Ramos being as skilled as he was made it so that Carniero only had top position for a couple short periods on the mat during the fight and was even reversed during a trip takedown in the second. His standup is still atrocious (no angles, all to set up bad shots from way outside), and his wrestling isn't that good either. So much of this fight, maybe half, was spent against the ropes with Carniero pushing Ramos and putting weight on him.
Ramos: Better standup with some fluid looking leg kicks. Grappling wasn't bad either. His biggest problem was that Carniero was probably 10 lbs heavier coming into the ring and thus able to muscle him around in the clinch. That alone won Carniero rounds 1 and 3. On the mat, Ramos was an equal, nearly pulling off a sub at the end of the first and reversing Carniero's takedown in the second and getting half guard.
3) Sergey Golyaev vs. John Alessio: Golyaev had a big upset win in a disputed decision over Takanori Gomi in Sengoku, while Alessio has been everywhere there is in MMA.
FIGHT: Alessio Submission Rnd 2. Alessio finishes what was basically him pulling a submission grappling clinic with a kimura, arm stepped over Golyaev's face. Just ran him roughshod, was looking for low percentage submissions for fun (triangle from mount, for instance) before eventually ending the fight in the second. Golyaev couldn't defend Alessio's attempts to change position or stop submission attempts at all. (2)
At this point, the show enters the kickboxing portion. There's a heavyweight kickboxing tournament that is starting on this show, a fight that gets someone into K-1 Max, and a random 167lb superfight. Just in case you're wondering -
Robin Van Roosmalen vs. Maxim Vorovski: For the K-1 Max contract between guys from GG Amsterdam and GG Russia. Good action fight with Van Roosmalen bringing pressure and body punching, slowing Vorovski and winning a decision.
Mourad Bouzidi vs. Anderson "Braddock" Silva: The other Anderson Silva is getting chubby these days and he gets outworked by Bouzidi, who comes forward all fight long, winning a decision.
Brice Guidon vs. Filip Verlinden: Kinda blah kickboxing match with Guidon being big, not knowing how to properly use height, being slow, and having not much power on his armshots. Filip is just hanging out on the outside trying to counterpunch, and not doing a great job of it.
Wendell Roche vs. Stefan Leko: Mad old dudes in the ring. Leko keeps being washed up by retiring in the second due to mystery injury. Why does this guy keep getting fights?
Gohkan Saki vs. Nikolaj Falin: Falin comes forward and takes an unholy beating before getting dropped in the third and stopped. Saki looked great in this bout, and should clean up the GG tourney given the lack of any monster sized guys that he'll need to fight.
Murthel Groenhart vs. Nieky Holzen: Holzen is a regular on GG shows and he and Groenhart have a spirited battle that goes to extension round. Holzen wins the decision but the announcers and a good number of fans feel otherwise. I dunno. I thought it was a close fight. Neither man had the other in a lot of trouble, so it was almost like scoring a points karate contest in terms of trying to figure out who won.
BACK TO MMA~
4) Siyar Bahadurzada vs. Derrick Noble: Bahadurzada is still bald. Noble is taking it on short notice for Nick Thompson.
FIGHT: Bahadurzada TKO Rnd 1. There's a delay in this fight as they stand and strike, but clash heads. Noble gets a cut. Then he gets dropped with a leaping uppercut as Siyar jumps in. Noble drops, turtles up, takes a couple more shots, and the fight is over. (2)
5) David Bielkheden vs. Tommy Depret: M-1 reject vs. UFC reject.
FIGHT: Depret Submission Rnd 1. Bielkheden shoots in, gets caught in a guillotine, kicks his legs a lot and looks at the ref, then Depret sorta closes off the carotid with his body rather than an arm under (as Bielkheden has an arm in) from the mount. Took all of 36 seconds. (1)
FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: Carniero/Ramos
KO OF THE NIGHT: Bahadazurada/Noble
SUBMISSION OF THE NIGHT: Depret/Bielkheden
OVERALL FOR THE EVENT: 5 out of 10. If you liked Thunderbox, this kickboxing tournament is about the same level of talent and production value, but with actual fans in the crowd. That's not too bad. However, I don't rank kickboxing shows. I do MMA. As far as actual MMA goes, the Ramos/Carniero fight actually isn't that bad considering so much of it is "positioning battle" and watching Alessio run a clinic is fun. The rest of it is over in seconds and not really anything I can go out of my way to suggest. OH WOW TWO DUDES YOU DON'T KNOW AND ONE FALLS IN A TRIANGLE IN 36 SECONDS YOU NEED ALL OF THAT you know you don't. And that is OK. Really only worth your time if you really really like heavyweight kickboxing. And I like heavyweight everything, so f' you if you don't.
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