1) Fred Weatherly vs. Sergio Rodriguez: Lightweights, both are debuting.
FIGHT: Weatherly Submission Rnd 1. Rodriguez is a wrestler and he gets down Weatherly early and often. But he's not that good at controlling Weatherly. Weatherly shrimps, gets up, wriggles free, gets up, and in round 2, he regains butterfly guard then sweeps, takes the back immediately, and sinks in hooks. A rear naked soon follows. I don't like his inability to wrestle. Bad sign. No striking really displayed either. (0)
2) Eric Reynolds vs. Travis Cox: Reynolds is a Bellator vet who lost to all the good fighters he has faced. Cox is some stubby wrestleboxer. (0)
FIGHT: Reynolds Submission Rnd 2. Again, we have a fight with a wrestler who only wrestles getting takedowns over and over and winning the first round as a result. Then he makes a critical mistake in the second and loses by tapout. He just keeps giving the neck up, especially as he tires in the second round. Reynolds spends quality time working his left arm under the throat and sinching in a funky sort of guillotine that causes Cox to tap very quickly. Cox has lousy standup; just capable of boxing sorta. Reynolds just has mediocre muay thai, but that's still a lot better than bad, short armed boxing.
3) Mike Buchkovich vs. David Yost: Yost looks (as always) like he is enjoying the benefits of TRT. Also, he shaves his head but has sideburns. Can you trust someone like that? The other guy has a funny haircut and a gut - but wait! He fought Butterbean in KOTC! And this is his first pro fight in like 4 years!
FIGHT: Buchkovich Submission Rnd 2. Beatdown. Absolute beatdown. Takedowns, straight punches, GNP, etc. Just demolishes Yost, who is so gassed out in the second round that his body is a shade of purple. Holds him down, has dominant position pretty much the whole time, etc. (0)
Look - Fighters like this exist here and there but they are often too dangerous to last for long in the sport because people run from them. Promoters hate guys who kill their ridiculous prospects like this. Buchkovich is a great journeyman. He's the poor man's Roy Nelson. But he's better than Tony Sylvester. Well, maybe not. But close.
4) Raul Amaya vs. Joe Robinson: Both guys have nice 4-0 records. Robinson is THIRTY. I sense one of these men is a real prospect.
FIGHT: Amaya Submission Rnd 3 (1)
Robinson: Wrestler I suppose. And like other wrestlers who are one dimensional, he gasses out early and after having tons of success in the first round looks screwed by the second. Thirty seconds into the fight, he has Amaya's back, but doesn't really know what to do with it. By the time we're halfway through the second and he's going for desperation shots after eating high kicks to the face. Amaya's gas tank isn't that much better, so this stretches out to the third round and nearly to the distance.
Amaya: Amaya had the back, flattened out Robinson, and was damn close to closing the fight in the first with a rear naked. Instead, it took almost 10 more minutes, largely of Amaya in control, before he finally got the rear naked choke. His strikes are really wild and its all about offense. Wrestling isn't that great. Decent size for the weight class I suppose.
5) Crafton Wallace vs. Waachim Spiritwolf: Oh man. This should be a thing. I hear Waachim Spiritwolf is the nicest dude and his wife is blazing. THE MOAR YOU KNOW.
FIGHT: Spiritwolf TKO Rnd 1. Spiritwolf takes down Wallace and lands some punches and elbows early. Wallace has some bleeding on both eyes and on the back of his head, and there's some puffyness on the right eye. And so the ref stops it. Not sure why? I mean, the cut on the left eye is under? Crafton Wallace apparently quit because he can't see right. Whatever. Lame. Does Spiritwolf only have fun fights every other bout? (1)
FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: Amaya/Robinson
SUBMISSION OF THE NIGHT: Yost/Buchkovich
OVERALL FOR THE EVENT: 2.5 out of 10. Kinda lame show. No good fights. Lots of finishes and a sorta running theme for the show in terms of how fights went, but yeah. You don't need to run out and see this.
D&R Rating: 8% (2/25)
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