1) Daniva Maciel vs. Kanako Inaba: Women's MMA bout. Who?
FIGHT: Maciel TKO Rnd 2. Inaba is taken down early and worked over pretty badly. High point of the fight is when she gets a leg of Maciel's and bucks her off mount and is inside of the the guard. Wild shots from Maciel finish this fight standing as Inaba just sorta falls down face first on her knees. Basically a waste of time. (0)
2) Chinzo Machida vs. Bryan Rafiq: Lyoto's brother, who shows the world that indeed, its not just the fact that he trained from birth to do this that makes him so good. Its that he's a pretty darn good athlete too. Rafiq is an interchangable guy with some belly fat.
FIGHT: Rafiq Submission Rnd 1. Here's what you need to know - Rafiq shoots early and gets a takedown, no problem. Does that happen to Lyoto with elite guys? Right. So Machida actually does take over the round later and lands some solid GNP after defending a takedown - makes some nice bruises on the leg of Rafiq. Rafiq throws an upkick to the leg of Chinzo that causes him to step sideways, and he capitalizes by jumping off his back and taking down Machida straight into back control. Yikes. Rafiq shoots to open the second and again, he's on top inside the guard and looking to pass. Chinzo can't stop the transitions, and when he tries to defend and standup, he gets caught in a guillotine. Chinzo's grappling skill just isn't there and he looks nervous standing. (1)
3) Tony Desouza vs. Vitelmo Kubis Bandiera: Desouza is a guy that you always hear about being a great coach for big teams, and when he was an active fighter, he was pretty damn good TBH. Bandiera I have no familiarity with.
FIGHT: Desouza Submission Rnd 1. Color me surprised when Desouza is cut early in the bout and dropped hard by Bandiera. He hangs in there though when it gets to the mat and at least stalls out Bandiera and gets to top control. After a stoppage to look at the cut under the left eye, its back to action. Desouza ducks a headkick from Bandiera and shoots in, then uses that to roll for a knee bar and forces the tap. Bandiera looks like he's hurt. (2)
4) Danillo Villefort vs. Frodi Hansen: Villefort was in the UFC and out just as fast. He dominated Joey Villasenor at Shark Fights last event. Hansen is from some Northern European country where the streets are clean.
FIGHT: Villefort Submission Rnd 1. (2)
Villefort: To be honest, he is not a very good wrestler at this point. Hansen stops takedowns and actually takes to control himself. Villefort is still a very good grappler though, and so he finds a way to maneuver himself into good positions. His striking is not exciting or anything. He does try an anaconda choke, which gets me excited, but that too passes. At the start of the second, he is hurt with some wild strikes from Hansen, but gets a single when Hansen is just a little too wild, takes the back, and finishes the fight with a rear naked choke. He is totally gassed out and tired after the 6 minute contest.
Hansen: Aside from the second round where he tags Villefort with punches and kicks, honestly he's in control of very little. Most of the fight is him fighting off submissions or takedowns. His wrestling is better than Villefort's, which is probably far secondary to his ability to submit men from being on his back.
5) Fredson Paixao vs. Marcos Galvao: WEC vets COLLIDE. Galvao drew with Masakatsu Ueda when that guy was argurably the linear champ.
FIGHT: Galvao Unanimous Decision. A terrible, terrible fight to watch. I can't even really break this down. Galvao is on top more than Paixao, who never is. Most of this fight is spent at distance with no one doing anything and the crowd booing loudly or Galvao pushing Paixao into the ropes and grabbing his shorts to try and secure takedowns or keep control while the referee stands in terrible position to see this. (3)
6) Steve Reyna vs. Adriano Martins: Who? Martins lost to Keita Nakamura in DREAM. Reyna looks out of shape.
FIGHT: Martins Submission Rnd 2. Martins is one of those dudes who has never heard of attacking or defending with angles. When Reyna comes at him, he goes straight back and leans into a right hand. When he attacks. He stops, let's Reyna be right in front of him, and then goes wild with something, whether its a right hand or a knee or what have you. Sherdog said the fight ended :35 seconds into the second, but that is a lie. It ended maybe 4:25 into it. That is 3:55 I want back. (0)
7) Jose "Pele" Landi-Jons vs. Thales Leites: A month ago, I would have been all about this. Now, after watching numerous terrible Pele fights?
FIGHT: Leites Submission Rnd 1. Leites just runs through Pele. He pushes him all over the ring and gets up with ease when on his back by shrimping, powers down Pele with a body lock takedown, mounts him, punches him, and there's an arm triangle for the submission. (3)
8) Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza vs. Alexander Shlemenko: Strange fight in the context of today, huh?
FIGHT: Jacare Submission Rnd 1. Souza wastes no time getting to the clinch, and he takes down Shlemenko soon after. In only a minute or so he transitions to the mount, and from there to side control and forces Shlemenko to sleep with a arm and head triangle. Good bounce back for Souza that displays his fantastic grappling in utter dominant fashion. (4)
9) Lyoto Machida vs. Dimitry Wanderley: The other Wanderlei against the other Machida. Competitive fight at the time. At the time is such a key phrase for these shows.
FIGHT: Machida TKO Rnd 3.
Expecting this to start off with Machida bouncing leg kicks off Dimitriy? Yeah, no. Machida actually clinches and ends up on top as Wanderley pulls guard. The fight gets to the feet, where Machida looks bloated and totally human. In fact, he looks mediocre. I'll gladly go on record and say that this is the worst Machida that ever took to a ring. His attacks were often wild, he was taken down by a total non wrestler in the second round. Wanderley is actually cut with punches from the bottom, a fact that doesn't help him at all. When the fight restarts standing, he weakly shoots and absorbs shots from a chubby Machida who's mouth is wide open.
My honest feeling is that Machida in a four corner ring is at a disadvantage versus Machida in 6+ sided one. Wanderley corners him repeatedly, as had Franklin and Bonnar in their respective losses. Obviously they don't win him the fight, but hey, it happens, which doesn't occur in the UFC against better guys. Yes, he wins this fight as Dimitry Wanderley basically gives up due to exhaustion, even after the guy gets some seriously long pauses to work on the cut. But man, you can't come away from this thinking more highly of him. (4)
FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: Rafiq/Machida
KO OF THE NIGHT: Maciel/Inaba
SUBMISSION OF THE NIGHT: Bandiera/Desouza
OVERALL FOR THE EVENT: 3 out of 10. Another Jungle Fight, another 3 hour DVD down of mediocre fighting. There's a couple really impressive performance from the two submission king middleweights, and then everyone else looks totally mediocre or fights terrible. Machida's least impressive performance, the crapfest that was Galvao/Paixao, and so many other epic fails caught on tape. No promotion consistently has worse fights with higher D&R Ratings.
D&R Rating: 42% (19/45)
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