Far into the future we go thanks to some bad burns to Jungle Fight 10. By this point Jungle Fight has accepted that they are a small time promotion and now has a cage.
1) Allan Froes vs. Sebastian Bruno Pinto: Dudes. Weight class? No idea.
FIGHT: Froes Unanimous Decision. One of the worst fights I've ever seen. Froes stands in center ring and throws bad punches and kicks. Pinto runs pretty much the whole fight but gets double leg takedowns he does NOTHING with in the first and third rounds. (0)
2) Renato Souza vs. Alexandre Pimental: More dudes.
FIGHT: Pimental Unanimous Decision. (1)
Pimental: How many ragingly positive things can I say about an undefeated prospect who I thought clearly lost? He got outworked standing by Souza, whatever control he had on the mat was fleeting in terms of time compared to what time was spent getting jabbed in the face, and he even had his back taken for awhile. Totally gassed after the second. Not the finest moment.
Souza: For a nobody who's career is already over, Souza looked skilled. Had a lot of heart and was sort of a poor man's Cyborg style wise. His leg kicks were secondary to his punching and he pushed a little bit with his shots, but still, he wasn't bad.
3) Leonardo Pecanha vs. Pedro Manoel Santos: More guys I know nothing about. Pecanha lost to Steve Cantwell in a fight I wish I could have seen but the DVD crapped out on me before I could have. Santos came out of RIO HEROES.
FIGHT: Santos Unanimous Decision. (1)
Santos: Santos doesn't really stand much with Pecanha, choosing instead to shoot for takedowns. He gets them and outworks Pecanha, earning a perfect score. However, one thing that's apparent in round one is that he is willing to leave arms and legs in range for submission attempts. He slams his way out of armbars 3 times in round one.
Pecanha: Active fighter early on who's gas tank betrays him as does his overall skill. By round 2, the constant attacking from his back ends and he just gets rode.
4) Xavier Foupa-Pokam vs. Felipe Arinelli: PROFESSOR X! He comes out dancing and wearing a Jason mask. God bless him.
FIGHT: Professor X TKO Rnd 3. (2)
Prof X: Completely dominated for the first two rounds, a foul changes the course of the fight in round 3. Arinelli clinches with Pokam, who throws a knee to the body and then another one to the head...after Arinelli is on the mat. After a period to recover, Arinelli is not entirely clear headed and ends up being shaky on his feet and is dominated by Professor X in the clinch. He absorbs a lot of punches, another knee that may have come with a knee down, and is finally dropped to his back and punched out.
Arinelli: You feel bad for the guy a little. He won the first two going away, and though he did foul Professor X badly with a knee with the opponent down and a low blow, he was way out in front. And then he gets caught cold in a round, and that's all she wrote. His standup is nothing to be impressed with, for sure.
5) Paulo Denezet vs. Leonardo "Tangerina" Carvalho: This isn't on the Sherdog fightfinder? No idea why not.
FIGHT: Tangerina Submission Rnd 1. Denezet and Carvalho feel each other out, then Carvalho shoots for a takedown. As he passes to half guard, Denezet seems to tear something like his bicep and quits.
6) Ferrid Kheder vs. Paulo Thiago: Thiago everyone should be familiar with. Kheder was the one who promoted himself into a win over Hermes Franca in Costa Rica.
FIGHT: Thiago Unanimous Decision (3)
Thiago: In a fight between a welterweight contender and a lightweight nobody, you'd expect the welterweight to win pretty much every round, and that happens. In the standup, Thiago basically controls the pace and the distance with his famed roboboxing. I gotta admit, at times, it does look OK. He does get caught with an overhand right in round 3 though that he shouldn't have.
Kheder: He's an undersized grappler, and against a much bigger guy who's a black belt in BJJ, yeah, that's possibly a problem. Held at bay or on the bottom most of the fight, Kheder doesn't really give a good account of himself in any round except possibly the third, where he comes out a little more reckless and gets in a looping overhand right over the slow right hand of Thiago. Aside from that, he can't do much more than push Thiago for short times against the fence.
7) Terrell Dees vs. Assuerio Silva: Silva is fighting some dude.
FIGHT: Silva Submission Rnd 1. Not really a fight as much as it a squash. Silva takes down Dees, works for a RNC, and then transitions to a kneebar to finish inside 2 minutes. (2)
8) Luiz Azeredo vs. Roni Torres: Pretty interesting fight here among lightweights.
FIGHT: Torres Submission Rnd 1. Torres runs shit in this fight, taking down Azeredo, passing the guard, and constantly seeking submissions before locking in the Americana. Unfortunately for MMA fans, Torres effectively disappeared from the sport after this fight. (1)
FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: Professor X/Arinelli
KO OF THE NIGHT: Professor X/Arinelli
SUBMISSION OF THE NIGHT: Silva/Dees
OVERALL FOR THE EVENT: 4 out of 10. Boring show for the most part with a couple squashes at the end. Its hard to make out a top 5 welterweight from what you see in Paulo Thiago here but he got to that point, even if its passed.
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