1) Sal Fernettie vs. Issac Newman-Gomez: Fat heavyweights.
FIGHT: Newman-Gomez TKO Rnd 1. Fernettie shows no real talent in the ring except that he's tough, but still manages to take down Newman-Gomez at one point. Newman-Gomez has very rudimentary striking and basically no grappling. Fight ends after Newman-Gomez just kinda rolls himself from being on his back to being in the mount on top of Fernettie and beats the dude out. (0)
2) Josh Miller vs. Tony Cruz: Welterweight fighter. Miller is pretty tall.
FIGHT: Cruz Submission Rnd 1. KOTC Special in progress until Miller just powers his way out of back control and into being on top inside the full guard. Unfortunately, he does nothing with the position and gets stood up. When that happens, the ownage continues. Cruz lands a body kick and knees and then takes down Miller, eventually setting up and getting the submission by RNC. (0)
3) Melvin Costa vs. Sean McCafferty: Costa is a white supremacist with a penchant for prison time. McCafferty is looking mean and has the fans, but is small.
FIGHT: Costa TKO Rnd 1. (0)
Costa: Costa is strong and has heart. And he has some cardio. I can't deny any of that. Talentwise, he is lacking. But against bad fighters, that's all you need.
McCafferty: The guy has something resembling takedown ability and better technical striking, but he is gassed two minutes into the fight and his grappling is basically nothing but control without any real attempt at finishing. He takes a big knee in the second as he tries to shoot in and eats some punches too as he's out.
4) Travis Havens vs. Tim Humphrey: Uhh, I don't know these guys. Welterweights.
FIGHT: Havens Submission Rnd 1. KOTC Special ending in RNC in like, 25 seconds. (0)
5) Chon Stinson vs. Dave Cryer: Cryer had a bunch of wins over non-names and is now not very active, having fought once in about 18 months. Cryer enters to bagpipes.
FIGHT: Cryer TKO Rnd 1. Assbeating. Lands some tight hooks as Stinson runs forward at him over and over. Stinson eats a knee and just turns and runs. Cryer catches him and hits him with a right hand and he drops and turtles up taking shots until the fight is stopped. (0)
6) William Syriapai vs. Soky Aguilar: Really excited to see this. Syriapai is one of my favorite gatekeeper fighters in the sport.
FIGHT: Syriapai TKO Rnd 1. Syriapai shows off his great kickboxing on a moving heavybag. All time, top 10 ass kicking. Aguilar is just retarded hurt by low kicks, and then a high kick that grazes his head causes him to slowly stumble and fall as the towel from his corner comes in. (1)
7) Jesse Beede vs. Ernie Peria: Peria is a cop who fought in the Cop vs. Con fight that was a feature attraction on KOTC Booyaa.
FIGHT: Peria TKO Rnd 1. Beede gets a takedown, Peria sweeps him with a kimura from the bottom, ends up in mount, and punches him out. (0)
8) Junior Kling vs. Cody Bollinger: Really excited to see this kid (Bollinger) again go after some sort of amateur belt.
FIGHT: Kling Unanimous Decision (1)
Kling: Good wrestler who decides to let Bollinger try and take the front foot and its a smart move. He stuffs Cody over and over and over again, gets dominant position, rolls him from north/south on his power, and also lands much better strikes. Kling has fought once in 3 years, unfortunately. He might still be a decent prospect if he puts his mind to it.
Bollinger: Cody totally disappointed me here. He relies on athleticism to try and do anything, basically never setting up the takedown. With no setups, Kling has wrestling skills that are capable of stopping the shot. When that happens, Bollinger's game literally falls apart. He has few moments of success from there in. Hey, at least he's young. Learning experience. You see him learning to throw punches before shooting from way outside late in the bout but it is way too much too late.
9) Edgar Cruz vs. John Brock: Heavyweights. Cruz is so fat, but they give him credit for having taken a fight with Buckley Acosta on a couple minutes notice. Raul Peralta (one of the worst in the game) is reffing now.
FIGHT: Brock Submission Rnd 1. KOTC special, sorta. Modified, if you will. Cruz gets taken down, is mounted, takes shots, and Brock decides to give up the position trying for an armbar, but when that goes wrong he transitions to triangle. Neither is relevant. (0)
10) Dave Rivas vs. Shad Smith: Oh man! This isn't Gabe Rivas vs. Shad Smith but will do. Both dudes are complete journeymen. Did you know that Shad Smith is a decorated street fighter? Did you know Shad Smith been to prison? Did you know Shad Smith is gay? Did you know that Shad Smith is believed to have raped dudes in prison? He himself experienced prison rape in the single greatest beatdown in MMA ever against Duane Ludwig. They even reference how incredible the beating was that Duane gave him. But seriously, Shad Smith is awesome for being so honest now about who he is. I didn't remember he had Tapout tattooed on his body either.
FIGHT: Draw. (0)
Rivas: Gabe controls the first round against the right hand happy Shad Smith by taking him down and controlling the action on the mat with a pair of shots. And it looks like this is, at least initially, going to be easy. Then in the second, Shad throws two punches and shoots. Gabe never expected it and gets taken down on a double leg takedown and ends up being totally controlled the vast majority of the round. With a minute left he is generally nullified from landing anything big while inside the guard of Shad. He doesn't get separation until there's ten seconds left and its 50 seconds too late.
Smith: Smith gets taken down repeatedly in the first but does a good job tying up Rivas and preventing real damage from being done. In the second, he gets the takedown himself. Hey, he was a street brawler, now he's just a not very good MMA fighter. But that's better than being outright bad. He has guts.
11) Reggie Orr vs. Brian Baker: The first really meaningful bout of the night. Baker got to the WEC, Orr to TUF.
FIGHT: Baker TKO Rnd 1. Man, wild, wild brawl. It looks like it'll be over early with a right hand by Orr and Baker comes storming back. On the feet its just tight, hard, bad ass punching that Dana White loves. Seriously, no joke; These dudes threw thunder. As hard as I've seen in a long time. Baker hurts Orr with a combination and then throws knees to the body as he curls up on the mat to force the stop. Fun! (2)
12) Buddy Clinton vs. Clay French: TITLE ON THE LINE. I remember nothing about the first and wrote about that much having seen it years ago now.
FIGHT: French TKO Cuts Rnd 3. (2)
Clinton: Clinton was always a guy who was a BJJ player first. And if you are going to be on your back early in a fight, you need to be great throwing the hips around. Clinton is good, but not great. And that leads to his downfall. French is a good top control grappler who separates wheat from chaff, and Clinton doesn't turn out to be wheat. The fight ends off a really terrible cut somewhere around the mouth that is pouring blood.
French: Strong, small wrestler who might be better suited to 145. Hell, if Mike Brown could win a title and be the top featherweight in the world, why couldn't French have? He just didn't get the opportunity. Or wasn't willing. I don't know which. He's not an elite fighter but no one who isn't good will beat him.
13) John Cole vs. Thomas Denny: Cole drops from 185 to meet a guy at 170 who is really a lightweight. Incredible prefight video pacakge from Denny as the "Mild Man".
FIGHT: Denny Submission Rnd 1. Easy win for the Wildman, actually. Standing, Cole is apparently the shorter man and throws a lot of single power shots. Denny is decent at jabbing the guy up. He takes down Cole, moves to side control, and it turns into a long KOTC special. RNC finish and the crowd is happy. (1)
14) Keith Berry vs. Sean Loeffler: Loeffler was previously seen losing to a lumpy guy making his pro debut. Berry went to ShoXC.
FIGHT: Berry Submission Rnd 1. They rush at each other like sumo to start, and Loeffler is in full mount 8 seconds in. Naturally he does nothing with it and Berry bucks him and gets to his feet. Loeffler rushes him for another takedown and basically does nothing while Berry sets up a slow motion triangle choke and gets the tap. (1)
FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: Orr/Baker
KO OF THE NIGHT: Syriapai/Aguilar
SUBMISSION OF THE NIGHT: Cruz/Brock
OVERALL FOR THE EVENT: 5 out of 10. Nothing stupendous or even really worth chasing down aside from MAYBE the asskicking handed out by Syriapai but this was a generally entertaining show where the low point action wise came in, of all things, a Shad Smith fight.
D&R Rating: 11% (8/70)
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