1) Brian Karmolinski vs. Joel Paquette: Lightweight amateurs.
FIGHT: Paquette Submission Rnd 1. Karmolinski gets deep and has the hands locked around both legs of Karmolinski and still can't get him down. He keeps pushing for the double and then the single on the outside leg and Paquette comes around to his back and chokes him out. (0)
At this point, in enters Pappa Schnake. Insert FUUUUUUUUUU jpeg here.
2) Jeremy Joles vs. Mike Sixel: More amateur lightweights. This is actually part of a one night 4 man tournament. Sixel is not new to my eyes having fought on a show I've reviewed before of KOTC that happened one month prior in Wisconsin. He also trains part time at Team Quest.
FIGHT: Sixel Unanimous Decision. Wow, this was horrible. They clinch and clinch and clinch and Joles gets pushed to the cage and he gets hit with about 10 punches during the fight that bloody Joles' nose. Crowd mostly boos after the fight when Schnake demands they make noise. Schnake also makes sure to mention the sponsors of the fighter before they're announced still. I hate hate hate that. (0)
3) Chris Henderson vs. Justin Jaynes: The other lightweight tournament bout. Jaynes I've seen before fighting as a welterweight.
FIGHT: Henderson Submission Rnd 2. Scrappy bout between a couple guys who aren't that talented or skilled right now. Henderson is a decent physical specimen and does a good job preventing Jaynes from staying in top position for very long ever in the fight. He's also got some semblance of a bottom game as is clear by him having submitted Jaynes with a triangle choke when Jaynes tried to enter the full guard in the second. (0)
4) Tyrone Holmes vs. Rodney Sleepers: Schnake takes like 30 minutes to introduce Holmes and sings part of Oh Canada doing it. Is it wrong to wish Big Papa to kill himself? That is perhaps a bit strong. Sleepers has when I've seen him, been totally boring. Middleweight division.
FIGHT: Sleepers Submission Rnd 2. Another Rodney Sleepers signature performance - flails coming in for the clinch, gets the takedown a couple times, generally works to getting the back, has enough time in round 2 to pull the choke off. He is cut when flailing coming forward in round one with a right hand. Both takedowns also didn't come off doubles or singles, but rather suplexes. Not big ones, just tight belly to bellys. (0)
5) Jordan Sullivan vs. Ben Lagman: More middleweights. This is yet another amateur tournament.
FIGHT: Lagman Submission Rnd 1. Lagman overpowers Sullivan in the ring, walking through his punches, getting the takedown, and taking the back. RNC finishes the glorified KOTC special. (0)
6) Tim Farr vs. Jorge Sarat: Couple more local boys I know nothing about.
FIGHT: Sarat Submission Rnd 1. Man, this goes bad for Farr immediately. He walks forward with his chin up punching and eats a right hand that fells him. He mounts him, punches him, and gets a bulldog choke/RNC from the side to finish it. (0)
7) Nick Turco vs. Josh Barnes: Turco once took a beating at the hands of Stipe Miocic that you can read all about here. Josh Barnes epitomizes the modern heavyweight journeyman. This bout is for the KOTC Amateur Heavyweight Title. Tyson Johnson also comes out and starts announcing again and I am so happy.
FIGHT: Barnes Unanimous Decision. Man, terrible fight. Turco tries a couple takedowns and gets stuffed huge. Otherwise the fight is all standup and Barnes lands the occasional arm punch or jab and that keeps Turco from doing much of anything en route to a decision win. (1)
8) Chad Herrick vs. Bryan Harper: Harper has come out from Temecula, CA. Herrick is the local boy.
FIGHT: Harper TKO Rnd 3. Sorta slow fight in the second that at least had some back and forth in the first. Honestly, I wasn't paying 100% attention to this because I don't care about the fighters, an the fight wasn't that important or good. Harper gets some decent takedowns and is in control outside of being rocked by what looked like a potential rabbit punch in the first. He lands a knee while Herrick windmills punches and Harper like flies backwards and lands on his back out cold. Harper has lost three straight, some of which were overseas. Herrick is just irrelevant at 7-6 on a regional level. (0)
9) Jerome Beal vs. Brad Burrick: Chad Burrick's brother was reviewed fighting on this show from 2010. Beal has two prior pro fights - one in 2000, one in 2005.
FIGHT: Burrick TKO Rnd 1. Beal is knocked out with a jab while throwing a front kick. Fight up to that was a mix of sloppy kicks and clinch work that did nothing to endear either man. (0)
10) Mike Sixel vs. Chris Henderson: FINALS! Who will win the lightweight tourney crown? Does anyone care?
FIGHT: Henderson TKO Rnd 2. Man, beatdown city. Sixel goes for the takedown and gets it in round one. Henderson though hangs on and forces a standup. Followup attempts don't go so well, Sixel gasses, and Sixel rushes Henderson at the start of round for the clinch and instead ends up thrown down, mounted, and pounded out with strikes. Henderson never fought again, Sixel made no real noise. (0)
11) Ben Lagman vs. Jorge Sarat: Finals of the middleweight tourney.
FIGHT: Sarat Unanimous Decision. Moderately interesting standup fight with Sarat throwing a lot of wild kicks - side kicks, spinning heel kicks, and the like. Lagman is much more orthodox but he gets freaked out a little and ends up standing at a distance and gets outworked. Its not like he doesn't have a plan - he's bigger and gets a big takedown in the first round. But then nothing happens with it. Lagman gets to be on Bully Beatdown. (0)
12) Joe Voisin vs. Matt Jaggers: KOTC is filling their vacant 145lb champion spot in this bout. Voisin is supposedly the big favorite here and is wearing wrestling shoes. Fight is for 5 3 minute rounds.
FIGHT: Jaggers Unanimous Decision. Jaggers is better standing, with takedowns, and on the mat. Voisin doesn't win a round outside of the 5th (thanks to a hard shot and takedown he gets), and otherwise Jaggers is stumbling Voisin almost every round by straight right hands. Voisin is simply very limited in terms of what he can do. He's a strong wrestler, but against someone stronger and better, how can he implement his gameplan? His boxing isn't good enough to terminate someone's timing or rhythm either. Jaggers rolls here and gets a call from Sengoku not that long afterwards where he does nothing. Most notable about this fight - Jaggers forces Voisin to tap out due to strikes before the bell sounds for round 3, but after the fight is stopped, it is miraculously determined that Voisin, who is the local fighter in the contest, had tapped out after the bell, in spite of it being very clear that it occurred before hand when watching. The fight is then restarted for round 4. (0)
FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: Lagman/Sarat
KO OF THE NIGHT: Harper/Herrick
SUBMISSION OF THE NIGHT: Henderson/Jaynes
OVERALL FOR THE EVENT: 2 out of 10. Crap everywhere. Fighters that don't matter. Fights that aren't good. The main event features flat out corruption. Bad, bad, bad.
D&R Rating: 2% (1/60)
Combat Collection Vol. 2:
Stand Off: 2 out of 10 (2%)
Arch Rivals: 4.5 out of 10 (17.5%)
Collision Course: 5 out of 10 (11%)
Sinister: 3 out of 10 (5%)
Caged Chaos: 2 out of 10 (7%)
AVG: 3.3 (8.5%)
To compare:
Underground Soldiers: 2.55 (5.1%)
Underground Enforcers: 2.78 (8.2%)
Underground Worldwide: 2.7
Underground Warriors: 3.55
Combat Collection: 5.9
Back almost precisely 2 years ago, I stated that I was done watching KOTC shows on DVD. It was, at that point, a waste of time to me. The shows were bad, the fights awful, and they weren't getting better. Look at that comparison of the first Combat Collection to the second. There's a huge dropoff of the rating per fight. In fact, the average card on the Combat Collection Vol 1 is better than the best show the second set offers for pure entertainment value. For actual importance, its not even comparable. The sets are certainly consistent, but they are consistently bad. Its a shame, because there are good KOTC events. I've seen 'em! My favorite B-show of 2010 was a KOTC event. But these? Not so good.
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