1) Alexander Saranavskiy vs. Beau Baker: 155 lb bout. Baker has wins over Tom Speer and Mario Stapel, so he is not totally bad. Saranavskiy is 12-0 against nondescript competition.
FIGHT: Saranavskiy Submission Rnd 2. Story of the fight is such - Baker wants takedowns, doesn't really set up the shot, just sorta tries to walk through shots. Saranavskiy defends the attempts and lands a million arm shots. Unfortunately, Saranavskiy should have ended this in the first with all the punches and knees landed, but like I said; they had nothing behind them. Pure arm shots. More of this happens in the second, and after one particularly bad attempted takedown attempt, Baker tries to back out and turns around to run away and Saranavskiy jumps on his back and takes him to the mat. There's a body triangle and a RNC soon after. (1)
2) Jason Norwood vs. Mojo Horne: 185 lb bout. Norwood is a top level wrestler, and Horne isn't. Oh, and he's like 7 years younger too.
FIGHT: Norwood Unanimous Decision. What I can tell you about Horne is that which I could have told you before - he's not a great wrestler. He's not even a very good submission guy from the bottom. He's basically a striker and he gets taken down over and over and over again. Norwood, meanwhile, is a great wrestler. He's not a good striker, and so he doesn't even try to trade. He goes for singles or doubles or singles or doubles. And that's it. Horne has some offense early in the second round as he tries to fight off Norwood's attempts at a takedown and lands a couple punches and knees, but Norwood just keeps pushing and pushing. Norwood on top doesn't do a lot either. He's sorta a human blanket who prefers to hold his man down from the half guard rather than land blows in the full guard or rear up in mount to get leverage. (1)
3) Vinny Magalhaes vs. Jake Doerr: 205. Vinny loves to pull guard and that's been his career downfall from TUF to the present. Jake hasn't fought in two years and is a "judo specialist" moving up from middleweight who also happens to be shorter and older.
FIGHT: Magalhaes TKO Rnd 1. Magalhaes drops Doerr immediately with a left hand and we are headed to KOTC Special Land. The fight ends with Magalhaes on top with a body triangle on and having the back of Doerr landing blow after blow to the head. (1)
4) Tyson Jeffries vs. Magomed Sultanakhmedov: Middleweight title up for grabs.
FIGHT: Sultanakhmedov TKO Rnd 2. In the first round, Jeffries is trying to do things right and keep his foot on the outside of Magomed's lead foot and throw the right hand. But he throws slowly, he doesn't jab, and most importantly, he can't check kicks at all. Sultanakhmedov lands low kicks over and over and over and then throws body kicks over and over and over and man, it looks bad on Jeffries. There's a takedown for Sultanakhmedov too and he ends up in side control, and yet he prefers to stand out of a dominant position to go back to striking.
As the second goes on, Jeffries actually gets a trip takedown after absorbing more low kicks. Even though he has mount, he never postures up, never goes for anything, and gets bucked when he finally seems to consider it. Back to the standup and Sultanakhmedov throws more kicks up and down, and this fight starts to get ugly. The last 30 seconds was me yelling at the TV demanding a referee stoppage as punches kept landing, kicks kept landing, and knees kept landing while Jeffries wasn't intelligently defending himself or coming back with anything that could change the outcome of the fight. Horrible stoppage. So, so late. Sultanakhmedov wins a vacant title. Problem for Sultanakhmedov as he fights better opposition: He's too small to be a successful middleweight at 5'9'' and with his body type. (1)
5) Artiom Damkovsky vs. Jose Figueroa: Lightweight title bout. Damkovsky is defending his title. Figueroa has lost to every good fighter he's faced, but he is from ATT.
FIGHT: Figueroa TKO Rnd 2. Beatdown again. Damkovsky is basically a striker and not a very good one. Figueroa lands the superior shots standing and gets trip takedowns any time he's close enough to have the clinch. Damkovsky's nose breaks after going face first into that mat during the 1st round. Figueroa from that point just smashes the hell out of Damkovsky, keeps getting takedowns, and eventually pounds out Damkovsky from the mount. Am I going to pretend that Figueroa is a real prospect now? No. (0)
FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: Figueroa/Damkovsky
KO OF THE NIGHT: Sultanakhmedov/Jeffries
SUBMISSION OF THE NIGHT: Saranavskiy/Baker
OVERALL FOR THE EVENT: 4 out of 10. Uhhh, so nothing here was really good and some dudes got destroyed and that was it. Skill level is like any other lousy MMA show except that you have Russians.
D&R Rating: 20% (4/20)
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