Fight Time 4 (4/1/2011)

Okay, time for the fourth in of the promotion's events. Main event is Tony Lopez vs. Jeff Monson, which is a pretty good ass fight. Alex Donno and Din Thomas announcing.

1) Harry Holton vs. Jeremie Wilson: Some dudes I know nothing about.

FIGHT: Wilson TKO Rnd 1. Holton gets taken down, laid on in side control, and then gets pounded out with short elbows. Shitty fight. (0)

2) Bruce Bellochi vs. Jesus Rodriguez: Heavyweight bout. Not excited about this either. Rodriguez is an ex-boxer or something with no Boxrec profile.

FIGHT: Bellochi TKO Rnd 1. Early stop I think intended to protect Bellochi, who has some sort of connection to the promoter. He was badly hurt earlier in the first during what was basically a toughman fight. Crap. (0)

3) Jay Ellis vs. Rafael Dias: Dias is a prospect of sorts that I've seen a few times now.

FIGHT: Dias Submission Rnd 1. Another easy, meaningless fight for Dias. He rushes Ellis, slams him, takes the back immediately, and gets a RNC inside of 30 seconds. (1)

4) Roy Bradshaw vs. Mike Bruno: Bradshaw at least has the nickname of "Precious". Sifl N Olly inspired?

FIGHT: Bruno Submission Rnd 1. Headlock or bulldog choke? Who can tell? Point is that it was another non-competitive fight in a fight promotion with lots of them historically. Bruno gets a takedown almost immediately and works to side control. Bradshaw tries to get out and gets grabbed by the head its torqued. (1)

5) Danceton Holcomb vs. Joe Watson: Watson is from ATT. This is really an ATT promotion, so....

FIGHT: Watson TKO Rnd 1. Holcomb throws wild shots and gets countered constantly by the straighter blows of Watson. (1)

6) Jeff Monson vs. Tony Lopez: YOUR MAIN EVENT. A 5 round ISKA MMA title bout. Am I excited to see this? Not really TBH.

FIGHT: Monson Unanimous Decision. Not much to break down in the fight because it was a consistent replay every round of the same thing; Monson shoots, takes down Lopez, gets dominant positions, can't finish, doesn't strike much to set up anything, Lopez breaks loose or changes the position with seconds remaining in the round, bell. The biggest difference was Lopez stopping a shot from Monson in the final couple minutes of the 5th and pancaking him, landing blows while on top of Monson. Did it win him the fight? No. (3)

FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: Holcomb/Watson

KO OF THE NIGHT: Bellochi/Rodriguez

SUBMISSION OF THE NIGHT: Dias/Ellis

OVERALL FOR THE EVENT: 2 out of 10. Lots of meaningless squashes punctuated by a terrifically dull main event. Skippable in its entirety. Show was so bad it was a month to the day that I started this review that I finished it.

Fight Time 3 (2/18/2011)

I wish I could have brought a review of Fight Time 2, but it was not to be. And they want like $1o on Gofightlive. This, meanwhile was on Sun Sports. How nice of them! Alex Donno is announcing along with Din Thomas on color. I also reviewed this whole thing and then Blogger lost it in its outage. Piece of shit.

1) Caleb Archer vs. Aaron Cerda: Rhadi Ferguson is the guest commentator for this bout.

FIGHT: Caleb Archer Unanimous Decision. Not a terrible fight at all. (1)

Archer: Has wild hair and thai boxing shorts, so I know what is gonna happen. He's sorta robotic and slow with his stuff, his thai plumb is pretty good, and he gets hit a ton by Cerda in the first round. To be honest, Archer nearly gets stopped that round and takes a beating that only ends and reverses when a very nervous and overactive Cerda gasses out totally. When that happens, Archer keeps coming forward and grinding on Archer. The more effective blows are thrown by Archer from the second round on, and when someone needs a takedown to enforce their lead in the fight, that man is Archer. I don't think Archer's traditional style of muay thai mixed with some grappling prowess will win him a lot of fights as he moves up the ladder, but he might be in some more fun scraps as time goes on.

Cerda: Karate background as a striker is nice I guess when it works. This is a guy for whom strikes are very fluid. He throws and throws and throws and moves and moves and then, oh, wait, he did too much without doing enough damage and the tank is empty early on. You can't jump around if you aren't setting stuff up or moving to get position. Jumping to jump is a bad idea. Being technically superior and better minded to fight doesn't matter if you don't have the energy to work. Archer survives the first 3 minutes and then starts grinding away.

2) Bruce Bellochi vs. Sid Carlton: Fat heavyweights.

FIGHT: Bruce Bellochi TKO Rnd 1. Fat dudes swinging. One of them wins. Both are gassed. (0)

3) Rafael Dias vs. Chris Ensley: Dias is a prospect, Ensley is not.

FIGHT: Dias Submisson Rnd 1. Mugging as Dias comes right at his man throwing bombs, gets taken down with a headlock into a throw, but reverses position soon enough, gets the mount, and gets an armbar while Ensley tries to escape/gives up. (1)

4) Marcio Armeli vs. Doug Rossi: Dudes.

FIGHT: Armeli TKO Rnd 1. Rossi goes the Carlson Gracie route of flailing and clinching for a takedown. He's flipped straight out of side control and gets kimura'ed in like a grand total of 30 seconds. (1)

5) Hansel Calderon vs. Robb Chadwick: More dudes I don't know.

FIGHT: Calderon TKO Rnd 1. Another mugging with Calderon getting the stop by TKO in 22 seconds after throwing around Chadwick like a rag doll and rushing him. (1)

6) Mike Bruno vs. Avery McPhatter: Some guy against a former noted prospect. I have expectations here, gotta admit.

FIGHT: Bruno Unanimous Decision. I dunno, Bruno gets a lot of takedowns, gets tired, and McPhatter basically gets dominated in top position. He has some success in the third round as Bruno tires out but even then, he's still on the bottom pretty much that whole round too. (0)

FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: Archer/Cerda

KO OF THE NIGHT: Calderon/Chadwick

SUBMISSION OF THE NIGHT: Dias/Ensley

OVERALL FOR THE EVENT: 3.5 out of ten. Some squashes, fat man fight, and a mediocre, boring decision in the main event against irrelevant guys. There's some prospects in bad fights here so that sorta matters but so much of this doesn't.

D&R Rating: 13% (4/30)

Fight Time 1 (8/21/2010)

As readers know, I have my favorites out there in terms of great B-Show fighters. One of them is Jeff Monson, and here he headlines against another classic B-Show fighter, Jason Guida. This event was held in Club Cinema on Pompano Beach in South Florida, and is the first effort of Elite Promotions...or Fight Time Promotions. Announcing is Alex Donno as PBP and Din Thomas is the color man. The promotion is an offshoot of ATT through Howard Davis Jr., who is a co promoter here. Jeff Gibson is the other promoter here and he's a former kickboxing champ and "hormone replacement" guy. Uhhhh.

1) Josh Mercado vs. Abraham Estacio: Missed the weight class but it looks like 155. THIS FIGHT IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY BRUS SPORTS BAR.

FIGHT: Mercado Submission Rnd 1. Mercado throws some cool looking kicks and is kinda wild but drops back for a guillotine. Not too much effort expended to win his pro debut. (1)

2) Jimmy Chaikong vs. Mike Benken: Chaikong is 1-5. ONE WIN FIVE LOSSES. Benken is debuting. Solid Gold Dental and Lamborghini Palm Beach are presenting this one.

FIGHT: Chaikong Submission Rnd 1. Incredible start as Chaikong goes into karate forms to start and then breaks from kata to shoot and take down Benken. Never seen anything like it. Chaikong passes to mount, goes for an armbar, and doesn't really do it right. Had bad position and crossed his feet, but Benken probably ends up getting hurt since Chaikong just pulled on the fucking thing till he forced a tap. (0)

3) Patrick Williams vs. Shaughn Koukos: Featherweight fight between a 1-0 guy and a debuting talent.

FIGHT: Williams TKO Rnd 1. Just a beat down. Williams gets a takedown and then just lays in with GNP. He celebrates after his 2:30 long fight with a standing backflip. Athletic dude with wrestling and punching with his wrestling. That's something, right? (1)

4) Dalton Hicks vs. John Chavez: Chavez trained in Thailand for awhile, the announcers say, and is touted by Wilson Gouviea. Sorta a welterweight fight?

FIGHT: Chavez TKO Rnd 2. Horrible mismatch talentwise. Chavez smashes the crap out of Hicks and should have submitted him in the first. He had full extension going for an armbar out of the mount and the arm controlled and isolated and couldn't get the thing straight. Ref should have stopped it before the bell. Instead, he lets Hicks take a ton of shots and then pulls him to his feet after stopping the fight almost immediately. (0)

5) Jerry Blackman vs. Chris Holcomb: Dudes who are big. Not sure how big though. Missed that.

FIGHT: Blackman Unanimous Decision. Blackman is much bigger, from a much bigger camp, and tosses around Holcomb early on. He cuts him over his eyes, he punches him, he goes for submissions, he gets a nice belly to belly to put him on the mat. And then in the second round, he gasses out and Holcomb tries to make a comeback while dodging triangle attempts and the like. Even then, Blackman wins the round by getting himself back on top in the final stages. The third is awful stuff, with two fully expended neophyte fighters staring at each other for the most part. The staring ends with Holcomb shooting for the takedown, pulling guard, and actually sweeping Blackman and being in side control for awhile. Not much happens though. Neither guy looked that good coming out of this. (0)

6) Boumny Somchey vs. Lazar Stojadinovic: Lazar I've seen before and he's really little. And not that great.

FIGHT: Stojadinovic Submission Rnd 1. Lazar drops him with the first punch of the fight, is all over him on the mat, forces him to roll over, and we get an RNC finish inside a minute. (0)

7) Dennis Hernandez vs. Stephen Jenetis: Yeah, no idea.

FIGHT: Hernandez TKO Rnd 1. Jenetis clinches to start, then gets taken down and mounted almost immediately. Just a wild grappling fest for a moment or two, then Hernandez gets the fight down again. Its not long till he gets the crucifix, and then he starts throwing punches and elbows. At some point, Jenetis goes out and then takes a few more elbows a la Orlando Weit. (1)

At this point, there's an intermission, some fat chicks are in the ring, Kimbo stops by and says hello.

8) Jason Guida vs. Jeff Monson: Main event time. Strange undercard for this, TBH.

FIGHT: Monson Submission Rnd 2. Man, this is sorta sad and disheartening. Monson shoots but is so slow at first that Guida actually defends it and takes top position, landing blows. Monson eventually sorta balls up and is able to force his way on top by taking a single on Guida. From then on, its generally all Monson. But he's really slow in this fight and Guida has some moments where he regains top position. Monson is big on leading with his head for the clinch and punching, which I think is probably as much why Guida gets cut as is the strikes he throws. Eventually he has a weird side back control on Guida and goes for a sort of crossface on him that Guida taps to. In the postscript Monson plugs his radio show that goes on back west. (2)

FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: Guida/Monson

KO OF THE NIGHT: Hernandez/Jenetis

SUBMISSION OF THE NIGHT: Chaikong/Benken

OVERALL FOR THE EVENT: 3.5 out of 10. Monson looks muscular but age is definitely a factor now. He's very slow, not that he was ever super fast. Rest of the card features a lot of promising young talents, mostly from ATT, though they face really underwhelming opposition. The card is short and a bit of a throwaway, but its note totally terrible.

D&R Rating: 12.5% (5/40)