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This right here. Most vets don't mind taking lower contracts, but it's very important for newbies that the contracts cover the cost of training, supps and clothes. Also, while org owners might feel it sucks, but I think it's been good for the game that new org owners have to invest their own money to get the org up and running. Makes them more commited to make the org eventually profitable. Much respect for all you org owners out there. You keep this game running.

Slow down, princess! Firstly, I do apologize for any misconception that you may have on behalf of ownership, or our match maker, or whoever it is that has been breaking promises and whatever else has offended you. But I have to ask, when did ownership promise you the next fight would be vs Tim Horton for the belt? I want that fight, and yes, I expected it. But I never put that out there as being the next fight. If I did, then I do not recall that and didn't tell our new match maker to account accordingly. Secondly, I haven't even looked at the matches that just went out yet. I do not ask my match maker to wait for my approval of his choices for fights, either. So I am a bit puzzled on how "Looks like ownership didn't hold up it's side." is what I'm reading here and why ownership is getting bashed by someone who didn't seem to like the fight offer an employee sent them? And thirdly, I'm easily reachable on our discord server if anyone has an issue with something and needs to chat. Putting someone on blast on the forums is your choice, but please make sure it's at the least a factual based statement.

SUCKER PUNCH PREVIEW Sucker Punch Pro Series 167 You ready? Let's go! Yeah! For those of you that want to know what we're all about, it's like this y'all, c'mon! This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill, fifteen percent concentrated power of will, five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name! DJ Rumpler here with you again as we roll right into the second half of our double header events today! I’ve got my sidekick, Donkey “Dan” and we’ve got SPPS 167 coming at you LIVE from Los Angeles and the Colliseum this evening! Also intended to have my daughter, Risa Roo, look at the Undercard before Donkey and I stepped back in for the Main Card action tonight…but I have a feeling she’s just not going to get to it in time after being at the Pitbull concert last night. So…you’re stuck with Donkey and I on a quick read for the Undercard as I also have real work to do today, haha! No title fights on the card again this go round folks! But trust me, if you thought Sucker Punch Pro series was hitting you hard and heavy in London with SPPS 166, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet baby! SPPS 167 in Los Angeles has even more high profile fights on tap, even more aggression and pain set to be dished out, and at least three of the top fights of the day despite SPPS 167 and one of that other org’s (Syn) cards going off! So what does that tell ya? That tells ya that SPPS 167 is about to rock the west coast…that fault line better brace itself! I say let’s get right into this biatch! So a quick word or two from our sponsor and merchandise partner here and then jump into detailed discussion for each contest this evening! Do you find that you’re resting your fighters too often? Two, three, maybe even 4 times a week sometimes? 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That said, Linewood is another difficult test against a significantly more experienced opponent. Deal with it Valentine! Linewood, as I said, is significantly more experienced at 40 years old and arguably has the better overall skills. He has struggled over his last two fights against Christiano and Lee so some may be starting to question if he’s now falling off. He can prove that all wrong by dispatching my own kid here tonight and showing he’s still got “it”! *********************** Undercard Bout #2: Featherweights Paulie Greene v Dirk Van Beest If it weren’t for Greene’s morale being off a little bit this second fight of the evening would be one of my favorites on the night! These two are awfully well matched in skills, with Greene having small edges in boxing, Muay Thai and wrestling, but not enough to make it a lopsided affair at all. Give that morale issue a look and suddenly this fight looks like it’s anybody’s to take! Van Beest makes his Sucker Punch debut after the merger with CFC brought him to us and wow…what a record he carries in with him! MMA fight wise, he put up two QFC wins and then followed them up with THREE wins at CFC before dropping the only MMA loss of his career against Mordechai Kowalczyk in May. Since then he’s won two more against Mason Rogers and Antonio Zetsika and looks to be a point scoring machine on the cards at Featherweight. Reminds me of Theksit Ruengruong’s guys! Greene also makes his SPPS debut as part of the merger so these two know of one another well from CFC, but have never fought before. Greene comes in off a loss to Azacca Trounvouche, who fights tonight, but had two wins before that. He’s 2-2 over his last four and is looking to get ahead in the race with a win tonight. Much like Van Beest, Greene’s been a decision seeker ever since joining his new management team so we’re likely to find out which of these two is the more technically elite striker this evening! Van Beest in the clinch or Greene with his kickboxing! *********************** Undercard Bout #3: Welterweights Abdul Rahman v Mister Lee For our third fight that puts us halfway through the Undercard we step back to the guys who have been with Sucker Punch for a while in Welterweights Lee and Rahman. Both are fully prepped so you can expect a really solid go from both this evening with the only true separation in skills coming with Lee’s Jiu Jitsu. He’s got a black belt over Rahman’s brown. Lee’s win over Linewood last month had to let both him and his team take a deep breath finally after he’d dropped his prior three fights…and four of his prior five! Once heavily favored to be a future face of the division here at Sucker Punch…even earning a title shot against Juan Christiano almost a year ago…he’s struggled against the top third of the division since. While he had a couple submissions early in his career he’s been unable to capitalize on ground opportunities over the second half of his run so far. Rahman came into Sucker Punch back in February and immediately started to look like a future contender in the division and potential champion. He ran off four wins in a row with huge ones against Ziggy Ozbourne and Gideon Navarro catapulting him into the contender conversation. Then, in a big opportunity for Top Contender status against Lankinen, he was unable to keep the streak alive and fell in the second round via a highlight reel KO. Many have wondered since if that shook his confidence as he hasn’t seemed quite the same fighter with two losses since then, both via TKO and KO respectively to top tier fighters in Matsuzaka and Jinx. So the question remains…is he able to recover and become championship caliber at Middleweight at 32 years old…or has the opportunity passed by and left him as more a gatekeeper? *********************** Undercard Bout #4: Heavyweights Solomon Pruitt v Parta Matti Matti and Pruit are another pairing that are so closely matched in primary skills that it’ll be hard to pick a potential winner, at least going by that. Both are also fully prepped here heading into SPPS 167 tonight so you can expect a BIG collision at these two Heavyweights initiate battle! After being with Enigma for a long run, Matti enters the cage tonight for the second time as part of Sucker Punch Pro Series. His debut turned into a TKO loss to Pedro Fuentes which had to be disappointing after he came in on a 4-1 streak prior. All but three of this man’s fights have ended…for better or worse, via KO or TKO so I think the approach we’re likely to see is…let those hands fly!!! Sometimes the feet too. Pruitt comes in for a new adventure here at Sucker Punch after spending the majority of his career fighting QFC battles. He veered away from those on one occasion and took a KO loss to Bobby Chunks in May with the Slavic Fighting League promotion. He knew where his bread had been buttered though and flew right back to the QFC battles after when he won via decision over Ricky Rawse in July. Now…he steps into the lion’s den with real, true org level competition and hopefully he’s come focused with a solid game plan. TKO’s and KO’s won’t be as easy to come by as they were in the QFC, and if you want them, you have to break another quality opponent. Can he break Parta Matti? *********************** Undercard Bout #5: Welterweights Itchy Sinclair v Bald Martin Martin will have the Muay Thai advantage tonight while Sinclair claims the ground with the better Jiu Jitsu here in this Welterweight battle that closes out the Undercard for us. Both are fully prepped…like to see that…very much…and I’m expecting a good solid battle from both! Martin very much needs a win here as he’s dangerously close to that line we’ve unofficially drawn in the sand P4P wise. He’s been back and forth with wins and losses since his arrival at SPPS back in February, a trend that has continued since his days prior at HFC. For a stretch there at the end of the HFC days, into a QFC fight and then here at SPPS he started to finish his fights via TKO but over the past four months he’s fallen back to point scoring. Both for and against with decisions tallying up to a 2-2 run over that time. Sinclair was also on a hot and cold run for a bit, stringing together trios of wins and losses at WCF and then going 2-1 at NRC prior to joining us here at Sucker Punch. That trend has continued from NRC, with a 2-1 so far at SPPS here in the same manner…W,W,L…now…can he get back to the wins rather than that loss that keeps creeping in now and then? The losses seem to come when he can’t get the submission he’s striving for and fails to score enough points along the way in between to get the decision. We’ll see how he adjusts against another decision fighter tonight…but I have a feeling this is going to be a battle to determine where the fight takes place…on the feet where Martin should prosper or on the ground for Sinclair? *********************** Main Card Bout #1: Heavyweights Donkey and I still here after filling in for the slacker Risa Roo…and now with the Main Card we kick it off with a BIG one as Heavyweights Shavers and Fett are set to unleash the pain upon one another! Both look fully prepped and that means we’ll get the very best from these behemoths tonight at the Colliseum! Shavers has his work cut out for him this evening as Fett has a decent ground advantage and Shavers appears to hold only a small advantage in Muay Thai. But he and his camp knew coming in to this fight that it would be a tough one, and one they needed! He’s been rolling along lately, 3-1 over his last four bouts and 2-1 since joining Sucker Punch. Only a loss in June to Zurauskas has slowed down this train…and tonight we’ll find out if he and his team have been working on that whole ground thing because Fett certainly likes to go there! Fett defeated Zurauskas last month in a mid-first round TKO following some brutal ground and pound. You can bet that due to Shavers’ struggles against the ground game in the past that he’ll be looking to put this thing on the mat as quickly as possible tonight. Losses to Republic and Olafsson going back from the win over Zurauskas got Fett off-track a bit as he’d chalked up three wins in a row prior to that. At the time he was well on his way to a potential Top Contender bid but now needs a win tonight to put two together again and start building back up that ladder! Donkey’s Pick: Fett via Submission (Strikes) It’ll be an uphill battle for Shavers this evening unless he can keep the fight on the feet. And then he’s going to need complete focus, pinpoint accuracy combined with power for his shots and a ton of determination. Just as you heard in the lead-in tonight, “This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill, fifteen percent concentrated power of will, five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name!” If Shavers wants this, he’s going to have to dig deep and give folks a reason to remember the name! But does Fett want it more?!? *********************** Main Card Bout #2: Welterweights The question on everybody’s mind as we head into the second fight of our Main Card tonight will be, “Is Jinx ready and has his team been able to focus on his preparation?” Why? Well, because manager P J Jones has been overseas…literally…as he’s out in the middle of the ocean for a side-gig work campaign at the moment. We know he dipped in yesterday, so there’s a chance he’s got his boy Jinx all set up and turned over into good hands. We’ll find out! You can bet that Marky Mark and his boy Lankinen will be more than ready…and willing…to take advantage of any lack of focus if Jinx doesn’t come in with his head on straight tonight! A challenger for the title against Konrad Wagner two months ago, Lankinen fell just short of claiming the big prize after he’d run off FIVE big wins in a row. Since then a follow-up stumble against Christiano has left him sitting back down the ladder a bit but hungry to climb right back up there! Lankinen is mostly a decision fighter although he’s also demonstrated a couple times to an unfortunate opponent here and there that he can dish the KO as well. Jinx’s style is very, very similar. He can serve up a finish in style as he’s done on several occasions to earn ‘of the Night’ awards, but his manager is well known for taking fights the distance and swiping it from the judges’ scorecards. I expect a bit of a drawn out battle here tonight folks! Donkey’s Pick: Lankinen via Split Decision Jinx started to show some tendency to cut two fights back against Mason Jones. Granted, Jones is a power puncher who can make a rock bleed, so that could have just been a fluke. We may find out here tonight though as Lankinen can dish as well when he sees fit. Combine that along with the potential for manager P J Jones to perhaps not be at the top of his game for preparation and I have to lean towards Lankinen here. *********************** Main Card Bout #3: Welterweights Our final fight before the Main Events will see Curtis and Jones continuing the big Welterweight presence here tonight at SPPS 167! And as the last of five fights for this weight class on the evening you can bet they’re going to bring one of the best fights of the night into the cage! Both are fully prepped, so we should expect nothing less. Curtis will hold advantage in most primary areas with the exception of Jiu Jitsu where he holds a purple belt to Jones’ brown. Both fighters were on serious runs for a bit and looking at a potential shot to take on the champ but then stumbled in their last fights leading into tonight. For Curtis, that stumble allowed Keisuke Matsuzaka to go on and not only challenge Konrad Wagner for the title, but win it. Big missed opportunity there after four straight wins to capitalize and get the big shot for Curtis! He and his team will look to get Curtis back in the cage tonight and back on top with his sensational striking game. Jones went one step closer than Curtis last month when his TKO stoppage by the docs over Jinx in June earned him a title shot against Wagner in July. Unfortunately for Jones and his team, Wagner came in with his elite technical striking on point and was able to impress the judges for five rounds without letting Mason land that power shot he’s made a name for himself with! All of that said, Jones has hidden talent that he keeps in his back pocket and most opponents need to keep in mind the submission he pulled off over John Fuller in May…lest they end up on the receiving end of another by Jones! Donkey’s Pick: Curtis via Unanimous Decision Curtis is very, very good with his ground defense so I’m thinking if Jones takes it there he’ll be comfortable defending. This is likely to come down to accuracy and defense versus whether the big shot finds a home from either fighter. If it goes the distance, Curtis has the advantage I think. *********************** Co-Main Event: Featured Middleweight Battle Our Co-Main Event will have longtime SPPS Middleweight standout, Landon McGuire, welcoming Frank Diaz to Sucker Punch after his run at SYN! I’m sure a very warm, open-armed welcome as well! No doubt…? I think? Ok, maybe not! Diaz had switched over to SYN after WCF unexpectedly folded between March and April this year. Things looked good initially as he ran off two submission victories to get things going at SYN, but then trouble arrived and he stumbled with three straight losses to end the run there. So…welcome to Sucker Punch Diaz, a change of scenery and perhaps a change of fortunes! If McGuire doesn’t rain on that parade that is. Diaz is absolutely about as elite as you get on the ground with elite wrestling and a red belt in Jiu Jitsu. That won’t phase McGuire too much though as McGuire also has elite wrestling but a black belt. He’s pulled off submissions over Craig Watkins in June and Barkley before that in April. And my own Zambrano back in October last year. However, he has fallen to a sub recently back in February against Derek Patterson, so the door is open for Diaz if he decides that’s the road to victory. It’s a dangerous road…but both of these fighters are dangerous all-around! With two back to back wins heading into tonight and a 5-1 run over his prior six, McGuire is looking for the win here to earn a Top Contender battle and put himself one step away from a championship fight, something he missed out on when he lost to Silent Bob back in May! Donkey’s Pick: McGuire via Unanimous Decision This may be a sub for the win or bust situation for Diaz this evening as McGuire is an expert at getting the points he needs with the judges. And that’s assuming that he doesn’t turn things around on the ground in his own favor. I see more outs for McGuire in this one so I have to pick for him tonight in what should be a fantastic fight to lead into the final Main Event! *********************** Main Event: Featured Lightweight Battle And here with the Main Event of the evening we get to a fight that has all the good stuff on the line. Almost. No belt…but certainly a shot to go fight for one! The winner between Alderidge and Urameshi will immediately get a title shot due to the temporary absence of Frankie Logan who’s been sitting in line ahead but doesn’t have management prepared to take on that run yet. So brilliant opportunity for these two and looking at things, they’re more than amped and ready to leave it all in the cage tonight! Both fighters will find it challenging to secure a clear advantage heading into this one as only Alderidge claims better primary skills. But not by much at all and only in Muay Thai and wrestling. This is probably the closest matched fight all night in terms of pure primary MMA skills folks! A two-time Lightweight champion from both Caged Warriors and Dynasty, it’s been almost a year since Alderidge has held the belt. His arrival at Sucker Punch seems to have reinvigorated both him and his team though as he’s run off wins over both Pablo…er, damnit, I hate having to put this guy’s name in here…and Montesh Dominguez. If there’s any weakness to Alderidge’s game it seems to be two-fold…he can win via decision…as he does often…but loses occasionally with the judges…and his submission defense seems to be a bit of a sore spot for him. Urameshi makes his SPPS debut here tonight after slipping over to us as part of the merger from CFC! Welcome sir, welcome! He’s had big wins over White Rain, a top of the line fighter in the Lightweight division previously with CFC, as well as Masa Funaki. He’s 3-1 over his last four while he was with CFC and a win over a top fighter like Alderidge will make him more than worthy of a title shot! If we thought Alderidge was a decision fighter…well, Urameshi takes it to a whole different level. This man is ALL ABOUT his technical striking and taking it to the judges with only one TKO over the past two years of his career. Donkey’s Pick: Urameshi via Unanimous Decision A three-time champion…once at SMASH and then twice at CFC (albeit without successful defenses), Urameshi undoubtedly knows how to handle himself under the bright lights and what he wants to accomplish in the cage! Alderidge will match that know-how as well, so we’ve got two very skilled, very talented, very focused individuals heading into the cage here tonight! One of them will more than earn the title shot that’s on the line. Can Alderidge finish…or even out-point…Urameshi? That’s really the biggest question here. *********************** Alright folks, we’re hoping that the west coast draw here will bring folks in from all over for some prime Sucker Punch Pro Series MMA action here tonight at the Colliseum in Los Angeles! It’ll surely be an atmosphere filled with electricity, there’s no doubt of that! But for those who can’t make it, we’ve also got a fantastic THREE HOUR PPV with the best quality production money can buy all lined up for you fine folks! Can’t wait to get the action going…and for those watching in the meantime, don’t forget that SPPS 166 also fires off seven hours earlier over in London! Till then, have fun and don’t forget… Keep it cheap and dirty…Sucker Punch Pro Series style!

What I personally would accept and what a brand new player should accept would probably be two different things. With the way the game is these days, I think 3 x 4/4/4 is about the minimum an org should be paying. Most gyms are 1k per week and assuming that you're getting at least one fight per month, this should at least cover that without having to top up your fighters wages with your own cash.

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250 tops and bottoms on the way! Thanks again. Good pick up for the price, IMO

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Miesha Tate or Gina Carrano

Rock- my last fight here is on y’all, I have a fight 10 days out with no offer or talk of renegotiation on the table, I understand Nero and I are both 1-1 and he could argue for next in line himself, but fights are starting to get repetitive, I would love to challenge lightspeed, Horton, Rak or even get Howlett back, I’ve accepted the fight and after the trilogy, I’ll see about moving on or up weight classes.

SUCKER PUNCH PREVIEW Sucker Punch Pro Series 166 Y'all ready for this? Get down with the sound, house on the ground! Freeze when I squeeze, drop to your knees. You must obey, we’re in here to stay, ready to take you around the way! So you’re ready for this, mind your own biz', cause I am bad, yeah the MMA wiz! No need to sit, 'cause we're Sucker Punch Pro Series…Ready, ready, ready for this! DJ Rumpler here with you along with my sidekick, Donkey “Dan” and we’ve got SPPS 166 y’all, live and the first of two big events all in one action packed hump day! In addition, some of you may be about to get a heavy dose of abuse…so you may want to hide under your desks, hands on your heads…because you know, that’s the best way to protect yourself when Risa Roo is coming at you! Yes, my oldest daughter who is just a couple weeks away from heading back to college is being kind enough to grace us with some of her thoughts before heading off to the Mr. Worldwide concert this evening! She’ll be taking care of the Undercard portion of the previews here. Don’t worry though, if you’ve done well enough to work yourself into the Main Card you’ll avoid her abuse and get Donkey and I instead! No title fights on the card this go round folks! But still, oh so much fun action here at SPPS as the vast majority of these fights are going to feature new and incoming CFC transfers from our merger last month! Yes, many of their kids will get their first opportunity to step into the cage under the Sucker Punch banner and we couldn’t be more happy, and proud, to be able to present them as part of an even bigger and better Sucker Punch Pro Series! This card has got everything from Featherweight fight on up through Heavyweight mah peeps! Well, that is, unless you have a huge thing for Welterweights. If so, then yeah, you’re going to be disappointed. None to be found. Maybe you’d prefer to skip on over to Los Angeles and wait there for SPPS 167 instead a few hours later! Ha! Alright, enough of my rambling, let’s get a word or two from our sponsor and merchandise partner here and then jump into detailed discussion for each contest this evening! When you think about training your fighters, one of the biggest concerns is keeping them in the gym and actively training, am I right? And you can’t do that if they have to be stopping to recover and rest for sessions here and sessions there! That is why you need to visit our sponsor, Shadow Warrior Nutrition, and specifically grab some of their Shadow Warrior Tea 160Q. It is literally the best energy loss reduction supplement money can buy and will keep your fighter in the gym training rather than sitting days out resting! Stop on over there today, you will NOT be disappointed! Now, let's get to it! *********************** Undercard Bout #1: Featherweights Moganesh Jain v Mac Bandini Risa Roo’s Take: First fight of Sucker Punch 166 is a three-round matchup between Mac “Pipe” Bandini and Moganesh "The Monkey God" (are you kidding me what the hell kind of nick name is that? Go eat a banana weirdo) Jain. Both guys are coming into the night with a lot of energy, which should lead to an interesting fight between the two. Neither are all that popular, so the crowd might be too busy stocking up on beers and munchies to pay much attention, but they may miss out on a pretty good match-up. Jain is coming off two winning fights and is obviously hoping to get a three-fight streak going here. Bandini, on the other hand, has been back and forth on his last few fights between wins and losses, and while his morale is high, it’s a tad lower than Jain. Hopefully that doesn’t affect him. *********************** Undercard Bout #2: Light Heavyweights Beaudell Beckham Jr v Abraham Barnes Risa Roo’s Take: The second fight of the night will be another three-round matchup (hint: all of the early fights are three rounds) between Abraham Barnes and Beaudell "Bbj" Beckham Jr. Barnes is lacking a bit of energy going into the fight, which could become detrimental if it goes the full three rounds to a decision. Both are also lacking a bit of morale, but since they’re about the same level that shouldn’t be an issue. Barnes is coming off of a three-fight losing streak (ouch dude, that has to weigh on your mind a bit), which Beckham has been a bit more consistent with a few wins and draws mixed in. Both of these guys frequently win their fights with TKOs (that is, when they win of course), so this one will likely just be the dictionary definition of a full-on brawl (hopefully). *********************** Undercard Bout #3: Middleweights Nick Barkley v Emporio Cannabino Risa Roo’s Take: The third fight of the night will be between Nick Barkley and Emporio "Smokerinho" Cannabino. What even is a “Smokerinho” anyway? Dude is making up stuff to try to sound cool (and failing). Cannabino recently got a win to end his six-fight losing streak (double ouch). Hopefully he can continue the good vibes today. Barkley is coming off a loss, but his morale is still high which is good. Both guys have a lot of energy and are fired up for today. Both dudes are TKO and decision winners, hopefully if it goes the whole 3 rounds it’s not a snooze-fest. I cannot get over how dumb Smokerinho sounds, we’re revisiting. That sounds like a nickname a second grader would give himself for winning tag on the playground. DO better dude come on. *********************** Undercard Bout #4: Featherweights Mason Rogers v Yellow Belt Casey Risa Roo’s Take: The fourth fight of the night will be participated in by these lovely (not really) gentlemen: "Brick" Mason Rogers (your head looks like a brick) and Yellow Belt Casey (no way in hell that’s actually your first name, what are you hiding? Very suspicious). Both of these guys have plenty of energy and morale going into the event. Rogers has a history of decision wins (over 75% of his wins are), so Casey better hope to take him out early. Both fighters are coming off a recent win, and I doubt either wants to add another loss to the tally, especially since both wins came after losses. Maybe they’ll both lose, and the cage will be the winner! *********************** Undercard Bout #5: Lightweights Anti Half Assed v Marchrius Rossi Risa Roo’s Take: The last fight I will be reviewing before Hare finally does his job for once is the fifth fight of the night between Anti Half Assed (you look like you half ass your shower routine bro, shave please god damn) and Marchrius "Marco" Rossi. Parents really wanted to make life tough with that first name, huh? Anyone ever pronounce it right on the first try? Didn’t think so, good thing you go by Marco. POLO! Anyway, both of these dudes are coming in with energy and morale, so hopefully this will be an even paced and engaging fight. Rossi is coming off a few losses while Half Assed is coming off a couple wins. We’ll see if one can break the losing streak or one can maintain the winning streak. I’m rooting for whoever has the best hygiene (take a guess who). *********************** Main Card Bout #1: Featherweights Donkey and I return to the keyboard here as we slide right into the Main Card with a tough challenge for my very own Saggy Dinglestomper against an alliance-mate’s kid, Trounvouche, led by Action Jackson. It appears as though both will be well prepared for the fight when the time comes, energy seems in order given the time until the fight and morale is definitely fine for both! Very nice. (Although I was secretly hoping that Action would come unprepared…it may be the only way to defeat him!) Skill wise these kids are close, but Trounvouche will have both the age, experience and ID advantage in this one as well as having slight edges in both Muay Thai and wrestling. That makes this a serious uphill battle for my own Saggy…but hey, sometimes you have to see where they’re at especially after a title fight loss! Dinglestomper struggled in his last three fights at Combate so it was no surprise that despite a couple wins at CFC he was unable to best Yuro Nagasaki, the current champ at Featherweight. Falling to a quick, mid-first round submission was especially disappointing, but shit happens! Very much a decision fighter, tonight’s bout against Trounvouche becomes even that much more difficult given Trounvouche is also adept at technical striking and has the better overall skills in standup. Trounvouche had his own tough go at CFC for a couple fights in losses to Farrokhzad and Lemmy Bang but bounced back and comes into this fight with Dinglestomper on a two fight winning streak. He’d like to extend that to a trifecta. His last NINE wins have come via decision, so I think we know what to expect here. Fans of finishes and big power shots are probably going to be disappointed as the folks who like to tear apart a technical striking contest will be the only ones likely pleased! Donkey’s Pick: Trounvouche via Unanimous Decision Hare said it all. There’s really nothing going in Dinglestomper’s favor for this one so he’ll have to dig deep to find a way to come out on top I think. This is Trounvouche’s fight to lose. *********************** Main Card Bout #2: Middleweights We’ll take a step back from the “new kid invasion” here with a Middleweight bout between two regular SPPS customers in Stanley and Watkins. A lot can happen between now and the event kickoff, but things are looking good for these two at this time when it comes to energy and morale! Nice. Stanley will have the only big advantage with his brown belt in Jiu Jitsu over Watkins’ purple. Outside that, these two are very closely matched with only a small edge in wrestling for Watkins. Even their records are only separated by a single draw difference. Stanley comes off a tough pill to swallow with a split decision loss to Landon McGuire in July. Prior to that he’d turned out the lights in the first round for both Alaoui and Fuhren in May and June. But don’t start thinking that that’s the extent of this boy’s tool belt! Prior to a decision loss to Ronnie Bass he also put up back to back wins over Ortega and Alvarez over at Blaze…both via submission! You don’t know what this kid is going to do in the cage until it’s too late and there’ve only been a few lately who have been able to make it to the end…Watkins will have his work cut out for him! Watkins has been under new management for the past three fights while continuing his extended run here at SPPS with us. To some degree not much has changed, he appears to be bouncing between wins and losses with big finishes in his favor when things go right, but clearly a weak spot in the armor when it comes to submissions. He’ll need to have focused his attention on defense in that area as Stanley is no stranger to the ground game and will likely be looking at that history with a spark in his eye! Watkins would like to put something else in his eye long before the fight can go to the ground though…his fist! And if that happens it could be smelling salts for Stanley. Donkey’s Pick: Stanley via Submission (Armbar) I love this matchup because while they’re both very skilled there are definite areas where each could take this fight and make it their own! It’s just a matter of who can impose their will and get the job done! Classic striker versus potential grappler situation here. If it stays on the feet Watkins MAY have the advantage, but Stanley is no slouch in that area either. On the ground, the fight swings definitively to Stanley. Given all that, if I were playing poker, Stanley has more outs here on the river! *********************** Main Card Bout #3: Featherweights In our final fight before the Main Events, Kalmisto welcomes another from the new cast of characters incoming from CFC in this Featherweight bout! At this point both look to be very much on track preparation wise and I think we can expect a great go from each of them when the bell rings! Kalmisto will have a small advantage in Jiu Jitsu with his black belt and sensational wrestling versus Gonclaves brown and exceptional respectively. While the year started out a bit rough for Kalmisto with a 1-3 run from January through late March and only a single victory by TKO over Thompson, the run up to this fight has been exceptional with a trio of wins all via TKO. All but one of those wins, the most recent, came in the first round with only a talented Cleon Wright able to hang till midway through the second. All but one of his wins, the very first of his career, have come via TKO so any opponent needs to watch for his damaging hands. Gonclaves run over the three fights at CFC was pretty solid as well at 2-1 with the loss to Farrokhzad sandwiched between wins over Mike Lowe and, most recently, Dingleberry Jones who is now managed by Gunnar Pleysa but was originally one of my own stable…four managers back! Gonclaves lives and dies by the (T)KO and given both bring a similar style to the cage this one could turn into a serious fireworks display! Donkey’s Pick: Kalmisto via TKO (Strikes) Given the similar approach both of these fighters bring to the cage, I went back to look at their early days to see what each are made of. Kalmisto has a granite chin and for the most part it’s showed over his career with his losses all coming either via decision or submission. The lights have never been turned out standing for him. Gonclaves has some heavy hands though and may test that chin tonight. However, he’s also suffered more than a couple finishes on the feet and that’s where this becomes interesting. If he can land the right shot at the right time…preferably early in this one…he’s got a good shot at making this another notch on his KO belt. But, the longer this fight goes, the better chance Kalmisto is the one who finds a home for his fists. With the granite chin, I have to go with Kalmisto for now. *********************** Co-Main Event: Featured Light Heavyweight Battle I haven’t taken a close look yet at the Undercard fights for SPPS 166 but so far I’m thrilled with the preparation from the start of the Main Card all the way up through this Co-Main Event! Awesome stuff! Nig Nig and Izanagi both come into the fight, at least as of now, ready to get at it and once again we can expect their very best! Now that’s treating the fans and the sport right! Nig, who seems to be questioning his identity these days to the point where he’s wondering why former management named him as they did, will have the advantage in Jiu Jitsu for this bout. It won’t matter though! This is a man who likes to come out swinging with bad intentions! He’s never won via submission although he has lost a few on the ground. But he has a very specific set of skills. Skills he’s acquired over a long career. Skills he intends to thump his opponent’s skull with! Under new manager Crazy Horse he’s off to a 1-0 start in his rebirth late in his career. A fifty second first round KO over Tomomi Tsuruta over at Syn in July. Can he bring the same to the cage here at Sucker Punch against Izanagi? Izanagi comes into this fight fresh off his second title fight loss to the same man…Radu Dracul! His only two losses over this past seven fights! You know this man’s ass is chapped and he’s looking to take out his frustrations and he tends to do that in a myriad of ways. Decisions? Sure, he can do that. KO’s? Yep, what would you prefer, a good punch to the kisser or a foot in your face? He can serve it all up! Given all that, I’m not sure a decision is in the cards for this meeting as Nig Nig and Izanagi are likely to piss each other off enough that they’ll be headhunting sooner than later after Izanagi welcomes Nig to SPPS! Donkey’s Pick: Izanagi via TKO (Strikes) Izanagi has a solid chin. We’re not sure about Nig Nig as he showed powerful early on indicating he was a big of a strong youngster and that hid anything else. What I do know to help me pick here is that while Nig has dished out plenty of finishes…he’s been finished a bit also. Not under current management…yet…but surely under the prior. I’m going with that as the advantage for Izanagi. *********************** Main Event: Featured Heavyweight Battle Fuentes prepares to welcome Tiotio to Sucker Punch country in our Main Event of the evening when these two big boys get down and dirty in London to finish up SPPS 166! It’s clear that there should be one main thing on the minds of Fuentes and his team heading into this fight. Avoid. The. Cuts. Cuts have been plaguing this man over his career and despite having heavy hands to inflict damage himself…which he does very well with almost all of his wins coming via TKO and KO…those cuts are a recurring theme that just keep coming back to haunt him! SIX of his last seven losses have come via doctor stoppages and that includes three losses over his last five fights. That hasn’t stopped this man from earning belts at Underground FC, Enigma and SMASh over his career…but it has certainly factored into how long he’s been able to hold the belts. I guess you take the good with the bad in this case? Another former multi-promotion champion will stand across the cage from Fuentes when Tiotio steps in there for SPPS 166! Humors Street Fights…Belt, Check. WPFA…again, check! Three managers later since moving on from Grumpy as his manager…Grunge…yep, new belt being led by Brocc Ogan! Check! And then again at CFC until he lost it to…hmm…More…IsMore? Is it though? Anyways, he now comes to Sucker Punch as part of the merger and it’s been over three months since that title loss. He’s gone 2-1 over that time with the loss to William Riker fresh in his mind as he prepares to do battle against Fuentes. He’s also a nasty striker with a penchant for dishing out KO’s…so we might be in store for one hell of an explosion in the Main Event here! Donkey’s Pick: Tiotio via TKO (Cuts) Here’s what I see and it should be concerning for Fuentes team. Fuentes has an issue with bleeding. Tiotio has dished out multiple stoppages due to his heavy hands and at least two have come via cuts he’s been the one to serve up! Most recently in May when he got to Bruno Neves and left the cage a bloody mess. That’s not good news for Fuentes’ crew that their boy tends to bleed and this man they face tonight knows how to make it happen! Get the mops ready! *********************** We’ve got a lot of fun lined up for folks in London for SPPS 166 and this card is just screaming with multiple opportunities for quality ‘of the Night’ award candidates! For those of you in the area…be sure to get over there to the Wombley and join in for a night of madness! For those who can’t…we’ve got you…with a fantastically produced THREE HOUR LIVE PPV coming your way! Till then, have fun and don’t forget… Keep it cheap and dirty…Sucker Punch Pro Series style!

There you have it. Are coaches for LOM 3 will be Team Gwad vs Team Alfred. We are now about halfway through the signups!

I have decided to heed the call and do my part to resist the Nazi scourge plaguing this game and forum.

I'm in

hmmmmmm. okay, im in

Rock Romero- my 12th walk will be my final in the org, I’m not here to fight Kanud and Nero every month instead of going for the belt, the first 2 Nero and Kanud fights were for belts, it’s sad im Endings these trilogy’s with non title bouts. It’s been a fun run and I wish half my fights weren’t against the same 2 people but what are you gonna do, sorry Tim, looks like ownership didn’t hold up it’s side.

ill join

WKRP in Cincinnati

If you could give me a manager ID or link your account.

Just sometimes

Anyone who voted no is a pussy. You're here to fight, not cherry pick opponents.