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BANZAI COMBAT 11 – Preview BANZAI COMBAT just keeps getting bigger and better! In a week were the org passed 200 fighters on its roster, BANZAI COMBAT is going to take Hard Knocks in Tokyo by storm on 09.03.24! Main Card Main Event – Middleweight - Kurt Sloane vs Enoc Solves Torres All-rounder, Kurt Sloane, made short work of his opponent in his professional MMA debut back in February. The New York native will be making his first appearance in BANZAI COMBAT. Torres is right back into action after his big 31 second win at BANZAI COMBAT 10. He wants to keep the momentum going and is getting right back into the cage! Torres has reportedly said he could beat Kurt Sloane with one hand tied behind his back! We will find out on Saturday in our main event! Co-Main Event – Welterweight - Sinan Vrases vs Haya Mi Sinan "Sula" Vrases hailing from Albania by way of Montreal recently had a little punt at a QFC tournament just coming up short in the Quarter Finals. Tokyo native Haya Mi will definitely be the fan favourite and he may look to take the fight to the ground but will have a difficult job against Vrases’ remarkable wrestling skills. Whatever happens, it’s a pity there will be no award for Afro of the night! Heavyweight - James Hopkins vs Brandy Vera London bad boy James Hopkins aka “Hammerhead” is making his first appearance in BANZAI COMBAT. His story is a remarkable one having had a serious motorcycle accident when he was 21. His skull was rebuilt with reinforced metal plates. Brandan Vera is shorter and lighter than his opponent but will be hoping his superb wrestling skills give him the advantage in this fight. Let’s just hope Brandan doesn’t try to punch Hopkins’s head! Heavyweight - Halo Halo vs Reid Raider Halo Halo comes into this bout with a solid wrestling base. His opponent, Reid Raider may have a slight advantage on the ground with his BBJ purple belt. The stand-up battle could go either way. This will be an interesting encounter for sure. Raider, who is a little short for a heavyweight is giving away a massive height and reach advantage to his opponent. Light-Heavyweight - God Sven vs Mike Byson God Sven grew up on the streets of Tokyo. He learned how to box to stop thieves from steeling his lunch money when he was a kid! A solid fighter, the crowd will go absolutely wild for him on Saturday! Mike Bryson will definitely have his work cut out for him as Sven just seems to look better than him most areas. Bryson’s best hope will be to get the fight in the ground, but he will face a partisan crowd come Saturday. Undercard Featherweight- Jaquan Johnson vs Bashira Aya 24-year-old Orlando native Jaquan Johnson will enjoy a massive height and reach advantage in this fight and he will also have the advantage in the stand up as he clearly possesses better boxing and muay thai skills than his opponent. Bashira Aya on the other hand will want to take this one to the ground and grab onto those long limbs of Jaquan Johnson and make him scream for his mamma! Bantamweight- Mr Necro vs Chain Gables I was going to say a couple of midgets made up our next bout but how wrong would I be! Mr Necro will tower over his opponent by a whopping 50cm!! But Chain Gables will be looking to cut him down like a giant tree and submit him and he might just have the skills to do this. Heavyweight - Ivan Drago vs Jerome Archer “Risin' up, back on the street, ........Did my time, took my chances” ……. “Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet, Just a man and his will to survive”..... Oooooppps sorry folks got distracted there! Ivan Drago and that’s not THE Ivan Drago comes into this one with a big point to prove after loosing last time out by a devastating KO. Jerome "Black Grenade" Archer is a few years younger than Drago and may find this one difficult but don’t count him out as he will be looking to use his remarkable boxing skills. Featherweight - Daichi Tanaka vs Ilia Topuria IIia Topuria may have the advantage in this fight as he might prove hard for Tanaka to take down and he has decent ground skills if he needs them but he will definitely possess the better stand up in this one. Middleweight - Scabs McGee vs Logan McIntyre At least one of these guys will win a fight! Unless we have a draw! Both these fighters will be hoping to come back from respective losing streaks. Should be an interesting one this as McGee will have the stand-up advantage as Logan McIntyre may look to take the bout to the ground. Overview There you have it folks! The time for talking is over. See you on Saturday for another great night of action from BANZAI COMBAT! Date: 09 Mar 2024 Venue: Hard Knocks - Tokyo Merchandise Partner: Sakura Style

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I would love to do this, someone above recommended I contact the game owner to offer my services. I didn’t want to be too forward so I haven’t done this yet but I suppose ok then I’ll send him a message.

BANZAI COMBAT 10 – Review BANZAI COMBAT’s milestone 10th event did not disappoint and continued to break the orgs existing records as the org continues to grow. An attendance of 1,175 at Hayashi’s Lounge in Tokyo witnessed an exciting night of action and saw the crowing of a new Lightweight Champion! Main Card Main Event – Lightweight Championship - Tyrese Mercado vs Lincoln Hamilton Mercado came into this fight as the newly crowned, inaugural Lightweight champion having convincingly beat Nuori Makunochi for the belt at BANZAI COMBAT 8. Hamilton on the other hand had quickly worked his way up the rankings with a series of quick submission victories. Both undefeated, the stage was set for a fantastic encounter between an out and out boxer and an out and out submission artist! The fight started at a blistering pace as Mercado almost immediately sent Hamilton to the floor with a big left hand and immediately mounted him. Hamilton in desperate trouble, stayed calm and worked from the bottom. 2 minutes in and Hamilton got the reversal as his superior ground skills started to shine through and a flurry of submission attempts followed by Hamilton. A desperate Mercado tried to get to his feet but Hamilton dropped back for a heel hook synced it in and the fight was over at 3:19 of round 1! Lincoln Hamilton was crowned the new Lightweight Champion!! Great appreciation was shown by those in attendance. Mercado will be disappointed not to defend his title but he will be back. Co-Main Event – Light Heavyweight - Bentley Santos vs Yukihiro Shimada Blinked and you missed this one! Both these fighters were looking to put themselves into title contention by taking the victory in this encounter. The reasonably well-rounded Bentley Santos immediately came out of the blocks with dangerous intent as he buckled his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick. Serrano, however coming off a big KO win at BANZAI COMBAT 8 was having none of it and gave as good as he got with a series of kicks and punches. The crowd were on their feet as these two warries went at it toe to toe! Serrano missed with a body shot and Santos took full advantage getting a clinch and controlling Serrano up against the cage. Santos pulled guard and looked for triangle choke! His superior BJJ skills were no match for Serrano as he tapped out at 2.57 of round 1. What a victory for Bentley Santos and he surely has put himself firmly in line for a title shot after that wonderful victory! Featherweight - Bentley Rocha vs Daichi Tanaka This intriguing match-up was a key fight for Bentley Rocha having suffered a brutal KO loss to the number 1 fighter in the Featherweight division, Junior Calderon in his last outing. Rocha, a skilled BJJ brown belt avoided Tanaka’s wild uppercut attempt in the opening moments. Rocha then got a clinch but changed his mind and breaks the clinch. Strangely it was Daichi Tanaka who completed the first successful takedown of the fight but he does nothing with it and is happy to control the action leading to a referee stand-up! Thank God he listened to the boos coming from the crowd! Towards the end of the first round Rocha finally finds his groove and a beautiful double leg takedown leads to a submission attempt but runs out of time as the bell rings. Round 2 starts with Rocha full of confidence easily scoring the takedown and submitting his opponent at 1.48 of round 2 with a kimura! An important victory for Brendan Rocha as he seeks a rematch with Junior Calderon which may even be to crown the first ever BANZAI COMBAT Featherweight champion! Middleweight - Enoc Solves Torres vs Katsumi Orochi Did I say blinked and you missed it?! Nothing compared to this! Enoc Solves Torres easily dispatched his foe, who was making his debut in BANZAI COMBAT in 0.31 of round 1! A big right hand followed by a few more vicious punches and this one was over! Torres maintains his unbeaten record at 185 lbs as he climbs the Middleweight rankings with this fantastic victory! Lightweight - Panished Snake vs Kwame Kombate Another 31 second barn stormer featured a fighter making his BANZAI COMBAT debut in Kwame Kombate against a fighter making in 4th appearance in the org. The fight ended with Kombate catching Snake with a big overhand right followed by a few more punches to finish him off before the ref stopped the fight at 0:31 of round 1. What a debut for Kwame Kombate! He has certainly made his mark on the division with this emphatic victory! Undercard Featherweight - Mr Lucky vs Luc One This fight featured two fighters making their MMA debut. The extremely long and lanky Luc One looks like a stick! He’s a stick! Lol. But his height and reach advantage will be enormous! Lucky immediately took the fight into a clinch where he had three failed takedown attempts. Eventually One gets the takedown but Lucky escapes and gets back to his feet! Another takedown by One, leads to a reversal by Lucky but One gets full mount! A very exciting period of action leads to Lucky giving up his back and One sinks in a rear naked choke! Great debut for Luc One! Featherweight - Baki Hanma vs Luc Taala This mid-card bout featured two 18-year-olds making the BANZAI COMBAT debuts. Luc Taala’s cut around the 3 ½ minute mark of the first round may have been the highlight of this one! But full credit to Baki Hanma as he dominated the stand-up throughout the fight. No fewer than 26 failed takedown attempts by Taala wore him down but Hanma was unable to take advantage and get the KO. The fight ended in a unanimous decision victory for Baki Hanma with all three judges scoring the fight 30:26 in his favour. Bantamweight - Petchongboo Sitsongrit vs Mahatma Gandhi BANZAI COMBAT was privileged to have the current No 1 ranked manager in the game, Theksit Ruengruong, have his young prospect, Petchongboo Sitsongrit make his debut in this match-up. Unfortunately, his opponent Mahatma Gandhi seemed to forget he was there for a fight and did very little apart from get punched in the face! Sitsongrit displayed an excellent mix of kicks and punches both on the outside and in the clinch easily dispatching of Gandhi at 2:49 of round 1 after a huge head kick, followed by strikes to finish the job! Welterweight - Luc Ryder vs Mikazuchi Rei Luc Ryder looked very convincing in the second fight of the night! He dominated the action taking the fight into the clinch a number of times, eventually getting a takedown before the ending the fight at 3:32 of round 1 with an absolutely beautiful americana, which earned him the submission of the night award! Heavyweight - Van Vader vs Thanh Tung The first fight on the undercard would set the precedent for the night, as several quick victories would follow at this event. Not to be confused with Big Van Vader of WCW fame, his namesake got the night off to a ferocious start with a MASSIVE right left combination, which left his opponent out on his feet! At just 0:10 of round 1 Van Vader had a KO victory! I’ll have to check the record books but I think that might be a record for BANZAI COMBAT! Overview There you have it folks, what a great night, which saw history made as a championship belt changed hands for the first time in BANZAI COMBAT! Attendance: 1,174 KO of the night: Van Vader ($5,000) Sub of the night: Luc Ryder ($5,000) Fight of the night: Lincoln Hamilton vs Tyrese Mercado ($5,000 each) Event Rating: 86.22

BANZAI COMBAT Appoint Chief Marketing Officer Hi all, I am pleased to have taken up the job as Chief Marketing Officer of BANZAI COMBAT! My main duties will be as a writer. I will try to do both weekly previous and weekly reviews. I have some other fun ideas planned as well. I would like to thank org owner Mr. Nobody (103169) for giving me this wonderful opportunity. I don't see too many other orgs at the minute with regular writeups so hopefully this will help set BANZAI COMBAT apart and make it an exciting place for your fighters to call home!

Hey man, I'm interested. I'll message you in game

Ahh I see, good to know. thank you both

Yes I notice he hasn't logged into the game sine 21st February, which may not be that long perhaps? Maybe he is away on holidays/vacation? But I notice no other events booked. Does this mean there could be an opening for another Org on The Island? I might open one to fill the gap. Its something I'm interested in doing as well as fighting.

Wow, thank you for this detailed information. Are you sure you loose the slots at the end of the season? When I click into my Island fighters' bio, there seems to be an option to choose where you want your fighter to move to when The Island finishes: see here: So does that mean if I have 10 fighter slots as a VIP member I get an extra 2?

Thanks man

Also, I have created 2 Island fighters. They seemed to recover their energy after workouts much quicker than my other fighters I have created. Is that something unique to The Island? They recovered from 90% to 100% energy just from resting 1 training session.

Can someone please explain The Island to me. From what I can gather its only a temporary thing and only lasts for 6 months? It seemed to start before Christmas? So does that mean it will run until sometime in June? I have noticed money wise, everything seems to be lower in the Island? Is that right? Why is that? Also, is it too late to create companies on the Island or is it a waste of time as its already a few months into it?

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What is involved in running Tycoon Times? I think its a great idea! I have read through a lot of the previous issues so far. If there is nothing too technical involved, what I mean is fellow players submit the articles and all that is involved is clicking a few buttons to publish the articles I would be willing to give it a try and see how I get on. I have some spare time I could dedicate to it. Is there any in-game financial reward for doing it? Also does the $3,000 get automatically transferred when an article is published? If there is any technical programming or anything then I couldn't do it unfortunately.

Thank you very again sir. I commend you for taking the time to help a new player. Your help and advice so far have been a great help!

I have another question. What part does strength play when creating a fighter? I have read that for testing purposes a lot of managers create their fighters with 1 strength, as from what I understand if you create your fighter with physicals that are too high, it will cover up other hiddens like granite chin etc. But surly if your fighter doesn't have enough strength he will be weaker in all areas. He won't punch as hard, he will be weaker when grappling on the ground and be more easily overpowered? Same goes for the clinch I would imagine?

Oh this is great! a lot of information here. Thank you very much.

Hi all, I have just joined the game and found my way to these forums. In the game, over to the right in the menu, there is a blue circle with an i in it. When I hover it, it says MMA Tycoon's help site, but when I click on it I cannot access it. I imagine there is useful information within in it for new players to the game?