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Synchronicity presents SuperNova lV by BrotherHec Intro Well..Here it is...SYNCHRONICITY'S SUPERNOVA 4! Can anyone else say FINALLY!? This is what so many people have been waiting for. This card was so good it took SYN from being he 13th ranked global fight organization to becoming the 2nd and putting them first in Vegas. Now being that im from Vegas i am thrilled to be writing for such an Org as this. Traditionally i only do 5 writeups but this card was so big i had to try and get everyone on. I have one interview placed in here from Martel and i really hope you enjoy this. Ladies and Gents i present to you BrotherHecs very first work for Synchronicity, SUPERNOVA IV REVIEW! Lets get started! Luke Daigle vs Bulk Bogan The beginning fight for the night scored a 100% fight rating and the man they call Luke Daigle showed that experince isnt always the reason why people win fights. Completely outscoring Bulk Bogan on the standup he outscored him everywhere. Bogan was able to secure one take down at one point but Daigle kicked off almost immediately and to me that was very great to show that kind of ability. Not once after was Bogan able to take him back to his feet. Daigle immediately continue to show his striking skills landing a majority of those he threw. Bogan landed some of his own but there was no chance for him as Daigle proved why he should be fighting on this card. Mixing his kicks between low and middle in the second round he randomly threw a high kick that was timed so correctly Bogan hit the floor and his mouthpiece literally fell out seconds after he hit the floor. Daigle was far to quick for Bogan and outmatched him altogether. The young phenom is steadily making a name for himself and in a few months he really will be someone people will remember. It was a sad defeat for Bogan as he came off of four very impressive knockouts but Daigle is serious probably more serious than anyone Bogan has ever faced with more power than anyone he has faced. Congrats to you Luke Daigle and i look forward to writing more Reviews and eventually Previews for you! Bulk Bogan i hope to see you back in action earning those TKOS as well! William Barker Vs Jake Young William Barker Vs Jake Young was no doubt about it one fantastic three rounder with the end result so close it was hard to argue who own. The first round was easily Jake Youngs round. His work ethic was so much more impressive and on point but something clicked by the beginning of the second round it was almost as if William had realized he was in a fight and decided to begin fighting back more effectively winning the second round. This would all come down to a very impressive third round that William Barker would show he is worthy to fight for the title. With the fight being incredibly even the entire fight it was most likely the two takedowns that Barker did score and the ground n pound he began showing that was just stunning the audience who was all applauding from their seats. William Barker came in very prepared for this fight but Jake Young obviously did not take this fight easy either. The two did swing and came for the glory. When the announcer had proclaimed Barker as the winner of the fight he was so excited telling everyone he wanted to do things that people did not expect from him and the fans couldnt help but applaud for him. The 79% fight rating was the lowest fight rating score of the night and that was still very high! Barker and Young thankyou both for putting on a very impressive show! Barker i wish you luck on you title fight coming up! Charles Martel Vs Kid Torres Now on a card packed with talent that stretches beyond the imagination i know everyone had a fight they were excited about and this was personally mine. Imma fan of hype! I believe the hype! Kid Torres went around running his mouth about how he was going to destroy Martel, how he was the best and in the end the man with his hand raised was Charles Martel. In the first round Martel came out rushing Torres almost immediately and Torres side stepped out of the way. WIth a clinch put in effect he was looking to damage but Marels aggresive nature and his clean defense did not allow Torres to much damage except for a slice on Martels face. This was definitely a fight of pure hate these two did not like each other, at least thats what was understood to be of the two. By the second round the defense of the two was impenetrable it would seem the two would throw and the other would continue to block. Finally, at the close of the round Martel would have the final point given to him by the judges. For all five rounds they continued to do the same things. Trading shots with defensive blocks. By the end of it you would have to score it for Martel who outscored Torres by a landslide victory of strikes. Even though Torres landed almost every strike he threw, he did not throw many especially not as many as Martel. At the end of the fight Martel said,"I would like to thank SYN for putting the fight together...As far as im concerned the beef is squashed and we now know who the better fighter is." With so much intrigue i pulled Charles aside and asked him a few questions about the fight.: 1.) How did you feel getting signed to fight Torres? "I was stoked to fight torres. I had been calling him out in the media forever but it seemed like he kept coming up with excuses not to fight me. He knew what would happen when we would fight and he was trying to avoid the loss is all. 2.) How did it feel defeating Torres? "It was bittersweet actually. I was pumped for this fight the second fight contracts were signed. I really wanted to finish Torres so he couldnt run his mouth saying the judges made a bad decision. Overall im extremely happy to have defeated him. 3.) What are your plans from here? "Ive had so much tunnel vision coming into this fight that i havent given much thought on where ill go from here. Ive got some good offers already and i think ill just enjoy this win for a few days while i think whats best for me next. My manager is holding an event in the LA coliseum in a few weeks so ill just hang out here." After ending my interview with him i personally asked him what fights he was looking for and no doubt he like everyone else was ready to see the Puno/Bubba fight. He was also really impressed with the Snakes win and said he is starting to believe the hype on this guy. Well Charles Martel i want to wish you congrats and enjoy your days of relaxation! Hopefully i can see you back here in Synchronicity! Forever War Vs Alex Jackson Forever War Vs Alex Jackson was a battle of epic proportions where the stand up war was dominated by one fighter more than the other and the takedowns were stuffed 8 of the 12 times. This fight went all 5 rounds one of the only fights on the card that went the entire distance. It was a full on back and forth fight that was really never dominated the fight. It was a true test of endurance as they continued to persevere through the very end. There is no doubt however that when you ultimately look at the score cards you would see that Forver War would score more kicks and punches. Even though Jackson won most instances in the clinch War was still able to provide compeition there and when it came to them coming face to face it was clear Forever war was winning though. What was so exciting about this event was that Forever War was the SYN champion and Alex Jackson was the WFC champion. When to champions collide to see who the better is it is always entertaining i dont care what you think. For a fight of these two whos caliber is so high to go this far is just amazing truthfully. Im suprised that both of these guys were able to take the others shots. Alex Jackson, although known for going the distance in every fight, has never been stopped by any one opponent so to watch him take Forever War a man who has knockedout 12 of his 19 victories was probably the man to do just that. Throughout the fight it would appear that Jackson wanted nothing to do with the standup but he was doing a fantastic job with it. So it really was such a confusing thing to witness him continually going for takedowns. Forever War, with his great takedown defense, kept refusing Jackson to keep him on the floor. To be able to be put on your back and not allow your opponent to do any damage is simply fantastic so kudos to War for that. In the end the judges scored the rounds for Forever War who remains a force to be reckoned with at 155lbs. So congrats to you War and goodluck on your next fight and first Syn Title defense against William Barker on April 27th which is my birthday so give me a shout out if you win! Jafar Agrabah Vs Happy Day The Elite Ultimate Fighting Champion Happy Day would take on the Synchronicity lightweight Champion in a 5 round bout that would only go for three short rounds. Have you ever had the feeling that fighters name themselves? Or that there is some weird doctor who creates random clones and decides to name these clones really weird names? Yeah i cant figure out whats going on either...Its the only thing i can understand why someones last name would be Agrabah or someones first name be Happy...Ok lets get to the fight because the fight was better than the actual names. I dont know how many of you were actually excited for this fight but i was certainly one. I love when champions from other Orgs come to another Org to fight a champion. That is one of my favorite things to see. Thank goodness this was not a letdown. From the beginning to the bitter end these two gave a very well presentation of what it should look like if you are a fighter earning a fight rating of 100% and to me this was huge! When the bell rang Jafar throws a leg kick at Day and follows up his maneuver away from Days switch kick. These two were going all in and that is what had me on the edge. Immediately after a few striking incidents Day clinches with Agrabah...Agrabah really?!...Anyways Agrabah breaks the clinch and does not allow a single strike to be thrown. That was the moment too, being that Happy had him on the cage! From the corner Jafars trainers were telling him that if he clinched just pull gaurd. Agrabahs greatest choice would be to do just that in the third round. The first round would go on and to describe it you would have to see that the two of these fighters really put their heart and soul into this entire fight. Day, the clear agressor went after jafar with strikes of plenty time after time. Infact he did not relent until he had it all. When the bell rang the two went back to their corner. It was an eerie feeling knowing that these two are two of the best at their weight. Fighting on an event like this was huge for any fighter but for these two you could tell that they wanted to be better than the other so bad. Day who had won the first round was pushing around Jafar dominating another round and was looking for an easy victory. With the same things going on by the third round Jafar stepped up his game and tryed something different. For the second time in the fight he pulled gaurd from the clinch. This time when Jafar went for a submission he would get it. Putting on and executing a beautifully timed triangle that would break the man known as Happy Day and force him to tapout for the first time in his career. Congrats to Jafar Agrabah for defeating Happy day! Jason Rose Vs Brian Peppers 135lbs title on the line Jason Rose the 145lbs title holder was looking to take on Brian Peppers the 135lbs Title holder for his belt and to be the holder of both divisions! Could he do it? The odds were surely stacked against him being Peppers was not an ameature by any measure and he certainly knew what it was like to hold two different belts as well being that he held the SPFT and SYNs titles. Jason Rose just wanted to be one of the most dominant men to rule over the giant organization we call Synchronicity and to hold two different titles was surely the way to do it. Peppers who defeated Rose on Syn 198 on November 11th 2011 was probably looking to have a reenactment of what he orgiinally did to the current 145lbs title holder but if that was the case he was in for a rude wake up call. Jason Rose after dropping weight to meet his opponent looked straight in his eyes and began dodging the strikes Peppers was throwing. Someone was heard commenting about this card and said, "It really says a lot about a card when the first main fight of the night is a title fight!" This guy was absolutely right and i dont think we could have asked for a greater first fight of the night. Throughout the entire fight it was so hard to call it went right down the middle. If one guy through a punch the other would throw a kick and vice versa. This would change repeatedly and we were in no doubt in one of the biggest treats as we saw the two champions put everything on the line. Im curious what meant more to Jason Rose, to win the title or to redeem a loss in a very exciting fashion. The crowd loved this fight. They screamed they hollered and cried for more. The fight was so close that if it went to the judges scorecards i dont think either fighter would have been suprised if the other won. At the end of the first the announcers claimed Peppers, at the end of the second, Rose. The third was probably Rose they told the listners but they wouldnt get to choose another round because in the fourth it would all end. In the first minute of the 4th round Jason Rose went for a takedown. He had only did this once before in the first but Peppers got right back up. Jason got the takedown once again and was absolutely throwing on the floor. Peppers was taking the shots trying to dodge and get back up but when he was struck with that brain penetrating elbow, it left him seeing double. Trying to fold over a submission on Rose, Jason just stood back up and began dropping his fists to the face of Peppers. The referee who warned Peppers to improve position was now forced to stop the fight. And Now....We have a new BantamWeight Champion in Jason Rose! Congrats Rose on defeating a former rival and being crowned with two titles in one of MMATYCOONS biggest orgs. You certainly are doing well! John Turner Vs Momoko Yamaguchi At the start of this fight it was expected to be an incredibly even fight between the two men. That would surely change as we would witness the two trade shots and watch as one was clearly much more effective and the other would suffer cuts and punches all over the face. The top two 265lbs fighters met tonight in a clash that would most likely decide at who would get the shot at the next title holder whether it would be Killsinwater or Puno. Both of these guys do this for a living, this is how they feed their family, so you better believe both of them wanted it bad but one guy stepped in from the beginning to show he was ready. "My Time is Now!" John Turner was more than willing to win this fight by outscoring Yamaguchi with 28 punches and 21 kicks altogether. If someone lands about 28 punches more than you, you are probably bleeding to much to see those punches coming and thats exactly what had happened here. In the first round Yamaguchi took the fight to the clinch and immediately Turner through a strike that sliced open the eye of Yamaguchi. Although this cut was never really near doctor stoppage it definitely played a part in the effectiveness of Turners striking and Yamaguchis lack of defense and striking ability. Yamaguchi is known to be extremely accurate knocking out 11 of his 15 victories he is no doubt a man not be toyed with. Turner is no joke either, since entering Synchronocity he has scored 3 straight victories and his victory over Yamaguchi tonight was another show of pure class! With five rounds of world class striking Turner looked to be insanely well with his ability! It looks like this kid is ready for what Synchronicity has to offer him, even he would go on ranting and raging about his great he is for 5 mintues after the fight. Congrats to you John Turner for coming in and getting the win. Yamaguchi we look forward to your return! Bubba Killsinwater Vs Fidel Puno 265lbs title on the line If i told you that this fight was for the 265 pound title of the Synchronicity world would you care? Of course you would. Unless you knew that these two top ten Pound for Pound fighters were fighting for something a little more to them than the title of the world. What could that possibly be you ask? Their careers. The loser retires and the winner remains. This is one of the craziest things i have ever heard. Now if you are new to MMATYCOON like i am you might not get all the excitement and hype. This fight was probably the only fight in history were people were hoping, literally hoping, for a draw to occur. These are two of the most beloved fighters that have ever graced the Synchronicity arena and to watch them go head to head was exciting but also nerve racking. One manager was heard to say, "If you dont have this fight on your spoilers you dont deserve to be here." Thats a pretty bold statement. The fight was considered fight of the year immediately after it was announced and the build up to this fight was bigger than one i have ever seen, Synchronicity does a great job in doing that. Now if the two are coming to keep their careers alive for a few more fights you are forced to take sides now which side do you take? Do you take Fidel Puno, the former; Pride, Syn, and Convicted champion who has won 10 fight of the nights 9 ko of the nights and 3 submission of the night awards the thrilla from Manilla who was the former #1 P4P fighter or do you go for Bubba Killsinwater the former Afc, Syn and Blitzkrieg champion who was ranked #1 P4P at one time who recieved 7 fight of the night awards and 1 submission of the night with 1 knockout of the night award who actually defeated Fidel one time before? Yes..Heartbreaking news. Killsinwater defeated Puno back in May 30th 2010 in a five round fight that was absolutely legendary. Bubba won the first two rounds and Puno won the second two rounds. The fifth round was looking to be an absolute who is better round of the two but it would never end as Fidel suffered a cut that would haunt him for the remainder of his career and be a memory that would never leave. The referee stepped in called the doctor over and with 66 seconds remaining ended the fight. So tonight these two stepped in and battled once more and i hope you have picked a side for this catacalysmic event. ROUND 1 Remember that cut i told you about? Well Bubba decided to reopen that cut before the first minute even closed as a reminder to Fidel that he could not be stopped. It wasnt less than 30 seconds later that Puno decided to create a slice of his own on his opponent. This left blood from both fighters pouring profusely to the ground. Throughout the round the trades these two made were incredible and that cut above the eye of Puno would be opened even more to a way we have never seen before. The blood was literally pouring into his eye and it was a tragic. Puno was an absolute warrior though continuing to trade he showed the world how Philipino fighters work even when their backs are against the wall! He continued to give all he could as Bubba continued to throw insane kicks from all angles. At the close of the round Puno connected with an absolutely terrifying head kick and Killsinwater literally kept walking towards puno as if he was the Terminator incarnate! The round came to a sudden end and we saw the crowd screaming for the different fighters cheering them on as they recieved instruction from their corner. As Round 2 Began the blood from both fighters slowly crept back onto the faces and around the eyes of them. Killsinwater was dominating the round from the get go throwing his combinations each way until he decided to clinch. In the clinch a scored a strike that would blast open the blood of Puno that would hit the floor and the horror from the stands was heard. The two continued to trade Jab for Jab. Breaking from the clinch the trades grew even more until the leg kick that came from Bubba left Puno feeling unbalanced stepping in and suffering an immediate right cross. The blood flooded down his face and the referee jumped in the middle of the two calling for the doctor. The fans began to boo until they seen the doctor checking out Puno. An immense silence took over the stands. From the fighters backstage to the fans at home no one expected this fight, Punos career to end due to a cut. "Ladies and Gentleman at 4 minutes and 12 seconds.." We had a new champion. We had a final victor. We had the fight of a lifetime happen today. Bubba was proclaiming his Goatness and how he retired Puno. It was a shame that we didnt get to hear from Puno. Countless people feel that this fight should not have ended in the way it did. A fighters career closed due to a slice of the eye. It is part of the rules and it seems as if Bubba had reenacted his intentions from their first encounter over two years ago. A brilliant performance from the two that would leave many feeling as if they really did see a clash of the titans. Puno, thankyou for all you did and if this really is goodbye we will surely miss seeing your face around the cage. Bubba Congrats you did an unbelievable job and with the remianing fights in your career we look forward to witnessing more dangerous encounters from you! Snake The Pendulum Vs John Keynes You know what i love? I love fighters that know what they want to do. Especially fighters like Snake The Pendulum, even though he has one of the more stranger names i have come across in this business he definitely knows what to do when it comes to fighting. Tonight he faced the dangrerous champion of Synchronicity John Keynes. Snake, before this fight has defeated two champions back to back and was looking to do the same exact thing to Keynes as he came to the card tonight. Personally i have a new favorite fighter and for those that dont know much about this guy he has 24 victories and 17 of those are stoppages. He has yet to lose and even though Keynes, the current champion of Synchronicity was looking to add Pendulum to his resume, he added Keynes to his. The third straight champion to fold under the impressive skills of the snake. For those that were not able to see the fight let me jump into it for you. As soon as the bell rings Keynes went for a cross, but no sooner did he blink was he countered by Snakes shot. Pendulum was focusing on his defense while the aggresor was clearly John Keyenes. Strike to strike and kick to kick Keynes was looking for a finish. The fighter was relatively smart because you could see he continued to think throughout this fight so when he realized that the fight was not going anywhere on the standup Keynes went for a takedown, funny thing Snake allowed it. The Submission attempts began almost immediately with the Snake going for a guilliotine and then Keynes looking for an opening for a kimua. Does anyone else remember the time when no one knew what a Kimura was? ha good times. Back to the action. With the end of the round the two fighters looked pretty confident in where they were on the scorecards although the announcers believed Keynes to have one that round hands down. Now the second round was where the fight began to come to the sweet end. Keynes puts the clinch to work against his opponent but not a minute later would Snake break that like Macho Man (R.I.P.) snaps into a slim jim. Keynes decided to go for another takedown and was actually successful. Pendulum did not put up a fight for that saving his energy he bounced back on the attack with an armbar. About the twenty second mark of the third minute we witnissed the champion of Synchronicity tapout. Congrats to the #12 P4P fighter, Snake ThePendulum Taylor Norton Vs Bomb Squad Ladies and Gentleman lets get ready to rumble!!! Finally we have the oppurtunity to cover the Main Event of the evening and what a main event this is. If you take a look around you would normally say to yourself this card is great i cant really see how it could get any better, well take a seat lad and enjoy the review of the main event. Talk about a clinch war these two spent the majority of the fight in the clinch tied up. Taylor Norton the young Texas fighter was expecting a good strong fight against the man who trains out of Beast Farming in Brazil and with a fight rating of 100% you can believe that this fight not only lived up to the expectations but delivered more in an absolute stunning fashion! Now ill be one to tell you that when you look at the two fighters you have to take a closer look at Bomb Squad, he only lost twice and his last defeat was on Janurary 9th of 2011 and since then he has went on an 11 fight winning streak knocking out ten of those men and became the Cage Wars light heavyweight champion. That would make any man cautious into going into the cage with him and rightly so. Taylor Norton, the former Synchronicity champion is looking to get back to that position he once held and defeating a man like Bomb Squad would have done that for him. Now in the actual fight itself the only significant action taken by Bomb Squad was the body shot he landed in the clinch right before the end of the first minute. It probably was not the most expected thing that they would go into the clinch but Norton did so and did it very effectively. Infact he closed the distance and even though Squad was the aggresor it was Norton who landed the more significant shots. Close to the end of the first round you would see that Norton would begin to rethink his strategy as Squad landed a hook that sliced the eye of Norton. With his head bouncing off the cage he pushed forward attempting another takedown and Squad squashed the oppurtunity. With Blood pouring his determination proved greater than we have ever seen it before. Taylor Norton ended the round in an absoulte dominating fashion with carefully placed shots and dodges from his opponent. The announcers couldnt help but find that Norton was easily leading the fight with his first round victory. With the two fighters regrouping the trainers from both sides discussed with their fighters what they wanted to see from the two of them. At the start of the round Norton immediately goes in for some more high class striking but again the agility of Squad was top class and dodging another attack but failing to escape the clinch, Taylor Norton began striking again. Within the final few minutes of the 2nd, Norton was unleashing a fury of strikes upon Squad and the crowd rose to their feet screaming and chanting Nortons name. As they did Squad suffered a hellacious hook that dazed him completely. Failing to comprehend his surroundings he suffered an immediate elbow from Norton that sent his wobbly legs across the mat. You would have to imagine that after experincing a fight like that you would be completely out of it and Squad was. It wouldnt be but two minutes later when we would see Squad finished by Norton. At the end of the second round Norton missed a lethal uppercut to the dazed Bomb Squad but after entering the clinch for the first time in the third round he dropped him with that uppercut he was so desperately trying to land. Bomb Squad collapsed as he hit the floor knees falling underneath him and his head hit the mat like a sack of potatoes. Taylor Norton dropped punches on the face of the finished squad like coins that hit the floor. By the time the referee stepped in to stop the carnage the chanting crowd began screaming the name of the victor, Taylor Norton! Congrats to MMATycoons #25 p4p Fighter who has just reached the #3 position in his weight class with this win. Closing Well again, i really hope you enjoyed this. The fights here were amazing the fighters put their hearts on the line and i look forward to seeing what happens next for many of them. A special shout out to the new champions as the look on to the future and as far as the retirement match goes between Puno and Bubba i as a fan loved it so thankyou all for what you do managers and fighters. A special shoutout for Avon Barksdale for having me here and Chuck W94 for asking me to write for SYNCHRONICITY. If you enjoyed this please let them know to keep me around. God bless you and those you love! ~BrotherHec

A lot of amazing fights, congrats to all the winners! Oh and don't feel bad for Fidel, he finally gets some peace http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6393/fidelp.jpg

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Great read, excellent breakdown of all the fights A vid would be awesome and much appreciated http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/558/civilservant03.jpg http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/1206/peppers2.jpg

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/9408/banner01ot.jpg April is coming up, and once again there is a Syn Supernova looming. Chuck W94 has put together the kind of card that makes me jump up and down while shitting my pants giddy with anticipation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Confirmed fights 265 lbs title match, loser retires: Fidel Puno (Avon) vs Bubba KillsInWater (Pico) 205 lbs: Bomb Squad (jacky) vs Taylor Norton (gdamn) 205 lbs: John Keynes (Grey) vs Snake The Pendulum (jacky) 265 lbs: John Turner (Judoka) vs Momoko Yamaguchi (Pico) 265 lbs: Luke Daigle (BankRupt) vs Bulk Bogan (ItsMyTime) 135 lbs title match: Brian Peppers (centaur) vs Jason Rose (gdamn) 155 lbs: Jafar Agrabah (j666) vs Happy Day (dmichs) 170 lbs: Alex Jackson (Deamus) vs Forever War (Grey) 145 lbs: Charles Martel (CGrace) vs Kid Torres (TheFMan) 170 lbs: William Barker (TheCreep69) vs Jake Young (dinooo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Writeup (by dinooo) Click ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Press conference http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6589/press02.jpg Bad idea? Fighters like Bubba, Torres, Snake, Martel and Puno all demonstrated their tremendous social skills at the pre-fight press conference: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bubba reacts to Puno's interview ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New belts Behold the new Syn belts: http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/6264/sylvia01.jpg http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/4190/syneuroredbelt.jpg http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/6454/synbelt.jpg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other artwork http://i.imgur.com/AEa0N.png "Supernova" as imagined by ZyD http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/1088/bubbadestroy02.jpg http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/6937/invite01.jpg "The metrosexual injun" by Avon, "Invitation" by Duxwig http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/558/civilservant03.jpg http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/1206/peppers2.jpg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Links: Bubba calls out Puno Torres and Martel go at it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thread will be updated. We're always accepting more art to fill out the artwork section. Feel free to PM me, Templeton or Chuck if you have any questions or comments (don't send constructive criticism, we do not welcome that at all).

Bo actually wanted to fight injured just to help the lower ranked org fill a big card, even with Ekaku having much less hype and better primaries. He got talked out of it, but Lomax may well be the manliest BW of all time as well as the greatest one Awesome fight!

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Nicely done with the names! Jean-Claude Désolé has generously offered to hand out 50k that will be split between the guys involved in fight of the night (25k to each fighter) If anyone else are feeling charitable and want to sponsor the event, post your award here or PM me and Franky will add it to the main post. Thanks! http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/2207/avoncollect2.jpg The game is the game.

Syn' 178: Riding the Apocalypse review - A new Dynamic Duo? Finally free! Nilmar is out of the toilet and ready to re-enter his life. How did it happen? Obama’s perfect negotiation? Not really. Miranda’s authority? Be serious… So what? Well, I am sure some of you noticed I haven’t been talking about my friend Jason Bourne for a while. He was a bit depressed after having his secret ass kicked by his first cage opponent. Then he won, and regained self confidence, so when I finally called him on the phone he ran to help me out. This is what happened: after killing the parking lot security guard, the porter, three waitresses and a pizza guys, he finally made it to my room. Obama immediately smiled at him: “Yes we can”, and he shot him right between the eyes. “Enemies” he said. Miranda tried to impose her will: “what are you doing? You’re not allowed to shoot, not allowed to stay here, not allowed even to breathe”. He shot again, and Miranda fell. “They found us”. Then it was Blade’s turn. “I like your style kid. Ever thought about putting some holy water in that gun?”. “Look what they force you to give”. “This is exactly what I was thinking. You’re wasted here. You should try something more”. “I don’t know who I am”. “You’re a natural born vampire hunter. That’s what you are kid!”. Jason smiled. “Enemies?” he asked with a lot of hope in his eyes. “Sure. Enemies”. Then they went away, in happiness. Now, I don’t know how U.S can cope with their charismatic leader dispatched, but I heard they found a perfect surrogate. After all, they did it for Bob Dylan, they can do it for Barrack. So, if some decisions sound unfamiliar with the man you knew and loved, well put the blame on Jason. Avon doesn’t seem so sad for his double loss. “Finally I got them out of my balls” was his passionate epitaph. I was so happy he also forgot to kill me, so, like they say: all’s well what ends well! Now. The fights. 1st Fight: Xavier McPherson vs Dexter Morgan This is the story of a fight with two faces: the one we saw in the first round, with McPherson seemingly helpless, dominated by Morgan in every aspect, and the one we witnessed in the short, intense battle of round two, with its dramatic ending, imposed by McPherson’s unstoppable fury. What happened in the middle? Well, you know McPherson started the fight with the mind completely filled with jealous, ambivalent thought about his beloved sister, Elle, who is named “The Body” certainly not for her intelligence and chastity. Then, a mysterious man approached his corner during the minute of recovery: “Morgan is Elle’s new toy boy. He screws her every night and everyone around can hear her moans while she gets used by him…”. The flames of Hell (Elle) started burning in his eyes. Burn, baby burn… He stood up, regained the center of the cage and.. well, you all know how it ended. CRASH! BOOM! BANG! ICU had to do tons of work with Morgan’s lifeless body in order to prevent casualty. 2nd Fight: Terry Iori vs Junius E Sneed IV “I didn’t mean to cause you any sorrow, I didn’t mean to cause you any pain. Only want to see you better in the purple rain”… Well, these are the words Sneed started to sing to his almost dead opponent, after crashing him down to the mat with a terrifying uppercut right where breathing starts and ends. The button is the alpha and omega of life, and has been completely devastated by Sneed finishing blow. Honestly I was convinced that the issues about his father were too distracting for Sneed to let him focus on the fight, but I was completely wrong. Now, the war chant he sang at the end of the match seems like a choice of belonging (well, after all, could he have sung “I never meant to cause you any reality clutch, I didn’t mean to cause you any Revolve? No, I guess…). Question is: will Prince allow? 3rd Fight: Abraham Valuev vs Viko Maafala Maafala rules the ground battle by his cruel means: top position and hard hammering from above. Valuev could have been dangerous if he only could have started fighting. But he was never allowed. Like the boss would have said: “just one clinch, and a head punch, and he’s gone…”. Yeah, because a short punch from inside is the only life sign given by Valuev before being completely overwhelmed by Maafala’s ground and pound. Not many blows to be honest, but every of them was so poisonous that finally Valuev had to tap out and say “no mas” to all that pain. 4th Fight: Para Normal vs Lombardo Limba I hate making predictions when Limba is involved. You never know with undead fighters. Did they had enough Zombie powder? Did they eat enough human flesh? They can do virtually anything, and Limba is a perfect example: no one like him can score upsets when he’s in the right mood. Normal won the first round hands down, Limba took the second, so all was settled up for a hard, contended, uncertain third round. And, to be honest, every of us was convinced Normal got it. Judges stated a different thing, and immediately Normal’s manager looked in Barksdale’s direction: “did you hire Stevie Wonder one again, you damn?!” was the silent question in Staton’s eyes, but Avon was as concerned as him. Then mystery was cleared: here are the judges reaching the arena just half an hour before the fights: good to have friends, isn’t it, Lombardo? 5th Fight: Wayne LePierre vs Blippy Janks And LePierre rules a difficult fight by the means of a perfect strategy and great concentration, gaining a victory not many of us would have betted upon. Now LePierre will sure call out the best contenders in the division, ready to climb up charts to the title shot he surely deserves. Then he wakes up and discovers Janks ripped his arm and stripped him of the victory. Janks’s armbar pierces through LePierre’s defensive system and ends a fight that LePierre was simply dominating. As I always say, we call them submission wizards for a reason… 6th Fight: Dace Killian vs Darin Blood The sad sad story of a man whose name is not Darin Blood adds another tragic chapter. Yeah, because Darrin was winning the fight tonight: he was going for some wise counter strategy, throwing big punches that landed with encouraging precision, exploiting Killian’s classical Muay Thai aggressive stance to catch him off guard in his eagerness to attack and punish him with good strikes. Then, he reached the corner, ready to hear the compliments of his manager. “What the fuck are you doing dumbass?!”. That was not what he expected to hear. “Sorry, boss?”. “This is not Darin Blood fight style!”. “Wait…”. “Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Darin is not a coward! He attacks, attacks and attacks!”. “He will tear me wide open…”. “I don’t mind a fuck man! You’re Darin Blood! You attack. This is what he does in the game!”. “Listen…”. “No, you listen. You’re Darin Blood! I pay for Darin Blood! Fight like Darin Blood or get the fuck out of my way!”. So, he had to do what he had to do. He lost the fight. “Good job, this is Darin” were his manager’s words. De gustibus non disputandum est. Which more or less means that everyone has the right to ruin his own life the way he prefers… 7th Fight: Kim Lijong vs Vladimir Arlovski LiJiong won this fight. I think nobody has questions about it. Question is: how damn did Arlovski manage to survive three rounds? Knocked down in the first round, severely rocked and dancing on wobby legs in the second, cut bad and almost bleeding to death throughout the whole match, he nonetheless made it to the Judges’ scorecard. What a display of guts by Arlovski, what a display of incompetence by cage doctor. Let’s hope all this courage doesn’t turna against poor Vladimir in the form of permanent damage… 8th Fight: Frank Pembelton vs Steve Why This is the answer we all were expecting from Why. Well, we all except for Pembelton, of course. Steve does a great job, takes the fight right where he needs it in the first seconds of the round, preventing the danger of being too gassed to perform serious things on the ground. Then he dedicates two minutes of his lifetime in the demolition of Pembelton’s defenses. Frank tried his best to survive the round, but Why’s attacks were subtle, vicious and continuous, and they finally found their way through, in the exact way a deadly virus finally pierces through antibodies. Now Why’s career is at its turning point, and I wouldn’t be too surprised seeing him compete for some piece of gold and a strip of leather in the next future. 9th Fight: Earl Lee Swagger vs Samuel Washington When Swagger entered the cage accompanied by this entrance song we all knew it was going to be a bloodbath. The undying lesson taught by Bud Spencer and Terence Hill was completely learned, understood and applied by this monstrous striker. Washington was half dead at the end of round one, with his blood vessels almost empty due to the bleeding caused by various cuts he gained in the exchanges with Swagger. He had transfusions in order to start round two, but then the doctor finally remembered why he was there (rumors whisper he was enjoying a complete collection of Cage’s mom vids) and stopped the massacre. Good job Earl… PS: ah, here is one of his secret training sessions. Who said that 1 on 1 training is the best one? 10th Fight: Mack Montana vs Travis Lucas Lucas kicks Montana’s undefeated ass for good, gaining a great victory and getting out of the bad moment he was sinking into. Montana was dominating the clinch, thus winning a first round which completely came out as an inside dirty guerrilla, but was then kept at distance by Lucas’s elegant footwork. Elusive like a ghost, poisonous like a scorpion tail, Lucas regained control of the fight with perfect strategy and fight sense. Montana tried to exploit his sense for countering, but never was able to find the right rhythm, and you know, when melody is right but rhythm is bad you can only play shitty music. So it ended that Judges had to decide what violence alone hadn’t been able to state clearly, and decided to reward Lucas’s crescendo more than Montana’s blinding start. The right choice? Maybe… And it’s all over! How did I miss fresh air. The city lights. The redheaded beauties. Free again, but still in Syn, where things change so quickly. What will happen next time? Well, there will be blood. A lot of blood of course. Just hope not mine… Goodnight, Nilmar

Syn' 177: Works As Designed - Review OK guys, Nilmar Gracie is here to tell the tale of 177. I know I am late, but tell me, would you do a lot better writing event reviews from your toilet?! So, I’ll be a bit short this time, since Avon is looking to my WC in a very intense way, and I have to find a quick way out if I don’t want to end in tragedy… 1st Fight: Rock Johnson vs Feodore Sabre Johnson finally remembers he’s a cage fighter and gets a well deserved victory. Sabre stayed close to his opponent in the first round, but then he went to his corner and had to listen to a Franky Sin’s sermon: “Still Revolve with that Bounty Force and just Autoplay then make a Present of Greatness to get some Reality Clutch Work as Designed on Sunday Morning”. Which, according to my universal translator from Sinese to English, meant: “OK kid be smart, stay away from major strikes, make him work, then dart in with some quick counter and make him pay for his eagerness. Try to take him to decision and get the nod, don’t be reckless”. But of course, Sabre went into mind confusion and was completely destroyed by Johnson’s crescendo… 2nd Fight: Gattsu Emeilianenko vs Noryiuiki Nayoui Well I have to say it: when I am wrong, I am wrong. I thought Nayoui perfect striking could have made the difference, but Emelianenko imposed the cruel law of lay and pray over his opponent, restrained him on the ground and forced him to play by his rules. With his best weapons neutralized and no B plan at hand Nayoui was simply suffocated in his life spark by Emelianenko’s great grappling. No doubt about Judges decision in a fight that really unnerved part of the crowd for its lack of action, but delighted BJJ fans with some great transitions. 3rd Fight: Ben Brawn vs Jack Siegel Siegel rules a great fight where all aspects of the game have been checked: great exchanges, furious inside battles and some nasty ground game made the world go round for these two excellent warriors. This is one of those fights where the loser can walk side by side with the winner, his head up and proud. Brawn suffered huge amounts of pain in the first round, and almost went down when Siegel’s knee crashed into his head. He was nonetheless able to defend, going to the ground, freezing the fight and recovering. He was punished even more in round two, victimized by his opponent’s poisonous clinch, but, again, he survived. Then he played his game in round three, hammering Siegel hard from top and he could have dispatched him, I only Siegel’s balls had been a little smaller. Anyway, final bell ringed and we went to decision. Siegel deserved the victory, but Brawn didn’t deserve the loss… 4th Fight: Dante Evangelisti vs Randy Marsh Well, after being betrayed by the Judges more than once, Evangelisti, who has Italian Corleone blood in his veins, was really thinking about killing some of them to send a warning. Then he won this fight by decision, and forgiveness made its way through his hardened heart. He met one of the Judges in a post event party, and there was time for some excuses… Now, some say this is the end of the feud, but some of my friends who know Corleone traditions swear this is just the beginning… 5th Fight: Mike Angelo vs Pete Doherty Doherty won the more exciting fight of the year due to a perfect fight plan. These warriors gave life to a reckless, bloody battle where no huge blow, no dirty trick was left unexpressed. Need to see some shots? Sure, I am here to protect and serve! Enjoy the rumble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg0tWHQAlUc 6th Fight: Johnny Cage vs Nike Adonis Cage defends his mom’s questionable honor and destroys Adonis in this battle. Adonis started with the right pace, but was then punished by Cage’s superior accuracy and, possibly, compl,etely gassed out by an extremely aggressive fight plan. If the air could be KOed, Adonis would have scored a huge victory. Unfortunately, his opponent was Cage, who ducked most of the strikes and answered with something beautiful of his own, taking home a deserved victory that he immediately dedicated to his mom. And me too I want to dedicate her something… 7th Fight: Victor Silva vs Bulk Bogan Silva exploits Bogan’s incomplete martial education and turns the fight into a clinchwork battle, harnessing Hogan’s disruptive power, and doing a severe amount of damage with his dirty, dirty, dirty boxing. Look, that boxing was so dirty that they had to call the cleaning service to take all that garbage away after the fight… 8th Fight: Collin Glorious vs Kid Torres Kid Torres waited for his opponent. He waited. Waited. Waited. And waited again. he never saw him coming. Where the hell was Collin Glorious? Well, explanation is simpler than it may seem. Tonight was Glorious’s birthday, and his best friend Johnny Cage asked his mom to make him a nice present: Torres, definitely, can wait. 9th Fight: Fred Lee vs Blow Jimmy Lee confirms himself being one of the more dangerous finishers in Syn City, destroying Psycho’s killing machine with his blades. Jimmy tried the way of the ground in order to reduce danger, but Lee continued attacking with his unpredictable, spectacular strikes. The impressive accuracy of his head kicks clearly display insane quickness and flexibility. Let’s say it clear: Lee has never been as strong as he is now that he’s dead! 10th Fight: Mikhail Zakarova vs Jussi Murikka Not an exciting fight, but a great display of innate fight sense and educated strategy by Zakarova, who probably faced his thoughest opponent and walked away the winner, using the jab as a hammer to soften Murikka’s conviction and determination, and kicked every body part with wise accuracy. Now Zakarova clearly establish himself as the top contender in Lightweight division. He already had a chance, he lost it, but remember he had a belt wrapped around his hips when he first came to Syn, and I am sure he wants those glory days back. Murikka is a consistent step towards his main aim. Let’s see if this is the right time… And we went through the last stop. Time to get out and go back home. Many huge things are taking place, especially in the last part of the card, where you got guys like Lee, Glorious, Torres and a huge main event between the Russian assassin and a top player from RC. I’d like to take a look id I only manage to get out of this toilet… Goodnight, Nilmar

Syn' 178: Riding The Apocalypse - Preview Friday bloody Friday, Friday bloody Friday! And the battle’s yet begun, To take off singlet that Avon loves. And today the millions cry, ‘cause Barksdale makes’em smell it till the moment they die… How long, How long must we smell this one? How long, how lo-oo-ooong? Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooodnight you damn bloodthirsty bastards here in Syn City. Unfortunately for you Nilmar Gracie is still alive, still stuck in the toilet, still forced to share 1square mt with Avon Barksdale and his infamous singlet, while his brother tries to gain permission to tear him in two. 1st Fight: Xavier McPherson vs Dexter Morgan No matter if he wins or lose, Xavier McPherson is always depressed. Why? Well, if you were brother to this girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmaJZbQ5jS0 You really could state Mother Nature is unfair and unjust. So, Xavier looks unable to withstand the fact not being the more handsome man in the world, and tonight’s fight against Dexter Morgan promises to make things even worse since McPherson is at high risk of seeing his features rearranged in a very creative way. Anyway, if McPherson manages to keep it standing, a pure grappler like Morgan can find himself in huge troubles. Xavier should win this one hands down, only issues are coming to his psychological shape. Will he make it through the whole fight or surrender at a certain point, falling prey to his inner demons? Prediction: McPherson by TKO. 2nd Fight: Terry Iori vs Junius E Sneed IV An undefeated rising star who completely ruled the QFC circuit, Terry Iori, tries his way in a more hostile environment, and will receive a warm welcome from Prince’s secret son Junius Sneed. OK, you all know legal battle between Prince and Franky Sin is not over. no one wants to claim the fucking crybaby as being their son, and things are even more difficult since Franky Sin decided to speak for himself in front of the Jury so no one is able to really understand what he’s trying to say. Three lawyers from Prince’s legal team committed suicide after listening to Sin’s speech. Anyway, Sneed will try to win and prove he deserves a father no matter who. Odds look even between these two: good punches, bad kicks and no particular eagerness to confront their submission skills. Iori has better wrestling pedigree and could go for some GnP anyway, not to mention the fact that his fist is the second cause of death in world statistics, just below lungs cancer… Prediction: Iori by KO. 3rd Fight: Abraham Valuev vs Viko Maafala A bloody version of the classic striker vs grappler fight, with the KO artist Abraham Valuev facing a ground and pound monster like Maafala. Both guys are not so confident in their friendship with Judges, so they usually like to decide fights all on their own. Valuev is a “live by the sword, die by the sword” natural finisher: shall his chin be as hard as his hands, we would probably be talking about a total superstar. Actually he is a finisher who often gets finished. Maafala has a similar fate: he has arms like blades, but his skin is like butter. He cuts and gets cut and the key to victory is who first dies from bleeding death. It looks like Judges can have a coffee break in this fight, let’s see… Prediction: someone is going to get hurt. 4th Fight: Para Normal vs Lombardo Limba A pure striker, but with great grappling defense, like Para Normal against one of the more surprising all rounded fighters in Vegas, Lombardo Limba. Well, I have to say that having our beloved undead enjoy a Para Normal experience is another refined touch by the more feared singlet in the world, our lord and master Avon Barksdale. You know, when he’s not selling drugs or dropping people in acid, he does three things: 1. Plays golf. 2. Tries to satisfy Wilhelmina’s insatiable lust. 3. Thinks about funny matchups for Syn. Usually he does these three things all together, which makes him “persona non grata” in most of the golf clubs. Anyway, Normal looks the better fighter tonight, seemingly superior to his opponent in every aspect of the game, but Limba is a master in upsets so you can never tell. Prediction: Normal by decision. 5th Fight: Wayne LePierre vs Blippy Janks Great boxing, nice BJJ, LePierre seems to have all it takes to win this fight. Except for the fact that he is facing a monster from BCC: Janks is a perfect fighter, able to give battle under any conditions. Confronting a fighter like LePierre, I think Janks will try to change the rules and go for the ground: he would probably pay something in a K-1 fight, but can rule a grappling battle. Being former BCC champ, he is surely not here in Syn to become a loser, and will try to impose his cruel law over the fight. LePierre is warned. Prediction: Janks by decision. 6th Fight: Dace Killian vs Darin Blood Poor Darren still forced to play the role of a PC game character, have you ever heard anything more cruel? I really can’t understand these guys who like to spend their time pretending they’re managers in some imaginary MMA world, and you? Anyway, Darren’s life is becoming a real inferno. His manager is forcing him to undergo severe plastic surgery in order to have his features become perfectly matched with the WMMA character. Tonight, Darren has another problem, facing Dace Killian in a very hard match. Killian looks like he has something more, but this too is unclear. Since in Killian family everyone is named Dace, you never know who you’re going to confront. And, most of all, how many. Here is what can happen when you challenge a Dace Killian… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBaeSq_R38Q&feature=related Scary, don’t you think? Anyway, let’s say there is going to be just ONE Dace Killian waiting in the cage tonight, life is going to be hard for Darin/Darren anyway. Let’s hope he can see the dawn at least. Prediction: Killian by decision. 7th Fight: Kim Lijong vs Vladimir Arlovski After a life in CFC, Lijiong tries his luck in Syn, where Alrovsky waits him for a fiery baptism. Lijong has to change the judgment which fight experts usually give about him: a good, talented fighter missing something to become a special one. Looking throughout his career, we find good victories but some bad loss in the nodal moments when he was expected to make the ultimate jump. Will he be able to reverse this tide? A professiona De-virginizer like Arlovski is the right man to give a first answer. Arlovski is out of some bad result, having lost against Lee and Jimmy in his recent fights. Betting on his wounded pride? It’s a possibility, but Lijiong looks suoperior in the overall, even if he could suffer on the ground. A contended fight, but I see Lijiong coming out with a victory. Prediction: Lijiong by TKO. 8th Fight: Frank Pembelton vs Steve Why Another investigation for Detective Pembelton, another mystery to be solved. What mystery? Why. Why what? Why Why. Why Why what? Why didn’t Why had a title shot yet? This is the question, and Pembelton is the right man to solve it. If you take a look to the wonder man’s career, he performed big things: great upsets, spectacular submissions, and all that stuff that makes a fighter a special one. Nonetheless, sometimes he simply falls back, fighting under his level just one step away from the big chance. Now, Pembelton might not be Abayo Bokhari or Alpha Male, or Jigoro Kane, but one thing is for sure: to beat him you have to fight quite good. Especially now that he is probably in his best shape ever after defeating Scribner and Limba. Now, Why is a superior fighter: if he fights at his proper level, there will be little match. But this was the point, wasn’t it? Prediction: Why by decision. 9th Fight: Earl Lee Swagger vs Samuel Washington Things get quite serious now: a depressed KO artist in search of a quick standup like Washington meets the best striker in Syn Middleweight, Earl Lee Swagger, who nonetheless has something to forget. Sure he won his last fight, but he still has to cut his white beard every morning after being hit by Harry Balls’s terrifying superpower. I expect it to be an exciting battle between two fighters who like to exchange from any distance, and any stance. Now I have to reveal a secret about Swagger and believe me, this will be a big scoop. I finally put my hands on Swagger’s secret training program, studied and prepared for him by his clever manager Chiscano. Swaggers undergoes hypnosis, then, while he’s asleep with his eyes wide open, his manager makes him watch clips like this: The best striker ever is a mix of Bud Spencer’s KO power and Terence Hill’s unparalleled agility. This is Chiscano’s lesson, and Swagger seems to have learned it well… Prediction: Swagger by TKO. 10th Fight: Mack Montana vs Travis Lucas Undefeated Mack Montana meets an angry Travis Lucas trying to get out of the quicksand his career has become. Two losses in a row for Lucas are like a month without sex for Wilhelmina, something you could never think about. Now, malicious voices whisper he simply isn’t ready for Syn. He ruled elsewhere but is not worth this level of competition. I still think they might be wrong, but sure Montana is not the best self esteem injector you can find on the market. “Once undefeated, always undefeated” seems to be his quote. He started to do in Syn what he used to do in TTFC and SPF: steamroll anyone at sight. Some say his only fault is a lack of disruptive power in his hands: he’s much more a piano player than a man of hammer, but sometimes a sharp mind and a blinding footwork might reach what power alone can’t grant. On the other side, Lucas’s right hand is so filled with heavy metal that he always has to travel by car since he can’t pass airport’s metal detector. Rebus sic stantibus, we’re going to see a fight architect against a demolition man, and I am really curious to see what can happen. Prediction: Montana by decision. And it’s all over! No title shot on the line tonight, but there are so many interesting matchups that I don’t miss it at all. Rising stars, bitter rivalries, unexplored training programs. So many stories to tell, so little time. And so little room in this fucking toilet if you want my opinion. Something has to change soon. Quite soon… Goodnight, Nilmar

Syn' 177: Works As Designed - Preview And here we are with another Syn card! Nilmar Gracie writing for you from his toilet, still trying to avoid Blade’s Katana. Oh my friends, how do I love this Org! you can never get bored. I feel pity for all those people working from nine to five, driving their cars home to come back to their wives and kids, and dog. People who never were raped by a hungry female like Wilhelmina, never had to smell Barksdale’s singled, never risked to be killed and dropped in acid. How can you call it life?! But, let me tell you, there is little time for charming Nilmar and his complicated life. tons of thing are happening tonight, and I am here, as always, to tell the tale. Until they kill me, or until you find someone better, like Johnny Rico said in that old movie… 1st Fight: Rock Johnson vs Feodore Sabre You got to win a little, lose a little… these were immortal words from a great song. And this is true of course. But, please, can someone tell Johnson it’s about time to win a little? He’s on a three fight losing streak, and I am not sure this is what the song was intended to say. OK OK OK, get your point, he fought Bokhari and this means loss for the 99% of human kind, but now he has to raise his head or let the guillotine cut it away. Tonight he faces Sabre, who is probably the best ground fighter in all Syn City, but he’s clearly victimized by a big issue: like all of us, he doesn’t understand a fuck when his manager speaks. So it’s hard to follow orders you don’t understand. An example? When he wants to say “fight for decision”, Sin says “autoplay”. “Change levels”? He says “Baked Kashba coming”. Poor Feodore, guess he’s losing due to mind confusion tonight… Prediction: Johnson by decision. 2nd Fight: Gattsu Emeilianenko vs Noryiuiki Nayoui Two fighters with something to forget, and something to prove. Emelianenko lost last fight, and still has to prove he deserves something more than a preliminary match in the more competitive org of the world. Nayoui lost last fight himself, and has to prove his reputation of fierce slayer is well deserved. Some started whispering he’s a bluff, and reached the top elsewhere fighting against huge superstar opponents like No One, No Body and Who Cares. This is very malicious, but to prove it untrue Nayoui has to hurt Emelianenko real bad. He’s the best striker, especially from range, where he can use his jab like a whip, but can pay some tribute in the clinch and, maybe, on the ground. A hard fight, let’s see who can take it home. Prediction: Nayoui by decision. 3rd Fight: Ben Brawn vs Jack Siegel Ground specialist Brawn Belt meets an exquisite striker like Jack Siegel. Both guys share the same dark fate of having been sacrificed on the altar of Glorious, but both of them are still big fighters with a high quality pedigree, so it’s going to be something quite exciting. Brawn will probably go for some nasty ground and pound, while Siegel just has to choose which strike he likes to use to KO his opponent. I see some red rain coming down here, you guys in the front rows are warned… Prediction: Siegel by YKO. 4th Fight: Dante Evangelisti vs Randy Marsh Well, my sources informed me that Evangelisti had another top quality t-shirt designed for tonight’s event. Still, there are the three Judges bent over, with pants off and tons of Vaseline all around their fat asses. Behind them, there are ten male pornstars whose common trait is having a penis visible by satellite. They are all ready and armed. And, above, there is a single quote: “GO FOR DECISION”. Yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaah, the enemy of all judges (no, not Berlusconi, the other enemy…) Dante Evangelisti meets Randy Marsh, hoping to finish the fight before anyone else can rob him once more. Marsh is a dangerous Black Belt, or at least so I thought, since my friend John McGuirk confessed he can’t trust his guys’ belts anymore, after what happened last time. At least, Marsh didn’t ask him for fake tits. Not yet. Marsh can rule the ground, even if his belt was delivered by Santa Clause on the Holy Night, but will possibly be punished on the feet. Can he withstand the pain hidden in Evangelisti’s hands and stay focused as he needs to go for some unexpected submission finish? Prediction: Evangelisti by TKO. 5th Fight: Mike Angelo vs Pete Doherty Do you know the story of that Kamikaze who feared death? Yes, the one who ran away just ten minutes before his first, and only, flight. He tried to find some peace of mind, stay away from danger, forge about war. He ran to a little town called Hiroshima. Why am I telling you this? To daze you with my unparalleled culture, of course. But also because a similar, sad, weird story is told about Angelo. When he was fighting for EFC, he used to rule Lightweight division with iron fist, using his impressive Ju Jitsu to walk over his opponent. Then he had the brilliant idea to cut way and search for supplementary glory in the 145lbs weight class. I’ll use my superior power to steamroll everyone, he was thinking. He was KOed his first match by a man you heard of some line above: Ben Brawn. So, he ran in panic, signing for Syn, hoping not to hear of Brawn anymore. Well, Brawn signed for Syn the same day, so things are going to be though for Angelo. There will be time for ancient fears anyway. Tonight he has to defend from Doherty, who can well kill him before Brwan has the time to do it himself. By far superior on the feet, Doherty can neutralize Angelo on the ground, so he looks like he’s got all aces this hand. Will Angelo draw some hidden Joker? Prediction: Doherty by TKO. 6th Fight: Johnny Cage vs Nike Adonis Something tells me that, since I promised Avon I’ll post something about Cage mom’s previous career, we’re going to see Reverend Johnny fighting every week. And fight fans are curious to see how he will react. Is the non violent period definitely over? is there still some sanctity in him? Well, dunno, but sure his mom can do miracles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqBxLonu_fE He’s facing Adonis tonight, in a difficult matchup which promises to test Cage’s will to fight real hard, along with his ground competence. Adonis has to bad losses on his back, and an entire family of inner demons is banqueting with his self esteem. Time to give them some goodbye kick… Prediction: Adonis by submission. 7th Fight: Victor Silva vs Bulk Bogan “Almost” is an important word in today life. it means a lot, and you find it everywhere every day. Ruby was “almost” of legal age when Silvio Berlusconi screwed her. US army “almost” won in Afghanistan. The whole world is “almost” out of crisis. Avon Barksdale’s singlet is “almost” clean. And, to end it, Victor Silva is “almost” undefeated. He is very proud of this title. It means he won always. Almost. Now, in order to keep his almost virgin record alive, he has to win tonight against Bogan, who is always a dangerous client with his perfect boxing skills, but looks like he hasn’t the same mixed skills of his opponent and so could pay some tribute to his one dimension fight plan. I see a contended fight, but if I have to I’m putting my last penny on Silva. Prediction: Silva by decision. 8th Fight: Collin Glorious vs Kid Torres Glorious is putting together a hell of a winning streak. Five fights, five victories, two KO, included the dramatic, cinematic superman punch which ended the challenge against Penn. Tonight he faces Kid Torres, back in Syn after a journey around the world, in which he collected wins, titles, and some bitter debacle, like the one against Mumea: stripped from the title by a split decision is clearly some Dante Evangelisti stuff. Rumors whisper they’re to exchange t-shirts at the end of the card… Torres has a noble pedigree, but Glorious displayed the better martial training and is in his best shape ever. Prediction is on his side. Prediction: Glorious by decision. 9th Fight: Fred Lee vs Blow Jimmy Psycho continues his special maneuvers to have amazing writer Nilmar Gracie back. Tonight his slave Blow Jimmy tries to beat nothing less than Bruce Lee, who changed his name to Fred in order to stay undercover (and also because he’s a fan of the Flintstones, but this, definitely, is another story). Lee is probably one of the more spectacular fighters in the circus. Partially is because of his amazing striking skills, which he’s able to translate into insanely quick head kicks. But also because his friends are very charming and eccentric. Jim Morrison, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, Jacob, Smokey. It’s a pleasure to have him in a card, since he’s got the right friends in the right places. Some of you made me the question of questions: how can Elvis still be so agile, Marilyn so sexy and Lee so flexible having left to the island in the ’70? Well, anyone who has seen the Lost series can answer of course. For the other ones… who the fucking needs you? Go home and make your homeworks, damn! OK, let’s stick to the fight for a while. Jimmy is a BJJ black belt, which makes him capable of almost anything, but, to be honest, every other aspect seems to play for Lee: his boxing skills are so pure you can drink them, and he is at ease anywhere in the cage. I think he’s winning again tonight, for the joy of his VIP friends… Prediction:Lee by TKO. 10th Fight: Mikhail Zakarova vs Jussi Murikka Zakarova winning against anyone, anywhere and anyhow. From NY to Las Vegas, he’s the smooth criminal of dreams: talent to sell, the punch to finish fights and the brains it takes to go distance when needed. Tonight he goes against Murikka, 155lbs RC Champion. Now, if you take the MMA Encyclopedia (you have one at hand, don’t you? No, no kid, that’s Hustler. Don’t try to take jokes…) at the voice “BAD CLIENT”, you’ll surely find Murikka’s medium fingers pointing at you in a very polite way. Yes, because this guy has the gentle manners of a knight and the sweet features of a Raffaello painting. But, above all, this man’s got game. Able to finish by the means of terrible strikes as well as by subtle submissions, he’s always focused and hasn’t any issues going to the Judges’s scorecard if situation requires. Zakarova is a major fighter. But still looks like having some little fault confronted to his perfect opponent. Murikka is favored, but I’d not give Zakarova dead yet, for more than one reason: 1. He’s a great warrior. 2. He’s a Barksdale’s guy, and Avon likes to fix fights. Sometimes he goes wrong and hires Stevie Wonder, but it doesn’t happen as often as Evangelisti might tell. 3. Zakarova is a member of Russian Mob. They made a huge bet on the kid, and they are not the kind of guys who like a kick in the ass as an answer. So, expect the unexpected and you’ll never be surprised. Prediction: Murikka by decision. And we went through the last stop. Time to get out and go back home. Many huge things are taking place, especially in the last part of the card, where you got guys like Lee, Glorious, Torres and a huge main event between the Russian assassin and a top player from RC. I’d like to take a look id I only manage to get out of this toilet… Goodnight, Nilmar

Syn' 176: Bounty Force Recap - three steps into legend Great things happened in this card: some numerology black magic finally broken, some Reverend Cage’s follower having to reconsider his priorities, religion Catholicism winning over Communism and, if you care, a new Welterweight champ! Above all, the legend of our black, poisonous Rose adds a new chapter. A bloody one, of course… 1st Fight: Tim Lachance vs David Kappa Lachance lost his perfect 12 and finally went negative, but at least he can be happy for this: he got 12 cuts before th ref finally was kissed by the Prince, woke up from his deep sleep, and decided to call in the ref… In the post event interviews he stated he was dominating the fight and surely would have won it if doctor hadn’t stopped him. It is true, kid, and I am sure Sonny Liston would clearly have won by unanimous decision in that title fight. Too bad Mohammed Alì sent him to kiss the canvas goodnight before it could happen! 2nd Fight: Kenny Blacksheep vs Li Xiaolong Xiaolong went for a clinch and pierce fight plan in this bout, winning by decision with his solid strategy. Numbers are merciless somehow, and, if you look at fight stats, Blacksheep did what he had to do from striking range, bur was completely annihilated from inside, where a perfect mix of dirty boxing and Muay Thai had the dirty job done for Xiaolong. Now, Blacksheep’s immaculate record is turning dirtier and dirtier as time passes. Will he be able to invert the route? 3rd Fight: Rainbow Brite vs Zedicus Jones And Jones finally steps inside the cage to face Brite. Anyway, he was so depressed by Reverend Cage’s betrayal, he hardly did anything to let us know he was fighting. He threw a punch which immediately cut Brite’s skin. Then completely disappear. Curious to see what could have happened shall Jones have decided to really compete in this challenge. He did not, anyway, so he completely let Brite proceed with the massacre. Here is a shot from an exchange: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rIFcgXYz0U&feature=related 4th Fight: Malik Alexander vs Jimmy Wu Now, when I predict someone winning or losing, there are often reasons that go behind the real outcome of the fight. So, when I stated Alexander was to win this fight, it was because I already knew this conversation was going to take place. Calvin Broadus called me on the mobile 15 minutes after the match, and asked me: “Who won the fight?”. “Wu won the fight”. “I asked it first bro’. who won the fight?”. “I told you: Wu won the fight”. “Are you kidding me asshole? I asked who won the fight. You have to answer”. “I am doing it: Wu. Wu won it!”. “Let me explain clearer: if you don’t tell me immediately who won the fight, I am going to take Avon’s singlet to you and force you to smell it for 5 long minutes!”. “No, please, don’t do it! Some waterboarding, some electric charge to the balls, but don’t take the singlet, please!”. “Your last chance: who won the fight?”. “Listen: Wu won this fight”. “Your funeral”. God, I am here waiting for execution. Anyway, an execution already took place when Wu’s head kick almost took Alexander’s head off the body. What a finish my friends… 5th Fight: Vlad Velara vs Fabricio Valesquez Cage’s creed still lives in the flesh and bones of Velara, who does what the code prescribes and lets Valesquez win by submission in 18 seconds. Time to buy popcorns and the show is over! well, it has to be said: when Velara decides to lose, he doesn’t do things by halves… 6th Fight: Mark Marx vs Martin Cristos This is the outcome many republicans were waiting for: Marx loses by Cristos in a contended match. After winning the first round, Marx probably thought he was going to win the fight hands down, so he started to do weird things in the cage. Instead of remaining focused on the fight, he started to go for some oratory, saying things like: “capitalism is the prevailing of individuals over the common good”, or “human conscience is nothing but over structure of productive processes”. In the meanwhile, Cristos was winning the fight. 7th Fight: Henrik Larsson vs Aaron Gracie Larsson definitely was not trusting Gracie’s BJJ, so he decided to stick to his old dad’s quote: when you don’t trust someone, just kill him. It will solve the problem. And he did. Gracie was granted a minor miracle to survive round one: knocked down in the very first second, severely rocked and cut bad, his Guardian Angel had to do extra work in order to prevent him to sudden termination. Anyway, even angels lose their nerve, and so, when he saw Gracie dominated even on the ground, which should have been his reign, the Guardian Angel simply decided to leave the kid to his own fate. Third round was the sigil of Larsson domination, with a beautiful finish via head kick. I swear I saw Gracie’s angel, just ten minutes after the fight, sitting with a bottle of scotch on his side, completely drunk, singing: “Nobody Knooooows the troubles I seeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, nobody knows but Jeeeeeeeeee-suuuuuuuuuuuuus!”. Sad, don’t you think? C’mon Aaron, Jesus loves you. Guess what could have happened if he only disliked you… 8th Fight: Fidel Puno vs Gundar Thorsen “Ouch! Ahi! Oooh…”. “What’s up Fidel?”. “I think my back is tearing in two…”. “Fuck, Fidel! You should quit those takedowns. You’re not a kid anymore!”. “But it looked such a good idea…”. “A good idea for a 22 years old fighter with no rheumatic issues…”. “Well…”. “Stay on your fucking feet, take this dumb out, then go home and take your painkillers!”. This conversation occurred between Puno and his coach when Puno reached his corner at the end of round one. Yes, he tried the way of the ground, but his rheumatisms betrayed him. So he went for B plan, destroying his opponent on the feet. The flurry of strikes he was able to deliver in the finishing moves closely resembles a hurricane. Too bad he has to stay in bed for 1 month to recover from backache… 9th Fight: Led Zeppelin vs Ace Ventura Ace Ventura manages to make Led Zeppelin his own pet. A legendary win, with a strong upset flavor, for one of the more amazing fighters in Syn, especially if you consider that Ventura’s domination over the fight was practically undisputed. He left just one round to his blue blooded opponent. Here is a shot from this battle: Reckless, don’t you think? This fight clearly displayed how top players in Escovar’s stable win their fights by the means of a perfect, spotless defensive plan, able to dismiss every attempt of the other guy to do harm, and to make them look ridiculous in the eyes of the Judges. This fight mode, which made Harry Balls (in)famous, doesn’t turn fight fans’ hearts on, but surely gains big prizes. Everyone loves winners in the end, so I guess Syn crowd will learn to love our new Welterweight Champ! 10th Fight: Johnny Rose vs William Harrison Harrison tried to hold a grab on Rose, but found himself hurt by poisonous, deadly thorns. H tried to clinch a lot, in order to use his Judo and gain the ground, but this proved in the end to be a suicidal strategy, leaving Harrison prone to amounts of pain delivered by Rose from inside. When he finally scored the long waited takedown, round one was nearly over, so he did no hurt at all. Round two started with a new furry of strikes by Rose, coming from any distance, and finally we came to the dramatic, predictable ending. Harrison almost lifeless, unable even to raise a hand and ask for mercy. Ref was watching Simpsons new episode so he did not intervene, and Rose almost had to dispatch him in order to have his victory acknowledged. What a shame! Let’s hope Harrison can speak again sooner or later… And we’re home. Hope you enjoyed this bloody night like I did. If you carefully look to our last three events, we got three stages of Legend perfectly displayed: Puno, with his rheumatisms tormenting him, is still able to put anyone down. He’s ready for the Valhalla of Champions, and, with his career coming to this sweet sunset, I can say with no exaggeration he’s probably one of the three best fighters of all times. Rose is a fully expressed talent, ruling this division with iron fist, seemingly invincible. He’s the present of Syn and maybe something more. Ventura is the future, a fighter who is traveling out of the familiar territories of History to find his proper place in the Land of Legends. He has all it takes to be a Johnny Rose, or even a Fidel Puno, as time passes. Will he do it? Only time, and blood, can tell of course… Goodnight, Nilmar

Syn' 176: Bounty Force - Preview Earth is still quaking for the terrifying upset that has shaken it from inside, and here we go again with another Syn card which promises to unveil some hidden secret about life and death. I’ll take you from fight one to fight ten with the same sense of sacred and awe I feel in front of Barksdale’s legendary singlet. Follow me… 1st Fight: Tim Lachance vs David Kappa This is the saddest moment in Lachance’s existence. Is it because he’s doing shitty performances in his MMA career? No, although it may be true. Is it because he’s doing shitty performances in bed? No, although it may be true (at least if you listen to his wife. I did, of course, and when she stopped screaming she confessed she’s very unhappy). Is it because he’s doing shitty performances in his Bridge tournament? No, although it may be true. Reason is: not many of you know, Lachance is a fan of that weird science called numerology. He believes numbers have a meaning and rule human life. as a result of it, he tries to have a “12” in all things of his life. He lives at number 12. He’s got 12 sons. 12 pets. 12 wives (I satisfied one of them. So many things to do, so little time…). 12$ on the bankroll. 12 coaches. 12 cutmen (who are not doing the job of one, if you look to his recent fights…). More than this, he believes 12 has to be his number in fight records. He has 12 wins, 12 losses. Tonight, magic will be wiped away. Spell will be broken. He will go 13-12 or 12-13. Sad. He confessed: “I’ll try to draw it and start a 12 fights drawing streak”, but it looks like an impossible task. Tonight he faces David Kappa, who left QFC circuit with the reputation of a winner. He shows a perfectly mixed fight style, and tonight he will probably exploit his superior Muay Thai for some unnerving leg kicking and some clinch and pierce fight plan. I see Lachance going negative, despite his effort… Prediction: Kappa by TKO. 2nd Fight: Kenny Blacksheep vs Li Xiaolong Syn debut has been like waking up for a dream just to find yourself into a nightmare for Kenny Blacksheep. After a very promising start elsewhere, Blacksheep learned on his skin that temperatures are a bit higher in Barksdale wicked reign. Tonight he tries to get back standing defeating Xiaolong who, despite his ups and downs, looks like a better fighter in the overall. I think Xiaolong is going to take this one hands down if you need my opinion for a safe bet. Prediction: Xiaolong by TKO. 3rd Fight: Rainbow Brite vs Zedicus Jones Let’s see if tonight Brite can have his long waited match against Jones. Zedicus has been one of the first and more devote followers of Reverend Johnny Cage in the Peace and Love movement. Now it has to be seen what his decision might be, now that Cage betrayed the cause he himself created and became a fighter again. will Jones step inside the cage? Or will he choose non violence once again? If you want my opinion, he’d better take the first flight for Tibet and ask Dalai Lama to take him. If he fights tonight, he’ll be obliterated! Prediction: Brite by KO. 4th Fight: Malik Alexander vs Jimmy Wu Last victim of the Reverend, Malik Alexander, searching for some glory against undefeated Barksdale’s pet Jimmy Wu. Alexander looks like he has superior experience and more educated skills, but Wu has some hidden power in him. He’s one of those guys with barbed wire instead of nerves and nailed clubs instead of fists. Alexander can take this home but has to be careful, not underestimate his opponent, or he will sure win the Death of The Night Award. Prediction: Alexander by decision. 5th Fight: Vlad Velara vs Fabricio Valesquez A depressed submission artist like Fabricio Valesquez could find his own personal therapy in the cage tonight. Velara is probably the only fighter still following Reverend Cage’s Creed: he is undergoing the standard Love and Peace treatment: no training, no food, no sleep: best way to get KOed in less than a minute. Outcome would be completely predictable if Valesquez wasn’t in horrible shape himself, completely down on his confidence and self esteem, he could suffer greatly if he doesn’t find the key to victory quite soon. Prediction: Valesquez by KO. 6th Fight: Mark Marx vs Martin Cristos Considering that Mark is the grand grand grand son of the father of communism Karl Marx, and that Martin carries the second name of the Messiah, we’re coming to a cultural collision in this undercard. Now, if it’s true that Mark shows the same concrete, solid attitude of his illustrious Grand Grand Grand father, it is also irrefutable that Martin hasn’t the same “turn the other cheek” attitude of his namesake. Marx has great striking skills, but possibly he will try to take it to the ground at some point, where his Judo background grants him a little edge. A very exciting, balanced fight between two icons of our society. Who will prevail? Prediction: Marx by decision. 7th Fight: Henrik Larsson vs Aaron Gracie And, in terms of historical characters, how not to mention Stakhanov, looking to Aaron Gracie stepping inside the cage once more after his last appearance, 7 days ago? Yes my friends, he fights again, and sure hopes to win again. same thing hopes Larsson of course, who finally took revenge over Reverend Cage and is now ready for other challenges. Larsson has the better overall and promises to rule the clinch due to his superior Muay Thai, but a BJJ black belt can always reverse the outcome of any fight in a flash, so Larsson can’t be too confident. Sooner or later, the fight is likely to go on the ground. That time we’ll see who still has the spark to take it away. Prediction: Larsson by decision. 8th Fight: Fidel Puno vs Gundar Thorsen Amazing Syn legend Fidel Puno meets Thorsen in this great match which introduces us into the main dishes of the card. Puno is a merciless veteran, able to defeat his own son (lol!) in order to maintain his status. What can a human being do in order to face such an inhuman threat? Nothing, except for the fact Thorsen isn’t more human than nuclear bomb. Both guys are exquisite strikers who can defend on the ground, so I expect it to be mostly a standup battle, even if Puno amazed us more than once with his supreme submissions. Anyway, if you look to his progression, ground has been a passion in the early stages of his career. He prefers to stand and bang now, and his son maliciously whispers it’s due to his rheumatic issues. Is he right? Thorsen doesn’t seem eager to discover: he will do all he can to keep at distance and fire his combos. A close fight, but I see Puno winning: if rheumatisms allow… Prediction: Puno by decision. 9th Fight: Led Zeppelin vs Ace Ventura When you put two top class warriors like Ventura and Zeppelin in the co-main event, you immediately realize what the hell of a card is taking place. Ventura tries to force Zeppelin out of the Welterweight division stripping his belt in order to convince him Middleweight would be a friendlier environment for him. You know, Zeppelin is quite a polymorphic fighter, able to shift weight at will and win under any conditions. He did great in the Light Heavyweight at the start of his career, became champion in the 170lbs and tried his way with an encouraging success in the Middleweight recently. Now that he proved his quality everywhere, he has to decide his home. Ventura could kick him out of the 170lbs club if he manages to win tonight. a hard task anyway, because Zeppelin is probably the best striker on Earth, and sure has little to worry on the ground. Sure Escovar will try some dark spell from his black magic book, in order to reverse the predicted outcome of the fight, but will have to invent something quite unexpected if he wants his guy to win tonight. By the way, rumors whisper that, if he manages to retain his belt, Zeppelin will try to explore Bantamweight. This is a shot from his secret training in order to make weight: 10th Fight: Johnny Rose vs William Harrison Last but not least, the main event of this mythic evening: a superfight between Johnny “The Great” Rose and the master of submissions from Montreal, the undisputed ACME Emperor William Harrison. Despite his perfect Ju Jitsu training, Rose retains his striking attitude, preferring the exact science of hurting other people with his fists, kicks and elbows, rather than the sophisticated art o subbing them with chokes or joint locks. So, with Harrison eager to take the fight down and try some sweaty dirty trick on his opponent, we’re going to see a deluxe version of the ancient MMA dilemma between strikers and grapplers. I see Rose as clearly being favored by his superior standup game, but you can never trust a submission wizard. Losing focus against a fighter like Harrison is like leaving your 17 years old cute daughter all alone with Silvio Berlusconi and expect to find her still virgin… It’s going to be a battle, and tears of blue blood will spread in the air, but when bullets stop flying there will be a Rose standing still in the center of the mat. Prediction: Rose by TKO. Time for farewell my friends. At the moment I am locked into my bathroom with Avon, while his parents try to convince his brother not to kill us. I hope something changes quite soon. Barksdale keeps singing “We are a family” and my ears can’t bear it any longer. Someone please stop this family feud. Calvin? Franky? Wilhelmina? Anyone? Goodnight, Nilmar

Syn' 175: Revolve Review – Nilmar’s elegy for a Dying World This is an old world coming to an end. Ekaku lost a fight. It never happened before, but what can we expect from this new era? I am not sure I want to know. I am not sure I want to live in a world where Wilhelmina is a beautiful woman, instead of a lusty undead. A world where Calvin Broadus has a daytime job earning honestly his money. A world where Avon Barksdale changes singlet every day. A world where I can understand Franky Sin’s titles. I am not sure I want to live in this world. And you? 1st Fight: Lombardo Limba vs Eric Scribner Limba out of depression. Of course, the only available therapy for depressed undead is to let them banquet with human flesh, so Scribner had to be sacrificed, but this is how things go here in Syn City. Limba destroyed Scribner from inside in the first round. Poor Eric had his troubles reaching his corner. When he finally managed to sit down, he stared at his cutman ad said: “Oh, Linda, what a gorgeous new hair cut!”. Weird, if you consider Scribner’s cutman is universally known as Kojak for his completely bald head. then, he looked at his coach and said: “Mr. Turtle, I am very concerned about your dress. You should do something quick. Ahahaahaha. Get it? Turtle, quick! Ain’t it funny?”. Then starting bell sounded just one second before Scribner’s cornerman had the wits to throw in the towel. All joy for Limba who was granted the opportunity to land a brutal head kick and cause more, unnecessary pain to his opponent. After all, that’s what zombies are for, no? 2nd Fight: Tiger Jones vs Jimmy Wu After a promising start, with Jones dominating first round due to his superior ground game, Jones slowly began to sink into his own depression, taken down by his inner demons more than by his opponent. Wu simply had to wait for Jones’s suicide and just encourage it a bit: maximum result with minimum effort for him. Th leg kick/head punch combination studied to surprise Jones actually worked quite well, proving there is great fight intelligence in this guy, along with his well trained skills. Wu is now 3-0 and claims the role of rising star in this tormented, stormy firmament. 3rd Fight: Cy Nasqu vs Dexter Morgan There was a song from some James Bond movie, which refrain said: you only live twice. It means that you can’t expect to be resurrected every time. Well, Nasqu clearly learned the lesson, and he won this fight against Morgan with a convincing performance. Execution delayed for him. Barksdale is not yet completely convinced of letting him live, but told his cutthroats to abort the mission for a while. It has to be said Cy’s performance has been quite high in terms of quality: a TKO victory against a consistent opponent like Morgan is the answer everybody was waiting for. Now let’s see if the resurrected Nasqu can do it again when facing some huge challenge. 4th Fight: Junius E Sneed IV vs Viko Maafala The Yokozuna has his superior mass count and destroys the dirty dancer Junius Sneed in three rounds. A victory by decision, yet undisputable due to Maafala’s dominance on the ground. A battle completely fought on the ground of course brought the weight issue into the core of it: Maafala unquestionably took profit of his superior power and encumbrance. Different matter would have been a fight decided at striking range, where agility is much more involved and Sneed could have had some chance but, if you look at fight stats, three takedowns were all Maafala needed to make the fight his own. It means Sneed’s sprawl is as poor as Burkina Faso’s bankroll, and his grappling defense sucks more than Paris Hilton in her nastiest mood… C’mon kid, do something to make dad proud! 5th Fight: Rakesh Alhazred vs Black Hammer A little cutie called Azlea, who worked with Hammer in “Ground and Pound Me vol. III”, confessed: “when he mounts you it’s like having a ton of incandescent meat all over you”. I am sure Alhazred would now say the same thing: in 12 minutes of agony he experienced all the ramming, hammering power that so many orgasms caused to all those pretty little sluts. Now, I am almost sure Alhazred didn’t have an orgasm, but sure he won’t forget the experience quite soon… 6th Fight: Aaron Gracie vs Darin Blood It’s hard to be a winner when your name is changed to that of a PC game. This is the lesson poor Darren Kernberg, Darin Blood in the perverted mind of his manager, is learning on his own skin. Let’s say it clear: it hasn’t been an exciting fight. I swear I saw some people in the front row taking their smart phone and tune it to Discovery channel to see if there was some turtle fighting. But, what is worse, I heard a guy saying: “I want Harry Balls back, he was more exciting!”. Anyway, Gracie fully dominated the whole thing and deserved the victory leaving no concern at all. 7th Fight: Steve Why vs Dante Evangelisti Evangelisti came up with a wonderful T – Shirt with the three judges bent over and Black Hammer behind them, with the sentence “JUDGE THIS” written above. If a T-Shirt of the Night award was established, I think Dante would have won it by far. He won the fight instead, so I guess he can be happy for having his career back on tracks and, secondarily, for gaining revenge over the man who started his crisis, Steve Why. Now, it’s been a contended battle like it was first time, with Evangelisti taking the best from the standup part, and Why ruling the ground. Again, no one was able to establish complete domination over the opponent, and we went to a decision, but the fact that Stevie Wonder was on tour this time probably made things quite easier for Dante. 8th Fight: Lucas LaVey vs Travis Lucas As I predicted, Lucas won by decision. Try to question it if you can. 9th Fight: Anton Chigurth vs Conquer This Conquer This manages to keep Wilhelmina out of his pants and defeats Chigurth in a brutal, definite way. If you take a look to fight stats, besides the dramatic ending of the challenge, you clearly see Chigurth never entered the fight. He was completely surprised by This’s rhythm and by the fury of his clinch. This chose a risky fight plan, giving it all from the start. Shall Chigurth have managed to survive first round, This could have experienced some gas issue as time passed. Anyway, This’s left hand was an irresistible lullaby for Chigurth, putting him to sleep in less than a round. Chigurth climb to the top finally halted, This’s one started. A metaphor of life… 10th Fight: Hakuin Ekaku vs Joe Crippler Upset of the year? Maybe. Syn City Earthquake? Sure. Hakuin Ekaku loses his first fight, and all fight fans in MMA world have the same question in mind: will I ever be able to fuck Stoya (don’t pretend you don’t know her, you horny perverted!)? OK, let’s say two questions in mind: will Ekaku be the same again? (note that curiously the two dilemmas well combine together: a night with Stoya would sure resurrect Hakuin better than any healing spell…). This was the fight no one expected to see: a good fighter defeating a superhuman warrior, the biggest upset since the time Rocky Balboa finally defeated Apollo Creed. Honestly, I thought about an easy task for Ekaku, especially after a first round he completely dominated. But then, Crippler came out with the perfect fight, responding blow for blow and stalling when needed. That stated, I still think Ekaku won this one, and he was possibly robbed. These are the Judges leaving the arena after the contested decision: does it suggest something? Anyway, we have a new Champ and the fact Judges in Syn are blind or delinquents doesn’t make Crippler’s performance any less impressive. A new star is born: how long will it shine over these darkened, tormented skies? And it’s over: the night that changed planets’ route took place and nothing can ever be the same. I am curious to see Crippler in his new role of Dominator, but I am sure Ekaku will soon yearn for vengeance. A new saga has begun here in the city of all sinners, and we only saw the start… Goodnight, Nilmar

Syn' 175: Revolve - Preview OK, I left you with me, Avon, Blade and Barrack all together in my hotel room. There was a delicate negotiate going on there, with our asses as the main thing to be discussed. Barrack was trying some of his usual solutions for this kind of problems. He smiled, shaking hands with everyone, and saying things like “I am honored” and “Yes we can”. Which meant he had no idea of what to do. Blade had his Katana still at hand and looked not intentioned to put it away. Then, something enlightening happened. “We shall ask mom” said Avon. “What?” said I. “No” said Obama. “No” said Blade and, weirdest than ever, both of them looked worried to the point of seeming scared. What could force Blade to feel scared. And, most of all, what could force Obama to stop smiling? I’ll tell you, but there are tons of things to talk about and little time to do it, so let’s get deep into the battle and see what is going to happen… 1st Fight: Lombardo Limba vs Eric Scribner Things in life I thought I was never going to see: 1. Britney Spears dressed. 2. Britney Spears sober. 3. Britney Spears. And, if you want to add another weird thing, I never thought I was going to see a zombie with psychological issues. Yes, Lombardo Limba is the only depressed undead on earth. Which is weird, considered an undead should have no mind at all (this is also true for Britney Spears, but she is depressed anyway, so I guess I have to reconsider my prejudices). Anyway, tonight Limba faces Scribner, who has no reason to be happy himself. Both guys are on a bad stream and have to reverse the flow with a victory. Like it always happen in MMA, it’s going to end with a celebration and a funeral. But whose, and whose? Prediction: Limba by TKO. 2nd Fight: Tiger Jones vs Jimmy Wu Other things in life I thought could never happened: 1.Silvio Berlusconi with an adult girl. 2.George W. Bush not announcing a war somewhere. 3.Nicoled Kidman begging me to screw her (well, this actually didn’t happen yet, but I am working on it, and hope is undying…). And, in addition to the whole above, it’s very weird for me seeing Jones on the edge of abyss. Sure he had his own issues attuning to Syn hostile environment, but I was sure that, once understood a couple of things, he was going to come out with his impressive power and dominating fight style. It didn’t happen. Some blaze of pride, some nice performance, but in the end he’s living in Syn as a loser. Tonight he faces undefeated prospect Jimmy Wu, who displays superior standup overall, but could suffer some well placed lay and pray. I would try to take the fight ground ASAP if I was Jones. Will Wu allow? Prediction: Wu by decision. 3rd Fight: Cy Nasqu vs Dexter Morgan Cy Nasqu is a very particular character in MMA fight scene, for at least a couple of reasons: first, he has been resurrected, which is not exactly an usual happening. Second, Barksdale regrets the day he was resurrected, and he’s seriously thinking of killing Cy with his own hands to be sure he stays dead this time. But, above all, Nasqu is very strange because he’s the only man on Earth who has to wear a medieval helm while shaving (which makes it very difficult bytheway). Yes, because his skin opens like the red sea in front of Moses. Not exactly the best quality for a fighter. Tonight he fights against Dexter Morgan, who is studying as a professional loser recently, and tonight looks like he’s to give his final exam. I think that, if he wants to lose this one, Nasqu has to take tons of laxatives. He’s superior by far in the overall, and Morgan comes to this fight as fit as a 55 years old discount security guard. Can he lose? Prediction: Nasqu by TKO. 4th Fight: Junius E Sneed IV vs Viko Maafala A weird matchup between Prince’s secret son, who therefore has footwork in his DNA, and Viko Maafala, whose Sumo background makes him one of the more dominant ground sharks in Vegas fight scene. The first time I saw Sneed fight I was very impressed by a 200cm, 300lbs man moving like an etoile, floating like he had no weight at all. Maafala is a different kind of fighter, ready to use his power to slam his opponent on the ground, smash him with all his mass and finally suffocate his life sparks with his unbreakable locks. A contended fight, where Sneed will try to use the jab to exploit his superior reach and keep Maafala at distance, but in the end I think the Yokozuna will have his way through his opponent’s defenses. And then it will spell disaster for poor Junius. Prediction: Maafala by submission. 5th Fight: Rakesh Alhazred vs Black Hammer An experienced brawler from EFC, Rakesh Alhazred, tries to wake up from the nightmare called Shin Nara, who turned his dreams of gold in pure misery in Rakesh’s debut for Syn. Unfortunately for him, Black Hammer is not exactly the best medicine for broken self esteem on the market: he’s angry and dangerous, and very confident in his KO power, who gained him more than a victory thus far. A friend of mine swears Black Hammer isn’t his true name. he says this nickname was gained during his previous career as a porn actor. His teammates confirm that having a shower with him leaves you with the same sense of awe you experience in front of Aegyptian Pyramids. This could count very little tonight: this is MMA, not a Rocco Siffredi Production. Anyway, I wouldn’t let Hammer gain back mount if I was Alhazred… Prediction: Hammer by TKO. 6th Fight: Aaron Gracie vs Darin Blood Now, this fight should have been Aaron Gracie (another cousin…) versus Darren Kernberg. This is, actually, Blood’s true name. but, as many of you know, Blood’s manager Richy Richhenheimer has a weird psychic disorder: he is convinced he lives in the WMMA universe. So he names everyone Darin Blood, or Diego Arteta, or Alfonso Vilar. He calls his father Niko Soldo, his brother Hassan Fezzik and, worst of all, he’s convinced his mom’s name is Alyssa Taylor. Don’t know what the fuck am I talking about? Your problem, not mine. All you have to know is that Richy is very disturbed, and poor Darren has to change name and features in order to fight in his stable. This is, anyway, the last of his problems tonight: Gracie looks superior in the overall and in the BJJ subject particularly. Blood has to be careful or get himself tangled in some life threatening choke. Prediction: Gracie by decision. 7th Fight: Steve Why vs Dante Evangelisti Well, I think there is only one person in the world who hates Judges more than Dante Evangelisti. Yes,I know you guess who I’m talking about, anyway I am famous for giving complete, exhaustive information, so here he is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N21F0qdX9gQ Well, curiously he’s talking with Avon’s dad here… Anyway, Evangelisti had lots to think about after Syn Democracy. He entered the cage as the brightest rising star in Syn, he left as a Mr No One. “Why did I lose?” he asked himself. “Why” a voice inside him answered. “No no no. I asked why. You shall answer Because”. “Why is the because you’re looking for”. “What kind of joke is it? Why or because? What are you damn saying?”. “I am telling you why you lost the fight. This why is Why”. “Stoooooooopppppppppp iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttt!”. “Don’t ask questions if you are not ready for the answers”. “I asked Why did I lose. Answer clearly”. “I’ll be clearer than ever: you lost because of Why”. Conversation went on for a couple of weeks. This clearly explains two things: 1. Evangelisti’s IQ is more or less 21. 2. Evangelisti’s inner voice’s IQ is more or less 22. But, also, this conversation makes clear there had to be a rematch between the father of all “because”s, Steve Why, and a man with too many “why”s in his head, Dante Evangelisti. Barksdale is completely charmed by the idea of having Stevie Wonder in the Judges Lodge once more, so Evangelisti has to KO his opponent or possibly be robbed once more. Will he manage to? Prediction: Evangelisty by TKO. 8th Fight: Lucas LaVey vs Travis Lucas Damn, how do I love Syn. Those guys take so many acids that they always come up with things like Puno versus Puno, Lucas versus Lucas and so on. In a normal org, I have to make lots of research, tons of scouting, hours of analyses just to write a couple of lines. In this parallel universe generated by the wicked minds of Sin, Barksdale, Broadus and all the crew, I could write an entire novel only looking at the names! Anyway, Lucas (LaVey) is enjoying an amazing winning streak, while (Travis) Lucas lost his last fight against the Korean undead Villa (how many korean guys are named Villa by the way? Another novel in my future…). Now, Lucas looks like he’s got better striking, while Lucas has a slight edge on the ground. Lucas has to be careful or get destroyed by Lucas’s disruptive power, which gained him 12 KOs. anyway, also Lucas has a big right hand, so this fight is likely to end before the last bell. And, of course, Lucas will be the winner. Prediction: Lucas by KO. Or Lucas by decision. (This one is going to gain me another reprisal by Franky Sin but, what can I say, it was stronger than me…). 9th Fight: Anton Chigurth vs Conquer This Chigurth’s rush to the number one contender spot in Heavyweight division looks unstoppable, but tonight he faces a warrior whose name looks like created to send him a challenge: do you want the title? Do you think you’re ready? Well, kid, Conquer This! But what is Malicious Intent undisputed Champ doing here in Syn City? Well, like some of you may know, Avon Barksdale is completely responsible of MI’s failure. Disturbed by such a dangerous competitor, he unleashed the sexual lust of insatiable Wilhelmina against MI top managers, and they simply were dried from all energies: they started doing nothing else than sex, and simply stopped managing anything.. IC fell in less than a week. So, many of the more affectionate fighters swore vengeance and came here to destroy Barksdale’s empire from inside. Too bad, they too were caught in Wilhelmina’s spider web, so I am not sure how many energies are left to accomplish this heroic task. Conquer is called to give an answer: Fighters are almost completely even, so this is left to details: a little mistake, a little invention. And, of course how much testosterone is left in This’s neural system. Prediction: Chigurth by decision. 10th Fight: Hakuin Ekaku vs Joe Crippler Undefeated Syn sensation and possibly the best under 150lbs fighter in the world Hakuin Ekaku measures the skills and conviction of Bare Knuckles Combat and CoV predator Joe Crippler. Crippler comes in with a pure race pedigree, having won at every latitude. He is an architect building his victories brick after brick, but can come out with some flashy move to end it all if needed. Although still a bit raw in terms of pure technique, his intelligence, determination and impressive physical status make him more dangerous than he might seem, even for a top class fighter like Ekaku. About Ekaku… well, what to say more? 134 lbs of pure talent, educated and refined by maniacal martial training. He never lost a fight, and showed throughout all these years he knows more than one way to win. Though still young, he is a veteran of Syn and MMA. I don’t think he will lose tonight: Crippler is a great fighter, but Ekaku is the best human approximation to a hollow point bullet: deadly. Prediction: Ekaku by decision. Well, aren’t you satisfied with this amazing card? OK, I know I owe you something, so here she comes. Blade’s and Avon’s mom is going to put an end to this feud… believe me, there is a lot to be scare of. Goodnight, Nilmar

Syn' 174: Born to survive – A redemption, a farewell and a blood feud starting So many things happened in this card that it’s hard for poor Nilmar to tell them all! we had Newheart crashing against the dark side of Salcedo family. But, more than this, we got a long waited redemption. A long waited farewell. And, by the look of things, a seemingly long lasting blood feud. 1st Fight: Kyle Newheart vs Omar Salcedo Newheart met the wrong Salcedo in the cage. Not the long legged bauty he’d been promised, but the reckless berserk who completely destroyed him in the clinch for 15 minutes and left him only when the last bell ringed. Well, it’s always like that with Salcedo family: you open the Easter Egg and never know what you are finding inside… 2nd Fight: Kid Torres vs Eric Zimmerman Torres comes out with a refreshing victory which cleans his hype from the powder accumulated and, at the same time, obscures Zimmerman’s future as a Syn fighter with dark, heavy clouds. To be completely honest, Torres’s fight style is not the kind which makes girl take their slips off and throw them wet in the cage. A long chain of blocking, ducking and accurate leg kicks, no fancy move, no flashy big punch. Zimmerman on his side hasn’t the technique needed to put a top player like Torres in serious danger. As a result, the fight has been very exciting. This is just a moment of pure action from the bout: Great stuff guys! 3rd Fight: Johnny Cage vs Malik Alexander The Reverend fights again! This is great news for Syn. Cage denies his recent conversion and comes back as the merciless, heartless, bloodthirsty bastard we all know and love! My sources refer about thousands of fighters crying desperate, betrayed by their newly discovered spiritual guide and mentor. But how could it happen? And how could it happen so fast? Well, someone delivered a DVD to good old Johnny. In this DVD there were shots from Johnny’s mom career before taking vows and becoming a nun. He found it very interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykfZwQOjvQ4 After taking a look at the vid, entered the cage and almost killed poor Alexander with the fury of his punches. Never underestimate what a son can do for mom’s love. And… oh… Avon, you don’t have to thank me for the clip I sent… 4th Fight: Anton Hammer vs Calico James James started with the right pace, imposing his superior overall skill to his opponent in a first round fought mostly on the feet. Then, something happened. A blackout. One of those strange neural collisions which sometimes occur in the sharp, yet tortuous minds of cage warriors. You know, when your senses are heightened by tension and you’re like a diapason ready to vibrate with any change in the surroundings, it’s hard to say what can distract you and take you out of gameplan. Fact is, James disappeared from the bout, leaving it completely in the capable hands of Anton Hammer, who dominated first round and almost KOed his opponent with two well placed high kicks. James found the inner strength to survive, but had none left to win the fight. 5th Fight: Talafua Toluao vs Feodore Sabre Head kick by Toluao and this was over! 34 seconds of study, then a brutal shin to the chin. Like the Boss used to sing back in the old times, just one look, and a whisper, they’re gone! Great song, and great performance by Toluao, who wins the fight, the KO of the night award and, according to my sources, a full night of pure sex with Sabre’s girlfriend. Yeah mates, she entered Toluao’s room early at night, wearing just a smile and a slip with the sentence “I belong to winners” written right in the middle. 6th Fight: Blow Jimmy vs Vladimir Arlovski Psycho’s hope Blow Jimmy destroys Arlovski and brings his Boss one step closer to Nilmar Gracie’s monopoly. Arlovski started with aggressiveness and displayed a good amount of killer instinct, cutting Jimmy’s skin real bad. But then you know, there are guys who get turned on by smelling their own blood, don’t know why, but surely Sigmund Freud has some clear explanation for it. They want to kill dad. Or they want to fuck mom. Or the opposite. Anyway, Jimmy answered with the same, sharp response, spilling other guy’s blood to mix with his own. Then he started working on the wound, again and again, patiently and consistently, until finally doctor stopped the whole thing. I would not be too sad if I was Arlovski, rumors whisper that Robert Rodriguez wants to make him the star of his next movie: “I love the way he bleeds to death” the famous director confessed. 7th Fight: Mack Montana vs Gattsu Emelianenko Before the fight, I heard a friend of mine joking about Montana. “His favorite finishing move?” he was saying. “The unanimous decision” he answered to his own question, and started laughing. I guess this is what they call sense of humor at some latitudes, anyway Montana is not provided with all that self irony, so he decided to kill Emelianenko in the second round to prove everyone he can finish a fight if he simply decides to. This was clearly a fight where most of the damage occurred from inside. Montana had his lethal clinch work for him and do the job of a shrapnel, causing horrible wounds on Emelianenko’s body. The ref had nothing to do but call the doctor, who had been just able to sit back after his previous intervention. “You guys are sending me to the grave” he commented, then he stopped the fight. 8th Fight: Collin Glorious vs Ben Brawn Glorious is really having an impressive crescendo as a fighter, winning fight after fight, and gaining more and more conviction and self confidence. Tonight I expected him to win over Brawn, but I was thinking about a contended, delicate match, decided on the razor’s edge. It was a massacre instead, with Glorious simply obliterating his opponent with a terrifying four punch combination that only missed colored numbers to spread in the air to resemble some play station hard hitting game. Now Glorious is really on the launch pad, waiting for green light to glory. Countdown has started. 9th Fight: Harry Balls vs Nike Adonis Another fight, another precocious aging for all guys in the front rows. Balls is becoming the most serious threat in Syn, not only for the fighters, but for the crowd as well. Worried by the impact of Balls’s fights on the viewer’s health, Amnesty International started a campaign to retire him from fight scene. Last night, when he came to the arena, he found a crowd waiting for him, shouting insults and displaying posters like: “Please Charles, take him with you!”. Or “No more White Beards in Vegas!”. Or, again, “Save your children from becoming your grandpas”. But the poster who really wounded poor Harry in his pride was: “Balls sucks, suck balls!” Let me tell you, that was cruel. Anyway, Harry won the fight and retires as a winner. Charles Xavier is waiting for him to make the world a safer place. Good luck, super hero! 10th Fight: Shin Nara vs Pete Doherty What a contended fight my friends! This is the kind of battles which makes the history of the sport. Shin Nara defeats Pete Doherty after 3 round of battle. Or Pete Doherty defeats Shin Nara after 15 minutes of mayhem. It depends on who you ask. Judges Dunkirk and Twigg would stick to first version of the tale, Judge Peabody would strongly disagree. Truth is that this fight would have made Harry Balls proud. So little things happened in this fight, few strikes, so few moves, that almost no one was able to decide who did what. To be clear, this is one of the moments which decided the match: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgXnW7B56aA Clearly Doherty thought he won this one, and was destroyed in his spirit by Judges’ decision. I looked into his eyes while he was staring at Nara’s corner celebrating. There was Hell inside them. Flames and demons flying all around the wrinkle. That was the look of hatred and vengeance. This is the point of no return, where sportsman rivalry turns into undying hate. This is where all blood feuds start from: an injustice. These two are to fight again, I swear. So this was a dangerous, bloody, fascinating night. History is made of pages, pages are made of lines and lines are made of words. Well, lots of heavy words were spelled in this card. Cage is back, Balls is away, Nara rises stronger and stronger, stepping on Doherty’s face. Is Syn history turning page? Goodnight, Nilmar

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/590/supernovav1.jpg http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/4355/supernovav202.jpg Supernova III - Preview A great night of fighting here in Syn City, with top class fighters coming from all over the planet to find the answer. Which question? The one every warrior has in mind since the day he starts walking: WHO IS THE BEST? Now, I know what you’re thinking: Nilmar has gone carzy. Is he really talking about fights? Now Wilhelmina? No Avon’s executions? No Bourne’s stupid sentences? Well, of course I have a scoop for you. Wilhelmina was involved in a serious car crash, and had to undergo urgent surgery to save her own life. the equipe which operated her was famous for a couple of another critical interventions, like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HofoK_QQxGc was it enough to save her from death? You’ll discover at the end of this writeup. Let’s look at the fights for now… 1st Fight: Dante Evangelisti vs Lombardo Limba The no more undefeated, yet still dangerous Evangelisti meets Lombardo Limba in this Welterweight fight. Evangelisti is probably one of the more intimidating fighters you can meet in an undercard but, being long time dead, Limba is no more able to fear anyone, so it will be interesting to see how this two match up. Evangelisti is by far the more talented guy in the cage, but Limba is controlled by the voodoo sorcerer Paul Keating, who knows tons of evil tricks to bring the fight in his favored tracks, so it looks like we have pure talent vs keen strategy here. What will prevail? Prediction: Evangelisti by decision. 2nd Fight: Collin Glorious vs Ander Jaederoth Collin on a … Glorious winning streak and wants to keep on winning, but Jaederoth is a bad client due to his perfect punching and good overall. Glorious has many arrows to fire in this fight, particularly if he decides to turn it into a close distance match and makes his superior Muay Thai work for him in the clinch. Nonetheless, it remains an unclear outcome, if you consider Glorious is a pure finisher and Jaderoth a smart tactician who likes to take fights to distance. Prediction: Glorious by TKO. 3rd Fight: Fullsize Mirror vs Peter Smith Former EFC 205lbs Champ Fullsize Mirror faces VFC Dominator Peter Smith in this incredible undercard. The more amazing thing in this fight is that, while standing, you will probably feel like you’re looking at some World Boxing Championship, and when these two eventually hit the ground you will switch to Greek-Roman Olympic final. Hard to put labels like “standup fighter”, “ground specialist” or “clincher” and stuff like that when you have two guys that simply can do everything. Victorly will probably reside into details in this incredibly balanced battle: Smith has the best striking due to his superior Muay Thai, Mirror has a dangerous Brown Belt to wrap around his opponent’s neck if the fight goes ground. Who will be able to impose his idea on the fight? Prediction: Mirror by decision. 4th Fight: Eaton Cox vs Larry Burns The black belt Eaton Cox tries to improve his nice record at detriment of Larry Burns, a rising star from RC with just one loss in 10 fights. There is a high concentration of pure talent in this fight, making outcome rather unpredictable. Sure Burns asked his cornerman to nail his feet to the canvas ‘cause he wants everything but being taken down by this dangerous ground shark. Cox is still angry with his dad for the bad trick he played him at the time of his baptism: being named Eaton Cox hasn’t made his life easier, but I think it could have gone worse: he could have been named Raidis, for instance… anyway, 10 years of psychoanalysis didn’t solve the problem. Will this hidden anger turn into a factor tonight? Prediction: Cox by submission. 5th Fight: Machida The Coward vs Nike Adonis UVT Middleweight Champ Machida The Coward fights Nike Adonis, who left vacant his Fallout title to confront himself with the best fighters in the world, here in Syn. Adonis is the perfect Farantini’s fighter: exquisite boxing and great ground skills, no fault for his opponent to attack. His right cross is so quick that sometimes you see the other guy knocked out before hearing the “thud” of bones hitting bones. The Coward has a more mixed striking style, often using unconventional strikes to gain early finishes. Machida is highly ranked in 185lbs fight scene, and probably deserves the role of favorite, but no one can say what mystical trajectory can Adonis’s fists take tonight. if they start to land flush as they can, The Coward will have some hard times… Prediction: Machida by decision. 6th Fight: Vicksi Tolonen vs Hjalmar Klason This fight could have taken place in Asgaard as well as in Syn City: two Scandinavian demigods challenge each other for the right to dominate over the lands of Midgaard. Tolonen comes with the VFC Light Heavyweight Crown on his head, while Klason temporarily left his CEC throne to face this threat. I asked his coach Heimdall Wotansson about Tolonen’s best quality as a cage fighter. “He never thinks he can lose” he answered. “I don’t know if he’s the bravest man alive or simply too stupid to feel any fear. Anyway, he is so convinced he will win under any conditions that he usually manages to persuade his opponent too!”. Well, he will have to use big, huge arguments to persuade Klason, whose hands and chin are made of the same, hard material. If I had to bet on one of the two… well, I’d probably migrate to a warm place in Cuba or Santo Domingo and forget about the whole thing. These two Icelanders are simply too evenly matched to make any prediction. Prediction: go the fuck out of here. Can’t you see I’m busy?! 7th Fight: Johnny Rose vs Harry Balls This could really be Balls’s last fight. He’s going to enter X-Men with the battle name of “Metuselah”, so he will probably have little time for cage fighting. I don’t know about you, but I feel much safer knowing that Harry vigilantes on us. No respectable villain would take the risk of experiencing Harry’s power and become an old, bearded man ready for a Santa Clause-look-alike contest. Anyway, he could leave with a golden belt in his hands, and it would be a monstrous farewell. In order to achieve this glorious task, he “simply” has to beat the invincible Johnny Rose. Can you imagine anything easier? Now, will Rose survive this power? I think this is the more consistent menace Johnny The Great ever faced: Balls can strike you, ground and pound you, or simply bore you to death if he so decides. Rose still looks superior anyway, and if he manages to harness Harry’s weird superpower he could possibly win. Prediction: Rose by decision. Or Balls by precocious aging. 8th Fight: Ace Ventura vs Na Khanom Tom Ace Ventura was a winner in EFC and is still a winner here in Syn. Last time he lost a fight trains had steam locomotion. Tonight he faces a menace from South East, the Thai fighter Khanom Tom, who dominates AXF and wants to establish his law here either. Khanom Tom is a 100% pure finisher: his strikes are deadly lightning bolts tearing the darkness of the night, and when he hits, he always has death as the only task: a “go for the throat” angry demon ready to kill Ventura. Will our beloved detective, turn this beast into a beautiful, submissive pet? You know Ventura is not of the hitman kind: he sure can hit hard, but likes to think and build his wins like a Chinese sage builds his domino masterpieces. Tonight he will probably try to freeze the fight on the ground to neutralize Khanom Tom’s sharpest weapons, but will so expose himself to countering. What the hell of a fight guys: bet on this with your hands covered in shaving foam, since it’s on the razor’s edge for sure… Prediction: Ventura by decision. 9th Fight: Hakuin Ekaku vs Manny Paquiao Admitting things like undercard, co-main event and main event can really exist in a card where almost everyone is an Emperor in his own territories, this is the co-main event of the evening: Syn undefeated Phenomenon, Hakuin Ekaku, accepts a deadly superfight against the finest striker in EFC, Bantamweight dominator Manny Paquiao. How can I describe Ekaku’s qualities? Well, I attended official Harry Ball’s presentation at the X-Men headquarter, and met my old friend Logan. After regaining a little breath (that damn cigar would kill anyone not having a supernatural healing factor) I asked him about Ekaku. “Do you know him?”. “We are friends, actually” said Logan. “Really? Awesome, so what can you tell me about him?”. “Well, Nilmar, I have to say I get really scared when he gets angry”. Do you get the point? Can Paquiao survive Ekaku’s fury? And if so, can he survive the sniper rifle shot he will surely receive in case of victory? Don’t forget Ekaku is a Barksdale’s fighter, and Avon likes losing more or less like Silvio Berlusconi likes sexual abstinence. So, Paquiao will give battle with his perfect mixed style, but when last shot is fired, and last spell is cast, I think Ekaku will be the last man standing. Prediction: Ekaku by decision. 10th Fight: Abayo Bokhari vs Ian Paulsen Bokhari lost his last superfight, and is at serious risk of losing the second as well: tonight he faces Ian Paulse, a bionic warrior built up with illegal steroids, mysterious martial education and a condensate of Nietzche philosophy to make the whole thing much more cruel and merciless. So this terrifying Ubermansch comes to take Bokhari’s head, but it’s not going to be an easy task. Now, Paulsen’s fight style is quite unconventional, and definitely lethal. Here is a short clip with highlights from some of his previous fight: That stated, Bokhari is all but doomed: his talent is as pure as mountain water and his cardio frequency is so low you can read the whole Shannara saga between one heartbeat and another. He has something to prove, willing to wipe away those evil whispers saying he is no one out of his familiar Syn habitat. Fight of the night? Sure. Fight of the year? Maybe. Prediction: Bokhari by decision. And here the story ends. Rivers of blue blood will flow from the cage, vivifying the front rows with their noble, vital content. Make sure you drink some before leaving… Now, before I give you my farewell, I have to keep my promise and tell you about Wilhelmina. Well, she survived, but her body was so damaged that the medical team had to substitute many original organs with some spare parts. This is the final outcome, hope you don’t blame anyone for this catastrophe. Where is her real beauty gone? I know it’s hard to see her so bad, but things simply happen… Goodnight, Nilmar

Syn’ 168: Presents of Greatness - Find a job, settle down and stuff like that... One night me and Jason were sitting in front of the TV. He was watching his favorite series which, unexpectedly, happens to be “Beautiful”. I would have said “Dexter”, considering his attitude, but life is like that. Expect the unexpected, and you’ll never be surprised. Anyway, there was a thought spinning in my mind since the day he crucified the pizza guy in the corridor, and I wanted to discuss it with him. “Jason”. “I don’t know who I am”. Well’ it looked we were starting with the right pace, don’t you think? “I think you should find yourself some kind of job”. “Look what they force you to give”. “Yeah, this is exactly what I am saying. You need some cash, some life of your own. Find a girl, settle down, if you want it you can marry and stuff like this”. “Enemies”. “Sure, I understand. It will be hard at the beginning, but you can do that. I am not talking about selling books, my friend. Something that fits with your personality. Something where you can express your aggressiveness”. “I don’t know who I am”. “Well, I think I know: you’re a sociopathic serial killer with a passion for inflicting pain to other people and no respect for human life. And I found the job for you”. Jason looked interested. He stared at me, raising an eyebrow, and then smiled. “They found us?” he asked. Ten minutes later a big org owner was sitting at my table. I would have asked Calvin and Avon to take the kid,but they would have killed me and I think it would have been quite an unfair negotiation. So, Jason is to become a cage fighter, and many people will die for it but, you know, many people would have died anyway. He asked tons of money for signing. The owner was kindly forced to agree “Look what they force you to give” he said when he finally got Jason’s sign on the contract. I’ll keep you totally updated in the kid’s career, but, for now, just look at the casualties for tonight’s rumble. 1st Fight: Solomon Carver vs Calico James “Hello, you just called Solomn Kane’s responding machine. Mr Kane is not able to answer your call at the present moment. Please leave a message and you will be contacted later”. This is the message Carver’s medium received when attempting the possession ritual a couple of hours before the match. Rebus sic stantibus, Carver was doomed, just a matter of time. And what a short amount of time! First minute didn’t even came to an end when Lames unleashed a terrifying uppercut to the button and turned lights out for Carver. I think Solomon Kane proved too unpredictable, Carver has to explore other partnership in the next future. Let’s say Conan the Cimmerian, or Paul Atreides maybe… 2nd Fight: Sallah Alcoubrah vs Malik Alexander It’s been a hell of a fight, where every distance, and every stance, was checked. Alexander displayed flexibility in his gameplan, able to fight under in all the battlefields with shining efficacy. He’s been by far the more active and accurate player in the game, despite the significant efforts of Alcoubrah to establish himself as a dangerous deuteragonist. Better from distance, better on the clinch, controlling well on the ground, Alexander won everywhere, and Judges had nothing to do other than acknowledging his bright victory. 3rd Fight: Mark Marx vs Nickolay Katorjinov My personal friend Raimundo Guerra (now that my psychiatrist is dead no one can stop my disorder…) used to say: “ground fighting is like swimming: if you relax and let your body go with the flow, you will discover you’re floating with ease. If you struggle, scared and agitated, you will probably start sinking”. What? He never said it? Well, he should have to! At least, he should have told it to Katorjinov, who never was able to stop Marx’s takedown and spent all his time on the ground struggling to improve his position, never doing anything else than transition attempts which miserably failed. Now, while he was trying to pass, Marx was winning the fight. When fight was over and Katorjinov was finally allowed to stand up, everything already happened and poor Nickolay completely missed it. It was embarrassing for the Judges to evaluate a fight in which one of the contenders hardly scored one point… 4th Fight: Pete Doherty vs Damien Demented Just one minute after throwing the heat seeking missile that hit Demented right on the neck and sent him to the Hunting Grounds, Doherty sent me a sms with just one sentence: “Some is an idiot”. And I definitely had to agree. I trusted Doherty’s pride and make some pretty nice bucks betting on him KOing Demented. Now, to be completely clear: Doherty wanted the finish, did not need it anyway. He dominated from the start, overwhelming his opponent with something we could call “intelligent fury”, if you forgive the paradox. Demented was not allowed to think, move or even breathe. Above all, he was never able to hit his opponent. Not one strike! Would you believe it? Doherty on his side delivered big damage while standing and did some constant, consistent demolishing work on the ground. The dramatic outcome of round three is simply the perfect metaphor of what took place in the whole fight. Now we’ll probably see Doherty vs Some in the next main card… 5th Fight: Bob Stroker vs Taylor Norton The kid is alright! Stroker tried to make his superior experience count, but was literally buried by Norton’s pure talent. Worried by Norton’s juvenile energy and educated striking skills, Stroker applied a fight plan relying mostly on close distance and ground battle. He did all he could do to take the fight where he wanted it, but in the end Norton proved to be as elusive as Doctor Strange, always dismissing Stroker’s attempts to tangle him down. And, about his offensive skills, I have always been taught that power and speed are incompatible, a sort of short cover that you can’t expect to pull both sides. Well, when Taylor strikes this rule gets broken: blinding speed and terrifying disruptive power simply get married and live happy forever in his right hand. Stroker clearly understood it when Doctor House stepped in once again to save him from permanent brain damage. Keep an eye on Taylor my friends, he is going to say his own in this sharks pool… 6th Fight: Tim Lachance vs Vladimir Arlovski When I saw Arlowski stepping in tonight, staring at his opponent with the eye of the tiger, moving like he had some C$ explosive charge embodied in his chest, I worried for Lachance. I called Doc House, that was leaving after insulting Stroker at the end of previous fight, and told him: “Don’t you move mate. Your services will be needed soon”. “Go and get laid by a dinosaur, idiot” was his answer. Nonetheless he obeyed. Probably the sudden appearance of my own personal savior named Jason convinced him. And I was right. Arlowski was simply too sharp in a very literal sense tonight. Lachance did his best, but simply got hurt. A terrifying cut opened in the first second of the first round, and when the fourth minute ended it was so bad that you could tell you were in some “Hostel III” or “Saw XX” main scene. House stared at me for a while, showed me a very polite medium finger, then did his fucking job. That’s what friends are for, like they say… 7th Fight: Junius E Sneed IV vs Cole Michaels Franky Sin’s secret son delivers huge amounts of pain to the heart of his father, getting screwed by the square smasher Cole Michael. Superior from distance, superior in the clinch, superior on the ground, Michaels left nothing to his opponent but the insane, wicked, masochistic pleasure of witnessing his own massacre. If you want to give some credit to Sneed, he showed consistency, iron will and a massive amount of chin to end this one on his feet. Will it be enough for his daddy? 8th Fight: Johnny Cage vs Bala Bala Now, will Bala’s family leave the kid alone for a little while? He did what he had to do, immolating his own body on the altar of Johnny Cage, giving his wife and kids (and uncles, and grands, and cousins, and brothers, and pets) a comfortable life style. Can you ask him for more? Really, can you? What I admire the most in this guy is that he really tried to win this one. Completely exhausted from fighting two huge events in a week and confronted to a clearly superior opponent, he tried 22 submission attempts. He wanted a victory. That’s the heart every warrior should carry in his fucking rib cage! I think Cage admired his courage too, since h did not go too heavy with the guy. He limited himself to control the fight, landing the exact amount of strikes he needed to make clear he was the one to take it home in the end, but did not hurt Bala too much. Very merciful from him. I was struck, so I interviewed Cage’s mom about this gentle attitude. She did not say anything about it, but really, she did not need to… 9th Fight: Noriyuki Nayoui vs Cleveland Brown Debut with celebration for Nayoui in this very contended, uncertain fight. Things were so balanced that I think he would have not been any scandal if decision took another route. It has been a K-1 battle in the end, with none of these two eager to test other guy’s ground skills. While Nayoui used much more his mixed punch style, often surprising his opponent with the unpredictable trajectories generated by his Kyokushin/Boxing style, Brown relied a bit more on his Muay Thai, trying to slow his opponent’s pace with great low kicks, but Nayoui absorbed them with incredible ease and kept moving. Both guys worked their way through the 15 minutes of this battle showing tons of class and disruptive power, but in the end Judges decided to reward Nayoui’s ability to land flush. A good decision, but sure it could be worthy a rematch… 10th Fight: Martin Cristos vs Steve Why Cristos manages to neutralize Why’s best weapon and takes the fight to distance, where Judges rewarded his striking aggressiveness, conjugated with a perfect sprawl which allowed him to dismiss 11 takedown attempts performed by a master like Why. The fight never went to the canvas, and this has in the end been the key for Cristos’s victory, Martin displayed tons of heart and a cardio frequency you only can find in lethargic bears, being able to strike and move with a crazy rhythm for the whole duration of the fight. Why will probably have to work on something new if he wants to be fully competitive at these levels. And sure he wants to… And now it’s over. Things got serious in the cage, and are at high risk of getting serious outside of it. With Jason all caught in his new business, I will probably have to find some mediation with the Dinamic Duo formed by the deadliest singlet on earth and his best friend. And probably will have to see what I can do for Wilhelmina to be forgiven. I’ll keep you updated on it. And on the fights, of course. Clearly, I won’t be able to do it if I die. Goodnight. Nilmar