Wolf

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In my eyes, they can. Might not be able to get to elite in everything but you don't need that to become a top fighter. Having his main offensive skills at elite then you can neglect some others. I've seen top fighters basically have no kicks and reach #2 p4p

Keep up the good work with previews and posters. JJ could we get mass PM's to say when the preview is up please? I only saw these just now

Cerrone?

Agree. Sydney has been dead since I joined, a few tired to revive it but it remains dead. Either remove to populate other cities or delete it and create a new city a bit closer to the world

That sucks then, never really had a dude that slow. Like I said it depends on how patient you are and if you want instant results from him. But if he has a granite, power and good confidence he could be a beast in the future.

3.9??? You sure? Did you do it 1:1 with an elite coach in a skill with no points in? That seems really slow, don't think i've had anyone below 4.2. Anyway, it depends on how patient you are. All his other hiddens seem great and seeing as though you have spent VIP on him to make a 17yo you should just sit on him and train him for a good few years before throwing him back out there

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My first #1 guy Close fight Jug, didn't think it would be that close lol. Figured I would either get the KO or you would out point

http://www.mmatycoon.com/fightcommentary.php?FTID=833340 For the few people who voted

No Team Marky in the LHW then. Great win Brophy. Unlucky Castillo, i'm sure you will bounce back.

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Yea, good win for you man. I came in thinking it was a clear win Never again ahah Ok my saltiness is over now

Fuck sake. Im pissed lol, losing via cuts to let Conquer win 3-2 losing out on 5 mil Even KOing Lance isn't washing the taste out my mouth Congrats Conquer

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Hello fight fans, Jack Russel here. Formerly of MMA Fanzone but we had to shut down whilst my former colleague Johnson Schmidt awaits trial. I am here today interviewing top fighter, Ferdinand Cortes. He is almost unheralded since going on an 11 fight winning streak which has led him to capturing the EVO title and defending it a record tying 5 times. JR: So Ferdinand, your next fight is against Sean Tallon. A man whom you have a bitter rivalry with. Tell us about your mindset heading into this fight. Ferdinand Cortes: I wouldn’t say it’s a bitter rivalry. We used to train together until he turned his back on us and our team. He then fought a dude with not much experience and much younger in Geralt. Now he will have to fight someone who hits hard and won’t fall into his gameplans. I’m going in there to humiliate him but with a clear head. JR: This is one of the more highly anticipated match ups in recent memory, both of you are at the top of the game in the top 10 p4p and a win here could elevate you to #1. Is that adding any extra pressure? FC: No, not at all. For so long I was not fighting, I was working 2 jobs a day after I was let go by my manager. Everyone had forgot about me. When Wolf started to fight me again I was happy for the first time in a long time. Just holding the title in one of the most prestigious organisations in the world is enough to me, anything other than that is an added bonus. JR: What’s been the secret of your success? Have you found more confidence or is your manager giving you the right gameplans? FC: A bit of both, but I think it’s more I have my own style now. I don’t specifically plan for an opponent, I just do what I do and no one has been able to stop it. I doubt Tallon will be able to either. JR: If you win this fight, you will become the longest reigning EVO Featherweight title holder in terms of most defences. We haven’t seen this level of dominance since Oompa Loompa held the belt. FC: That is nice to know, but like I said. It’s an added bonus. I was picked up by Wolf to help out his young guys technique. I didn’t think I would be fighting on the big stages at any time, so yea it’s a nice bonus. JR: Ok Ferdinand, that’s all we have time for. Thank you God, he really is a boring bastard isn’t he

Soo instead of derailing Jug's thread, why not create a separate one for a fight of this stature. Fight is tomorrow in London town!

Dammit, first fight and I come in with low energy lol. Time to set emergency energy saving sliders

GENERATION 40 Coming Sep 24th to the H2O Arena in London at G #40: Beaumont vs Boagrius II for the Super Heavyweight Title! by Spike Towers Let’s start with the undercard: Lightweight: Gurney Halleck vs “Whirling Dervish” Farouk Al Ahwei Gurney Halleck is a newcomer to Generation coming from Gamma Kids New York where he was the one-time Featherweight Champion. Gurney has a 6-3 career record with 5 wins by KO/TKO. Halleck has a solid ground game, but he tends to use that only when called upon by his opponent. He has shown that he does not have any obvious holes in his game. Gurney is not afraid to take the fight to the clinch and likes to use his boxing skills on the outside. This will be Whirling Dervish’s fourth Generation event. He has gone 2-1 in the previous three as part of a 5-3 career record. Early in his career he did hold the East Coast Championship belt before moving on to Victory! and then Generation. Whirling Dervish dropped a unanimous three round decision to Altair Brain his last time out. In that fight, despite a four takedowns he was not able to keep the fight on the ground. Two of his five wins have been by submission, and while he is an effective standup fighter his main weapon seems to be his black belt in BJJ. Having said that, he beat Zoppitty-Bop-Bop-Bop by unanimous decision with the fight rarely going to the ground..so like, that is why I try not to predict this stuff folks. It would seem that the Whirling Dervish’s ground skills would come into play more, but his past fights in Generation do not reflect that. While it is likely to go to the ground and clinch at some point, I would expect a lot of this fight to be two guys swinging limbs with attitude. Middleweight: Roderick Solo vs Silvio Gasaspo Roderick Solo first appeared on a Generation card back at G#18 where he lost a title shot vs Gunju Koizumi. Since then he has gone 2-2 with his most recent fight being a KO win over Ely Scrubs at ITFL 10.2. While he has picked up a couple of ITFL wins, he is still looking for his first win in Generation having gone 0-3 so far. He came here the undefeated champion from Rio Chain Gang, and folks, he is only 20 years old. So like, that is a lot of experience for such a youngster. The kid is a fighter. Overall he has an 11-3 career record with 9 wins by KO/TKO. Solo is a talented kickboxer who is as likely to kick your head as use his fists. Silvio Gasaspo, who is unfortunately bald at the young age of 22, debuted at G#23 also with a loss to Gunji Koizumi in a title shot. Prior to that he was the (everyone together now..) the undefeated champion of…King of the Beach. Much like Solo he is still looking for his first Generation win having gone 0-2. He did pick up a recent win also at ITFL 10.2. Silvio has scored all six of his wins by submission and both of his losses have come by KO/TKO. I admit I didn’t look really far into Silvio’s past fights, but my guess is that he will try to submit Roderick and Roderick will try to kick him in the head. Yes, this is why I am here people. Call that expert analysis. Light Heavyweight: “The Game” Trenton Funkhouser vs Miguel Cotto The Game is the former Light Heavyweight Champion of Rio Chain Gang who made his Generation debut at G#29 where he lost a unanimous decision to Master Blaster. Overall the 24-year-old has a 10-5 career record with three wins by KO/TKO. The Game likes to go for takedowns, but as is common most of his fights don’t spend a lot of time there. He will try for submissions when he can and on his feet likes to try to smash his fists into his opponent’s head and body. Miguel Cotto is also 24 years old and has a 9-3 career record. He has been with Generation since way back at G#10 and has an impressive 4-1 career record over that span. His most recent Generation win was a first round KO of Hector Stefan at G#32. Of his nine wins, nine have come by KO/TKO. He is a very skilled boxer sometimes described as heavy handed. He will work in some kicks and clinches on occasion, but generally, he has a fist, you have a face and so the twain SHALL meet. Both are talented boxers, and I expect some fists to be flying in this one. Cotto likes to see his opponents all dizzy and The Game generally takes his fights the distance. If The Game can get this one to the ground his submission game may come into play. Middleweight: Saul Goodman vs Chris Kennedy Saul “Slip the Jab” Goodman has an interesting nickname. Hey, Slip the Jab, do you want a coke?...go as Slip the Jab if he is coming..probably it gets shortened to slip or something. I won’t speculate further. Slip the Jab is known mostly for not looking back at the explosion. That and being 24 years old with a 10-2 career record and 6 of those wins by KO/TKO! Oh boy! Slip the Jab came over from Victory! and debuted at G#24 with a win over Aeden Declan before he also lost in a title shot to Gunji Koizumi at G#30. Slip the Jab earned the name by being an elite boxer who is also not at all afraid to beat you down in the clinch. “The Astonishing” Chris Kennedy may possibly have given himself that name, but he also does not look back at the explosion, and it is an impressive fire graphic really. Nice hair too, so hey, yeah I am sold..The Astonishing fits. The Astonishing is a 24 year old with a 9-4 career record, and is making his debut from Budo Rei FC in Tokyo. The Astonishing is a talented Muay Thai fighter who likes to get you in a clinch and beat you down, but also likes to beat you down from the outside so like..yeah. Slip the Jab vs The Astonishing is one of those high fight rating things just waiting to explode. Look for some punching in this one, often by both fighters. Yes, expert insight is what you get here people. Super Heavyweight Title: Cavey Beaumont vs Orpheus “Big Guy” Boagrius Cavey “Gator” Beaumont head kicked his way into our hearts by taking down the Big Guy early in round two. Boagrius took the fight to the clinch mid-way through round 2, but it was Gator who got was the more effective there. Gator stormed out of the gates in round two and it was over before Big Guy could figure out what was going on. For the new people out there (if there are any), a reminder how we got here: Gator came to Generation from Ultimate Proving Grounds where he had lost a couple of shots at the Super Heavy title. He smashed his way up the Generation ladder by way of an early first round KO of Lowkie Erwin and then a second round TKO of Blob Sapp. That earned him the shot at Big Guy where he completed his run to the top with the head kick that won him the belt. He is looking to hold onto what he earned. Big Guy had been on a 17 fight win streak spanning MMA Gods onto Generation. He won the Super Heavy belt at G#8. He had four successful title defenses at Generation and added in a cross-promotion win vs FannyPack SissyPants at G#37. He still has not had a fight go past round 2, but that is also not uncommon when two monsters get into the ring. Big Guy will also mix in a lot of kicks. This one doesn’t need much build-up. Two of the biggest, baddest and best kickboxers on the planet getting into a cage to see who has the right to run this here group of regulators.

Nope. Loads of cases in the UFC where mediocre fighters have huge popularity for just being entertaining. Diego Sanchez, Leonardo Garcia, Roy Nelson, I could go on, you get the point. Hardly have elite skills but popular none the less. And although they are better than 90% of other MMA fighters like the "25yo builds" I don't think it would be very good for noobs at all if they win 100 fights and don't move in the rankings due to what you suggest.

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