Guest Posted September 26, 2011 Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 AXF 77 Review http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Goliath764/JokerThePimp.jpg This report is brought to you by Joker The Pimp. Jamie Greywar vs Yuri Orlov This fight once again proved that Greywar was definitely a MMA family. Orlov was locked into the clinch after some defensive movement to avoid Greywar's powerful strikes and he was desperately trying to take Greywar down to the ground. Sadly, his plan didn't work out as expected and Greywar put on a beautiful dominating performance inside the clinch, punching and kneeing Orlov into eternal slumber within two minutes of round 1 and the ending blow was a huge knee follow up after a big knee that put Orlov in stunned state. Winner: Jamie Greywar(TKO:Strikes) Lachlan Anderson vs Tane Te Rauparaha This was a pretty intense fight between both guys as both men tried their best to get to the position they prefer. Rauparaha was always trying to clinch up while Anderson did his job in maintaining offense while avoiding the clinch. Of course, Rauparaha still got Anderson into his clinch but Anderson was working well, trying his best to break it off before he was buried under the rain of elbows and knees. In the standup, Anderson was far more aggressive but his landing rate was just not good enough and Rauparaha was able to steal a few counter hits in the process. Overall, Anderson fought his best but the capability of Rauparaha in standup and also clinch was just too much for Anderson that night. Winner: Tane Te Rauparaha(UD) Roland McGregor vs Casper Orion This one was ground-oriented. Orion started it with a takedown to bring McGregor down but then couldn't do too much before McGregor stood back up. The standup exchange was 50:50 at best since both men were on par with each other and were able to avoid most of the attacks, only taking one shot once in a while. McGregor later turned the table around by working his own takedown and put Orion down. After he found out that it was super effective to take Orion down and put his ground and pound into action, he continued to use this method in round 2 and round 3 and Orion has no option to prevent that nor he has the proper ground skill to overcome the top control of McGregor. McGregor tried his best to finish but Orion was tough enough to hold until the end of the match despite the one-sided affair. Winner: Roland McGregor(UD) Ian Noonan vs Johnny Secunda A straight up standup battle was short but definitely fun to watch. Noonan and Secunda fought like they didn't have a backward gear and just swung hard at each other from beginning to the end. Noonan was cut early by a nice right hand but that didn't break his will at all. He tried his best to fight back and his head punches proved to be very effective. Secunda was going head hunting as well since his other shots didn't really land well but the same could be said to Noonan. He attempted many body shots but most were avoided. Eventually, Noonan found a way in and hit a huge left hook plus right uppercut combo and that one hurt Secunda back. Noonan cut Secunda back with that one and didn't give up the pursuit, continue with his assault and those attacks set up a head kick beautifully and that one put Secunda into sleep. What a huge head kick from the short man. Winner: Ian Noonan(KO:Head Kick) Danny Drake vs Max Milson Man, who would thought about the finish before the night? It was pretty obvious that Milson has better record and performance on the ground in his career and that takedown was not a mistake at all and was a good move for Milson. Drake was good enough to land on his full guard but he was a man that didn't ever submit a guy before so Milson felt safe enough to pursuit the attack with some ground strikes. Bad move, Drake, with all surprise elements put in, found a small gap and escaped from the position before locking in a very quick and slick armbar that took Milson out with surprise. Drake never submitted someone, Milson has never been submitted and this fight changed everything. Winner: Danny Drake(Sub:Armbar) Winston Gunn vs Shane Carwin Carwin was a beast in this one but the same could be said to Gunn. Overall, both men were trading blows throughout the fight. Carwin was the aggressor but Gunn was fairly aggressive as well. What Gunn lacked was mixing things up more and also the natural explosive of his limbs. Carwin was mixing his strikes beautifully and that earned him more valuable hits than Gunn. At the same time, his power and cutting ability was darn good, putting Gunn in a lot of bleeding and also trouble throughout the fight including a knockdown in early of round 2, which Gunn recovered nicely. Carwin did some good work focusing on the cut and the fight was forced to stop at late round 2 by the doctor. Clever strategy by Carwin. Winner: Shane Carwin(TKO:Cut) Alberto Lopez vs Stuart Wray The patience and timing of Wray was what separated him from Lopez in terms of striking performance. Lopez's striking was okay but Wray's timing in his counter and also aggressive at the same time was able to garner more more success than Lopez. Another good job of Wray was his constant leg kicks to soften Lopez so that other shots could get to the target. Lopez was basically using boxing only and that is one area he should improve in the future. Wray was also using the clinch constantly since he knew he was the better man there after the first few clinch run. Lopez's dirty boxing was at most so-so compared to Wray and Wray was in complete control insid the clinch. All of that added up easily to a good score in the judge's scorecard. Winner: Stuart Wray(UD) Pablo Soriano vs Sheikh Hasina Wazed Wazed's obvious plan of going for a takedown was easily avoided by Soriano and since Soriano has not much to worry about, he let his hands go with full power inside it. A good striking defense was far away from Wazed and the constant head punches connected well most of the time, putting Wazed down just around the 20 seconds mark. Wazed rolled away and backed up but the following powerful straight right put Wazed down once again. Soriano decided to just rush and hit Wazed more. All of the punches connected and the referee was forced to stop the one-sided beatdown. Winner: Pablo Soriano(TKO:Strikes) Sho Kazuki vs Konstantin Tszyu The battle between the Japanese and the Australia native was nothing but excitement and entertainment. Tszyu has defeated Yogi Bear and Bu Laia to come to this place while Kazuki's AXF debut was a lose to Aitch Bubbles. That was the first career loss for Kazuki and he bounced back real well in this one. Both men didn't shy away from a striking battle and it was full fifteen minutes of onslaught inside the cage. Both men were doing excellent work but we could see that Kazuki was just the better striker after a few minutes of exchange. Tszyu, as good as he is, was outclassed by Kazuki especially in the kicking department. Kazuki's kicks were so good that they hit more than half of the time while he was able to check most of Tszyu's kicks. Boxing-wise, Kazuki also outclassed Tszyu but not as far as the kicking segment. Overall, Kazuki showed that he was a great fighter and he wanted another title shot in the near future. Tszyu certainly proved that he could hang all three rounds with a knockout artist and that was a good feat of his own. Winner: Sho Kazuki(UD) Ronaldi Rolf vs Johnny Storm One word, comeback. Round 1, Rolf took Storm down and did some good work on the lay'n'pray before the referee stood them up. That was two minutes of time on his side and it was a good move to try to get the point. After that, they exchanged blow until the end of round 1 with the 10 points given to Rolf. Round 2, Rolf clinched up and used his muay thai plum to setup good strikes before putting Storm down once again to earn another round. By this point, Storm knew he was in a do or die situation and he came in round 3 very strong, avoiding every attempt of Rolf to force the fight elsewhere. Rolf mixed kicks into his arsenal but Storm's pure boxing was able to get the better of the exchange. Round 4, Rolf got the fight into the clinch but Storm appeared to be extra motivated and was tougher than round 2, earning another round for himself. Round 5, both men tried their best but Rolf's dream was shattered as soon as Storm broke his clinch and then hit him hard on the head with his right hand. Rolf didn't give up though, trying to strike back, trying to clinch up and Storm did excellent work in preventing any of them from happening too often. A clinch was there for Rolf in the last second but for no reason, he broke it up himself and that broke up his dream because the judges gave that round 10:10, 10:9 and 10:9 for Storm. Three rounds to two rounds, Storm bounced back at the mid and late game to took the belt for his own in a beautiful main event of AXF 77. Winner: Johnny Storm(Majority) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 5, 2011 Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 AXF 78 Review http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Goliath764/JokerThePimp.jpg This report is brought to you by Joker The Pimp. Thiago Alves vs Charlisson Rousseff Round 1 was definitely Alves with his takedown and smooth control on the ground. He was very close to a finish but couldn't get it done in round 1 as well. Round 2, Alves continued to get things done with his takedowns and despite Rousseff's effort to strike him down, Alves took that round with ease. Rousseff fought his best round in round 3, hitting good punches and avoiding takedowns at all cost but it was too late to change the tide of this battle. Winner: Thiago Alves(UD) Mike Hunt vs Keith Keystone Round 1 started out very well for both fighters as they both showed their best. After a brief striking exchange, Keystone got the takedown but he couldn't mount any offense before the referee standup and later Hunt took him down and tried to hit some ground strikes. Not very good in terms of accuracy but the judges gave him that round for his effort and also better striking. Round 2 was a very aggressive round for Keystone, trying to hurt Hunt with his punches but he just couldn't land many of them. Still, the constant aggression earned him that round. Round 3, Hunt turned the battle with a nice takedown and just rode Keystone to the end of the round to secure his victory. Winner: Mike Hunt(UD) Yogi Bear vs Oishi Yoshio Bear took Yoshio down to start the round but he just didn't do enough on the ground to stay there. After the referee standup, Yoshio started his domination with solid punches and kicks and Bear found no answer for them. A short amount of time in clinch also showed that Yoshio was the better man in two areas of MMA than Bear. Bear tried to fight back but the counter of Yoshio was always there to give him back the favor. In round 2, both men continued to strike at each other and Yoshio hit a beautiful cross in the third minute and followed up with more strikes. More of them connected and a huge knee put Bear down to the ground, giving Yoshio the chance to swarm in for the kill. Winner: Oishi Yoshio(TKO:Strikes) Johnny Law vs Mickey Noonan This was a case of completely outclassed. Law tried his best to fight but Noonan was just on another level, easily picking Law apart from the inside and the reach advantage of Law just wasn't enough to cover his lacking in the striking department. Still, Law was able to defend well enough to not allow Noonan to hit a clear shot but eventually Noonan was able to find a hole in Law's defense and clipped him hard with a huge overhand right. Law buckled and Noonan went in for the kill, throwing bombs from top until the referee stopped it. Winner: Mickey Noonan(TKO:Strikes) Bu Laia vs Barry Scott It was all three rounds of hard-fought battle between these two. It was very close so it was not easy to judge but then Scott was just not doing enough in most of the rounds, leading to a lose to him. Laia didn't do too good anyway against Scott so their level were kind of on the same position in my opinion. Laia didn't connect with too many of his kicks but his punches were good enough. Scott relied on his punches and his accuracy was better than Laia but then he was losing the clinch battle. Scott tried to take the fight to the ground as well but then he couldn't do that fast enough in round 1 or 2. If he was fast enough he could win seeing that his takedown of round 3 gave him that round. Winner: Barry Scott(UD) Guadeloupe Canal vs Josh Dunne This was quite a simple one for Canal. The early strike opened up a hole on Dunne's face and Canal took the opening to take Dunne down. On the ground, Canal played well with his pace, controlling, attacking and advancing the position all with good success. Once he got the mount, he started to rain down punches and the cut was just not there to sustain that sort of punishment, ending this one as the doctor stepped in for the TKO. Winner: Guadeloupe Canal(TKO:Cut) Jeganathan Mondero vs Talafua Toluao This was indeed a very tough fight for both guys since they were quite the same type. Mondero used his reach effectively to outstrike Toluao but then they just didn't spend too much time in the standup so that advantage was not huge enough. Toluao got taken down early in round 1 but defended good enough to force a standup and then took Mondero down on his own. Toluao was crazy on the offensive side, going for strikes all over the place until the round ended. Round 2, we saw some clinch action and then another takedown from Mondero allowed him to dominate on the ground by taking top position at first and also controlling that round thoroughly since he was the one to get the clinch and more. Round 3, Mondero tried his best to fight a standup and clinch fight but he just couldn't make it happen(and that break clinch of his own was a big mistake) and Toluao took Mondero down after a minute and just held himself on the ground with constant pressure to grab the victory. Winner: Talafua Toluao(UD) Alec Dimanche vs Stuey Ungar There's no much to say about this one asides from the great chin of Dimanche since Ungar was a good finisher and couldn't finish him. Ungar was completely dominating the fight though, not taking many shots from Dimanche at all be it standing or inside the clinch and at the same time gave Dimanche a lot of trouble with his precise striking and also good clinchwork especially the knees were awesome. Despite being cut deep and taking a lot of punishment, he hanged on until the final second and only lost by decision. Winner: Stuey Ungar(UD) John L Sullivan IV vs Lorenzo Von Matterhorn Von Matterhorn is a very great boxer but Sullivan IV showed that his double distinction in both the art of boxing and muay thai(and other striking arts he might be secretly training in) were too much to handle. This was pretty much three rounds of striking and Sullivan IV won it easily by outstriking Von Matterhorn by a huge margin and not even a cut could stop Sullivan IV from hitting Von Matterhorn hard with leg kicks and punches all over the place. In my opinion, Von Matterhorn was just too defensive and with the accuracy of Sullivan IV, going for counter frequently wasn't the best thing to do even if you have the reach advantage since Sullivan IV was fast enough to close the gap most of the time. Overall, another great performance from Sullivan IV and a great return to AXF. Winner: John L Sullivan IV(UD) Aitch Bubbles vs Jp Greywar Bubbles tried his best to play his striking game but Greywar did surprisingly well in that department, staying toe to toe with Bubbles and his kicks proved to be better than Bubbles's defense and it was a clever move seeing that kick was his best bet to close the reach advantage of Bubbles. Bubbles was just not aggressive enough to handle Greywar and whenever Greywar has the takedown done, Bubbles just couldn't do much. Greywar didn't do so much on the ground too but every takedown and top position count. It really was quite one sided and Bubbles should have go for the finish when he has Greywar's back at the final minutes. Not doing enough equals to a lose. Winner: Jp Greywar(UD) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 AXF 80 Review http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Goliath764/JokerThePimp.jpg This report is brought to you by Joker The Pimp. Karel Gil vs John The Butcher This one was just easy to Gil, simply too easy. After avoiding multiple takedowns from John, Gil took John down with a counter double leg into half guard and found a kimura from that position after one minute of working on the ground. This was definitely a solid win for Gil. Winner: Karel Gil(Sub:Kimura) Mogul Khan vs Sheamus Noonan Khan found himself not doing good in the standup section but the real hell begun for him when the clinch war started a minute later. Noonan was completely dominating the clinch and despite Khan broke clinch a few times by pulling guard, Noonan always clinched back up and hit Khan with all sort of shots once again. In round 2, Khan did one stupid mistake of getting the clinch himself and Noonan granted him his death wish by knocking him down with an uppercut later before swarming for the TKO, which he did get. Winner: Sheamus Noonan(TKO:Strikes) Kent Russell vs Ken Banners This was an all-out war between both fighters and Banners's success was mostly thanks to his solid clinchwork. Russell utilized dirty boxing and also muay thai plum but he just couldn't connect with any knee at all and Banners effectively fight back with punches and elbows. As for the standup, Russell did hit a good amount of shots but then Banners was on the offensive with heavier shots and a lot of kicks to mix things up. Sadly for him, his kicks didn't land much. Stamina might be the problem for Banners though seeing that his round 3 wasn't as good as his first two rounds but then the first two was enough to win this one. Winner: Ken Banners(Majority) Joe Foe vs Geronimo Malkind Malkind wanted to stand and bang but his wish was just a wish as Foe didn't give him any chance for that. Foe tried hard for takedowns and eventually got one done in every round. Round 1 was in Malkind's pocket easily as he was able to force the referee standup and then just hit Foe hard with his punches. Round 2, Foe took Malkind down and tried to pound him out and later decided to try and submit Malkind. His ground strikes were good but submission attempts of both guys just weren't good enough to finish. Round 3, Malkind took his chance to hit some attacks before he was taken down and just forced Foe to play the control game down there. The lack of aggressiveness from Foe gave that round and the fight as well to Malkind. Winner: Geronimo Malkind(UD) Charles Manson vs Haile Selassie The standup was meh at best for both guys in my opinion...I mean it was fine but not very exciting. Selassie hit some good punches and Manson hit some good kicks. All of that were just to confuse their opponent for their takedowns to work. Both of them did take each other down several time. With three takedowns done in round 1, Manson took it but eventually lost the other two rounds as Selassie applied a more aggressive ground game and just controlled Manson down there for most of the time of each round to pick up the win. Manson should really try to get some strikes in instead of full control. Winner: Haile Selassie(UD) Hajime Bucket vs Dwayne Hicks Bucket was the better man in round 1 as he hit some good shots to Hicks and cut Hicks there. Hicks tried his best to fight back and a takedown happened for him but then he just didn't do much on the ground to claim that round back to his side so it was a round for Bucket. Round 2, Bucket wanted a takedown but no, Hicks defended them well and just hit him back with some good shots of him. Bucket eventually got a takedown but it was too late to do much and that round was Hicks. Round 3, both men knew that they needed this one and went for broke. Both men hit some decent strikes with Hicks having a minor advantage but Bucket's takedown pulled it back to equal term. Bucket wanted to hit something but Hicks was good with his positioning and even claiming Bucket's back for a while before the time ran out and it was close but Hicks got this one slightly. Winner: Dwayne Hicks(Split) John McClane vs Arnaud Savage Savage started out strong with an excellent performance in round 1 by kicking McClane well and then took the fight to the ground and tried to finish McClane with a mixture of ground and pound and submission. McClane defended them well but it was a round for Savage. Round 2, McClane fought back with hard solid hits and did a good job scrambling quickly after he got taken down to secure round 2. Round 3, both men hit a few counters and it was real close. Savage got a takedown in the final second but that didn't change the fight result and it ended in a draw. Savage did very well in avoiding clinch throughout the fight but just couldn't pull out a win as McClane negated the ground game of him as well. Winner: N/A(Draw) Jacob Obworth vs Sergeant Peppers Peppers gave Obworth one hell of a first round. Obworth has solid boxing but it was Peppers that put Obworth down to the ground in a killing mount position that took the crowd off their seats. Of course, Peppers didn't wait there like a pussy and just swarm in hard on Obworth. Obworth was a good ground fighter and found a way to survive though so it was a nice round but it was Peppers getting the 10 for sure. Round 2, Obworth stuffed the takedowns and delivered some huge shots of himself, pouring on the pressure like tsunami but Peppers fought back hard with his own tsunami. Obworth even threw a takedown in to try to secure that round but then all the judges gave different score. Round 3, Obworth landed another takedown to start the round but then he has no chance to deliver any offense on the ground before the standup. Still, Obworth showed his heart and tagged Peppers more than Peppers tagged him in the last round to get it done and forced a draw. Two draws in a card, what the heaven. Winner: N/A(Draw) Shogun Silva vs Ales Zhandunka Zhandunka tried his best but he was just outgunned by Silva for the entire fight. It was a pure striking battle and Silva was just too far over Zhandunka. Silva was simply dominating Zhandunka from the beginning to the end with his crisp technique and the superhuman agility. He was just crushing too much to handle and he mixed his strikes well to hit most of them. When Zhandunka was expecting a punch, Silva hit him with a leg kick; when Zhandunka wanted to move to the left with his hands high, a body kick caught him from the left. Zhandunka tried to strike back but Silva was just too fierce to be bothered by those strikes. Eventually, a huge right hand rocked Zhandunka and Silva pressed the pace, hitting an uppercut to drop Zhandunka down. Silva instantly followed with a barrage of strikes and it was all done. Winner: Shogun Silva(TKO:Strikes) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 AXF 81 Review http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Goliath764/JokerThePimp.jpg This report is brought to you by Joker The Pimp. Lachlan Anderson vs Desmond Miles Both men have the same game plan coming into the fight, utilizing their well-rounded skill set of striking and grappling as a whole. In such case, the one that was just better would easily be the winner and in this case, Anderson. Anderson was more aggressive and he definitely hit more than Miles. Miles's kicks were just not in the zone as he landed zero of them and the takedown didn't help him either. Both men tried a lot of takedowns but then takedown really wasn't a bad factor in this fight since it was 95% standup. Anderson did get a takedown though but he stood back up knowing that he was winning the standup and eventually put Miles out for the night with a vicious head kick. Winner: Lachlan Anderson(KO:Head Kick) Mick Foley vs Jeff Wood Foley might not be the best striker in the world especially his accuracy but he proved that aggression is important. Wood was hitting some good strikes but then he was mainly looking for opening. Foley didn't give a darn about opening and just poured in, almost finished Wood off in the first round but Wood's defensive style enabled him to survive. Sadly, survive didn't equal win, and Foley continued to pour on the offense throughout the fight, not hitting 50% of it but it was enough to force Wood to only defense and losing points. In round 3, Wood changed thing up and clinched up but he just wasn't able to overcome Foley's clinchwork and by that time he knew a L was coming his way. Winner: Mick Foley(UD) Xtreme Mma vs Babyfarts Mcgeezak Xtreme did okay for a while but once the Mcgeezak put on the clinch mode, things changed a freaking lot. Inside the clinch, Xtreme seemed clueless to what to do while Mcgeezaak didn't care and just poured on the offense. Punches, knees, elbows, Mcgeezak sent everything toward Xtreme and Xtreme has zero answer asides from crumbling down and wait for the referee to save him from the onslaught. Winner: Babyfarts Mcgeezak(TKO:Strikes) Thomas Kirshaw vs Konstantin Tszyu This was another pure striking battle and Tszyu seemed a little bit off the hook after eating a few shots of Kirshaw and Kirshaw just kept on coming. Kirshaw was indeed a fierce fighter when he has the advantage, throwing everything in his arsenal toward Tszyu and gained good result from the mixture of punches and kicks. It was not very long before Tszyu dropped down after a huge head kick landed for Kirshaw, allowing him to swarm in and get the TKO. Winner: Thomas Kirshaw(TKO:Head Kick) Matt Silva vs Jake Sully Silva once again proved that aggression was important in a fight, especially a pure striking fight. Sully was just too passive and his attempt to get the fight into the clinch just wasn't good enough to force the issue as Silva pushed him away 99% of the time and just kept on hitting him throughout the match. There's nothing much to criticize in this match asides from Sully's failing game plan. Winner: Matt Silva(UD) Joey Bolten vs Money Montell Bolten really shouldn't go back to the clinch again and again especially after he realized that his knees didn't work out. Still, he tried to get into the clinch again and again while Montell, for no reason, was breaking the clinch off again and again. Eventually, this came to the point that Montell was sick of the breaking and just tried to finish the fight inside the clinch. His dirty boxing provided him with a good uppercut and that put Bolten down and later, out. Winner: Money Montell(TKO:Strikes) Johnny Storm vs Caleb Reimer Man, Reimer really was one of the rare breed to be defensive and still poured on an offense when he has the chance. Utilizing his counter to the best he could, he hit Storm with many counter attacks, forcing Storm to think twice before going in(although Storm decided to just come in all the time anyway). Reimer used a lot of leg kicks in this fight, slowing Storm down so he could get the easy counter later on and it was clever seeing that this was a 5 rounds fight. There's also the occasional clinch and it was Reimer too, that did excellent job inside the clinch with his elbows and knees. Storm tried his best and got the judges on his side for some of the rounds but it was just not enough to defend his WW throne. Winner: Caleb Reimer(UD) Jozka Kruty vs Mickey Rodriguez It was a close fight but the standup proved to be too much when you cannot get your opponent into the clinch fast enough and not numerous enough. One thing I didn't really understand is why Kruty tried to clinch and got punished there and Rodriguez got the better of the clinch but prefer to break it. I don't really understand their decision but it was definitely mistakes. Mistake aside, Kruty's solid standup gave him the edge in a very close decision over Rodriguez. Winner: Jozka Kruty(UD) Elmer Montgomery vs Sho Kazuki This was a hard fought battle between the two of them. Kazuki utilized his kicks and punches bettre than Montgomery in my opinion but the straightforward approach of Montgomery was not too bad either. The battle was very close, with both of them hitting their own attacks and defending well against the others. Kazuki was more aggressive from the beginning but the precision of Montgomery gave him first round. Round 2, Kazuki gave Montgomery some hard cold kicks but then Montgomery hit a huge jab to the nose in the last minute to sway the judges a bit. Round 3 was Kazuki's playground though, since the kicks have disabled Montgomery enough that he was slow. Montgomery did some good countering in that round but Kazuki was the one dictating the pace. Final score, 29:29, 29:29 and 29:28 Montgomery and the huge jab on second round saved Montgomery for a possibly lose. Winner: N/A(Majority Draw) Tad Ghostal vs Heikko Saarinen A five round warfare between these two was enough to show that Ghostal was definitely better than Saarinen, at least for now. Saarinen tried his best to strike with Ghostal and actually avoiding enough of Ghostal's attacks but Ghostal's constant aggression and not feared of eating hits were just good enough to overcome Saarinen's striking in every round. Aside from that, Ghostal also took Saarinen down multiple times to work some ground and pound and that was also earning him some points. Saarinen found no way to finish Ghostal and has to take the decision lose at the end of the night. Winner: Tad Ghostal(UD) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 2, 2011 Report Share Posted November 2, 2011 AXF 82 Review http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Goliath764/JokerThePimp.jpg This report is brought to you by Joker The Pimp. Edmond Dantes vs Jeganathan Mondero The event was launched in a barrage of ground and pound as Mondero showed that he was just too darn good to be in the first fight of a card. After defending and avoiding punches from Dantes, Mondero found a good opening and took the fight to the ground. On the ground, Mondero played a very good position game and he was aggressive as well, hitting Dantes and keeping things busy so he could advance his position with higher chance of success and he did. Eventually getting into full mount and then just pounded the hell out of Dantes until the tap. Winner: Jeganathan Mondero(Sub:Strikes) Lucas Black vs Emer Dlouze Both men were excellent in this one and it was very close until the very end. The standup battle was definitely the most exciting moments of the fight while the ground game was not much fun. Still, Dlouze's clever use of takedowns allowed him to grind out the points on the scorecard even when he couldn't land any clean shot on Black on the ground. Black's defensive grappling was decent but his takedown defense was the very weakness. In the end, Dlouze's tenacity in chasing for takedown and his standup that help him to equal Black's impact on standup helped him to steal this one slightly with a 29:28, 29:28 and 28:28 decision. Winner: Emer Dlouze(Majority) Alberto Lopez vs Sheikh Hasina Wazed Wazed dominated most of the fight despite in a boring fashion by taking Lopez down and then applied low pressure on Lopez. Wazed focused a lot of the time on positioning than attacking on the ground and he did get some good position but Lopez eventually put himself back to safety with his own positioning skill. Lopez did good with his striking but just couldn't have enough time to hit Wazed until the end of round 2. The referee was bored of Wazed's style and stood them back up and Lopez took the chance to swarm in with attacks, hitting a huge high kick that put Wazed into dizzy mode. Lopez followed up with a body kick and then a jab opened up a huge combination that ended with an uppercut that put Wazed down and out. Huge comeback win for Lopez! Winner: Alberto Lopez(KO:Punches) Bip Bop vs Max Milson Milson's takedowns were solid and Bop was forced down to the ground eventually for every round but he survived easily with his solid counter-positioning and also good, solid ground strike. Milson's scoring source was takedowns only as he has not much of anything else. No clean strike on the ground, zero stand and bang and no good submission. Bop didn't do much in the first round but so was Milson. Second round, Bop hit a good solid counter punch that cut Milson but then Milson held his will and took Bop down later of the round. Well, it ended up not well for Milson as Bop advanced position like a snake again and claimed full mount in 60 seconds. Bop unleashed his fury with a very powerful hammerfist and that took the skin off Milson's forehead, forcing the doctor stoppage. Winner: Max Milson(TKO:Cut) Ivan Borisov vs Lorenzo Von Matterhorn Von Matterhorn has excellent takedown defense and it proved to be very useful in this fight. Borisov went for his strike and takedown mix and Von Matterhorn cut out the takedown part for him with excellent sprawl. The fight started with some clinch action but it didn't last long as Von Matterhorn knew he didn't have the edge there. Instead, he broke it up and started to strike. This time, he found out that he was the better man and just continued to stay there, defending every takedown attempt and eventually hit Borisov enough for him to fall down and out and the huge left hand did the job for Von Matterhorn, putting Borisov down for him to swarm in for the TKO. Winner: Lorenzo Von Matterhorn(TKO:Strikes) Dwayne Hicks vs Benton Styles It was a slugfest between both guys as they went out like two meteors clashing against each other in the middle of the universe...or in this case, middle of the cage. Both guys were hitting their opponent hard on the head and followed it up with some kicks as well. Styles utilized more punches and some leg kicks while Hicks tried to take Styles's gas tank out with some hard body kicks. The battle was intense all the time with Hicks getting slight advantage in the beginning thanks to the cut on Styles's forehead but it was still everyone's game. Well, until the point which Hicks hit a clean stiff jab that is. Hicks didn't hesitate after that jab, going all out with a huge left hook and connected perfectly to drop Styles down. Hicks quickly moved into the mount and just pounded the soul out of Styles for a TKO victory, giving Styles his first pro career loss. Winner: Dwayne Hicks(TKO:Strikes) Maniacal Styles vs Stuey Ungar Both men went to war directly from the beginning and both were cut by the first round. It might be exciting but the battle was pretty one-sided as Ungar was pretty much dominating Styles throughout the entire fight. Styles landed one kick once in a while but failed to do much else other than that. It was different for Ungar though as he was on the offensive throughout the entire time, be it inside the clinch or outside, he was going full offensive against the rather defensive Styles. Ungar's offense was good as he was cutting Styles down into a bloody monster but then Styles was able to hold for quite some time before the doctor has to call for the stoppage at round 3. By that time the cuts were just too much for Styles to continue despite his heart. Winner: Stuey Ungar(TKO:Cut) Flex Dynomite vs Guadeloupe Canal Canal was completely clueless in the striking battle as Dynomite was just too good defensively and just made Canal misses again and again. At the same time, Dynomite was spot on with every strike he threw as almost all of them were good hits. Some not clean as Canal defended them partially but some were right on the spot. After a minute, Dynomite put Canal down wit a huge head kick and then another one put the quickly-stood-back-up Canal down again. Canal didn't give up though, standing back up once again. Dynomite saw the head kick wasn't doing the job so he faked a body blow before planting a huge left hook right on the chin of Canal, dropping him face first on the mat to retain his LHW title with an awesome performance. Winner: Flex Dynomite(KO:Punch) Molly Greywar vs Decision Machine He might be Decision Machine but he definitely didn't fight to score points in this one. He came in strong and fast, looking to put one of the best in the Greywar family away with his striking and the trade started. Machine was using a lot of kicks in this one and Greywar defended a good amount of them but the pace was just too much for him to cover all over himself. Greywar fought back as well but his timing wasn't that good in this one. He hit some but not as many as Machine thanks to sheer aggression. At the end of round 1, Machine got the clinch and hit some hard punches there to make sure he get that round. Well, it didn't matter as he rocked Greywar with a huge uppercut in the early seconds of round 2 and followed it up with a wonderful overhand right that has "Greywar Killer" written all over it and that one dropped Greywar like a fallen tree. Machine then closed in to finish the fight with more strikes and he remained undefeated with a huge Greywar name under his resume. Winner: Decision Machine(TKO:Strikes) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 8, 2011 Report Share Posted November 8, 2011 AXF 83 Review http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Goliath764/JokerThePimp.jpg This report is brought to you by Joker The Pimp. Keith Keystone vs Charlisson Rousseff Keystone's attempt to get the fight to the ground wasn't working as expected and Rousseff was just on Keystone's face too much for himn to do much. He tried to fight back with strikes but his striking level just wasn't on par with Rousseff and he was outclassed easily there. Keystone was almost out in round 1 but with sheer will and even took Rousseff down later of that round but the time was not enough for him to do too much. Round 2, Rousseff kept on with the pressure and eventually put an end to his opponent with a huge uppercut and then more on the ground. Winner: Charlisson Rousseff(TKO:Strikes) Robin Banks vs Karel Gil Banks might not have a good record but he was definitely good and this was one good fight with both sides doing damage instead of an one-sided competition. Banks threw too much combination but then those attacks forced Gil to stay defensive. The defensiveness of Gil really didn't help him at all at the standup department since Banks was scoring points with aggression. The best part of this fight for Gil was definitely round 1 which he got full mount from a takedown. Banks held off the ground and pound and got full guard back as Gil failed an armbar and that was a huge wasted opporturnity for Gil. Banks constant takedowns and aggressiveness granted him round 2 though since he was just doing more than Gil there. Round 3, both men were pretty tired and the striking was a little bit boring. Overall, Banks did better with aggression and got a huge takedown to get that round too. Well, it was not a round-by-round decision but all judges gave it to Banks so no argument here. Winner: Robin Banks(UD) Mike Hunt vs Johnny Law This one started up with a good first round of pure striking. Well, Law did try a lot to take Hunt down but Hunt's excellent sprawling held off all the attempts and allowed him to sneak some shots to Law. Overall, a close round but I think the judges gave it to Hunt. Second round, Law finally got a takedown but he didn't expect things to turn bad. Before Law could do anything, Hunt performed a beautiful switch to full mount and just unleashed the fury on Law, going hardcore pounding all over him. Law tried to get a better position but Hunt didn't care and just pounded him out with killer blows over 3 minutes. Winner: Mike Hunt(TKO:Strikes) Barry Scott vs Oishi Yoshio Yoshio's heavy leg kicks strategy might work for a long match but when your opponent was seeking for the knockout, your leg kicks just didn't give him the needed threat to be careful with his strikes. After Scott knew about Yoshio's tendency of leg kicking, he decided to go all out and just bang Yoshio hard with his fists. Apparently, it worked very well as Yoshio was cut and later dropped down by a huge uppercut right after a nice body shot and this was all over just like that. Scott also did good in his post fight interview. Winner: Barry Scott(KO:Punch) Lostma Braincells vs Alec Dimanche This one has a lot of clinch action and some ground action as well. Braincells was the one that tried to get to another position as his striking just wasn't enough to handle Dimanche and Dimanche was basically kicking his ass out there. Braincells expected the clinch to work but Dimanche surprised him once again with solid dirty boxing and the takedown was the safest zone for Braincells in this one. Sadly, there wasn't enough time to do things on the ground as Dimanche has excellent control with his guard and forced the standup every time. In the middle of round 2, Braincells was just tired due to excessive takedown and clinch attempts and that gave Dimanche a good chance to hit him hard and put pressure toward him. Braincells tried to avoid the call of dead but Dimanche was too good, rocking him with a beautiful left hand and continued until a huge right dropped Braincells. Braincells bounced back up though and Dimanche gave him one last touch with an uppercut to end this one with ground strikes. Winner: Alec Dimanche(TKO:Strikes) Aitch Bubbles vs Bu Laia A three round stand and bang was definitely good for the fans and this match was all about that. I have to say that both men were pretty equal in their performance tonight and that made for an exciting match. Laia utilized a lot of leg kicks and landed many of those, trying to soften Bubbles up but then Bubbles was a man of steel and maintained good footwork until the end of this one. Accuracy-wise, Laia's leg kicks and body kicks were top notch and his head punches hit well. However, Bubbles packed more dynamite in his punches and his body shots definitely slowing Laia down as well. It was back and forth until the very end and Laia even threw takedowns into the mix as well, trying to impress the judges but sadly the judges gave it to Bubbles, Bubbles and a draw. Winner: Aitch Bubbles(Majority) Ronaldi Rolf vs Mickey Noonan Rolf tried many things but Noonan showed that he was the better MMA fighter among the two. There's no doubt that Noonan was winning the the standup battle but so was the clinch and ground aspect of this one. Round 1 was all Noonan with his excellent head movement and then hit back with punches and so on and Rolf got the takedown but didn't do much there. Round 2, Noonan showed Rolf that clinching up wasn't good either with excellent dirty boxing and a little display of muay thai plum(though he wasn't that good in that) and then put a dizzy Rolf down for a barrage of ground strikes to close the fight with excellence. Winner: Mickey Noonan(TKO:Strikes) Tony Starks vs Talafua Tolua Not only Starks got the better of the striking exchange in round 1, Starks also took Tolua down beautifully in round 1 and put on a lot of ground strikes to Tolua. A perfect round for Starks. Round 2, Toluao turned the table with a takedown of his own, only to be turned again by Starks with a nice sweep into mount and Starks easily put on the pressure with ground strikes to finish this fight. Hell, this was not a TKO, this was a freaking KO by ground and pound as Tolua was completely out cold after a postures up hammerfist. Two more and it was done. Winner: Tony Starks(KO:Strikes) John L Sullivan IV vs Kha Ri Sullian IV was definitely an undefeated beast inside the AXF cage and his return was so hyped that some fans didn't give Ri a chance against Sullivan IV but no, Ri once again showed that he was the shit and he was the champion with a dominating performance that granted Sullivan IV his first loss inside the AXF cage. Ri was very focus throughout the fight and avoided unnecessary shots as much as possible while hitting his shots with good accuracy throughout it. Sullivan IV was a little surprised by the striking of Ri and he was trying to adapt to it by constantly changing stance, rhythm, high and low and whatever he could but Ri always got to Sullivan IV's face without too much problem. Once Ri found a cut on Sullivan IV's forehead, he focused on it and slowly working on it to break Sullivan IV down step by step. Aside from the standup, Ri also initiated the clinch and actually got the better inside the clinch as well and Sullivan IV couldn't do too much about Ri's aggression and skill. This went to round 4 but eventually the cut was just too much for this fight to continue especially after that final blow of the three punch combo which made the cut really really bad and that's the end of the match by doctor stoppage. The bad news for Ri was that he came across a little too cocky in his post-fight interview. Winner: Kha Ri(TKO:Cut) Jp Greywar vs Pablo Soriano This was a full blown action-oriented clash, this was the much anticipated rematch between Greywar and Soriano and it didn't disappoint. Greywar has a more mixed game plan while Soriano's standup consisted mainly of head punch and leg kick. However, Soriano's timing was slightly better than Greywar tonight. In their previous fight, Greywar dominated the standup aspect and Soriano adjusted his striking tonight and it did good for him. Still, Greywar was still on par with Soriano overall. Greywar attempted a takedown to close round 1 and that was a good round for him but not great as it was close. Soriano came out stronger in round 2 and claimed that round with a high kick that cut Greywar on the face, the best strike of that round. Round 3, Greywar was very aggressive but the hard defense of Soriano proved to be effective and Soriano hit back with good accuracy to claim another round. Round 4, Greywar got a takedown but his ground and pound attempts were defended nicely by Soriano and most of them didn't go through the defense cleanly. Eventually, Soriano kicked Greywar and got back up to fight back but that round was definitely Greywar's for his performance. Sadly, last round was all about Soriano imposing himself with striking. Greywar tried his best to fight back but Soriano was just a tad better than him. All three judges gave it to Soriano and there you go, a sweet revenge for Pablo Soriano, the new BW champion of AXF. Winner: Pablo Soriano(UD) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 AXF 84 Review http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Goliath764/JokerThePimp.jpg This report is brought to you by Joker The Pimp. Lachlan Anderson vs Spider Machida We saw some positioning in the first round with clinch and takedown but the overall story of that round was Anderson having his way with Machida. Machida wanted to clinch but then he really didn't do much even after getting a clinch as Anderson forced him to break it with pull guard attempts. Anderson easily won the standup war with excellent mix of punches and kicks while Machida put too much effort into combinations that didn't hit most of the time. Round 2 was pure striking with Machida actually hitting some good one even with a weaker legs and gas tanks after Anderson's leg and body kicks in round 1. Eventually, the effect kicked in in round 3 as Anderson was easily dominating Machida in that round with excellent striking just like the previous two rounds and continued to add unpredictability with takedown attempts. An easy win for Anderson as all judges gave it 30:27. Winner: Lachlan Anderson(UD) Kronos Gianpopolos vs Sione Finau Gianpopolos couldn't win a fight outside the local QFC circuit and his fate continued tonight as Finau put on a very dominating performance against him. Finau easily controlled him with takedowns and also hit pretty much 90% of his attempts, a lot of leg kicks and some punches. Gianpopolos's face just didn't want to be inside the cage and the early cut was its complaint to Gianpopolos. Gianpopolos simply didn't have the defense to protect himself and the cut was opened up bad from Finau's ground strikes on mount and it was a very quick doctor stoppage. Winner: Kronos Gianpopolos(TKO:Cut) Jamie Greywar vs Mogul Khan Khan was rather hopeless in this one and the biggest chance he has was the guard on round 1, which he obtained by pulling Greywar down from clinch position. Sadly for him, he couldn't connect with a submission and ate some explosives from Greywar on the ground. He was saved by his excellent positioning though, not allowing Greywar to claim any good position. His downfall began on round 2 as he was badly rocked by Greywar inside the clinch. A five minutes of taking damage inside clinch, no one would stay the same going to round 3 after such punishment and Greywar found the clinch again in round 3 to seal the deal with excellent striking performance. Winner: Jamie Greywar(UD) Mick Foley vs Roland McGregor Foley was just too much for McGregor to handle in the standup department. McGregor was probably looking for the counter judging by his passiveness but it really didn't work well as Foley easily dropped him in the second minute of first round. Foley dived in for the finish but McGregor pulled guard in time to survive the finish and despite Foley's effort with ground and pound, Foley was able to hold on until the end of the round with excellent defense. He wanted to submit Foley but no opening was given there. Round 2, Foley hit a huge combination that rung the bell on both ears of McGregor for sure and this time, Foley claimed mount instantly. McGregor was too dizzy to do much but to eat more strikes of Foley until the referee had enough. If you want to be as good as Foley, get some Milwaukee's Best 159. Winner: Mick Foley(TKO:Strike) Casper Orion vs Ian Noonan Both men started up with attempts to get the fight to other position and Orion got the clinch locked in early after avoiding few strikes of Noonan. Orion tried to put Noonan down from clinch but Noonan's wrestling won the battle by fighting off the attempt and then tripped Orion to score his own takedown into half guard and that was awesome display of wrestling right there! Noonan didn't care too much about the position and just tried to finish the fight or score points with ground and pound and to be fair, he did land a good amount of them. However, Orion was also working on a submission, which Noonan fended off many but once Orion got one locked in thanks to the mispositioning of Noonan's neck, he cranked the nerve and blood out of it and that submission gave Orion a huge win from bottom and it was an impressive display of BJJ. Winner: Casper Orion(Sub:Guillotine) Kage Chiba vs Sheamus Noonan This was definitely the day of Noonan family as Sheamus Noonan put on a solid performance to grab the win. Well, it was more of a mistake on Chiba's part to try only one thing in a MMA fight. You never go 100% takedown because that is too predictable and Noonan easily defended them and got the clinch multiple times as it was his best part of arsenal in this fight. Inside the clinch, Chiba was trying to take Noonan down but all of them were fruitless attempts and only gave Noonan more opening to hit him with punches, elbows and the occasional knees. Chiba tried all sort of takedown techniques but in the end, he went down alone after eating a huge knee for supper. Noonan wanted to add an extra egg into the supper but decided it was enough. Good sportsmanship and good choice of finishing maneuver. Winner: Sheamus Noonan(TKO:Knee) Simplicio Simplorio da Simplicidade Simples vs Babyfarts Mcgeezak I will just call him Simples thanks to his long name. Simples was just...too simple to figure in the striking battle. He was obviously trying to counter but didn't really have the right tools to do that. Mcgeezak broke through his defense easily with punches and also locked in the clinch of death two times. Simples tried to fight out of it but Mcgeezak had it tight the second time and just hurt Simples with great elbows, adding some complexity to Simples's face in the form of a cut and continued to smash his way to a submission victory as Simples literally gave up in the middle of the elbow meal. Winner: Babyfarts Mcgeezak(Sub:Strikes) Money Montell vs Caleb Reimer It was a war between the cocktail of Montell against the kick-focused recipe of Reimer. Well, it turned out that Montell's layer of unpredictability granted him the advantage in this one. Still, he didn't land too many of his strikes but with the power he used on every of them plus his defense to prevent many clean strikes of Reimer, he was controlling the fight most of the time. Reimer's punches were very effective in this fight but he just didn't try many of them, no idea why but I guess he just decided to stick to his original game plan despite how bad it was. Montell did a bad move of clinching in round 2 as Reimer was the better man there and he adapted it to not go that way in the remaining rounds and that part of him gave him the win. Reimer really needs to learn to adapt to the fight. I have to say that Reimer did some good things in the final round though, a straight takedown into mount and he looked like he was able to comeback for a minute there but Montell make sure it didn't happen with excellent defense. This was not a highly-paced fight but it was good enough and Montell easily took it 49:46. Again, Milwaukee's Best 159 proved that it was a solid, champion level supplement as they were the sponsor of the new WW champion of AXF. Winner: Money Montell(UD) Jozka Kruty vs Arnaud Savage Kruty came out strong every round with ferocious striking and he looked like he could score a knockout in any moment but the threat was dissolved by Savage's takedown on many occasions and that was a good strategy. On the ground, Savage didn't get too much hits in and sometime he lost the position but he wasted the time of Kruty to hit him in the standup and by holding top position, he was winning points. Kruty tried his best to sprawl but Savage was just excellent, kicking Kruty and then went for takedown at the weirdest timing ever and despite Kruty's best barrier, he was forced to go down eventually after a while. Kruty showed that he could get a round if he could defend against all the takedowns like round 5 but a round of that was not enough to get the win. 49:46, Savage, user of the official partner of AXF, Australian Xtreme supplement. Winner: Arnaud Savage(UD) Sergeant Peppers vs Ales Zhandunka Peppers outstruck Zhandunka with ease in this one and also put on a takedown clinic that Zhandunka has no answer to. This might be 5 rounds but it was pretty one-sided. Zhandunka just didn't do enough or perhaps it was Peppers's pace that put him off his flow in this one. Peppers played a very fast pacing game and he was constantly popping Zhandunka with all sort of punches, kicks and takedowns. The most significant figure was the leg kicks of Peppers, which pretty much taken out the juice of Zhandunka and was part of the reason why Zhandunka couldn't get his own offense on. Zhandunka tried to clinch up throughout the fight but Peppers prevented them nicely and took Zhandunka down many times. Peppers didn't do much on the ground and the referee always asked him to get up but the impact of takedowns on scoreboard was huge. It also wasted the energy of Zhandunka as he was on bottom, taking the pressure and weight of Peppers. After the dominant 50:45 win, Peppers asked for a title shot to close out the event. Winner: Sergeant Peppers(UD) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjs2442 Posted November 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 AXF 85 Event Preview MAIN EVENT: 265 lbs Shogun Silva v Jacks Sole In this epic battle involving Sydney’s current ranked #1 HW vs the #2 HW in a clash to end all the talk and determine who truly is Sydney’s top HW fighter. AXF’s HW Champ Silva comes into the fight on a five fight win streak as he climbed his way to the top of what arguably could be considered Sydney’s most talented HW division to claim the title at AXF 75 and effectively began the wheels turning on what would be a very difficult decision for former Champ Jacob Obworth when he decided to call it a career. Shogun no doubt has some real power in his right and left hands as his 15 (T)KO’s will attest during his storied career. Will his 0-2 record during Super fights be his undoing or will he break with what has been his tradition and come out on top in this one? Silva is on a role and wants nothing more than to solidify his current status as #1 and silence the critics. Jacks Sole will certainly have a thing or two to say about this one mind you, riding his own very impressive 8 fight win streak which started on a cool spring evening at AXF 55 following what most would consider a very unimpressive and more to the point embarrassing 3 fight stint in Blitz where Jacks was on the verge of retirement. Following that win at AXF 55 Jacks was overcome with new found confidence and signed on to fight for an up and coming Org in Sydney, Brutal Deluxe where he knocked off all that were put in front of him ultimately winning his first crown at BDX-37 with an impressive first round TKO of then BDX Champ Alan Crump. That was just the beginning of Sole’s reign of terror as became a very sought after fighter taking part in Reach 50 in another brutal first round TKO win over the man known as “He Man” Jacks was content to continue his dominance with BDX until the day he got a call from his manager Louie, stating he had been called out by AXF’s new Champ Shogun Silva which put the wheels in motion to set up the Main Event in what many pendants are calling Sydney’s most amazing Event in history and put to rest all the bickering involved in deciding who truly is Sydney’s top dog!! CO-MAIN EVENT: 205lbs Flex Dynomite v Sam Fox Very similar to Silva, training partner Flex Dynomite is riding a 5 fight win streak with him reaching top spot in AXF’s LHW Division at AXF 76 against former Champ Mickey Rodriguez by way of Unanimous Decision. Dynomite followed that win up with an even more brutal 1st round KO of Guadeloupe Canal at AXF 82 and he will look to continue that trend. Flex possesses overwhelming KO power ending just under 70% of his fights with Knockouts but at the same time he has the cardio to go the distance which makes him even more dangerous. Flex will undoubtedly look to continue his climb in the Sydney rankings and improve upon his current #3 spot in the Sydney LHW rankings! To be able to achieve those goals Dynomite will be facing off against newly resigned LHW fighter Sam Fox. This will be Sam’s second AXF appearance however this time he is planning on not only staying but also having the gold placed around his waist for the 3rd time in his career. Fox failed in his first attempt all the way back at AXF 41 against legend John L Sullivan. AXF Management knew going in at that time that Sam was in town for a short stay however that has all changed and he is here to stay along with a chip on his shoulder. After that fight he vowed one day he would return to AXF to right what went wrong that faithful night and at AXF 85 this could become a reality. Fox displays unquestionable KO Power, as all 12 of his wins will attest, he is there to do one thing and one thing only, and that is to knock his opponent out!! With Fox only ever seeing the 3rd round once in a Unanimous defeat, will he have the ability to match up against Dynomites experience going the distance? One thing is for sure, I don’t believe this one will last long enough for us to find that out!! Fight 3: 155 lbs Luke Fluke v Elmer Montgomery Former AXF LW Champ Luke Fluke makes his return to AXF following a brief stint with Hilo’s Mega Org Blitz. Luke possess an all around arsenal which includes a complete stand up game of KO powered punches, a decent kicking attack and a clinch game that many fear. 10 of his 21 career fights have ended in his favor by way of (T)KO’s but he has also shown an ability to go the distance wining his other 6 battles by way of the judge’s scorecard. Luke is no doubt returning to claim gold once again and Elmer will not only be his first test, but more importantly a major obstacle in achieving top status with AXF for a second time in the LW Division. Montgomery returned to Sydney for the first time in well over a year at AXF 81 to ,like his opponent Fluke, relive the great success he enjoyed early in his career in Sydney based Organizations like The Syndicate, DEC & SEC before taking his show on the road to Hilo followed by a one fight stop in Las Vegas. Elmer has shown in his career that he possesses nothing short of explosive standup abilities knocking out 17 of his 25 opponents with most of those coming in the first round of the fight. Like the previous 2 matches, this one is sure to explode as these two warriors look to garner KO of the Night honors. Fight 4: 185 lbs John McClane v Lorenzo Von Matterhorn Can everyone see the growing trend in this event yet? John McClane and his 14 (T)KO’s looks to find his KO Power which led him to gold with former Sydney Org The Fallout late in 2010. McClane’s last KO came in back in early 2011 and I am sure he wants to find that form again. AXF 80 saw McClane battle veteran Arnaud Savage to a draw when he dominated with his fists only to see himself chopped at the legs and taken down enough to allow Savage to earn the draw. This fight will be a different story as both combatants will be looking for that one good night punch. Surely Von Matterhorn will have something to say in return mind you as his 12 KO’s show that he too possesses the ability to end the fight at any moment. AXF 78 saw Lorenzo make his much talked about debut with Sydney’s top Org in a matchup billed as the battle of 2 former training partners as he was stopped handily by John L Sullivan IV. However at AXF 82 Lorenzo made amends with a brutal KO of Ivan Borisov late in the first round setting up this battle of 2 veteran knock out specialists. Lorenzo is looking to regain the past glory that saw him become the SFC Middle Weight Champ prior to losing that title at SFC’s final event late in July. Fight 5: 155 lbs Alberto Lopez v Benton Styles The final fight of our main card is, yes, you guessed it, another matchup with 2 more Knock Out specialists doing battle. Bantamweight warrior Lopez moves up to Featherweight for the second time in his AXF career. His 8 (T)KO’s surely will be a sign of he wants to see this fight take place standing and at a distance and nowhere near the clinch or on the ground to maximize his chances of coming out on top! That may prove a daunting task given the pedigree and abilities of his opponent Styles who is in his second go round with AXF. In his return following a brief yet very successful stay with BDX prior to their management team deciding to drop the Featherweight Division, Benton tasted defeat for the very first time when he ran head on into surging veteran Dwayne Hicks. Styles is no doubt motivated more than ever to show the fans that loss was an anomaly and he rightfully belongs at the top of AXF’s 145 lbs division and in the middle of the title picture. Preliminary Matchups: Fight 6: 185 lbs Antonio Alivero v Chuck Fuck Tito Fight 7: 155 lbs Dexter Redshaw v Konstantin Tszyu Fight 8: 265 lbs Solomon Ares v Ken Banners Fight 9: 205 lbs Hank Reardon v Mahut Uno Fight 10: 265+ lbs Xtreme MMA v Te Mana Lumotuffio And there you have it, the main card easily posses a potential KO of the Night winner in each battle and will easily earn AXF their highest event rating to date. Make sure you don’t miss this one as 18,500 screaming fans will remember and be talking about this epic card for years to come!! AXF 85 will certainly go down in not only the AXF record books but more importantly the all time Sydney Event records. Anything is possible as Owner Louie DePalma puts on his most memorable show and hopes to eclipse such records as highest event rating, most ticket revenue and become only the second matchmaker to fill the Sydney Superdome to capacity following in the footsteps of Sydney legend Petro Farantino!! Can’t wait to see you all in attendance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 28, 2011 Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 AXF 85 Review http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Goliath764/JokerThePimp.jpg This report is brought to you by Joker The Pimp. Xtreme Mma vs Te Mana Lumotuffio The takedown helped Lumotuffio to avoid the striking of Xtreme but Xtreme's underrated ground game proved to be more than enough to punish Lumotuffio down there. Lumotuffio didn't really attack from half guard and once Xtreme has a chance to do so, he executed a beautiful switch to take the back of Lumotuffio. Xtreme didn't wait to punish Lumotuffio with ground and pound from behind and those shots to the head and then to the body forced the referee to stop it as Lumotuffio was giving up. Winner: Xtreme Mma(TKO:Strikes) Hank Reardon vs Mahut Uno Reardon has the will of a fighter but his skill was just not there yet, at least not on par with Uno for now. Reardon fought his heart out but Uno was constantly getting the better of every exchange in the striking, even knocking down Reardon in round 1 with a huge jab-cross combo to secure the ground position. Uno tried a lot of submission attempts but nothing landed. Still, Uno proved that he was more than Reardon both on the standup and the ground with excellent takedown plus control in round 2. Another knockdown happened in round 2 as well but the bell saved Reardon. Round 3, Reardon has not much of energy left and Uno closed the fight with a huge head kick. Winner: Mahut Uno(KO:Head Kick) Solomon Ares vs Ken Banners Ares did an excellent job closing the distance and forced the fight to stay in the clinch. Either that or down on the ground, which he has solid advantage. His positional control was one huge factor as he was able to keep out of Banners's striking. Banner was not bad inside the clinch though, fighting back with solid dirty boxing and the occassional elbows of his own. However, he has no answer when Ares takes him down to the ground for some ground and pound. This was very clear in round 2 as the only thing Banners wanted to do was get out of the ground. Sadly for him, he couldn't do just that and one time the referee stood them up he was brought down again by Ares. A whole round of ground strikes and Banners was swarmed by elbows by the end of the round. He tried to cover but he was out before he could and there you go, a huge elbow barrage finish from half guard. Winner: Solomon Ares(KO:Strikes) Antonio Alivero vs Chuck Fuck Tito CFT gave Alivero no chance to do things. Well, not really that actually since Alivero was attacking as well but then Alivero wasn't as good as CFT in slugging. CFT hit some good shots in the slugging process and eventually cracked Alivero with a huge right hand that put Alivero backward. CFT proceeded to seal the deal with another punch and that was a quick 10 second knockout. Winner: Chuck Fuck Tito(KO:Punch) Dexter Redshaw vs Konstantin Tszyu This was a battle between two guys of similar level. Redshaw's plan was to drag the fight to the ground while Tszyu preferred the standup battle. Of course, Tszyu did landed a few takedowns in clinch but ultimately his goal was to stay standing and hit Redshaw hard with his punches and leg kicks. Redshaw really wasn't that huge of a striker and his only mean of striking was kicks. This was a pretty busy fight overall with both men changing positions multiple time every round. Tszyu tried his best to stand up in round 2, which allowed him to be productive with his striking but then he lost the energy to do much in round 3, which gave the score back to Redshaw since he was able to control Tszyu fully on the ground. Two clear rounds and the judges were not on the same page for round 1, which was indeed confusing enough with the 50:50 exchange among two fighters. In the end, it was 29:29, 29:29 and 29:28 Tszyu and I am foreseeing a rematch in the future. Winner: N/A(Majority Draw) Alberto Lopez vs Benton Styles It was a back and forth exchange from the beginning but Lopez's excellent striking defense and his accuracy gave him the edge through a prolonged exchange. Styles was as durable as a brick though, eating many punches but never go down. After two minutes of trying, Lopez changed his strategy and pulled guard. Not a good decision, I would prefer a takedown but you cannot argue with the result. Lopez landed a nice sweep and put Styles away with a kimura. A great example of "if you cannot knock him out, submit him". Winner: Alberto Lopez(Sub:Kimura) John McClane vs Lorenzo Von Matterhorn Round 1 was a lot of clinch and a little of standup. One problem of McClane was that he kept on throwing body punches when they weren't landing enough. Von Matterhorn has an easy time with his kicks and punches though as they were going through the target most of the time. Still, McClane was clever to get the fight into the clinch after knowing that he was winning there. Round 2, both men battled hard for a knockout shot and it was pretty back and forth until the end of the round. No one was expecting something huge to happen since it was almost the end of the round and came out of nowhere, Von Matterhorn landed a huge uppercut after a nice crouch that put McClane down. Von Matterhorn wanted to follow up with more and it forced the referee to stop the fight right there. Winner: Lorenzo Von Matterhorn(TKO:Strikes) Luke Fluke vs Elmer Montgomery It was a pure striking battle and Montgomery was clearly outclassed by Fluke and he has no second option but to keep fighting on until a lucky punch or something to happen. Sadly for him, miracle doesn't happen often enough. Fluke played a solid striking game and when he found a chance to finish it, he went for it, hitting a huge right hand from heaven and Fluke was forced face first to the ground by the impact. Fluke quickly got the back mount and ended the fight with vicious ground and pound. Winner: Luke Fluke(TKO:Strikes) Flex Dynomite vs Sam Fox It was a huge fight for both men and even though the result wasn't the closest one, it was fun. Both men weren't afraid of the contact and that made for a huge striking battle. Fox tried his best to mix his attacks up, going for every body part available with a slight focus on head punches but even then, Dynomite was able to defend a good amount of it. On the other hand, Dynomite was focusing on two things: head punch and leg kick and he sure landed a huge amount of them due to better timing and execution. He also hit a lot of body kicks and body punches that weaken Fox bit by bit and on the long run, allowed him an easier battle. The battle inside the clinch was fairly one-sided, with Dynomite dictating the overall outcome inside it. A solid performance by Dynomite and he stayed the king of LHW division. Winner: Flex Dynomite(UD) Shogun Silva vs Jacks Sole No one would ever expect Silva to fight a safe battle because he was always the one who try to finish his opponent. Sole tried to slow the pace down but then the sheer aggression of Silva forced him to fight fire with fire or lose the battle by merely being a punching bag. Silva's way of forcing his opponent to fight back or lose the round was excellent and as he forced his opponent to attack, he was given more chances and more holes for his own attacks to slip in. Sole fought back hard but Silva was just that darn good, hitting just too many times that Sole was stunned by the pain all around his body. Once Silva got a combo in, he went for the kill with a huge overhand right and it was spot on, putting Sole down and him on top of Sole for the finishing strikes. Winner: Shogun Silva(TKO:Strikes) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 AXF 86 Review http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Goliath764/JokerThePimp.jpg This report is brought to you by Joker The Pimp. Heinz Volker vs Johnny Law Law did his very best in mixing striking to try to secure a takedown but Volker was just too much for Law in the standup and if you add his good sprawl into the formula, Law really didn't have much else to offer. Volker easily connect with strikes after strikes, punishing Law for a few minutes continuously. Law tried to hold on, he was cut, he was rocked and in the end, a heavy head kick took the last piece of will and he dropped down to the ground. The referee quickly put an end to the fight with a tackle on Volker. Winner: Heinz Volker(TKO:Head Kick) Thiago Suzuki vs Jake Sully This was all in all a very well-rounded fight. Sully was definitely getting the better of the standup exchange with his excellent positioning, footwork and technique. Suzuki's punches just couldn't get to his target while Sully was having a better success in his own punches, hitting Suzuki for a good amount of time. Still, Suzuki has another solution in his hand which would be his ground game. His striking didn't land much but it was enough to confuse Sully enough to secure a takedown of his own in the middle of a round. Of course, Sully did answer with his own takedown in round 2 just so he could get the top position. That clever approach won him round 2 but sadly he was down on the other two rounds as Suzuki was having the better starting position on the ground in that two rounds. Both men was fairly good in their ground game though and the result was a very exciting exchange of strikes, positioning and submission attempts. I don't like the judging of Summer Carpenter though, giving Sully all three rounds 10:9 was not a fair score at all. The other two judges gave 29:28 to Suzuki for the split decision. Winner: Thiago Suzuki(Split) Johnny Davis vs Sheikh Hasina Wazed Davis was just the better man that night and no argument could be done to put Wazed over Davis. It was thoroughly Davis all the time. It wasn't the fastest fight of the night as both fighters were playing it safe. Round 1, Davis thoroughly controlled Wazed while putting some ground and pound into the skull of Wazed. It hurt but the slow-paced action allowed Wazed to survive. Round 2, Davis gave Wazed headache through striking but then Wazed was still unphased. Wazed tried to fight back time by time but his attempts weren't landing too much. Round 3, Wazed finally got a takedown of his own but his happiness was short-lived as Davis landed a nice switch to claim mount position, which he stayed and finished the fight through epic face smashing. Winner: Johnny Davis(TKO:Strikes) Hajime Bucket vs Charles Manson Bucket was giving his opponent a very rough time from the beginning, hitting Manson hard with punches all the time before going for a takedown. Manson fought back with excellent kicking but his sprawl was not good enough to defend Bucket's takedown attempts most of the time but then Manson has excellent guard and defensive grappling that allowed him to take only a minimal damage on the ground before he utilized his excellent scrambling ability to stand back up. Bucket took Manson down multiple times and Manson got back up almost every time but then Manson's offense was just too little to turn the tide of the fight, 30-27 no doubt to Bucket. Winner: Hajime Bucket(UD) Joey Bolten vs Ronaldi Rolf This was pretty much clinch 101 by Rolf. Bolten tried to hit Rolf in the standup position but it didn't take long for Rolf to secure the clinch position. Not even the kicks of Bolten could control the range and speed of Rolf closing into his prey. Inside the clinch, Bolten used only one weapon which would be his knee while Rolf was hitting with every possible weapon - punch, elbow and knee - and he won the battle with his clinch experience plus technique. Bolten tried to pull guard but he was eating punches on the ground after he did that and that was not a good option at all. Well, with most of the time spending in clinch, Rolf won this easily with a solid 30:27. Winner: Ronaldi Rolf(UD) Doctor Ball vs Guadeloupe Canal It only took one mistake from Ball for Canal to take over the match and that mistake was the clinch. Ball clinched up, only to find himself getting punished by the better clincher. Canal broke the clinch later though after he believed that Ball was in bad shape and put Ball down with a huge uppercut. Ball was almost out at that point but the fight continued on the ground. Canal didn't waste too much time, advancing into half guard and just hit Ball with massive elbows for the stoppage to happen just half a minute later. Easy peasy for Canal. Winner: Guadeloupe Canal(TKO:Strikes) Sho Kazuki vs Barry Scott Kazuki knew that Scott was going for takedowns and he planned his move with a much safer approach. However, it didn't work as planned just like every other MMA match. Scott mixed some good punches in and got a quick takedown in the first minute and directly into full mount. Surprisingly, Scott's punches couldn't get through Kazuki's defensive even on mount. Kazuki played defensively and found a chance to get back to full guard later. Eventually, the referee asked them to get up but it was shortly before the bell. Round 2, Scott landed a takedown and got to the mount once again later on. It's the same story again though as Kazuki's defense was just very impressive but then he was getting more and more tired. Scott was cleverly wasting Kazuki's energy by holding the mount position and once Kazuki wasn't defending properly anymore, he started to pour in the offense and this worked very well, forcing Kazuki to buckle up and the referee to stop the fight a moment later. Winner: Barry Scott(TKO:Strikes) Jack Anderson vs Stuey Ungar In the standup battle, Ungar proved tht he was aggressive but with enough technique to back it up. Anderson did fight back well but judging from the amount of connected strikes, Ungar was winning the standup battle. I love Anderson's kicks though but low kicks just wasn't that damaging unless you land many of those and in this case, no. Ungar was always looking for the clinch and when he secured it, he just stayed there and hit Anderson hard with knees all over the body and head. Anderson shouldn't try to clinch up again after knowing that his dirty boxing wasn't good enough to battle against Ungar's muay thai plum but he kept on repeating the mistake, giving Ungar more and more opportunities to do damage. By the time this fight ended, both men were bleeding but Anderson's cut was so much worst as those knees were shaving his skin off. A bloody battle, a good battle and Ungar came out with a 30:27 decision win. Winner: Stuey Ungar(UD) Bip Bop vs Maniacal Styles Styles put too much effort into head kicks and not something else and that was pretty predictable. Once Bop knew the rhythm of his opponent, he started to open up with a some good old head punches of his own. Well, one thing he didn't think of though, was that Styles was named "Maniacal" for a reason and that reason is he loves to take hit. Styles took some hard hit on his head but shrugged it off and continued with his head kick that surprised Bop and pretty much the crowd. It was a beautiful head kick, landing right on the temple of Bop and Bop crumbled down. Styles followed up with some easy shots and this was done for and with such strong performance, Styles asked for a title shot. Was it his time? It's for Louie DePalma to decide. Winner: Maniacal Styles(TKO:Kick & Punches) Tad Ghostal vs Dwayne Hicks The main event was a rematch between Ghostal and Hicks as they previously met on AXF 72, with Ghostal coming out of it as the better man. Many fans were looking for a surprise for this one and they were probably disappointed by not-so-surprised ending. Still, the fight was good so let's focus on that part and why Ghostal was the better man. In the standing battle, both men hit a fair share of their attacks. Hicks landed a lot of head punches and a salad mix of other strikes while Ghostal was in love with the punches and leg kick combo. It was everyone's game but I would give a slight edge to Ghostal. The biggest factor of Ghostal's win was his ground game. Yes, Hicks was the better wrestler and his takedowns were more effective. However, he just couldn't get the space to work his ground and pound thanks to Ghostal's good control from bottom and excellent counter-positioning skill. Ghostal's positioning was just huge in this fight, forcing Hicks out of his comfort zone and allowing himself to stay control of the position. Ghostal didn't hit too much and the referee was constantly standing them out thanks to their passive ground game but you couldn't deny that his control was earning him points. Hicks couldn't really get a finish and in the end, points mattered. All judges gave it 49:46 to Ghostal. Hicks won a round this time but it wasn't enough to grab the title. Good luck in improving enough to get another two rounds next time, Hicks. For now, the champion remains. Winner: Tad Ghostal(UD) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 AXF 87 Review http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Goliath764/JokerThePimp.jpg This report is brought to you by Joker The Pimp. Robin Banks vs Karel Gil The fight started with a very boring first round that focused more on ground control and failed submission attempt than anything else. Since it was just so hard to figure this out, all judges gave this round 10:10 in the end. Round 2, Gil took Banks down again to force his way on the ground. This time, he was doing better than first round but still didn't really land that much of anything. Still, control won the round for him. Round 3, Banks realized that he wasn't going to do good just striking with Gil because one takedown of Gil would screw him up. So, he took Gil down and went for a control style as well. It was boring enough for the referee to stand them up twice but Banks went for takedown again and again to acquire the top position and held that round. 10:10 and 10:9 each, it was no doubt, a draw. Winner: N/A(Draw) Juan Marcelo Flores vs Nobuhiro Nakamura Nakamura secured a good clinch with a fast rush and it was his world by then. His clinch skill was just excellent and Flores just couldn't do anything other than eating his supper that made up of punches. Flores tried to hold on but with such excellent clinchwork, Nakamura was controlling him like a toy and just smashed him again and again until he went down after a sick left hand. Nakamura was brought down into guard but then his excellent groundwork allowed him to claim an instant mount and he wasted no time landing more strikes and Flores was forced to tap. Winner: Nobuhiro Nakamura(Sub:Strikes) Mike Hunt vs Lucas Black Black definitely has the chance to stand against Hunt but his problem was his lack of takedown defense against the mix of Hunt. Hunt just possessed more weapon than Black and when Black couldn't finish the fight quick, Hunt was able to force the fight to the ground after mixing a lot of strikings to confuse and force Black to care about the striking. That was a great strategy for Hunt as Black was nothing on the ground, only defending while Hunt easily controlled him and slid some ground strikes in time to time. It was pretty much the same thing every round, strikes, takedowns, control and the winner was no doubt, Mike Hunt. Winner: Mike Hunt(UD) Thomas Kirshaw vs Bu Laia Wow, this was pretty close. Both fighters were excellent strikers and that made up for a very intense standup battle. Of course, as usual Laia tried to impose his takedown into the fight and he did actually but then Kirshaw was a slippery customer on the bottom. Despite that Kirshaw was merely defending on the ground but he was able to stop the offense good enough for the standup to occur. In the striking exchange, it was back and forth but then Kirshaw was able to come on top on two rounds by just being slightly better than Laia and that was enough to top the scorecard. Winner: Thomas Kirshaw(UD) Shane Carwin vs Ales Zhandunka This was a pretty violence fight with both men doing some good striking to start the fight. It was definitely a close exchange of two boxers with Carwin being the more aggressive but didn't really land enough of his shots to justify his efficiency though. Zhandunka clinched up later and that was a huge mistake on his part. He clearly regretted it after eating the dirty boxing of Carwin. Hell, Carwin even brought some muay thai import inside the clinch, kneeing and elbowing Zhandunka hard until the end of round 1. Round 2, Carwin got a huge big right hand in and that put Zhandunka down but not out. Zhandunka recovered but then he just wasn't enough withstand the incoming attacks and once a clean right touched him, he tried to clinch, only to go right into Carwin knee for the good night pill. Carwin wanted a title shot in the post-fight interview but I think he needs one or two more wins before that could happen. Winner: Shane Carwin(TKO:Punch & Knee) Jeganathan Mondero vs Talafua Toluao Toluao implied a good game plan in my opinion, playing the leg kicks to slow Mondero down but before he could really do enough damage on the legs, Mondero had put him down into half guard. Well, it was Mondero's world on the ground, clearly outmatching Toluao and landed a decent amount of his ground and pound. Next round, Toluao did his best to strike but his shots just weren't landing asides from the leg kicks. Eventually, Mondero clinched up but Toluao did a surprise move to take Mondero down. A huge mistake as Mondero quickly swept and gained mount instantly and that was the end as it's Mondero rain time. Winner: Jeganathan Mondero(TKO:Strikes) Matt Silva vs John L Sullivan IV Sullivan IV's recent performance wasn't very good but still, he was just on another level when compare to Silva that night and Silva couldn't do much to Sullivan IV. Sullivan IV dictated the pace of the striking battle and easily outstruck Silva by a pretty huge margin. Silva could only box and that just wasn't enough to bother Sullivan IV that much and Sullivan IV did some good damages in return with his muay thai and boxing mix. Silva did try to get the fight to the ground but it was no go. After a dominating first round, Sullivan IV started round 2 with a huge head kick knockdown of Silva. Silva pulled himself back up but couldn't survive more than 30 seconds as Sullivan IV dropped him again with a straight right before finishing it on the mount. Winner: John L Sullivan IV(TKO:Punches) Aitch Bubbles vs Jp Greywar With the LW belt and their personal grudge on the line, this was no doubt a furious battle. After losing twice to Greywar, Bubbles really needs a win but then his wish was not easy at all. Bubbles imposed his will with a lot of clinching while Greywar was all over him in the standup. In my opinion, Bubbles really should try to strike more instead of going for the clinch so often as it was just too predictable most of the time. Still, he was able to secure the clinch multiple times despite eating a lot of attacks from Greywar that includes pretty much everything from kicks to punches. Inside the clinch though, Bubbles was very aggressive, trying to finish the fight with dirty boxing but it was easier to say than done, especially to someone as capable as Greywar. Greywar fought back inside clinch but his effort was shoved off easily most of the time by the better clinchwork of Bubbles. To counter the clinch, Greywar did try to go for takedowns but merely landing one of it and didn't do much on the ground. Most of the rounds were close but apparently Summer Carpenter(judge) has different opinion and gave Jp Greywar 50:45. The other two gave 48:48 though so it ended in a draw and this draw was very lucky to Bubbles in my opinion but then his weird strategy at least forced a draw. I would probably give Greywar 48:47 personally. Winner: N/A(Majority Draw) Money Montell vs Caleb Reimer Both men has the same mind for the night and that was going for the clinch. With both men loving the clinch, it wasn't hard to lock themselves up into it. Of course, Reimer did try to break the clinch occasionally since he was better in the standup(at least from the short amount of exchange) but then he was pulled back into clinch all the time. Reimer's best attack inside the clinch was his elbow but then Montell's steel skin was uncuttable and Montell was just relentless with his dirty boxing inside the clinch, enabling him to outpoint Reimer and eventually got the win in round 2 by sending Reimer down with a huge elbow of his own. Reimer was just too hurt to do much but to drop down and let Montell hit some bonus shots before the referee do his job and there we have a new WW champion. Winner: Money Montell(TKO:Strikes) Molly Greywar vs Tony Starks Both men were trying to figure out where this fight would go and Starks got a huge takedown early to dictate the fight. Greywar wasn't a newcomer on the ground though and it was a gruesome battle for Starks. Both men were trying their best to defend and get to the top position or to prevent their opponent from getting there. It turned out that Greywar reversed the position early and played a pretty safe route on top, hitting ground strikes occasionally while focusing more on control. They were stood up and they trade for a bit before the bell. Round 2, Starks got another takedown in and this time he knew to control and maintain top position. Greywar worked his way back to full guard though and that was a very safe position for him and eventually got another sweep that him on top. Surprise though, Starks was ready for it and locked his legs before spinning back to top and in mount directly. Before Greywar could react to the sudden switch, Starks has already began his ground and pound and since he knew there's not much time left, he put some extra horsepower into the punches, forcing Greywar to breakdown and tapped to become the new SHW champion. Forcing a champion to tap, how sweet was that. Winner: Tony Starks(Sub:Strikes) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 AXF 89 Review http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Goliath764/JokerThePimp.jpg This report is brought to you by Joker The Pimp. Sorry for the lack of appearance but I am back after some trouble of my own. Christmas is always busy even for the Joker since I have so many things to do. What things? Don't ask or you are in trouble, tee hee! Joe Foe vs John The Butcher The opener was a pretty rough battle for both fighters. Apparently, John was able to keep the fight standing and easily won round 1 with excellent striking of his own, only eating a few leg kicks of Foe in the process but then he wasn't able to do the same in round 2, getting taken down again and again by Foe. However, Foe was more of a lay and prayer and that didn't appeal to the referee, forcing a few standups and giving John the chance to slip some strikes in. Not an easy round to score but the two judges gave John 10:9 over one 10:9 of Foe. Last round, John was just too tired to do much but to get taken down again and again. Still, he showed good defense to prevent a finish to get a 29:28, 29:28 and 28:29 split decision. Winner: John The Butcher(Split) Konstantin Tszyu vs Oishi Yoshio Yoshio's takedowns were definitely effective in this one and he appeared to be aggressive on the ground as well when he has the chance. It was pretty hard to be aggressive yet not too much that you would get countered and Yoshio has the right amount of aggressiveness in his hands. Tszyu didn't really do much on the ground but his defense was solid enough to survive the slaughtering first round. Round 2, Tszyu fought back with his own striking but then Yoshio was able to defend much of it and landed some of his own as well. It was a 50:50 striking and it ended with another takedown of Yoshio and this time he got to mount and quickly got an arm after that, locking a telegraph armbar but he got it anyway as Tszyu was forced to tap. Winner: Oishi Yoshio(Sub:Armbar) Jack Anderson vs Zach Fair The striking battle came out fairly one sided from the beginning and Fair started to lose momentum ever since and he was missing more and more of his attacks while Anderson was just eating his opponent alive through punches and leg kick. Fair did hit a good left hand to cut Anderson but that seemed to only trigger Anderson's inner strength than weaken him and it was not good for him. Anderson later got the clinch and hit some hard body shots to soften Fair's stamina up before breaking it for a knockdown jab, cutting Fair in the process. Fair stood up only to eat a hook out of nowhere that put him down and out for the night. Winner: Jack Anderson(KO:Punch) Elmer Montgomery vs Dexter Redshaw Redshaw got a quick clinch takedown but then he gave up his position with an omoplata, allowing Montgomery to stand back up. After that, Montgomery was pretty much the man in action, hitting Redshaw with excellent punches and Redshaw has no solution at all as his other takedowns were all failing. Not even the corner could him help with that as he came up shooting for takedown and failing again and again in round 2, Montgomery took every chance and hit Redshaw real hard. Redshaw fought back with some kicks but his effort was not paying off. Montgomery found a head kick later that put Redshaw on instinct mode, grabbing the leg but Montgomery hit him hard, forced him down and just rained down assaults until the end of it. Winner: Elmer Montgomery(TKO:Kick & Punches) Chuck Fuck Tito vs Kyle Mortis This was a no nonsense, brutal striking battle. Well, It was CFT's choice but Mortis was forced to fight the striking fight because he just couldn't bring CFT down to the ground, at all. Both men utilized a lot of punches and leg kicks and for CFT, a lot of combination that missed as Mortis showed good defense against a bunches of punches. Mortis was definitely looking for takedowns, using only quick strikes most of the time to just try to score points while CFT has a different mindset. Every strike he threw was filled with fire, aiming for nothing but the utter destruction of his opponent. Indeed, they hurt like hell but he just couldn't get many of them in at a time, allowing Mortis to recover and Mortis even put him in danger in round 2 with a beautiful straight right. Overall, they fought their asses out but they were just equal in this one so it's a draw. Winner: N/A(Draw) Silver Boo vs Alec Dimanche This was a pure boxing match and it was pretty good, with both fighters already bloodied in round 1. The blood definitely has effect on their accuracy but they didn't give a damn as they gave the crowd a good scrap. Boo didn't hit as much as Dimanche but he kept fight on. Dimanche wanted to clinch in a few occasions but seeing that he was winning the standup battle, he broke it and continued to unleash hell with his fists. The head shots of Dimanche were pretty much spot on, hitting over half of them and Boo was just getting weaker and weaker as the fight went on. Dimanche was starting to hit Boo harder after he knew that Boo was tired and shattered Boo's standing energy with a huge overhand right that marked the end of the match. Boo tried drag the time and recover but Dimanche didn't give him the chance to do that, overwhelming him with vicious blows, forcing Boo to try and strike back to buy time. Dimanche found a hole though, hitting a counter combination that put Boo down for a second and Boo really should just stay down there because once he bounced back up he got hit with another huge overhand right and he was down for a bunch of punches on the ground before the referee pushed Dimanche away. Winner: Alec Dimanche(TKO:Strikes) Igor Addams vs Babyfarts Mcgeezak Addams pretty much dominated Mcgeezak in a fashion that there's zero argument to be made. Mcgeezak missed every shots he threw to Addams and that was not lack of attempt but Addams's defense was just that darn solid, not giving Mcgeezak a chance to slip a clear strike in. Well, Addams didn't really hit much of his attacks at all as well but at least he landed some hits and even a takedown - sadly, he didn't do much on the ground - to get the judges in his favor. Well, he didn't need the judges anyway as he knew that Mcgeezak's striking couldn't break his defense, he started to time his attacks and put Mcgeezak down with a counter one-two at the final minute of the round. Mcgeezak started to panic after that or he was just stunned enough to not think straight and Addams found a hook that dropped Mcgeezak. Knowing that he didn't have much time left, Addams leaped in like a leopard on its prey and just hit Mcgeezak hard enough that the referee has to stop the fight despite the time. Winner: Igot Addams(TKO:Strikes) Pablo Soriano vs Dr Gonzo Gonzo tried his best to take Soriano down but he just couldn't get through the sprawl of Soriano for too many times and that was enough reason for him to lose the fight as his standup just wasn't as good as Soriano's. Soriano has impressive striking ability and his mix of punches and kicks was no joke, connecting effectively and painfully on Gonzo throughout the match. Soriano was very close to a finish in round 1 with a nice left to the head of Gonzo but Gonzo survived with a nice takedown of his own. The other takedown Gonzo gotten in the match was on round 4 and that was on the end of the round as well so Gonzo really didn't have time to work his ground game. Gonzo's standup was fine but he just didn't have the kicking skill to confuse Soriano enough and going full boxing against a good kicker was bad most of time unless you are really very good with your boxing and that wasn't the case here. Soriano controlled the fight and secured his belt with a solid 50:45 unanimous decision. Winner: Pablo Soriano(UD) Tweedle Dee vs Lorenzo Von Matterhorn I believe there were a lot of pressure on Dee since he was a brilliant young gun in the MMA scene and he was putting his undefeated 9-0 record on the line against a war veteran and man, it was awesome. Dee started the fight with clinch but Von Matterhorn broke it as he didn't like the clinch but then he was actually hitting some good shots there. Von Matterhorn showed off his world class boxing after the break and cut Dee with a nice three punch combo before he was taken down by Dee twice in a row and that's an action-packed first round. Round 2, Dee showed that he was capable of striking and rocked Von Matterhorn with a full range stiff jab before circling out of Von Matterhorn's reach. He saw the chance and took Von Matterhorn down but he just couldn't get many good opening on the ground. Still, his relentless takedowns won him round 2. Von Matterhorn changed his strategy in the last round, starting with some strikes and got a clinch. Sadly, Dee changed the position by pulling guard but he failed to lock in a submission before the referee standup as Von Matterhorn was playing safe there. Later, Dee hit some good punches and locked in the clinch and this time he was getting aggressive on it as well inside the clinch and eventually got a takedown before the bell to secure the final round, ending the battle on his side with a 29:28 decision to achieve his milestone: 10 straight win. Winner: Tweedle Dee(UD) Shogun Silva vs Sergeant Peppers Peppers might have a very solid chin but Silva has the power of a shotgun in his hands - yes, not a typo, shotgun for a shogun - and he definitely put them to use in this one. Silva was very aggressive from the beginning, not letting Peppers to have a chance to feel it out and he just started swinging as soon as they were in range. Peppers, surprised by Silva's aggressiveness, tried to fight back but he was missing shots left and right while eating the devastating buckshots of Silva. It was clear that Silva wanted to end this quick and not even Peppers's granite chin could stop that. Peppers was just eating too many blows and the blood on his eyes were not helping at all. Silva cracked Peppers with a beautiful right hand and left hook shortly after the cut, putting Peppers down on one knee. Silva then aimed well for a flying falcon punch right on the button, dropping Peppers straight to the floor to continue his shogunate dominition in the HW division. Winner: Shogun Silva(KO:Punches) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 AXF 90 & 91 Review http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Goliath764/JokerThePimp.jpg This report is brought to you by Joker The Pimp. Hank Reardon vs Jeff Wood The first round was pretty much round of the night, with Wood started the excitement with a huge knockdown of Reardon's combination and then another knockdown with his uppercut. All seemed to be against Reardon but he blew every doubt away a moment later with a huge combo knockdown of his own and he quickly went into side control and just ground and pound until the end of the round. The two rounds later were similar, Reardown landed a takedown and the controlled and pounded Wood until the time ran out and on round 3, he smacked Wood so hard that the referee has to stop it and this was definitely the performance of Reardon's career. Winner: Hank Reardon(TKO:Strikes) Nicandro Aloisio vs Mahut Uno Uno secured a quick clinch and then put Aloisio down almost instantly with a huge knee to the head. It was not a straight KO thought and Uno quickly secured side control after seeing that the referee didn't stop it right away. On the ground, Uno was focused on the submission and Aloisio showed some resistance of his own but ultimately he has to tap to a kimura of Uno. Winner: Mahut Uno(Sub:Kimura) Jason Penl vs Tony Twister This was pretty much a technical ground battle where both fighters were pretty equal there. On the standup, Twister was getting some good shots in but they both knew they were aiming for the ground and Penl did better in that aspect by scoring huge takedowns every round, winning the takedown battle with a 5 over Twister's 1. On the ground though, the fight was just fairly even, with Penl trying to hold position yet Twister was able to improve his position, mostly from the bottom and sadly, they were dead equal enough to not connect with any of their offensive move down there. The takedown and top control alone gave Penl the decision win. Winner: Jason Penl(UD) Antonio Alivero vs Thiago Suzuki This was a pretty busy fight as Suzuki was just driving the fight forward with aggression all the time. The striking was fairly equal and I give Alivero slight edge on the short clinch segment of the fight and now, the major part of the fight was on the ground and Suzuki was the better man there. He was able to hold Alivero down after a takedown and just constantly giving pressure to Alivero with ground and pound. Alivero did get top position and hit back with some ground and pound but it was just a short amount of it while Suzuki has top position most of the time and was the big aggressor, easily outscored Alivero in the decision through this performance. Winner: Thiago Suzuki(UD) Larry Glover vs Mogul Khan Glover started the fight with a takedown of his own but then he just couldn't be aggressive enough on the ground and so the standup occured. Khan then landed a takedown of his own but he was also not aggressive enough for the referee and we have another standup. What happened next? Well, statistic would go for Glover but it was Khan getting a huge takedown into mount and that was a great job. Khan secured the position and eventually worked his way to get an armbar just before the end of the round as Glover found no opening to get back to a safer position. Winner: Mogul Khan(Sub:Armbar) Knarles Grunt vs Thomas Kirshaw Kirshaw showed the world how a good sprawl and brawler do his work inside the cage and that was with excellent sprawling and also impressive striking to go along with it. Grunt did try to mix some punches into his game plan but they were just too plain and not dangerous enough for Kirshaw to distrupt his defense and Kirshaw only need to focus on the takedown of Grunt. Kirshaw sprawled and avoided every takedown on its way and hit some brutal punches and kicks to the body and legs of Grunt to slow him down. In round 2, Kirshaw went for the kill, hitting some good head shots, knocking Grunt down with a huge left-right combination and pressed in with a head shot later, dropping Grunt to the ground for the second time. Kirshaw then rushed in with punches to get the TKO. Winner: Thomas Kirshaw(TKO:Strikes) Dwayne Hicks vs Charles Manson With three close rounds, this was likely the closest fight of the night. In round 1, Hicks's head punches proved to be effective and his counter punches were solid throughout that round. Manson was just predictable with too much leg kicks and takedowns. Hicks closed the round with a takedown of his own to secure it but then one referee still gave it a 10:10. Round 2, Hicks scored an early takedown and just stalled his way into the end of that round, one of the easiest round to judge. Round 3, Hicks's fatigue made him a little sloppy and Manson was able to get more shots in and despite Hicks used a takedown on the last second again, two judges gave 10:9 to Manson and one gave 10:10. Final score, 29:29, 30:28 and 29:28 both to Manson. Winner: Charles Manson(Majority) Hajime Bucket vs Benton Styles Bucket tried a little surprise strategy with his takedown to score well in the beginning of the fight. He didn't do much on the ground but he has wasted two minutes of Styles so it was good job nontheless. As they stood back up, Styles started the party with a crazy barrage of punches and kicks but then Bucket was able to keep his cool and fight back with his own punches. Bucket didn't mix much but he was pretty equal to Styles and that round was his round. Round 2, both men continued with their striking battle and Bucket did an excellent job checking leg kicks. It was a brawl that I can't grasp a winner until a clean left hook of Bucket and that was right on the button, shaking Styles's morale and legs at the same time. Styles was stunned for a second and that along gave Bucket the opporturnity to snap a superman punch in and that was an instant knockout. Winner: Hajime Bucket(KO:Superman Punch) Tony Starks vs Jeganathan Mondero Mondero proved to be too much to the champion and that was a huge surprise. Starks wasn't too active in this fight and Mondero basically just attacked his way into the crown with some good kicks and also solid ground and pound on the ground. As soon as the takedown was there, it was like an auto win for Mondero for that round as Mondero was able to hodl Starks down and just pound him hard. On round 2, Mondero was even more aggressive on the ground, even trying a few submissions in the process and eventually finished the fight by just smashing Starks's face like it was meat and his fists the meat tenderizer - not the powder, the hammer-like stuff - and he was crowned the new SHW champion. However, Starks texted me after the match saying that he was having some personal issue and didn't prepare well for the fight, let's see of DePalma gave him a rematch soon or what. Winner: Jeganathan Mondero(KO:Strikes) Tad Ghostal vs Christian Satanmury The main event was pretty much a solid beatdown from Ghostal, just like most of his match. He was a true mixed martial artist, owning his opponent in every position throughout the battle. Standup, no question that he was outstriking Satanmury by far as he landed a lot and avoided a lot. Satanmury later tried the clinch but ended up eating more punches than he threw before getting hip tossed onto the mat. Satanmury did try to get a submission in but Ghostal defended it and paid back with some ground strikes. Round 2 was a lot of Ghostal as well, some striking and then on the ground, domination. Satanmury fought on as the fight proceeded to round 3 but Ghostal decided to end his night earlier by landing a clear hook after a huge close-in on a wide gap and that put Satanmury down for the final strikes to get the TKO and he is still, the FW champion. So far only the members of Greywar family were able to beat Ghostal, can someone without the Greywar blood score a win or Ghostal was cursed to lose only to Greywar family? We will find out in 2012. Winner: Tad Ghostal(TKO:Punches) KotN - Tenderizer of Jeganathan Mondero. Would give it to the superman punch only if the fight is more exciting. SotN - Armbar of Mogul Khan FotN - Hank Reardon vs Jeff Wood --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lachlan Anderson vs Steve Shardlow In a straightforward striking battle, the better man will win 9 out of 10 times with the 1 time being a lucky knockout from the other guy. This one was on the "9 out of 10 times" category as Shardlow proved that he was just the better striker throughout the entire three rounds. One major factor in this fight was the kicking skill of Shardlow, which pretty much determined the match since he was able to just kick Anderson on the outside while Anderson only has good hands. Anderson did tried some kicks but he just didn't want to use a lot of them, thinking that they wouldn't land. Not sure if this would change if Anderson tried more kicks but the end result was an easy decision of 30:27 as Shardlow outstruck Anderson by a long long shot. Winner: Steve Shardlow(UD) Jake Sully vs QL Hicks Sully showed that quality was more important than quantity inside the cage with his pin-point takedowns. Hicks was just massing takedown attempts and that didn't go well because he didn't do anything else and was nothing but predictable. Sully mixed strikes in and only went for a takedown when he knew he has a high chance of getting it and that was the way it intended to be to score takedown inside the cage. Hicks was a world class grappler so he still has hope down there but then Sully proved to be very good with his defense and so was his offense. Hicks wanted to work on some submissions but Sully was forcing him to defend with a lot of ground strikes and that brings me another quote, "The best defense is a good offense". Round 2 was another story though, with Hicks getting the takedown he longed but then Sully was able to reverse into full mount in the middle of it and showed his groundwork was just better than Hicks. Round 3, all hope were gone for Hicks and he just gave up under the pressure by tapping to strikes. Winner: Jake Sully(Sub:Strikes) Johnny Quattro vs Wendell Sailor It was a close fight that Quattro would have won if he was more accurate with his punches and if he didn't go for combination like he was Mike Tyson against a 13 years old kid. Sailor was just a boxer in this fight but he knew the game better than Quattro and that was more single punches until you find an opponent for a smooth combination. Quattro did get some takedowns of his own and also a quick moment of clinch, which no one did anything, but it was mostly a standup battle with Sailor scoring more than Quattro. On the ground, Quattro just wasn't efficient enough and his strikes were on the mat. Quattro came up better in the striking of round 2 but Sailor dominated the other two rounds to get the win. Winner: Wendell Sailor(UD) Yogi Bear vs Bu Laia Both men were pretty much having the same strategy in this one and that was strikes and takedowns. When this happened, it all came down to the abilities and level of the fighters and in this case, Laia was the better man. I would say the groundwork was boring for the most part with only a few strikes connected in the 7 minutes total span and they were all from Laia. Bear could take Laia down but he couldn't do anything offensively on the ground. As for striking, Laia was more aggressive because he was able to hit Bear better than Bear hit him. Laia just had the better footwork and overall striking fluidity that overcame Bear's striking skill and this one ended with an one-sided decision. Winner: Bu Laia(UD) Lostma Braincells vs Xtreme Mma I love how Braincells trying to avoid the standup dominance of Mma. With no doubt, Mma was winning the striking battle as he was able to connect with some hard shots and more consistently than Braincells, who only get a little more than 30% of his strikes in. Braincells went for the clinch later and it was working for him, allowing him to connect with some good dirty boxing punches through the course before Mma pushed him away and hit him back in the standup exchange. Round 2, Braincells once again got the clinch and worked very well there. Well, everyone would argue that Braincells really shouldn't pull guard when he was dominating the clinch and yet he did and that's because he was confident in his own skill. He proved it though, with a guillotine from the bottom over Mma that just refused to standup for no good reason. Clearly, Mma needs to know when he should stand instead of stalling there for no good reason. Winner: Lostma Braincells(Sub:Guillotine) Joey Bolten vs Villi Kotobalavu Bolten just couldn't figure out a way to overcome Kotobalavu's all-around skill set. He was losing the standup battle against a very good counter artist inside Kotobalavu and he even got taken down before the middle of round 1. It was bad, so he tried the clinch, his favorite part of the game and yet he found that Kotobalavu was capable as well, avoiding a lot of clean knees but then later got too confident and ended up getting a cut from Bolten's knee. Round 1, close but Kotobalavu. Round 2, Bolten pulled guard to test Kotobalavu's ground game and Kotobalavu gave him A+ ground and pound for the test. Bolten wanted a submission and yet he didn't get one done. There were a few close calls but none that got the tap. Round 3, Kotobalavu gave Bolten a ground test of his own and both were just trying hard to get a submission finish on the ground as it was the last round. The crowd appreciated the effort even it went to the decision as the ground was rarely that exciting to watch. The decision was pretty one-sided: 30:28, 30:27 and 30:27. Winner: Villi Kotobalavu(UD) Bip Bop vs Fred Collins Bop was a straightforward fighter, just like his quote said so, "My hands your face. Bop-Bop-Bip-Pity-Bop". Collins went for the hard way - exchange with Bop - and found that out the hard way as he was eating a lot of shots from Bop from the beginning. Well, the reach advantage was just too much on Bop's side and Collins should have pick a different strategy before the match because it was too late one Bop hit you on the face. Collins was shaken and was just brawling recklessly while Bop kept his cool and slowly peeling off Collins bit by bit before ending the fight with hard jab followed by a vicious uppercut that I would call a shoryuken. Winner: Bip Bop(KO:Punches) Johnny Davis vs Alberto Lopez Davis pretty much has no chance to win the fight after the only takedown he gotten in round 1. That was his best chance to win after getting beat up by Lopez throughout the round and yet he showed no offense on the ground and it was Lopez trying to make it exciting with his submission attempts. After round 1, it was predictable what Davis was going to do and Lopez easily sprawled every takedowns after that and gave Davis a lot of problem with strikes. Davis tried to mix some in but his accuracy and power were not enough to do much and Lopez easily took the decision with his solid work in the standup. Winner: Alberto Lopez(UD) Maniacal Styles vs Jayden Ray Styles showed that he was literally kicking ass inside the octagon just like he usually did and Ray was shellshocked by a big head kick that put him down in the starting 15 seconds of the fight. Styles could careless about the offense of Ray and just continued to kick, knowing that Ray couldn't do much if he couldn't close in and he has such a huge reach advantage on his side. Ray was badly cut as he ate a lot of kicks and he was sent down another time just 30 seconds later. He stood back up though but his spirit was long gone and so Styles ended it and put Ray to rest with a third head kick knockdown and this time he followed with some ground strikes to seal the deal. Winner: Maniacal Styles(TKO:Kick & Punches) Flex Dynomite vs John L Sullivan IV The fans waited a long time for this one got their wish granted in the first day of 2012 and as expected, this was a very good fight. Both men were excellent strikers but then Sullivan IV put more variety into his instruments and the melody was just sweeter than the one from Dynomite. Well, it wasn't like Dynomite isn't mixing at all but Sullivan IV was just more crafty in his approach and his defense was just too good for Dynomite. Dynomite's defense was of course, solid as well but the head punches of Sullivan IV got to the target most of the time and that weaken Dynomite enough on the long run. Round 2, Sullivan IV got a huge opportunity in the beginning as he connected with a nice uppercut and that opened things up. Just like usual, he capitilized on the opening and found a way to slip in a huge combination of his salty right hand and his sweety left hand. Dynomite was still up though but he was merely holding on it with his mental strength and Sullivan IV crushed all of them with a spicy straight right that launched with the speed of light, putting Dynomite down and out for the second time of his career. The crown is back with John L Sullivan IV in what seems to be a good year for him. Winner: John L Sullivan IV(KO:Strikes) KotN - New Year Seasoning Combo of John L Sullivan IV. Tough choice but he gets this one as the first man to knock Dynomite out. SotN - Cells-killing Guillotine of Lostma Braincells FotN - Joey Bolten and Villi Kotobalavu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 AXF 92 Review http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Goliath764/JokerThePimp.jpg This report is brought to you by Joker The Pimp. Carlos Doghoon vs Te Mana Lumotuffio Doghoon showed no mercy in this one as he was desperate for the second win of his career and with a record like his, every opportunity was important and despite with great experience edge, Lumotuffio failed to even mix strikes in and he was merely a sitting duck after failing takedowns. Doghoon was able to find holes in Lumotuffio's defense, picking him off one strike at a time and eventually got the job done with a huge head kick that put Lumotuffio out instantly and that was a great and fast knockout to start the night. Winner: Carlos Doghoon(KO:Head Kick) Doctor Ball vs Tommy Sander Ball tried a lot of clinch and takedown but then Sander was able to shove off all the attempts, forcing Ball to give up the clinch by hitting some dirty boxing as well. However, Ball was just dominating the standup portion of the fight that he could just ignore the clinch performance. Sander's accuracy was just lacking, not able to get to the target most of the time thanks to the elusiveness of Ball and Ball was also the aggressor too, constantly attacking and getting good result from his attempt and that was enough to earn the 30:27 decision win. Winner: Doctor Ball(UD) Knarles Grunt vs Konstantin Tszyu It was a tough night for Grunt as he was constantly pressured by the precise striking of Tszyu. Tszyu tried a lot of combo and missed most of them but his single shots were well-placed most of the time and he was able to mix and hit multiple types of strikes to different area of the body, cutting Grunt's fighting ability as the fight goes on. Grunt fought back well with his boxing but just wasn't enough to earn the point in that area. He tried other things though, liek taking Tszyu down to work something on but the defensive grappling of Tszyu proved to be too much for Grunt as Tszyu was able to control the pace and force referee standup or just stand himself up time and time again. With no effective offense, Grunt has no chance to win the decision. Winner: Konstantin Tszyu(UD) Stann Stone vs Chuck Fuck Tito Stone knew he wasn't on the level of CFT when it comes to striking but he just couldn't switch the fight to a position he was better than CFT. Stone landed some good kicks from the outside and some elbows inside the clinch but compared to what CFT did in this fight, it was like comparing the mass of a mouse to an elephant. CFT's striking was just like always, solid overall game and he sure hit a lot of head punches in this one, really putting a lot of trouble to Stone. Inside the clinch, his dirty boxing wasn't the best but it was better than Stone's muay thai clinchwork. CFT even put the fight to the ground in the final seconds of round 2 and hit some ground strikes just for the excitement of it. Overall, the decision was obvious. Winner: Chuck Fuck Tito(UD) Johnny Storm vs Ronaldi Rolf Rolf was just so good in this one, forcing the fight onto the ground like a boss for majority of the fight. In round 1, Storm started out strong with his boxing and quickly broke the clinch of Rolf for even more strikes of his own but the hardwork of Rolf was able to put Storm down after just a minute. It was all Rolf's offense on the ground and that was for the remainder of the round. Storm showed good submission defense nonetheless. Round 2, Rolf rushed a takedown and controlled Storm on the ground for the entire round, hitting ground strikes in the process. Round 3, Storm showed excellent takedown defense and resilience as he knew that once he hit the ground he would have no chance. They stayed standing and Storm hit some beautiful strikes in that round to prove that he wasn't giving up. Rolf knew he was winning, played a safer game and just tried to defend and hold to the final bell, which he did to win the 29:28 decision. Winner: Ronaldi Rolf(UD) Richie O Grady vs Sione Finau Finau cut O Grady with his first strike of the match, a head kick, and it seemed like the match was starting great for him but no, once O Grady got the clinch, it was his world, his time to do some damage. With excellent use of the muay thai plum, O Grady throughly controlled Finau and punished Finau with hard elbows and knees, cutting Finau back and even deepen the cut with some excellent strikes on the spot. Finau tried to fight back too but his dirty boxing just wasn't enough to do anything significant and his cut that O Grady was working on all the time was just so bad that the doctor has to stop it even before the end of round 1. Winner: Richie O Grady(TKO:Cut) Mick Foley vs Arnaud Savage Savage was just better that night, showing excellent all-around ground with an emphasis of ground control to grab the win. Foley tried his best to box but Savage's footwork was just too good, always moving away and also staying outside to pick Foley off with his kicks was just a brilliant strategy on his part. Once Foley closed in, Savage responded nicely with a takedown of his own, forcing the fight down onto the ground, in which he used excellent control to waste Foley's time and ride the scorecard to victory. With most of the time spent on the ground, there's no doubt that Savage was the winner. Winner: Arnaud Savage(UD) Caleb Reimer vs Money Montell Both of them provided the fans with an exciting match like usual and since this was the third time meeting each other and also consecutively, both fighters knew each other so well and that gave us a very close match. I would give Montell a slight advantage in the striking segment of the fight as his striking was just better tonight with excellent head punches backed up by some good leg kicks while Reimer only has the kicks but not the punches in this one in terms of connected strikes. On the other hand, Reimer showed that his clinchwork was something no one could ignore as he was clever to keep clinching up and win the clinch battle with a good mix of punches and elbows, which outweigh Montell's dirty boxing for 4 of 5 rounds. Of course, most of the rounds were close but Reimer was just doing more and got the points on his way to retain the title and hopefully closed the rivalry with a rubber match win. Winner: Caleb Reimer(UD) Dr Gonzo vs Jay McCoy With two BJJ black belts inside the cage, no one expect less than a ground fight and their wish was granted as Gonzo took McCoy down early in the match after avoiding multiple punches of McCoy. It was a high level ground battle with both men doing their best to control the position and posture of their opponent. Gonzo tried some strikes and also a kimura but nothing has happened for him and at the same time, McCoy was able to get to full guard. Well, full guard was okay, not much different from a half guard and BAM! Just as Gonzo thought he was safe, McCoy has wrapped his legs the same like he did in his thousands hours of BJJ training and Gonzo realized it a little bit too late and a little bit too late was enough for someone capable like McCoy to lock it in tight. Gonzo has no chance but to tap out to a submission from bottom. Winner: Jay McCoy(Sub:Triangle Choke) Shane Carwin vs Jacob Obworth I am honestly surprised by the excellent striking defense of Obworth in this one as he was able to hold his ground nicely against a world class boxer in Carwin. Not only that but Obworth hit some really excellent body punches that really hurt Carwin in the beginning and eventually, Obworth shot in and got the takedown. Carwin didn't stall though, getting a standup after working hard to get off a dangerous mount bottom position. Obworth got another takedown shortly later though and he advanced into mount once again but this time, he unleashed the bomb early and forced Carwin to defense and not try to get up anymore. Carwin tried his best to defense but Obworth was just a beast on the ground, easily finding holes to sink in his bombs and Carwin was out cold after a few of those. Winner: Jacob Obworth(KO:Strikes) KotN - Vicious ground and pound of Jacob Obworth SotN - Triangle Choke of Jay McCoy FotN - Johnny Storm vs Ronaldi Rolf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Main and Co-Main event, FOTN and SOTN, first round wins. Pretty sure AXF92 was the best outing my fighters have had Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 AXF 93 Review http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Goliath764/JokerThePimp.jpg This report is brought to you by Joker The Pimp. Final card of AXF, this has to be good, right? No way in hell this is bad! 297.03 event rating, 18,063 in attendance for the event and the mother fucking Sydney Superdome for the event. No doubt this was the event that was worthy enough to retire "AXF". To be frank I kind of missed the name AXF but I guess merger is a part of business so not much I can do about that asides from continue to give review like I always do. Well, thank you AXF and welcome Blitz: Down Under, may the org continue to represents Sydney MMA scene! Robin Banks vs Joe Foe Banks tried too many combinations and that didn't get him anywhere in this one. I wouldn't consider Foe's performance to be dominant but he sure did okay in this one. His solid takedowns helped him to win this one. Sure he didn't get it after the first attempt but his tenacity gave him the fruit in this one as he continued to attempt them until he got one done. On the ground, Foe was definitely the controller, threatening Banks with ground strikes and submissions, most of them defended but he was scoring points nonetheless. Banks was banking for a combo knockout and he didn't get it done before the end of the match and the decision was obvious. Winner: Joe Foe(UD) Dexter Redshaw vs Oishi Yoshio Redshaw was very fierce that night, with the desire and lust to get a W back as he definitely needed it that night and he delivered. Redshaw's punch defense was excellent, avoiding the headshots of Yoshio with ease and eventually got the fight to the clinch or directly to the ground but be in a direct double leg takedown or a leg trip from the clinch, the final result was that he got the fight to the ground and Yoshio has not much of a chance to stop that. On the ground, Redshaw thoroughly dominated with his ground and pound. They were so vicious and despite Yoshio tried his best to position well, he just couldn't get too much done on the ground and the final result was inevitable. Winner: Dexter Redshaw(UD) Silver Boo vs Zach Fair Fair had a good start but that was the best moment of him in this match as it was disaster for him after that. Once Boo found his rhythm, hit some good head punches and then got the clinch done, it was his world. Dirty boxing 101 put Fair through a lot of pain and frustration and Fair looked like he has zero clinchwork in this match and all he did was eating punches all the time(and the occassional elbows and knees). He was down after an uppercut but he held on on round 1. Not in round 2 though, as Boo landed yet another solid uppercut and directly followed up with brutal strikes to the head of Fair, knocked him out cold in an instant to lock the W for himself. Winner: Silver Boo(KO:Strikes) Aitch Bubbles vs Barry Scott Both men fought hard(Of course they do, it's a championship match) to the end but this time, the challenger was just too hungry for the belt and he fought a very impressive fight. Everything he did was just awesome, he was just too good and too well-rounded. Bubble's striking was one of the best in the division and Scott showed that he can hang with him and it was quite rare to see Bubbles not getting too many clean strikes. Scott hit some solid strikes of his own and outstruck Bubbles by a little on the standup department. Other portion though, he was just better by a lot. Solid ground game and also solid clinch game, both helped him to win the champion for the time they were not standing and both helped him to earn the hard 10 points for many rounds. Of course, Bubbles won some of the rounds but Scott was the better man judging by all the rounds and he earned the LW championship to kick start the Blitz era. Winner: Barry Scott(UD) Jake Koers vs Kyle Mortis Koers was definitely not on the same level when it comes to striking but he did well with his takedowns in round 1. Surprisingly, Mortis's ground game wasn't bad and he was fairly aggressive down there, even attempted a few submissions while Koers was also aggressively working some ground strikes in. I considered that to be a fun ground battle. Round 2, Mortis wanted no more of the ground, sprawled very well and hit some hard shots to drain Koers's will to fight. Well, when you are hit on the head you start to not think straight and Koers was definitely in that condition throughout round 2, eating shots after shots. Koers seemed like he could hang until the end of that round but he did a bad move of moving into a hard straight right and that put him down onto the ground. Mortis didn't wait, mounted him instantly and unleashed hell until the referee stoppage. It was tough to stop it with only few seconds left but it was justified as Koers couldn't even stand well after that series of attack. Mortis wanted a title shot after the match. My take? He needs to win one more, a no.1 contender match, before the title shot. Winner: Kyle Mortis(TKO:Punches) Alec Dimanche vs Sergeant Peppers Dimanche gave his best shot in the standup but he just wasn't getting his shots through Peppers's defense enough to create any significant chance for himself. Dimanche did try to clinch but Peppers broke it with ease every time and then proceeded to take Dimanche down. Well, Dimanche's wrestling wasn't very good and that was definitely why he lost this one. On the ground, his black belt BJJ couldn't do much against another high level black belt grappler like Peppers, especially when Peppers also has solid wrestling on his side. Dimanche did hold himself very well down there but the ground and pound was no joke and after many rounds of smothering and pressuring from Peppers, Dimanche's chin couldn't hold on the last round and Peppers broke through the wall with a huge elbow in side control and followed up with some hard shots to close the fight and asked for the title. My take on this, he needs to win one(or two) more as well, get a streak going before he could challenge the champion. Win streak is a must in my opinion but that's just me. Winner: Sergeant Peppers(TKO:Strikes) Jack Anderson vs Maniacal Styles Styles's maniac approach didn't work so well that night as his head kick barrage missed the mark 15 out of 15 times. Anderson simply defend and defend until Styles was getting slower and then Anderson closed in for some huge punches of his own, cutting Styles quite early in this one. Anderson continued his stalk and hit strategy, focusing on the cut most of the time when he has the chance to get to that mark of death and Styles's head kicks continued to miss. It definitely wasn't good so Styles tried other types of kicks as well. Well, they didn't work and Anderson got a huge counter off a leg kick he checked and that put the hopeless Styles down. Anderson knew it was the end and just jumped in for the kill. Styles, showed heart and his maniac approach by continue to fight and even tackled the referee after the finish but sadly being maniacal wasn't enough in the high level. Winner: Jack Anderson(TKO:Strikes) Kha Ri vs Tweedle Dee Dee knew he needs takedowns and that was his game plan coming to this fight. Ri proved that he wasn't a champion without solid wrestling as he defended beautifully against every takedown threat posed to him. Dee mixed them well with multiple strikes and different strikes at that but Ri was just calm and better, slowly and surely picking Dee apart in the standing battle and sprawled when needed. Dee tried to force the fight into the clinch as well but Ri hanged in well in there and actually bested Dee there with solid dirty boxing base. The only takedown Dee got was on round 3 but Ri controlled and stalled enough to force the referee standup and Dee pretty much has lost all his hope by that second. To be fair, Dee did outstrike Ri in round 1 but failed to do the same in the latter rounds. Maybe it was Ri's hits to the body and legs that took his juice away and so Ri has the better energy for the latter rounds. Dee has a solid last round as well but even with two good rounds, it's not enough for a five rounds fight and Ri retained his belt to enter the Blitz era like a boss. Winner: Kha Ri(UD) Luke Fluke vs Henry Lucas Lucas was no joke but Fluke did amazingly that night against him. There's no doubt this was going to be a striking match yet Fluke showed his A game that night. The first round was very close, so close that every judges went "Fuck it, I might as well give it a 10:10". The fans inside the arena were all standing in that round, witnessing a world class striking battle with punches and kicks going forward all the time. It wasn't boring inside the clinch as well since both fighters were aggressively working all the time. Round 2 though, Fluke started to get the better of Lucas, showing his constant drive to move forward and just hit Lucas with a massive amount of head punches. Lucas focused on leg kicks but then his leg kick accuracy wasn't as good as Fluke. Fluke picked his shots better and hit a solid amount of leg kicks as well. I love Fluke's body kicks though, cutting the gas tank of Lucas like a katana on raw flesh. Fluke also hit some good counters in this one and he was just better than Lucas in several rounds, earning a 49:47 decision victory. Title shot? Yup, he's definitely next on the line after such an amazing performance. Winner: Luke Fluke(UD) Shogun Silva vs Stuey Ungar Silva wanted to be a boss as well, he wanted to keep his title and enter the Blitz era with it, just like Kha Ri, and he certainly showed that he could do it. Ungar pretty much was just a 60% copy of Silva. When he fought others, he could win them in a striking battle but then, he just wasn't on the level to fight Silva in Silva's best part of his game. Silva easily outstruck him by far in this one, thoroughly dominating the challenger with pin-point striking and excellent head movements. No matter what strike Ungar went for, Silva did it better. Ungar has not much of a chance overall and so he tried to clinch and see if that is a good choice. Wrong choice, Silva rocked him with a hard strike and continued to hit Ungar hard with punches and a quick right hook put Ungar down and on dancing legs. Silva closed in and the referee quickly blocked Silva from any unnecessary strike. Overall, an easy defense from Silva. Winner: Shogun Silva(TKO:Strikes) KotN - Sniping shot of Jack Anderson SotN - N/A FotN - Luke Fluke vs Henry Lucas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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