2012-01-13
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EEC Hogmanay Event Recap

Event Review: EEC - Hogmanay
Eastern Elite Combat
2011-12-31, New York, Madison Garden Arena
Attendance:18,926, Event Rating:335
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EEC Hogmanay Event Recap + Bonuses

Hogmanay lived up to the hype as an all-night must attend event in New Yorck City New Years Eve. The event garnered the highest ratings ever in New York as well as being the highest revenue producer and far exceeding fighter payout records. comes to New York City on December 31st! The Madison Garden Arena, hosted the Eastern Elite Combat (EEC) as they presented 9 fights for the ages in an action packed card! Four championship belts were lost and only one champion defended which added to the night of thrills as the EEC rang in the New Year with flying fists instead of fireworks.


Rakastaja Nurminen v Mark Calaway

Hometown support was not enough to spur previously undefeated EEC fan favorite Mark Calaway (5-1) to victory in the main event. The open weight contest was a lopsided affair as Callaway was soundly beaten over three rounds by undefeated light heavyweight Rakastaja Nurminen (16-0). Calaway a native of Montreal
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TTFC Maddox Vs Slick Preview

Event Preview: TTFC Maddox Vs Slick
Team Thomas Fight Club
2012-01-14, New York, Hard Knocks - New York
Author:Mike Thomas

To those who have cut weight to compete I say 'no guts no glory'! Conditioning is for your hair. Saturday night, fight night!

Heavyweight: Ilya Murometz (5-4) vs Chris Carwin (0-2)

Ilya Murometz has all the tools to be a dark horse in the heavyweight division. Sat tentatively on the bottom rungs of the ladder the Russian prospect is a powerful boxer with a steadily improving ground game. There is no shame in losing to Herba Durba as he did in his sophmore outing in TTFC and he will be the favourite to bounce back with a win over Carwin. Carwin is perhaps even more powerful than Murometz but his lumbering style and lack of speed meant that Chris Leben telegraphed virtually every strike in their pair of bouts. If Carwin can catch Murometz he can make something happen but Murometz is a better fighter pure and simple.

Prediction: Ilya Murometz should impose his will here, stopping Carwin in round one with strikes either standing or on the ground after taking his man there.

Bantamweight: Raje Malapitan (5-5) vs Rubber "Traini
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Rise To Glory: Chuck Grace

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 As the owner of UPG:Tokyo the organization that is running the Ultimate Fighter style tournament Rise To Glory. I was extremly suprised to see one of the coaches while flicking through the channels. But sure enough he was there sitting down with a interviewer who looked more like a shady buisness man than an announcer. Here's what happened on the interview though.

Interviewer: Hey there, I am here today with Chuck Grace. A coach in the upcoming Rise To Glory Season 1 Tourney. He has kindly agreed to take this interview with us to give us a insight into what's going to happen.

Hey Chuck, how are you feeling about having the honour of being one of the coaches on Rise To Glory?

Grace: Hey Chuck, how are you feeling about having the honour of being one of the coaches on Rise To Glory?

Interviewer: You are known to be a good manager around the Tycoon world, do you think you can translate that to teach others?

Grace:Im hoping it will translate in s
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You are your own worst enemy - Retrospect: champion Bob Jam

Fighter profile of Bob Jam by Vegard Bjorneset

You are your own worst enemy – Retrospect: champion Bob Jam.

27.06.2009 – Sydney
“I remember the lights flickering around me, I heard the small crowd rumble in the distant darkness. I was shaking, I tried to calm my nerves, but I was sick to my stomach from excitement. I was fighting Jesse Baird, who had one loss, in my mma debut. The lights came on, the crowd roared to life, even though we were both unknowns, I was scared shitless, and it showed. The fight was a disaster, I didn’t know what to do, so I took him down. I was scared of hurting him, killer instinct takes some development, but I won, by armbar”

10.01.2012
This is how Bob Jam recalls his first fight, the fight that would be a gateway into a long hard road of disappointment and depression, but also of tremendous success.

“It went upward from there” Bob recalls and smiles. Bob Jam, is currently 16-13 in his MMA career and the UMMA bantamweight champion. The former NFC bantamweight champion has had a long, hard road back to championship condition.

We meet the newly crowned champion in his home in Helsinki after he won the championship belt on the 08 of January 2012.

“I don’t know anybody here, except from some guys down at the gym” Bob says, and sips his coffee. Bob Jam recently relocated to Helsinki after a long hard journey in St.Petersburg, Russia. Bob Jam seems calm and collected, miles away from the person we saw winning NFC gold in October of 2009. After going 2-2 in Infliction, in his native Australia Bob Jam moved on to the NFC where he ended up going 6-3.

How do you recall your days in the NFC?
“NFC was good, I ended up going 6-3 there, that’s not too bad”

And you were the champ?
“ha-ha, yeah, I was.. I was”

Bob is a humble man these days. After signing with the NFC, he subbed Angel Torres in his first fight, impressing the management enough sail him up as the next big thing and contender for the title. On the 24th of October 2009 Bob Jam faced off against Urijah Fabricio for the NFC bantamweight
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London's Brawling

Editorial by Bricktop McKenzie

London’s Brawling

The eagle eyed amongst you will no doubt have notice that no matter how hard you searched there was no London’s Brawling in last week Tycoon Times. This was down to two things, Christmas and the release of The Old Republic. I know poor excuses both. Still I have ditched my family and my level 21 Bounty Hunter and I am back to update you on all the goings on in the MMA scene of the worlds greatest city.

And what goings on there have been. Last time out I profiled Troid, the undisputed number 1 org in London. Troid have responded by tumbling to 6th in the rankings due to an extended Christmas break. They appear to be up and running again and have 3 events lined up for the future. Can they regain their number one spot is the giant on wane?

Of course when a great tree falls in the forest a gap opens in the canopy and there is an opportunity for all the saplings to become that great tree. Leading the charge is Invidious Combat who, at the time of writing, are the new UK number 1. Congratulations to Org owner John McGuirk. I profiled Invidious back in the first edition of London’s Brawling so I’m not going to repeat myself. However this is a strong org, with two fighters in the P4P top 100 and a number of exciting upcoming events. Invidious look like they are determined to make the number 1 spot their own.

As I’ve already done several Org profiles I thought I would change it up a bit and profile some of the big name fighters on the London scene. These are the top dogs in the city right now and help define t
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Kaiser's Cross

Editorial by Roger Kint

 

The Power of the the Fist: A Nickolai Zhukov Story

Fighter profile of Nickolai Zhukov by Speedy Gonzaitev

A few years ago as I was wandering the streets of Bangkok looking for perspective fighters, after a long unsuccessful day of searching I wandered into a bar seeking a respite from a day's worth of futile efforts. However, upon entering the bar I saw a guy in his mid twenties fighting off a large group of teenagers with nothing but his fists. Impressed with the young man's performance I ask the bar tender who he is and he tells me his name is Nickolai Zhukov, a refugee from southern Russia who came here just before the Soviet Union fell. After the commotion ends, I buy the enigmatic brawler a round of the finest vodka I can afford and we discuss the possibility of him coming back with me to St Petersburg to bring his brawling style into a cage and see what happens.

After we got him to St. Pete’s I inquired into his background and discovered that his parents were both high ranking party officials that were killed during the riots following the fall of the Politburo. His uncle took him south to Thailand where he began training in boxing and did fairly well, going undefeated in 15 bouts with 12 KO's. As he grew older he branched out and started to learn some wrestling in the back rooms of bars and parking lots. He was the kind of guy who never ran from a fight no matter how big the guy was, he came out swinging until one of them was on the ground out cold. .

Shortly after arriving in St Pete I signed him up for a bout to see how he would do. His opponent was another boxer who had finished his opponents in all of his victories, both in a vicious fashion. So coming into the fight we were planning on exploiting the obvious hole that was his opponent’s ground game and it went exactly to plan with Zhukov walking away with the decision victory. Shortly there after he signed with Black Hand Fight Championships in St Pete's to their Heavyweight division. Being only 210 lbs Zhukov is a tiny heavyweight but Zhukov told me he likes challenges so we accepted the contract and the first fight. .

Zhukov's first opponent in BHFC was an all round fighter not particularly good at any one area so Zhukov and I decided to exploit his enormous boxing advantage to try to end the fight early. Leading up to the fight we focused mainly on getting him in shape for competition. .

Zhukov walks forward and throws a big overhand right! Elf drops to the floor like a sack of potatoes! Zhukov swarms on him with more punches until the referee wrestles
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Tycooniversal Vertigo treatment centers of Tokyo

Editorial by David Goliath

 Tycooniversal Vertigo treatment centers of Tokyo present:

  Reaching out for help...  

If you are reading this then you have had it. Yes, purchasing a copy of Tycoon Times and flipping through to find this editorial confirms my accusations 100%. I'll explain everything in a moment, just try to keep up because I am about to give you some important information...  

If you are reading this that means you know how to navigate the game, and want to check up on the latest copy of our awesome newspaper, which in turn means you are a regular player, which in turn means that you have spent countless hours with coaches training secondaries, sparring primaries, changing clothes, virtually mainlining supps because you think the guy is lying about quality, all of which is a means to winning a fight. Once you have won a major fight that you trained long and hard for you get to experience the luminous, intoxicating feeling that is Tycooniversal Vertigo.  

And this is your Swan Song...  

The feeling in and of itself is not an unpleasent one at all no, It feels so good that you have to ask yourself why am I writing about such a thing anyways? One could only theorize that this piece will steer towards stories of sexual encouters with a goddess, or an out of body experience just to make a comparabl
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My Tycoon Experience.

About Me: Víktør Väldríkr

At the time I was playing Jippii - pool game and MMA Pro Fighter on Facebook. Jippii was turned into Azinky and went downhill. Having played Jippii for around 3 years, and becoming a chat regular and getting to know people I consider friends I was at a loss once that all but ended suddenly with nowhere to play anymore. I then began playing MMA Pro Fighter more and more, but with increasing frustration due to constant bugs, and glitches the game was beginning to become ridiculous and more and more about making money.

I ended up talking with a few MMA PF buddies and got introduced to MMA Tycoon. They explained what I had to do etc, sounded fun. I started playing, it was slow to start, and complicated compared to MMA PF. I enjoyed it. After having a few QFC's I got VIP. Started making fighters just for the hell of it. I got frustrated that I couldn't get rid of my fighters straight away (I think I even mailed Mike, I now understand I was wrong having played the game for a little while now).

Time began to tick away, and I began logging on with my phone. Checking when I was out, after sex, before sex, during?! I was addicted - I couldn't help myself. It was like Bill Jenkins and his attention addiction.

Having played for a while, the mentor system got introduced. I went hunting for a mentor. I choose Igor Psycho. We exchanged a few mails and so on, I wanted to try everything all at once - especially an org. He told me it wasn't the right time within the game. After a whole FOUR days, I ended the mentorship. (Sorry Igor). I then went looking for another who would help me with setting up an org. With being so new, I looked for a manager with a lot of experience.

I choose Osama BeenHidin'. Having sent one mail and not getting a response, I sacked him
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