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 Another Edition of GAMMA Gossip is underway and we have plenty going on in GAMMA this week!
General news:
- GAMMA Contenders has had a fantastic response. The roster already includes over 105 young fighters and is expanding very fast! It seems that the contenders will become the goto place for up and coming fighters and managers for Las Vegas and LA.
- There have been some rumors in the GAMMA camp about a potential merger between GAMMA and some other organization. The talks are in early stages though. All i can say is that you guys will likely be getting more competition pretty soon!
- The last event headlined by Williams and Mendez was the 6th highest ranking GAMMA event in history and the 3rd time Williams headlined a top 10 GAMMA event.
Lets get moving on to our Event Reviews!
- Reviews
- Alan Bundy vs Baddusousus Fatherfockerusus (super fight in LV vs Versus)
Alan's return to GAMMA did not go according to plan with a decision loss against Baddus. The fight went to the ground, where Baddus proved to be the more technical of the two. lading 50% of his 30 strikes. It was clear that Alan did not expect to lose the ground game as he himself seemed less interested to strike with Baddus. Alan was released by his long term manager straight after this fight Mr Gutz and is now a free agent for the first time in his career.
- Raz Matazz (25622) vs Ray Mancine (137950) (Super fight in London vs Versus)
Raz loved his little trip in London, went site seeing and visited the local pubs and chatted up the local talent. He did not forget to bring his goods to the cage though and in his super fight against Ray Machine he showed why GAMMA is so highly ranked in super fights, getting the late KO win, the 75th super fight win in GAMMA's history.
Raz will be likely traveling to New York on his way back to fight in TTFC.
- Vladik Fedotov vs Peter Cabreros (170lbs division)
It was a pretty close fight, with a slight edge in Peter's favor during the first 2 rounds. Eventually the fight ended as expected, with Peter getting the KO late in the 3rd round. This is Peter's 11th win in 13 fights and his second over Vladik.
Peter ideally would love to get his hands on the title, however Renan is already booked against CFC's Osama for the next fight.
- Chris Webster (52145) vs Buster Grimes (57328) (Super fight, in New York vs TTFC)
Chris surprised many by KOing Buster in New York. The Future GAMMA HOFer is currently fighting in GAMMA's close associate TTFC and showed that he still has the power in his hands. Buster came in his usual self, landed some good strikes and cut Chris early on, however it is the HW division and late in the first round Buster got caught with an uppercut, followed by a straight right which ended the fight for Buster.
This is Buster's second loss in a row and he is clearly dissapointed. Next fight will be inside GAMMA.
- Ravi Singh vs Frank Sinatra (185lbs division)
The fight went pretty much as expected here. Frank controlled all 5 rounds of the fight, with some crisp boxing. It was his wrestling and cage control which won him it though. Ravi was for the most part on the back foot, trying to get his game going, however his stand up advantage was not significant enough to give him the edge and Frank completed 6 of his 11 takedown attempts. To give some credit to Ravi, this was his first big fight and he did manage to protect himself pretty well while on the ground. Frank landed just 6 of his total 25 ground strikes and struggled to gain the position to end the fight.
In the end it was a predictable 5 round decision win for Frank Sinatra, which is expected to fact a top level fighter in a super fight for August.
- Simon Williams vs Tony Mendez (265lbs title fight)
The fight was somewhat one dimensional. Simon is not known for being a tactical player and at his age he is probably not going to change what made him a global favorite. He came in firing bombs from the go ahead. Tony was rocked multiple times during the fight and was in survival mode during the first and second rounds. If not for his great heart the fight would have been over WAY earlier. It took Simon the better part of the 3rd round to finally put Tony Mendez away, ending his long winning streak.
Simon is already booked to fight the in form Kenichi for his next title fight and for Tony this was his 28th fight inside GAMMA putting him in the top 10 all time for GAMMA.
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Baddusousus Fatherfockerusus vs Alan Bundy
Simon Williams vs Tony Mendez
Ejnar Thorsen
Tom Haverford
Juan Arce
Peter Cabreros
- Previews
Degen Gambler vs Malietoa Feti (205lbs fight)
Degen has been a top level GAMMA fighter for some time now. He has already fought and beaten a big portion of the elite in the division, however he is not a fighters without his weaknesses as his 27-13 record shows. Malietoa is a rising star in the LHW division and this is his very first fight in GAMMA and arguably his first in a top level organization. At just 26y of age, this is the biggest fight in his young career.
Degen is a all rounder, Sensational standing or on the ground. He has had a problem in his career against top level fighters and hard hitters though and Malietoa is exactly such. Malietoa's weakness is clearly his ground game, however he rarely gets taken down. There is no doubt who the favorite is, Degen is the more balanced of the two, however if Malietoa can use his range and clinch game, Degen will unlikely be able to survive 3 rounds. The other question is if Degen can actually finish the fight if it goes to the ground. He has never really had any submission game to note. I am going for the upset win for Malietoa, however my head says it will be a Degen win.
Danny Mangold vs Adis Djurdjevic (205lbs title fight rematch)
The last fight was close as expected. In fact you do not get closer than a draw! These 2 will go at it once again and once again there is no clear favorite. Anyone can win it. In the first i had it in favor for Adis. In my opinion it was very close, but maybe Adis did enough to win it and he would love to prove it in this second fight that he is the better of the two.
As i said, i do not really see a clear favorite, especially after the first fight. It is 50/50 in my books.
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