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Hello fellow Managers! I’m Vlad, the latest addition to the MMATycoon team! I've been talking to Mike about buying a stake in MMA Tycoon for some time and we've just signed off on a 50% buy-in which sees me coming on board full-time as lead developer. My job will be to turbocharge all areas of our beloved game with over a decade’s worth of software development experience. We’re talking a total overhaul: Faster, slicker, and more fleshed out across the board. My focus will be to create new features and modernized classics with a vision of kick-starting the dawn of MMATycoon 2.0! Since 2011, I’ve been on Tycoon – from leading my own orgs to selling avatars and clothing. My journey’s had its ups and downs but I keep coming back for more of this timeless managerial experience. Now it's time for me to get involved and make it even better 🌐 The MMATycoon 2.0 Vision: We’re shifting the game’s guts to a sleek new PHP framework with a total site redesign. Smoother gameplay Mobile Friendly Lightning-fast performance And awesome features and content. 🛠 What’s in It for You? While we’re busy crafting MMATycoon 2.0, we’re not leaving the current game in the dust. Expect continuous upgrades – cleaner looks, snappier actions and fresh features rolling out, all while we will run dual versions to make the switch seamless. The old ways are making way for a new era, and you’ll start seeing changes sooner than you think. ⏳ Timeline? The initial phase of cloning the site in our new tech wonderland will take a few months, followed by a phase dedicated to design and functional evolution. 🔄 So, We Just Wait? Hell no! Got questions and ideas? We'll have a new section in the forum for discussions and we'll be keeping you up to date on all the developments as they go. Welcome to the start of MMA Tycoon 2.0! 💪

I'm sure some of you much like my alliance members miss Tycoon Tools and the functionality that it used to provide. So, I'm recreating the original functionality that it used to provide as well as a companion GreeseMonkey script or perhaps even a Browser Extension and figured I'd reach out to the community to see whether there were any other features you guys wanted on top of what I have planned. Feel free to share some suggestions down below! If you'd like to contribute to the features by offering your spreadsheet formulas and the likes for me to implement into the site then I would be more than happy to credit you accordingly, just drop me a mail - here Current Planned Features - Random Fighter Name Generator A simple system to help those of us who aren't good with names Organisation Helper Event Overview (Event Name, Venue, Capacity, Ticket Price, Org Hype, etc) Estimated Attendance (Ticket Sales) Diminishing Ad. Returns Point Match Ups and their average Hype + Pop Pay Per View Assistant (This feature will be limited.) Organisations share data on their past PPVs by entering them manually or using the Companion Script. The data is then compiled into a forecasting model that will generate estimated PPV metrics. Contract Calculator A player can provide a link to a fighter to get a rough understanding of how much the fighter could be compensated based on their Hype and Pop. Useful for both new starters and new organisation owners as it can help them determine how much they should be paying or getting paid. The calculator uses data from the Free Agent List as well as some defined metrics so please take any values with a pinch of salt. Fighter Growth Tracker Utilising the companion tool and a registered account on the Tools website, you will be able to track your fighter's growth with a simple click of a button on the skill page. This works similarly to the Skill Extractor functionality but the data is instead sent to the server where the relevant stats are collated and tracked! No one will be able to view your fighters' progress but you: at any point, you can opt-out by deleting your Tools account which will remove all fighter data! GreaseMonkey Scripts A central place for all of the Greasemonkey scripts that I provide support for! You'll find the companion script here too but to make use of it you'll need to get a key from the tool's website, otherwise you can enter the necessary details manually. Hope this is all pretty straightforward, I'm about done with the organisation helper so I will be testing it over the next few days. The entire functionality will be released at the latest by the end of the month but don't hold me to that! Any suggestions for functionality that I could add are more than welcome, please tell me what you'd like to see and I'll do my best to accommodate it!

After some investigation, the manager profiles involved in the hype farming activities (Floyd Mayweather and Caiu Montana) have been deleted as well as the World Fighting Championships organization. Players who use multiple accounts to exploit game mechanics to provide themselves with an unfair advantage and players who abuse game mechanics to harass or entrap other players into becoming unwilling participants in their cheating are in direct violation of MMAT rules and will be dealt with accordingly. On behalf of Mike and myself, let me say that I have the highest appreciation for players who go out of their way to look out for the well-being of our players and player community. Thank you.

Today I went to the park to see my son, who is the only person in the whole world that I love. And then I came home on my own and I tried not to cry, because all I care about is him. No, I don't really care about this game. I don't really care about anything else. I don't care about myself or my own physical health. I don't care about my house or my shit car. I literally just care about him. And I don't get to see him for half of his life now, for the rest of the time it takes him to grow up. So I put a microwave meal in the oven and I ate it on my own. And I went on Match.com and Tinder and I scrolled through a load of people who I don't even like the look of... And I messaged a couple of people that I've been on dates with but I don't really have anything in common with. Then I played a game or Red Alert 2 and I lost that. And then I saw a mod report from the forum and it sends me here. And I shed a few silent tears as I see some cbomb take the piss out of my situation. And ya know what? This is still miles, miles better than the life I had with my ex, who literally made me wish I was dead for the last 4-5 years. We made each other soooo miserable. And yeah, that very, very, very low place I've been in for many years is why this game has gone to shit. And yes, that sucks and I'm sorry about that. When I was younger and had more energy for life, I put a lot of effort into it. I didn't just give up on the game. I basically gave up on everything. Work, friends, family, my own physical wellbeing. I basically stopped caring about anything apart from just being with my son and loving my son. I've been on anti-depressants for 20 years; literally the entire time I was with my ex. I came off them cold turkey the moment we split. That's how shit our situation was. And I feel a lot better for that. But ultimately, although it's miles better than it was a year ago, my life is still really shit. I'm really empty and really lonely. And all I want to do is be with my son. But then when I am with him, he's so intense and full of energy that all I want him to do is calm down and shut up, so I end up not even enjoying the time I DO have with him anymore, because now everything is time pressured and you're expected to entertain, not just BE. That situation is horrendous. And when he leaves, I have to try and not let him see that I'm about to cry. And I have to tell him that it's better that me and his mum don't live together anymore... Which it is. But it also kills me. So yeah... Rambo. That's what you're taking the piss out of, for a quick one liner. As for the game. I'd sell it. Or half of it or whatever. The only issue; I have a mortgage on my own now. It's based on my income. I can't just get rid of my income, then keep my house. The mortgage was £150,000. They only gave me £90,200, so I had to over-pay the difference. That £90,200 is their absolute max offer, based on my earnings. That mortgage will be up for renewal next year. So I'd have to go get a "proper job" to keep the mortgage, if I sell Tycoon. The problem with that; I look after my boy every day after school from 3pm-5.30pm at a minimum, every day, even on the days he doesn't stay at mine. That's my prime time with him. I am not giving that up. So I would have to do with a job which doesn't work past 2.30pm. I don't really think that's a thing. I'm also not really in a position right now in my life where I wanna be changing ANOTHER thing. I wanna try and keep as much of my life as stable as I can. I WILL sell a share in the site. However, please everyone understand that would be an extremely stressful process. I don't need or want that stress. I'm still not even divorced yet. I could sell to someone who then ends up doing nothing. How would that work? Could I chuck them out? Do we have a contract in place that stipulates hours? What if they fucked stuff up? Honestly, it's a complete minefield and it's the last thing I wanna do, despite the fact that I know I really need to do it. I know I'll probably get some messages about selling the site off the back of this post. I really don't have space in my brain to even read those tbh, let alone progress it meaningfully... Note though. If any of you do think about contacting me to offer to buy; 1. I don't even know how much the site earns. I have joint income from here and Bet MMA, all going into the same place. It probably earns like $15,000 a year or something. 2. You would need to be a competent in php programming. I don't see any other way that it makes sense for you or me to buy / sell, unless you have that skill. Improvements are not hard to program in theory, if you have php skills and some javascript, BUT the site doesn't earn enough to justify paying someone to do that work... You need to be able to do it yourself. My ideal situation probably would be someone to buy into the game in 10% increments, then prove their worth and their enthusiasm, by doing stuff... I kinda just don't have the energy for that process right now. But hey, baby steps in putting it out there, I guess. Yes. It's a mess. It sucks. Sorry about that. But at least for you guys it's just a game, not also your livelihood.

WORLD CUP OF MMA Pre-Tournament Preview With all teams now fully registered and all fight offer now sent out, it's time to have a quick look at the teams participating and their chances of moving on from the Qualifying Group Stage. Group D Indonesia 135lbs: Jack Saragih (Blue Aurora - #86 Best) 170lbs: Mario Leonardo (Blue Aurora - #86 Best) 300lbs: Syariel Peng (Mae Joon - #78 Best) The mysterious Indonesian team prepare to do their best in what again is likely to be a very cut throat time for those top two qualifying positions. Not much is known about managers Blue Aurora and Mae Joon other than they have managed to both crack the top 100 manager ranks but are still yet to break #50 and under. All three of their fighters are completely untested at this point leaving us very little to go on and even less to write. So with that in mind, I’ll take this opportunity to list just a couple of fun factoids about Indonesia such as it being the worlds largest archipelago and the home of the Komodo dragon! Expecting Indonesia to be competitive but ultimately, with not much to go on other than current manager ranks, I’m predicting them a third place finish this time around. Predicted Group Finish: 3rd Fighter Watch: Syariel Peng Kazakhstan 135lbs: Borat Sagdiyev (Squirrelly Dan - #3 Best) 170lbs: Kazhymukan Manaitpasov (Alfred Winterbottom - #6 Best) 300lbs: Heavy Kazak Six (Dakota Thibodeaux - #24 Best) Three last minute, fill the gaps fighters recruited by three super cool and helpful gentlemen simply for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan. Actually on paper, if it wasn’t for how late a couple of these fighters were created, it would be a pretty decent little team. At 135lb, the man himself, Borat Sagdiyev! Utterly unknown and untested, lets hope Borat turns out to be a top prospect, if only to one day see that avatar as Syn champion. At 170lbs, some granite chinned unpronounceable wrestler might actually pick up the odd win along the way but it’s the lovingly named Heavy Kazak Six at super-heavyweight who we are excited about most. Knockout power just where you need it and guided by high chief of the Thibodeaux tribe himself, Dakota Thibodeaux. Maybe those heavy hands will be able to make up for the fact he’s had about two minutes training? Very grateful for Mr. Squirrelly and Mr. Thibodeaux for likely sacrificing their manager ranks just to make up the numbers. Underdogs are always fun so lets see if we can pull off some upsets but otherwise expect Kazakhstan to finish rock bottom of Group D Predicted Group Finish: 4th Fighter Watch: Heavy Kazak Six USA 135lbs: Harper Quarry (Rush Greyson - #88 Best) 170lbs: Chayton Catawanee (Tycoon Judas - #18 Best) 300lbs: Remington Knox (Squirrely Dan - #3 Best) Did someone call for some freedum? Well never fear, Team Murica is here and never before have you seen such a collection of badass, black ops types in one place. First up is Rush Greyson who is well known for being behind the infamous SolarWinds cyberattack in 2020. He was given the choice between a lengthy prison service or joining the FBI. Suffice to say he chose the latter and now gets to play MMATycoon for most of his day. Then you have Tycoon Judas aka Butch Harris aka Unstable Judas. He is clearly the groups wildcard responsible for providing unpredictable behaviour and cerebral shit talk. Both of these gents are SO badass that they didn’t even bother to test their fighters. Rounding them out is the Squirrelly one, Squirrelly Dan. He is said to stand six feet and seven inches and have the kind of hand span that leads woman to make some very generous assumptions about the size of his manhood. He did test his fighter but maybe wished that he didn’t. Who cares what fighters are on this team. This is the America and America is ALWAYS number one. Fuck Yeah. Predicted Group Finish: 1st Fighter Watch: Remington Knox Bhutan 135lbs: Genko Yeshuati (Peter of Rivia - #68 Best) 170lbs: James Penn (Steel Penn - #105 Best) 300lbs: Drangme Chhu (Joe River - #3 Best) Another dark horse team full of promise and wonder, the Bhutanese are our final team of the tournament and rounding out Group D. Three experienced managers will be bringing three largely untested specimens to do battle with only bantamweight Genko Yeshuati having seen any action inside the cage before this tournament starts. He showed some serious determination in his fight which will hopefully stand him in good stead throughout. 2009 OG’s Steel Penn and Joe River elected to Iron Man this one which, whilst you have to respect, it does leave us wondering just how good this Bhutan team can be? Predicting Bhutan to qualifying in second place here but that is largely based on the tenure of their managers. Should those unknowns be duds, it will make qualifying much less of a certainty Predicted Group Finish: 2nd Fighter Watch: Genko Yeshuati

EASY BUTTONS & TIME SAVERS FTW Help the userbase not BURN OUT by making their lives all around a little easier. Here are some very basic (imo) changes that need to be made ASAP. +1 this POST to increase the probability of getting something done. Clicking on the no sponsors or fighter is unsigned logo should result in a pop up to an offer sheet or at the very least a hyperlink to these pages with the ID number automatically put in. https://mmatycoon.com/clothingmanagersponsor.php https://mmatycoon.com/orgnewcontracts.php if you own an org, when you click on this logo there should be a popup (or at least a link connecting you) to a contract offer page/sheet. if you own a clothing/nutrition company, clicking on this logo should result in a sponsorship offer/sheet. If recruiting or sending sponsors this way, we shouldn't be required to input the ID numbers of fighters inside the box. It should appear in the Fighter ID(s) column like below. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY, PLEASE ADD A SELECT ALL BUTTON TO THIS. It can go at the top, or the bottom. I would also like to see an Auto-Renewal option for sponsorships. That would be super useful and a big time saver for a tedious task. Sponsorships don't really equate to profit. The money you have to spend to pay for sponsors is basically a loss. Let's not make the generous sponsors of tycoon endure cruel and unusual punishment of clicking every single fucking checkbox to re-send sponsors... REMOVING CLUTTER / FIX BROKEN SHIT MMA Tycoon :: Statistics (Year) - this page hasn't been updated since 2010. While it would've been cool to see updated yearly, it's just a waste of space now. You can delete it from existence, and nobody will miss it. The p4p ranking display in the commentary is and has been broken for year(s). If you can't fix it to make it properly display p4p rank and weight class ranks prior to the fight, just remove it and get rid of it. Reveal Hiddens is one of the coolest features to ever be implemented into the game imo. But you must FIX INJURY PRONENESS asap. It's programmed backwards. This guy scored a bad injury proneness rating (meaning he was prone to being injured) and his true injury value would be 17/150. I can't confirm if selecting injury proneness adds +30 to the injury proneness hidden, but if it does, then high injury proneness is a bad thing and selecting the never gets injured hidden actually makes your fighter more likely to get injured by +30 Add former #1 P4P Fidel "Pinoy Savage" Puno to the MMATycoon Hall of Fame. (being able to reveal his hiddens would be a bonus) Add former #1 P4P Joseph "Huesos" Jones to HOF Add former #1 P4P Barack Lesnar Add former #1 P4P Jesus "Chuey" Gonzalez Add former #1 P4P YB Sol Remove Ferdinand Cortes (Wolf-Gate) from Hall of Fame Fix names on some historic fighters that were changed by agent saboteurs: Mike Evans back to Phillip Dale The Coach back to Alistair Overeem Overoid Rei Trevis back to Anton Chigurh ADD CITIES(this will be the only thing the community doesn't unanimously agree on) In the USA you have Hilo and LA. How often has the UFC (or any other organization) ran events in those 2 cities IRL? How many of the TOP GYMS in the world are based in those two cities compared to a city like Miami? We have no Southern representation. Add Miami. I don't even like Miami but American Top Team has been a staple of the MMA community and based in Florida for the majority of MMA's glory years. American Top Team, Sanford MMA, MMA Masters, Blackzillions (RIP) - there are nearly 20 ATT's in the state of Florida, there's a bunch of Carlson Gracie and Gracie Berra BJJ gyms. Some of the BEST FIGHTERS in the WORLD train in SOUTH FLORIDA. The UFC has ran like 8 events since 2018 in Florida and expect a lot more in the near future. The UFC has run: 17 events in Florida (Miami, Tampa, Orlando Jacksonville) 8 events in Miami (Miami, Hollywood, Sunrise - all the same shit) 5 events in LA (16 events if you add Anaheim and Inglewood) 6 events in NYC (probably more if you count all the shitholes around NYC) 0 events in Hawaii UFC events outside the USA: 38 in Brazil 31 in Canada 27 in the UK 17 in Abu Dhabi 16 in Australia 9 in Japan 6 in Mexico 6 in China I said add cities, but going beyond Miami just leads to a lot of debate and some people want to scrap cities all together. So I'll separate the rest of my suggestions in the next post after the OP. Adding 1 CITY will not hurt the market, especially 1 that is guaranteed to be a popular destination and not an empty barren wasteland like Hilo. Adding others outside of Miami could end up like Hilo, Tokyo, Sydney, St. Petersburg, or Helsinki (sorry finns). Miami diverts the population and presense in LA, LV, and NY - all popular spots among the userbase. @MMATycoon @Alfred @TJMitchell @PBR @Zello @bjornmma1 @Mentor @CelticStryder @BuffMinion @762x39 @stpierrecanada @MarkyMark @Gutz @HareRumpler @Ramirez REMEMBER! This post is less about adding cities, and more about everything above it.

GOAT Heavyweight IRON MAN boxing tournament - Preview with Larry Holmes Good evening boxing fans. It's me, Larry. The Greatest. I've been asked to write some opinions about the upcoming IRON MAN boxing tournament's first round. I was ready to refuse, but $100 is $100. This is why I'm a millionaire and all these uneducated tramps are bankrupt. I should be in this tourney as clear favourite, but of course, they left The Easton Assassin out again. I know why this is, and why it's always been like this, it's because each and every fighter in this list is afraid to fight me. They had their trainers bribe the org and get me excluded. I guess they did the same to lock out the other best fighters, nearly in my class, like Leon Spinks, the second greatest of all time, for example. So here goes. I have ten fights featuring 20 assorted bums to preview.

WORLD CUP OF MMA Pre-Tournament Preview With all teams now fully registered and all fight offer now sent out, it's time to have a quick look at the teams participating and their chances of moving on from the Qualifying Group Stage. Group C China 135lbs: Autobot One (AL CORP) 170lbs: Autobot Three (AL CORP) 300lbs: Autobot Two (AL CORP) What do you do when you need to quickly fill a specific gap in a market shortage? Well, you import a load of crap from China of course! And that’s exactly what we have here. Three very likely useless, poorly built autobots that would be lucky to pick up a single individual win in this tournament. Completely untested and created slightly late, this Chinese team are dead certs for last place. Predicted Group Finish: 4th Fighter Watch: Don't Bother Mexico 135lbs: Ominous Odinson (Cynic Chris - #6 Best 170lbs: Loco Coco (Scottie 2 Hottie - #20 Best 300lbs: Judas Gonzalez (Albert Summertop - #22183 Best) Viva la Mexico! It’s the boys from south of the border. This team almost didn’t happen after Karter did his usual cowardly disappearing act but due to the awesomeness of a certain Albert Summertop, the team could finally be registered as complete. Of course Summertop is going to be an anchor of epic proportions so it’ll be down to the spicy taco Cynic Chris aka Miami Meat and his compadre Scottie 2 Hottie to steer this migrant train to glory. When properly motivated, Cynic Chris is as adept a scout as you’ll find and is often told by his many girlfriends that he “googles too deep”. A chance for him to step out of the small but imposing shadow of his alliance leader Chris Karter and finally get the attention and love he so desperately craves. Scottie 2 Hottie too has been leading a camp of highly regarded fighters of late and his welterweight Loco Coco looks to be a decent future prospect initially and possibly this teams MVP. Despite the major handicap in management staff, I’m picking Mexico to finish top of the group and move on into the next round. Predicted Group Finish: 1st Fighter Watch: Loco Coco Belgium 135lbs: Lucas Van Den Broeck (John Daugherty - #16 Best) 170lbs: Ryan Gordon (Antonio Maximus - #22 Best) 300lbs: Kurt Waffles (Anthony Partridge - #19 Best) Only a handful of good things come from Belgium like Jean Claude Van Damme, chocolate and waffles and owing to John Daugherty’s abysmal cursed run of luck in these types of tournaments, I doubt we will be adding this Belgium team to that list. On the management side, a collection of capable seasoned vets will be pooling their collective experience together in order to make it out of the group but on the fighter side, things are a little unclear. Uber Belgian Ryan Gordan is completely untested though he does have a sweet bio. Lucas Van Den Broeck at bantamweight looks to have a little firepower about him so he could potentially be one to watch but 300lber Kurt Waffles is still yet to have his first test fight at the time of writing so his potentially is still to be determined. Picking Belgium to just miss out on qualifying from this group though in truth, it could end up being a very competitive one and with Belgium getting some good results here and there. Prediction is based purely on the fact the tournament gods constantly smite John for some prior misgiving in an earlier life. *Waffles rolled Granite chin. Does that change things? Lets find out! Predicted Group Finish: 3rd Fighter Watch: Lucas Van Den Broeck Poland 135lbs: KO Kapustka (Gut Punch - #32 Best) 170lbs: Serwacy Smolarek (Roman Benson - #91 Best) 300lbs: Brave Hut (Forfiter elPolako - #25 Best) A proud nation of tough carpenters, bricklayers and plumbers made strong by the delicious and hearty flavours of bigos and pierogis. These winged hussars are about to swoop into the battlefield armed with sharp spears and hazelnut vodka. At bantamweight there is the big hearted KO Kapustka who might do well what looks like a predominately striker based group division and at 170lbs there is Serwacy Smolarek who is said to have some Polish Power level strength in those hands of his. Probably the most interesting of the trio though is 300lb Brave Hut. Named after a famous Polish pizza chain, he is said to have a pretty decent chin tried and tested in the many pubs and clubs of Warsaw. It’s going to be tooth and nail for those two qualifying spots in this group but I’m predicting this Poland team end up in one of them. Predicted Group Finish: 2nd Fighter Watch: Brave Hut

@Mentor - all the same game, no second server etc... Just a total revamp of the site and code to bring it up to the next level. You never know in future about a second server but that's not in the immediate plans. I'll be sending out a mass mail welcoming Vlad on board in a min... I'm very happy to have him on board and I'm sure you guys all will be too, when you see the updates start rolling out

The promo for this weekend's REAL Main Event has dropped! Check it out folks! (Also big shout out to Mae Joon for once again putting magic to work)

I'm gone for a little bit (ok, about two years I suppose) and now that I'm back you still haven't managed to kill off this dying game. By now it has been dying for longer than most games live goddammit! Sure the manager pool may have thinned a little further, but most of the dinosaurs still left won't leave until the next ice age. No, instead of the whole thing being flushed down a gold-plated toilet like I would have expected I'm seeing: Nice community initiatives 400K promising another burst of activity soon like big tournaments Old managers returning Cheaters getting their fingers slapped And.. actual development happening? Small steps at first but a huge step for the game. It may be calmer than it used to at the moment, but rather than the stillness of death I'm seeing some signs of life. And some disturbing signs as well to be honest.. looking at the rankings now. Why is everyone walking around bow-legged? Except for CK.. just sitting there smiling playing his banjo murmuring something about how they all squeal like pigs. Yeah, we definitely do need some fresh blood in here.. but if we got that we could make Tycoon great again.

Nikolai Valuev Lennox Lewis vs These fighters are, at least, grown men. Valuev can't fight, everyone knows that. He's just a clumsy giant. I'd beat him with one hand. Either one, you name it. POW! Jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, BOOM! His size wouldn't cause me a problem at all. Look how I took care of Butterbean. Lewis, I have a little respect for. He's a smart boxer (he had the sense to duck me during my comeback), but not as smart as me. Perhaps he would make the top ten. But who did he really fight? I beat Gerry Cooney! I'd figure him out. I'd go Jab, WHACK! Jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, BOOM! And just when he's expecting a jab, jab, whack, BOOM! I'd let him have a Jab, whack, jab, jab, BOOM! Game over Limey! I think Lennox will go Jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab quite a bit. In round 5 he'll finish it with a BOOM! But that's only a Lewis BOOM! It's not as good as a Larry Holmes' BOOM! Larry

Gene Tunney Wladimir Klitschko vs Tunney can box a little, and so can Wladimir. These guys look pretty even to me. Tunney is good at throwing real precise punches for sure. I'd give the edge in athleticism and power to Klitschko, but Tunney has never been KO'd, so who knows? Rumour has it that Klitschko's trainer had to be replaced at the last minute, and the guy they appointed doesn't have much of a reputation. Maybe that will be the deciding factor? These guys aren't real champions anyway. I could have fought them both at once. Jab, jab, jab, POW! Jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, BOOM! Larry

"Buy in Game Dollars with your VIP time" page.. Maybe these offers should expire after some time? There are offers on there from people who haven't even logged in for years.

Hello everybody…and welcome to…Sucker Punch Pro Series: EVOLUTION! What is this all about, you ask? SPPS closed doors just a few months ago after a failed changing of hands, didn’t it?!? The answer to that second question, is, “Yes, it did. And I, Hare, feel awful about the way things went after I turned the org over. But for all things that happen in life, sometimes they happen for a reason! A chance to step back, look at the landscape, see what’s going on, and see…where something new might be needed!” So now we move onto the first question…which is likely coupled with, “Evolution? What Evolution?” So let me answer that question, and I think that’ll set us up to get to all the rest! Over the past almost four months since I stepped away from Sucker Punch Pro Series, I’ve had the chance to sit back and think about some of the trends this game tends to see over and over again. I’ve been around for about four years now, so I’m not new at this point and I’ve had the chance to see not only the minor cycles the game goes through, but some of the bigger, longer trends that have happened as well. Let’s touch on that first part…the typical cycles. I think most of us have seen it…a new ID cycle comes around, say, 390k, 400k, whatever…and you immediately get anywhere (changes slightly over time as the game ages) from 2-5 new orgs popping up that want to run as restricted ID orgs for the new range. And what inevitably happens is one or two of them fall off quickly, either due to inexperience of the owners, or underestimation of the time required to run it well, or just boredom and quick burnout. Not all can survive and we see that happen pretty quickly, usually in the first month or two. Then a few last…for a bit. Eventually one or more of the owners wear down or have priorities in life change…and they either sell out…or merge…to another org. Now you’re down to one or two orgs remaining in that range. That’s usually in the six month to a year range…and then over time eventually you end up with maybe one remaining, if that, with very little choice for folks who have guys in those ranges who aren’t ready for unrestricted yet, but at the same time may not be happy with the way the existing orgs run, or maybe the orgs are being neglected a bit, whatever. Long story short, you get to a point where at least half of the folks in the unrestricted space for those ID’s want to fight restricted still, at least for a bit more, but don’t have many options. That’s where the 380-390k space is right now. There are a couple orgs remaining, but not many. And the few remaining fall into multiple categories…run well but packed to a degree, or neglected a bit with periods of inactivity, or in the case of one, actively looking to be sold and transferred. If you like options, and don’t want to go unrestricted, there may not be many for you at this point. But that will change over time…many of the 380k guys are getting close to ready for unrestricted, or already are. But some aren’t. Some of the guys closer to 385k may be in the same boat, but more are still looking to fight restricted a bit longer. And the scale slides a bit as you move along. THAT’S WHERE *PART* OF THE EVOLUTION KICKS IN!!! First, Sucker Punch Pro Series is rising from the ashes to step into that space. What space, you ask? The 380k+ space?!? Well, yes…and no! The answer is, “That slowly changing space over time where there’s a need for orgs to be around to support them, but one that morphs as we go, that doesn’t need to suddenly go unrestricted or die off…one where the ID scale…slides. Meaning, over time the range will move…eventually to 382k+…then 384k+…etc. As needed. As makes sense and fits the barren space that always seems to exist…and that exists more and more over time as the game does dwindle a bit. *** So for those who just want to know the straight answer: SPPS: Evolution will start up again at 380k+…for now. *** “But Hare, that’s not really an evolution is it?!? We’ve seen that tried a couple other times, more or less. What else makes this an Evolution?!?” Great question! Let’s get into that, because I think it’s part of what’s going to switch this from just fitting a need, to adding some fun value as well!!! SPPS: EVOLUTION BECOMES A PSEUDO ‘LADDER CHALLENGE’ ORG!!! Anybody who has been involved with me and SPPS previously knows darn well that I pride myself on trying to do something a little different, add something a little extra, whatever you want to call it. Not to become all egotistical and patting my own back much here, but I think it’s honest and true to say that SPPS was one of the few, if not one of the only, orgs in modern MMAT times to go completely from startup at restricted all the way to unrestricted…not only successfully…but in the process becoming one of the Top 2-3 orgs in the game. Talking to other peeps, the reasons for that were varied, but some of them were due to the write-ups, some due to the matchmaking, something we spent a TON of time focused on (well over half our time invested) and some of it due to simply trying our best to keep our manager engaged and involved. Those are things we’ll continue to try to do here again. But… …The biggest change here this time around will be the ladder challenge aspect of the org! We’ll be focused on fighter call-outs…giving lower P4P ranked fighters, which in many cases may translate to higher ID, lower aged, a chance to pick who they want to fight next...and allowing that to be the primary and first way that matchups are made. There will be many logistical rules around how that work that I’ll go over later, but suffice it to say that getting to the top will be a challenge. Staying at the top even more so! For many fighters in the org, given the space we’ll be filling, this will be something that prepares those who are getting ready to graduate to unrestricted the chance to really see what they’ve got and if they’re ready! Obviously, if there aren’t callouts on the board for fighters, then I’ll fall back upon my own matchmaking skills, which will probably come into play half the time, but I can assure you I’ll be spending quality time doing those just as before. And those who know me know that at the restricted level, I focus more on ID, age and primary skill evaluations much more than I do P4P rankings. P4P rankings are a primary concern once you graduate to unrestricted in my mind. But I know many of you still do look and care to some degree about that, so this org gives you a chance to focus on that aspect some...and choose your destiny as you work towards the top! Want to know more about the actual details of how this org will run going forward? Head on to the next post! But in the meantime, I’m excited to offer a new option for folks out there, and hope it serves some purpose for those who are looking for something a little different!

Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed guests, and fans of the sport, Today marks a monumental moment in the world of mixed martial arts as we gather to honor and celebrate the career of a true legend, Kilo "Bloodbath" Maluga. As he steps out of the cage and into the next chapter of his life, we reflect on the unparalleled legacy he leaves behind. Kilo Maluga isn't just a name; it's a symbol of dedication, resilience, and sheer dominance in the octagon. With a record of 67 wins and 15 losses, all wins achieved by TKO/KO, he didn't just defeat his opponents; he left an undenyable mark on the sport. Each fight was a testament to his unparalleled skill, unwavering determination, and unyielding spirit. His journey to greatness began 2018-10-06 when the Bloodbath all started. This date would mark the very start of the journey of one of he greatest to ever grace the sport. A 2022 Super Heavyweight Olympic gold medalist—a testament to his exceptional athleticism and prowess. His victories didn’t stop there; he went on to conquer the YB Sol Invitational Grand Prix, a feat that solidified his status as a force to be reckoned with. Let's not forget his astonishing 42 Synchronicity championships, a testament to his consistency and unrivaled abilities, 41 KO of the night awards, and 13 Fight of the night awards. The ring was his canvas, and with each fight, he painted a masterpiece of skill, strategy, and pure heart. In a sport where every match is a battle, Kilo stood out as the epitome of excellence. His dedication and passion for the craft earned him the coveted title of Fighter of the Year, in the years 2021-2022, a testament to his unwavering commitment to his sport and his fans. Beyond his incredible talent within the cage, Kilo "Bloodbath" Maluga was a role model—a beacon of inspiration for aspiring fighters worldwide. His sportsmanship, humility in victory, and grace in defeat are qualities that will continue to inspire generations of athletes to come. As he hangs up his gloves, let us not dwell on the fights won or lost but rather celebrate the legacy of a true champion. Kilo, your impact on the world of MMA is immeasurable. Your name will forever be etched in the annals of MMA Tycoon history, and your contributions will continue to echo through the arenas for years to come. On behalf of the fighting community and fans worldwide, I raise a toast to the man who has never put it in the judges hands Kilo "Bloodbath" Maluga—a legend, a warrior, and an inspiration. Thank you for gracing us with your unparalleled talent and for being an embodiment of what it means to be a true champion. Cheers to your incredible journey, and may your retirement be as fulfilling as your legendary career.

*NOW OPEN!* WHO? Heroes of Rio Kickboxing Federation is open and actively recruiting for weight classes 155-265+, with 135 and 145 possibly opening with enough interest. HEROES will operate on a ‘hybrid’ ID restriction. The 155, 185, and 265 lb weight classes will be Restricted to the 390k ID range while the 170, 205, and 265+ weight classes will be completely Unrestricted. WHAT? To separate ourselves from run of the mill MMA orgs, our match formats will feature fewer and shorter rounds to reduce energy loss, cuts, and injuries with the tradeoff hopefully being more fights and quicker turnaround. Restricted weight classes will fight 2 rounds of 3 minutes as a standard bout, with title fights eventually being 3 rounds of 3 minutes to mitigate draws as much as possible. Unrestricted weights will start at 3 rounds of 3 minutes with title fights being 5 rounds of 3 minutes. All matches will utilize a 10 point must scoring system and will take place in a ring hopefully to limit prolonged clinching, similar to real life. The idea behind all of these decisions is to provide a fast paced, action packed experience! WHEN? Recruiting is open now! We will be actively scouting all of the above stated weight classes to build a robust and active KT roster. If you are interested in being a part of HEROES, send all contract requests to Rush “Flipper” Grayson in game! This thread will serve as our ‘smack talk’ thread. Watch this space for any and all HEROES content!

So I don't think it's particularly fair I write a preview for this because one side is just much more faster, stronger, more handsome, smart, better at giving hugs, emotionally available, and also talented. The other side also happens to have a scottie, but that's about it. But against my better judgement: Georgia vs. Mexico Final Preview 135lb Mikheil Berishvili vs Ominous "Where's Alfred's demanding nationality requirements now?" Odinson This Mexican team is full of frauds! Ominously, this is the type of team that the corrupt ruling body has had to send to try and stop the glorious march of Georgia. Allegedly born in Mexico with a name that really reflects his parent's alleged Vatican roots, Odinson openly admits conning the authorities to let him into the competition. You can't fool us - Team Georgia at one point WAS Team Vatican City (until Alfred said no). We know a true Vatican City brother when we see one, and you aint it. Odinson is a plant! More dodgy than a used car salesman from Florida. Nationality aside, Odinson's coaching been shrouded in deep mystery. Manager meat has been suspiciously quiet, allegedly discovering Tinder and Gym about 10 years after everyone else. With this occupying most of his time, it's incredible that Odinson remains the only undefeated fighter in the competition. Granted he's had to deal with tough competition such as Autobot One, it's still a nice curiosity. Luckily from Team Georgia, we have a fighter that continues to break the mould and snatch wins from much more fancied opponents. After making Alfred's cheatcode of a roll his 4th wife, Mikheil Berishvili will be looking to reach for the stars again and clamp down on this fraudster. I don't need to write much about him because it's already been said, but I rate his chances as "Very Nice"/10 to pick up a stunning victory if he can dodge those hands. 170lb Buck Bolkvadze vs Loco Coco "Pops with warm milk please" Probably the only genuine Mexican on the roster, Loco Coco saw I was talking shit about his mediocre results so far and he ended up winning his semi-final matchup to give Team Mexico the overall win. In a way, he has some similarities to our hero Buck Bolkvadze. Similar height, similar attributes, similar comfort in the clinch. However, that's where it ends. Buck's a diverse finisher that can do it on the feet and on the ground. He has multiple tools in the clinch and can smash people at range with his kicks. Mr Coco Pops has some boxing and managed to pitter patter his way to a decision against Peacock in the clinch, but his ground stats are all faked from his first test fight. Team Mexico and Frauds, name a more iconic duo? We'll wait. "But what about his win over Peacock?" I hear you say. Well knowledgeable fans will know that Buck forgot to actually gameplan against Peacock in their match, and simply gave up after realising his teammates had already finished their Australian opponents. No need to expend that extra energy. Fight smarter, not just harder. While we are true believers in MMA Math, it's when all the variables are equal and not including Team Georgia's use of 'Moral Victories'. Subsequently, Coco Pop's best win so far (a UD) doesn't really matter that much heading into this fight. Buck to finish this cereal pest any way he wants (if he feels like it)*. Clinch pull guard sub? Knee to the face? Axe Kick? Tune in to find out. *If Buck loses it's because he didn't feel like winning due to being so gracious to his opponents. 300lb Robbie Banks vs Judas CONzales The third Team Mexico fraudster is in the house! Conzales has significant direct links to the competition organiser. How's that for integrity? That 1-4 record has really carried Team Mexico, and there should be an investigation into how this Conster even made it to this competition. Between him and Odinson, if this competition had any integrity the decision to make would be to disqualify Team Mexico, but alas, the Tycoon Dollars have been exchanged and the attempted fix has been put in. To keep it short, he doesn't have a chance against the big hearted Robbie Banks if it was a fair fight. Conzales only cut Wallaby once in their fight, which ominously doesn't bode well for his chances of putting down the immortal Robbie Banks. Wallaby cuts more than any emo I've ever seen, but Conzales barely tickled him. Robbie on the other hand is this time REALLY taking his time to consider the fight. He's been fooled into a dance off twice in a row now versus teams with very influential spy agencies. Team Mexico on the other hand? I'm not sure what their intelligence service is even called - it certainly doesn't get movies made about it. I guess it's always a possibility that actually they have the best one because no one has ever heard of it. You'll never look at the aunties on each street corner selling tamales the same again. They could all be spies! Fortunately for Team Georgia, Bank's manager Scootz has been doing some IRL research into Latino culture if you know what I mean. We expect this counter-intelligence to help significantly. I expect Robbie to prove that third time's the charm and to get Conzales down and beat him until he wants no more. With some discussed tweaks, we should see Robbie back to his smothering best and get the big dub.

Mexico vs. Australia Preview So because they might feel left out, I have decided to also do a Mexico vs Australia preview. Team Georgia has actually faced off against Australia already, hence why I am also assuming the position of expert to write this preview. I guess if anything, this proves that Group A was the best since it ended up being a close finish to progress and now both representatives have reached the semi finals. Team 'Losing on Technicalities' Sweden and Team "Nice" Djibouti must both be filthy they got put in such a competitive group. I don't quite remember which group Team Mexico were from, but I'm sure they were very friendly, though obviously inferior to Group A overall. 135lb Ominous "I'm really Mexican" Odinson vs Mick "Now this is a Noife!" Taylor This is a very interesting matchup with both guys doing incredibly well in their matchups so far and being real lynchpins for their team. Odinson has won every single fight of his so far, including tryharding his own trial, with a pretty peculiar looking build on the surface. He appears to have primaries in a bit of everything and doing his best to trick everyone into thinking he's a brand new player with a build like that. Who knew Coach Meat was a spreader? On the other hand, Mick Taylor also almost has a perfect record, with his only blemish coming against our abovementioned Georgian hero Mikheil Berishvili. His gameplan revolves around grabbing people without their consent (seemingly a theme in this Aus team) and deploying his ground game. However, he's yet to really face anybody that could knock his block off and Odinson definitely has some juice. However, because it's 135, smart money would be on the King of No Consent on the Aus team and his manager PJ to get some ground control and get a win. It's definitely still an open book though, as it would be foolish to underestimate Odinson and the power of gym + Tinder behind him. 170lb Loco Coco "Nut" vs Drew "A" Peacock Moving to the 170 matchup, we've got two guys with some chin and so far, a mixed campaign. Loco recently came in clutch to help defeat the rampaging Scots, while Drew had the most impressive performance of the tournament against fan favourite Buck Bolkvadze. It's not particularly fair to say anybody is anchoring teams that have made it this far, but it's also the truth to say that these guys have both had indifferent campaigns so far. Because of that, it's every bit as pivotal as the 135 matchup. Where that might be a (tiny) unstoppable force vs a (tiny) immovable object, this is more kind of a "yeah these guys were also part of the team" situation. I'm not sure anybody would have picked that before this campaign though, given the two managers behind them. The winner will be decided by who gets to dictate where the fight takes place. I was memeing about Monkey's patented "wrestling primaries to fool them into thinking I'm a grappler if they don't look closely but I'm actually a clincher" build, but Peacock legitimately actually is that with a hard head behind it. Loco Coco on the other hand fights more at range and this is where he'd want to use his small reach advantage. To be honest, I'd prefer a danceoff instead to show us who the real king of the streets is. 300lb Ryan "but in a streetfight, bro" Wallaby vs "Literally" Judas Gonzalez Wait a second, who is this manager behind Gonzalez? The conspiracy deepens! Corruption! I blame the CIA. Then you have Hopson, who really seems like the kind of bloke who would love Mexicans. A perfect matchup for him. Both these fighters like to stand and bang. They do their best to imitate all the Kimbo Slice videos they've watched online because on these tough streets, there's no such things as rules (except for no grappling allowed, no low blows, sportsmanship reach arounds mandatory, etc). It's a tough one to pick because "Streetfight" Wallaby would probably be given the edge on a regular basis, but he has shown he's a bit of an emo cutter. Overall, it's my expert opinion that Team Australia may have what it takes to turn the boats back and send Team Mexico back to their nice weather and delicious food. However, it's really tight to call and all three matchups could really go in either direction. Either way, neither of them have anything for Team "Moral Victory" Georgia who have obviously won the tournament regardless of the actual results vs Engerland in their future semi.

Quarter-Final Recap Greetings good people. I have to admit that this tournament has not quite been the fun filled, write up extravaganza that was promised at the start and for that, you really only have yourselves to blame. If not for your palpable apathy and general Alex K-esque eeyore like attitudes, I’m sure that I would have been far more motivated to document this glorious tournament with the enthusiasm that it deserves. Anyway, as I had a few minutes to spare, I thought I would give a brief recap of recent events. First matchup of the knockout stages featured the fake Georgian team taking on the real Americans. They tried fighting for the rights of every man but after such a stellar group stage performance, it all came crashing down and now it hurts inside. One positive for them however is that Remington Knox’s overworked back can now breath a sigh of relief after carrying both his teammates the entire way. He bows out of the tournament with an undefeated 4-0 record. Not the only high flyer to have been kneecapped by his team but still noteworthy. Next up, fighting for King and Country, the valiant English team dispatched the filthy waffle eaters of Belgium with a similar ease as how they single-handedly saved the world from Nazi occupation. Many thought that Belgium might have given them a fight after moving through the group stage undefeated but no, clearly they had not faced anyone of England’s might and as soon as they did, they melted like the chocolate teapots that they are. On the other side of the bracket we had Team Mexico continuing to make a mockery of this tournament after brushing aside surprise outfit Team Scotland. Up until now, the bastard Scots had shocked everyone they had faced and managed to conquer their group undefeated. Mexico on the other hand just about managed to slip through their group like an illegal across the Rio Grande. Somehow though they managed to overcome the surprise strength of the sickly, pale looking zombies from the greylands and move into the Semi-Finals of the tournament. The final match up of the knockout stages featured high flying Indonesia who had also managed to carve through their group undefeated facing off against the flukey Aussies who wouldn't have even been here but for a technicality. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, Australia decided to step it up a little bit and start to look like the team they were expected to be. Bad timing for Indonesia as they went down two fights to one and exit the tournament after some very impressive results. So now the Semi-Finals are looking a little like this. Georgia vs. England Mexico vs. Australia It should be another exciting round of World Cup action so don’t forget to tune in to see what happens.

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Joe Frazier Mike Tyson vs No disrespect to Tyson at all, but he is an angry little dwarf. He's only this high! I fought him once. Bit of an embarrassing story, but I'll tell it anyway. So, I'm fighting Tyson and completely out boxing the punk, but I keep sipping over! I don't know if it was my footwear or the canvas, but every now and then I would just slip and fall on my ass! I'm a pro, so I kind'a just shrugged it off and carried on. Then, would you believe it, I slip again and my shorts get snagged on the canvas edging, and I can't get up! The referee completely misrepresents events and calls it a KO! Robbed again! I think Don King had the whole thing planned. Referee bribed, canvas greased. All a set up. I have to admit, Tyson punches quite hard. Not Ernie Shavers or Ken Norton hard, but quite hard. He got me a couple of times as I was already slipping over and couldn't defend myself. Not putting Tyson down, he's a great guy, but he is a cheating hoodlam and a disgrace to boxing. Frazier is a real fighter from the 1970s, when Men were Men. He was a furious puncher and didn't stop moving forward. That wasn't my style at all, but I probably would have been the best ever at that too if I'd tried. He beat Ali once and even came out victorious from a fight with the legendary Jerry Quarry. Those were the days. I never got to fight him, he retired just to dodge me, but I did beat up his son. Larry says that Frazier gets the win. Tyson would save Frazier the trouble of chasing him and be right there trading for Frazier to KO with a hook from hell. Of course Frazier is better. All these fighters from the 90s and later are useless. The 1970s were Ok, but the real Golden Age was the 80s, and I was the greatest of all! Enjoy the fights - Larry

George Foreman Tyson Fury vs George Foreman is a bully. A big brute who can't box. He dodged me his whole career. He is so overrated! His punches are predictable. They're gonna hurt, but a great fighter like me, would dance all around, making him miss. Ali tried that in their fight, but Ali didn't have the skill I have, so he gave up and sat on the ropes. Luckily for him, George is stupid and tired himself out anyway and got KO'd. Later, Ali pretended that the whole tactic was deliberate. Yeah, right. If George hadn't always ducked me, I would have done the job properly. His 'George Foreman Grill' is overrated too. I could have designed it better. If it's so healthy, why's he so fat? Tyson punches hard, and no fighter wants to be hit by him. He often feints, and opponents can find it hard to get into the rhythm they want to be in. In fact he is quite unpredictable generally. You need to be a real master of the game, like me, to keep concentration and avoid getting hurt. I could beat him of course with some of my trademark Jab, jab, jab, BOOM! Tyson isn't as smart as me, but he's smart enough to beat lumbering George. Larry says Fury wins by KO. Larry

Sonny Liston Muhammed Ali VS Hey didn't these guys fight before? Sonny Liston is not in my league as a boxer. He is all big and scary, but he's not smart like me. He'd be trying to KO me and shit, but I would be going jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, BOOM! Jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, BOOM! Not in my league. Oh look everyone, it's old Bigmouth himself. Muhammed Ali. Not even his real name. I beat him. He could be the best boxer at heavyweight, apart from myself, Spinks, Shavers and Cooney. This man calls himself "The Greatest" but I'm The Greatest. He stole that name from me. When I was just a kid on welfare back in Easton, no older than nine or ten, I made that name up for myself - Even before I took up boxing! There's just no way Ali thought of it first. Ali and I used to be close. We would spend the days sparring. I'd be teaching him everything he knows. Just two buddies working out. One day, I told Ali about my plan to be known as The Greatest. He stole my idea. Last time these guys fought, Liston was beaten. He knew Ali was in the ring, but Ali was so skinny he couldn't see him properly. It was like trying to fight a dangling piece of string he told me later. Ali's put on some weight since then, so let's see if it makes a difference. Ali's hard to KO and too stupid to know when he's losing. I believe this gives him the advantage in this rematch. I'd beat either of them. Larry

Jack Johnson Rocky Marciano vs Are these old timer's still fighting? Jack Johnson is hard to hit. I know because I am too. Virtually every fighter, except me, would have trouble finishing this guy. He's pretty badass. I think it's going to take someone who can at least match him for height and build to defeat him. I'm big enough, but they didn't invite me, did they? Rocky Marciano couldn't hold my jockstrap. Hehe. I know I've used that one before, but it always gets a laugh! What did Rocky do anyway? He fought a few guys, sure. He retired undefeated, sure. He beat up Mr T, sure. He's white, so what? My record is better. I fought real fighters. In the 1970s and 1980s, when Men were Men. I could have retired undefeated if I wanted to. I'd have gone jab, jab, whack, whack, jab, jab, jab, jab. Then jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, BOOM! All the crowd would be singing Larry! Larry! Then there'd be some really moving music, and everyone, especially chicks, would say "You did it Larry. You really are The Greatest!" Johnson will win this one. Larry

Evander Holyfield Jack Dempsey vs Holyfield is a good fighter, he knows how to jab and follow it up, but I'm better. I fought him once, but it was fixed. I won that fight. Right at the end, I caught a glimpse of the scorecard and it made me vomit - Literally! Those fixed judges had Holyfield ahead! Those guys are criminals. I waited for hours in the car park afterwards, hoping to kick his ass in a street fight like I did Trevor Birbick, but he didn't show up. I think that says it all. Jack Dempsey? That kid is too small man. I would have him at arm's length, I'd be saying "come on boy, hit me if you can!" and he'd be all tiny and angry. He'd come at me all mad and swarmy. I'd go Jab, jab, jab, WHACK! Jab, jab, BOOM! Fighting the best boxer-puncher that ever lived is no job for a child. Come and try me when you grow up Dempsey! They say Dempsey has the best trainer in the business, but I think Holyfield will take this one with some good combinations at just the right time. Larry

WORLD CUP OF MMA Pre-Tournament Preview With all teams now fully registered and all fight offer now sent out, it's time to have a quick look at the teams participating and their chances of moving on from the Qualifying Group Stage. Group B England 135lbs: Luke Smith (Alfred Winterbottom - #6 Best) 170lbs: Charles Traynor (Jimmy Normal - #60 Best) 300lbs: Vyvyan Bastard (Monkey !!! - #5 Best) It would be easy to say that this here is the team that will dominate this tournament from beginning to end without much trouble but then that would seem pretty cocky and the English aren’t known for their cockinesses. Instead I will just say that this is a very good team that is likely to dominate the tournament from beginning to end and is likely to do so without much trouble. One little hiccup was that Monkey decided to be clever and not test his fighter so it’s very possible that 300lber Vyvyan Bastard is a useless pile of shit but as Monkey seems to be some kind of tournament wizard, we’ll forgive him. Luke Smith at 135lber looks to be the most obvious MVP of the team with his chin made of iron and his genius manager Alfred Winterbottom guiding him to glory. Rounding out the team is some Canadian weirdo who seems to have a thing for the Queen. Clearly going to stomp the group and then probably win the whole thing. God save the King! Predicted Group Finish: 1st Fighter Watch: Luke Smith Wales 135lbs: Callum Walsh (Dillo The Manager - #183 Best) 170lbs: Robbie Mullen (Dillo The Manager - #183 Best) 300lbs: Jeremy Corbyn (Bob Slay - #127 Best Well well well boyo, if it isn't the bastard Welsh. Highly inbred and terribly stupid. Also sheep aficionados of the highest order. To be honest, they’re pretty harmless overall but every now and again they get a little above their station and the English have give them a little kicking just to remind them who’s boss. Exactly what’s about to go down here actually. Just two managers make up this poor excuse of a Welsh team and their fighters don’t look too bad at the lowest two weights. A shame they are managed by notorious Panda hater Dillo The Manager. I’m predicting these guys to be the groups whipping boys though they might do a little better if they can get a good result against the Scots. They’ve no chance against the English though that’s for damn sure. Predicted Group Finish: 4th Fighter Watch: Robbie Mullen Canada 135lbs: Michele Rene Gaspard (Todd Westacott - #27 Best) 170lbs: Brody McDonald (Bradley Burns - #1 Best) 300lbs: Jean Francois LaFleur (Jason Swanson - #5 Best) Canada eh? America’s less cool and less freedom loving little cousin. To make matters worse they tend to speak French too. Well, French-ish. The actual French can’t understand them all that well so can you really call it French? Either way, no one likes the French. Anyway, these three maple slurping goons could pose a problem to the other teams in this group with three capable managers including consistent #1 Bradley Burns. Luckily he hasn’t bothered to test so his 170lber Brody McDonald could be a dud. Probably their best looking fighter is big Jean Francois LaFleur who is said to have few teeth and heavy hands. Not quite sold on the fighters as yet but the management team here is solid. Predicting that Canada make it out of this group but in second place behind the might of England. Predicted Group Finish: 2nd Fighter Watch: Jean Francois LaFleur Scotland 135lbs: Sir Randy Elliot (Master Tessin - #64 Best) 170lbs: Alex Gray (Cope T - #13 Best) 300lbs: Panda McLeod (Pika Choo - #31 Best) If there’s one thing worse than the bastard Welsh, it’s the bastard Scots. Skirt wearing, Irn Bru guzzling, pale, pasty, miserable and now all of a sudden soft. These Scottish lads are going to find things very tough against some solid competition. Welterweight Alex Gray could be a solid prospect for them but it’s Sir Randy Elliot at bantamweight that looks like the real star of the team. Guided by Master Tessin who just had a great run in the League of Madness tournament, he’ll no doubt be hoping he can bring that good form over into this tournament as well I have the Scottish finishing third in the group but to be honest it wouldn’t surprise me to see them pull off an upset somewhere along the lines. Strong looking fighters and three managers that are more than capable on their day. Predicted Group Finish: 3rd Fighter Watch: Sir Randy Elliot

UPDATE Into the last week of testing and deciding teams now. Deadline for registering teams and fighters is this coming Sunday (30th April) It's looking like we'll be able to run a 16 team format which would be perfect. Have about half of the teams signed up in full with some stragglers elsewhere and a couple of last minute sacrificial lambs to fill the gaps. Just a reminder about weights as stated from the very beginning. 135lbs (Must be created at 135lbs and remain there for duration of tournament) 170lbs (Must be created at 170lbs and remain there for duration of tournament) 265lbs+ (Must be created at 300lbs and remain there for duration of tournament) Ship has sailed for being created at those weights but can still make sure fighters are there come fight time. Pretty sure most are aware now but just in case, a final warning. Any fighter over or under on the day will go down as a maximum point loss. No more Weightgate Willie this time around. LIKELY FORMAT 16 Teams 4 Groups of 4 (drawn at random) Teams face each other once Top 2 teams per group qualify for knockout stages. Bottom 2 teams per group eliminated. Knockout stage will consist of Quarter-Final (4 more teams eliminated) Semi-Final (4 remaining teams sorted into 3rd Place & Final Match Up) 3rd Place Match (To decide Bronze medallists) & Final (To decide Gold and Silver medallists)

LOM Season 3 Finale Saturday Night in Montreal the Long and Arduous journey of the four LOM 3 Finalist will come to an end. They will all be unleashed onto their Natural habitat properly. For two men there will be a Championship title on the line, and for the other two Just a Million dollars in blood money for now. All four will head into their 5 rounders with purpose though and that is to become the League of MADNESS Champion! Interesting enough the Inaugural League of Madness Winner Mohammed Kahn will be fighting the very next Day at Combate. I got a feeling a few of these guys could be Future Headliners for a big org too, if they say their Prayers and there TRT Vitamins like good little boys. With this said let me turn things over to the Long Time League of Madness Reporter Mr. Madness himself, to preview these two LOM3 Finals matchups! Good evening, ladies and Murderers! It has been yet another violently disturbing season of the League of Madness. Team Hitler, I mean Team Alfred systematically jerked the carpet from right under the opposing team's feet. In my opinion it all started when their top pick rearranged the other sides #1 picks face in week 3. Team Gwad however did have one little Hillbilly glimmer of Light in that outspoken Aussie Outlaw JJ Hopson, I kind of like the kid. If you ever want to get out of this MMA nonsense come see me Jessie James, I will make ya a real outlaw Kiddo! All in all, it has been fun, and I had a good laugh so let's end this Circus in style, shall we! Bantamweight Midget Final! A new CFC champion will be crowned as are first two LOM finalist face off in the Mini man bracket. This one is gonna be an Irritatingly fun shindig as "The Runt of Outlaws" looks to yap his opponents big dumbo ears right off with his Over inflated dreams. For crying out loud I'm not happy that a man given the name Irritator would be so damned quiet, maybe he was given the name because his Daddy is a prick. This would explain why the kid has gotten this far, My daddy was a real prick too and look where it's gotten me in life! Jessie James Hopson has quite the impressive beard for a 19-year-old degenerate, I guess it's something in the water down there in the Land down under aye mate? Hopson stole the show in Week 1 with a Counter Takedown and pure dominance on the mat against Hamzah Barnaby. He then went on to call out one of the more feared Cheesers in all the land Parmesan Cheese, as he grated him nicely in rounds 2 and 3 in route to a Unanimous Decision victory. In the Semi Finals JJ was matched up with a guy in a suit and tie, with the intent to make the other guy DIE! unfortunately for Phil Sprintin though His performance in rounds 2 and 3 where about as bad as that recent rhyme I just dropped for ya. This Hopson kid has shown that he comes alive in the Later rounds, where he likes to rabbit punch the ever-living hell out of his victims. Randy The Irritator "Tessin" has quite possibly the most unorganized name I have ever seen in my miserable life. With his Performance here in the LOM3 tourney though, we will let it slide this time. Randy would have to be considered the Darkhorse of the tournament being picked in the tenth round. Now I love a guy who has a chip on his shoulder and Irritator has to have one because he has really disrupted the establishments order in this show, with his drive. Randy took out Von Vincent in the opening round with a Guillotine submission. In round two The Irritator shocked his Teammate Gaston Juncker by winning a Vigorous decision verdict. Finally in the semi's he took all that transgression out on Zane Raven with a dominant 3rd round TKO victory. Now that's what I call a Hat trick laddy! Honestly, I like both of these little guys and I'm truly excited for the Violence that should be coming in this one. Matter of fact I need to be in the cage for this one maybe I will be a surprise guest referee for this fight. After all I am a man of many talents. Hopson vs The Irritator winner will be crowned the very first CFC Bantamweight Champion along with a nice Million of Butcherino's hard earned Avatar making cash. Now boys don't drop the ball here it's a MAD, MAD world we are living in, and we want BLOOD and VIOLENCE now give it to us. Manager spotlight: JJ Hopson was brought to the kumite of Madness by none other than the King of Consent himself Jason Hopson and something tells me this little vigilante of enthusiasm is basically Jason in Bearded disguise. This was Jason's first Tournament experience as I was told, and he came into this with a cockiness like no other and has backed it up in style. On the other hand, Master Tessin has really made a name for himself in this tournament as well. He himself recalls his recent trend in these types of dealios' as a disgusting act of pain and suffering. Randy the Irritator though has brought life into this veteran MMA manager, as it has shown in other recent Tournaments like the Winter Warfare. Super Heavyweight Monster Final! Now let's bring out the Clowns, I mean Beef, and there is none beefier then the "Beef King" himself Lenny King. Meanwhile the man, the myth, the legend Apollo Creed has shown to be nothing short of excellence ducking and weaving himself into the Main Stage for the LOM3 finale. All jokes aside these two monsters have been ruthless killers from start to finish and one of these Monsters will have their LOM Season cemented with yet another Highlight reel KO very Soon. If not well the jokes on me, and a little secret the jokes never on me. Someone will get knocked the Funk out here. Once the Music "Living in America" hits be ready cause the man of the hour Apollo Creed will strut his way down to the cage like only he can do. Where have I seen this guy? It's almost like he jumped right out of the Movie screen yet I just can't put it all together. Anyway, Creed has proven to have some of the most Dream shattering KO Power in recent years as displayed in all three of his One Punch KO finishes. His first fight he went superman on dat ho, known as Schendon Braub with a vicious Superman Punch in round numero uno. In his second-round fight, he took out his Teammate and #1 pick Dante McGinley in just 32 seconds with a walk off KO. Finally in the Semifinals going against Evil Hitlers orders. "to take the fall", Apollo took out yet another Teammate in Carlo Pedersoli with a flash KO just 5 seconds into the second round of their semifinal matchup. On the other side of this battle of the Behemoths is a guy who somehow has looked more deadly than even Mr. Creed, finishing all of his opponents in the very first round. If I had to pick one guy from this tournament to use as a stick-up man, it has to be this Bold bearded ALABAMAAAAA bastard right here. I mean who's going standup to this monstrosity of a man, unless you got a Bazooka on hand, which I always do! Kings path of violence started in very similar fashion to Creed with a Superman punch KO of Kadaris Thibodeaux. Thank f$$k they didn't call it the Batmanpunch or I would be a bitter Betsy for having to spew that nonsense multiple times. His second round fight he somehow took down the Giant himself Randal Clappertron after an early Knockdown scare, in what can only be portrayed as 29 seconds of Earth-Shattering Chaos. And finally in the Semi Finals it was quite embarrassing for King, as it took him a staggering 2 minutes and 46 seconds to finish off another teammate in Oliver Hardy, disgusting big guy you should ashamed it took you that long! No Title on the line here as The Beef King has chosen to put his MMA career on hold for a little while(Probably got some pig F44king to do back home in the holler). This won't take away from this showdown one bit though, as someone is going to have their face impaled surely hahahahahahahah, forgive my laughter, I have condition ya see. If this does somehow, someway go to a boring Decision, rest assure I will burn the damn Montreal Sports Complex to the ground! Manager Spotlight: Young Man Joe River has done it yet again! The man pulling the strings behind LOM 1 Runner up Ralph McGuire is back in the Finals with another young prospect. This time around, he got a ill sweet redemption beating his old foe Chris Karter's pupil Dante McKinley in stunning fashion. Now a three Time LOM competition manager, Joe River, we salute you! On the other end of the cage will be Squirrely Dan returning to the LOM for his second appearance, this time making a huge statement with his entrant. Dan has been on quite the role of his own. Much like Tessin, he is still hanging around in the Winter Warfare tournament as well. Dan and Joe, two members of the Wolfpack. Like a real wolfpack there is always going to be a chest beating contest, and tomorrow night will see which wolf's howl will reign supreme. "Parting is such sweet sorrow, dearest. Still, you can't say we didn't show you a good time. Enjoy yourself out there in the asylum. Just don't forget: If it ever gets too tough, there's always a place for you here." -Mr. MADNESS

Winter Warfare Round 5 The remaining rounds of the Winter Warfare tournament will be both previewed and reviewed by yours truly, Rush Grayson! I have been granted the special privilege of dissecting the remaining fighters and matchups to really put emphasis on this expansive and prestigious 390k creation tournament! What started as a field of 34 now only contains 12 of the fiercest creations in the entire ID range and possibly out of any currently running creation tournament! Now without further ado, we’ll preview the fights of round 5 of this double elimination tournament. Starting with the Winner’s Bracket! Winner’s Semifinals Randy No Neck vs. Caius Marius Winter Warfare Lineal Championship While not the first match on the card this one is one of the most intriguing. Master Tessin, piloting the latest in his army of Randy themed creations, has put on an impressive showing in tournament play as of late. Having overtaken one half of the Billy-Waddy Stepdad Connection already, and having multiple paths to victory, it wouldn’t be unrealistic if the Tess Express just rolled on through Stepdad Station en route to the next round. The other half of this fight is Caius Marius, a GWad creation of Roman styling. Caius has had some extremely impressive development during this tournament and looks to out-primary the rest of the field by a wide margin. The results speak for themselves and say that Caius is a definite threat to take the whole tournament. Ruslan Beznisko vs. Percival Nerdspoof The 3rd The other Winner’s Bracket fight is between two submission monsters with very little in the way of striking. On paper these two are both very distinguished and evenly matched on the ground, and you could probably bet the house that they get the fight there as quickly as possible. One interesting thing to note is that while both men have shown pedigree in the ground game, Percy Nerdspoof has only faced other grapplers since the word go and not only has he finished them all, he managed in less than 2 rounds. Ruslan will definitely be his toughest test on that front, and is a definite threat to “The Keyboard Warrior” in his mat-based neighborhood. Loser’s Quarterfinals Fun Fact: All but one of the fighters in the lower bracket took their L from one of the 4 remaining fighters in the upper bracket. From here on out there’s high potential for rematches and VENGEANCE. Nagatsuki Hideki vs. Choke Gracie A classic striker vs grappler matchup, this fight is unique in that it features one of the most dangerous entrants in the tournament vs one of the most resilient. Hideki makes no bones about it, he’s here to take your head off as quickly and as violently as possible. Boasting 3 KO victories of his 4 wins, look for Hideki to shove his fist down Gracie’s throat early and often. Gracie, on the other hand, will look to take the best of Hideki and keep on coming while trying to drag him to the mat and drown him in GNP and submission attempts. It’s to be noted that Gracie was not tested prior to this tournament and boasts the legendary “Good in Bed” TotT. Be ready for absolutely anything in this fight because there’s no telling what could happen! Keith Chegwin vs. Rashaun Kinkead Another dangerous striker vs another submission specialist. You would think the organizer of the tournament was doing this on purpose! Monkey, the Winter Warlord himself, is featured in this next match with dangerous striker Keith Chegwin facing off against Rashaun Kinkead with Squirrely “I only fight my alliance mates” Dan at the helm. Much like the previously mentioned matchup, look for flying fists and someone to go skittering across the mat either from a hellacious blow to the head or slick and slippery grappling. Also like the previous matchup, this one is wide open and absolutely anything can happen. You don’t get this far in a big tournament by being a bum. Azad Bekzod vs. Leonard Foster Certainly my pick for the best nickname of the tournament, Azad “Uzbek Gut Check” Bekzod squares off with Leonard Foster in yet another freaking striker-grappler matchup. This one is at least different in that Azad operates mainly out of the clinch. Bekzod seems to have found a home on the famine side of the board as opposed to the feast side, notching a pair of TKO victories since meeting Randy No Neck in the first round. No doubt he’s seeing red at the idea of possibly getting grappled to death again and this matchup is going to be key to his future success with the vast majority of remaining entrants having some kind of grappling chops. While being a grappler comes with a certain stigma, Leonard Foster prefers to beat his victims to a pulp rather than choke them out and that might be what separates him from the rest of the field. Having unfortunately been on the receiving end of a Ruslan Beznisko armbar, Foster looks to return to his winning ways and beat Bekzod unconscious. Domino Hurley vs. Jalo Ilmarinen I’m running out of ways to describe this particular kind of matchup so I’m not even going to bother. Instead, I will focus on what is different and exciting because there’s nothing worse than saying and reading the same thing over and over again. Both of these fighters are well rounded, but in different ways and have excelled against different types of opponents. Domino Hurley has faced a pure grappler, a pure kicker who didn’t throw a single punch, and a pure boxer, and was successful in 2 out of 3 matchups. Domino uses a combination of clinch dominance and volume striking, either looking to keep his opponent underwater or challenging them to a firefight. The only time his “punches in bunches” strategy didn’t work was against an actual boxer. Unfortunately for him, Jalo Ilmarinen boasts some pretty decent boxing of his own, having scored KO’s both on the ground and on the feet. So far Domino has gotten by bringing the heat, but for his sake let’s hope Jalo isn’t too hot to handle. The winners of the first two matches I listed will go on to compete in the Winner’s Final, for the coveted chance to compete in the grand final against whomever should claw their way out of the deep end in the Loser’s Final. The winners of all the Loser’s Bracket fights will fight directly after this round, with the losers from the Winner’s Semifinals meeting them to see who will compete in the Loser’s Final. Eventually, the winners of both brackets will meet in the Grand Final for the crown of Winter Warfare Champion. If all of that sounds confusing, blame Monkey. Just kidding, if it’s hard to follow be sure to catch all the remaining previews and reviews that will be written by yours truly!

Mr Madness "Ladies and Gentle Jerks, I am here today to break the silence again, I said again! Coming this Island Season in a day and month and apparently Year of Mike Tycooney's choosing, the Insane mind that brought you Madness MMA not once, not twice but three times my Lady, the Honorable Tycoon Judas, will be bringing his brand of wacky Violence and Mayhem to the Island." Madness Island League Fighting also known as MILF will be Using all of Mr Judas's Dirty Monies(he won from a Scotsman in a game a of wits and drinking one fine evening), as End of the year prizes. Year End Awards (Idea portion) Just a few of the Ideas that will be up for vote at seasons end by the MILF faithful (the community) or potentially Judas himself considering the History of people's lack of Voting give a fucks! Most Deadly Death Dealer (KO Artist of the Season) Slick Dick Willy (Sub Artist of the Year) Iron Bitch (Decision maker of the year) Dirtiest Mouth of the Year (Buzz Smack talker) These are the most obvious choices, but I am all ears for other potential awards. Once I have a set list I can then decide how much for each award and such. I may very well have some Monthly awards as well for certain aspects, will see. Free Custom Avatars for Anyone who signs with MILF just a few that I made recently, can be chosen by anyone(first come first serve) AFTER signing your life away to a 5-fight deal for a very low-ball Island style contract! #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 Taken Carciofi #10 #11 #12 Taken Hbowsher #13 #14 Taken Jersey #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 Taken Curix #26 #27 Taken John Green #28 #29 #30 #31 Taken Skuzbukit #32 #33 #34 #35 #36 #37 Taken Venom #38 Taken JoJo Org Structure The LF of course stands for League Fighting so there will be a League Format to start the Season followed by a quick Playoff to decide the division champions. After the League and playoff format we will go into the regular booking mode for fights. If anyone knows me, I do put a lot into orgs I run and I don't plan to change any of that. Expect awesome posters and fake drunken Event previews, as well as other shenanigans! Not to mention Are very own Logo Master @Reihas offered his service in making a dope ass Org Logo and such. All fighters signed will be involved in the League Structure Potentially and all fights will be included in the Point System for the League. (The goal of course is to have an equal number of fights) but if you need down time that's fine just expect to be behind in the Standings. The only fights excluded from the League are the Initial Test-Prospect Events at the beginning. League Format The League will run for 8 weeks (01/20-03/09) Each Participant will fight 4 times (every 14 days) During the League you will not fight the same opponent more than once. At the end of the League phase, Points will be tallied and the Playoff for the belts will begin promptly! Point System Win-3 Points Draw- 1 Point Loss- 0 Points Bonus Points for Finishes 1rst Round Finish- 3 Points 2nd Round Finish- 2 Points 3rd Round Finish- 1 Point Championship Playoff Format There will be seedings based of the Leagues Point System (Top Points earner from each division will get the #1 seed, so on and so forth) The # of participants in the Playoff will be decided by the size of the respected division. Example: If Say Heavyweight has 16 Fighters= The Playoff will be between the Top 8 fighters on points but if say Super Heavy only has an 8 fighter League=The Playoff will be between the top 4. So basically, just cut in half. Those who don't make the Playoffs will still be active if they choose to stick around. Awards This is Still a WIP but I do fully intend to Give away the Majority of my current Bank Account for you Filthy Animals I can assure you all as well if the Island does not start by January 1rst, I will indeed wreak havoc open Mr Tyconney with constant and relentless emails and of course other ways of torture IF NEEDED until he hits the damn Start button. Or I will find another pointless hobby to pass time. Let the Madness Begin One last time!!!!!!!!! MILF Standings-----Work In Progress Super Heavyweight Semi Veainu Tristan Sandoval Khamzat Aliyev Xavierntreal Couture Uche Igwe Stefan Schilt Kristopher Marks Enzo DiMaggio Domingo Don Dominguez Scooter McGraw Heavyweight Jumbo Mills Michael Brogan Galen Fisherman Aleki Veainu Bennett Peck Elliott Acosta George Pogie Kaito Tanaka Jesse Kidd Crude Jensen Crazy Mike Janne Virtanen Kukina Maluga Boyko Mitcheck Light Heavyweight Crazy Horse Metyl Handz Mr Pancit Gabriel Mil Orville Dudpops Rock Steady Mitka Boycheck Jorma Saarinen Zaid Owens Derek Rodney Morris Begley Tug Violet Pascal Popper Erik Bjornsson Jayden Marsh Deon Woods Middleweight Jimar Kinkead Scott Potter Henri Saari Jean Arlin Jake Walton Lawson Serrano Akimbo Slice Brennan Calhoun Jan Claude Van Damme Wu Hu Romeo Alfa Francis Brooks Bacardi Briggs Han Chee Chick Hamland Simon Maynard Danilo Zoric Osvaldo Leandro Declan McCoy Adrian Ortiz Welterweight Autio Saari Deveon Zelda Elix Juarez Justin Russell Raphael Couture Grayson Velazquez Warrick Cager Valentino Andolini Aden Parker Nate Robinson Tommy Chong Jr Jardani Jovonovich Jukka Raikkonen Jose Joao Antonio Ferriera Roman Vitali Graeme Morgan Faarooq Rahim Lightweight Bryan Williams Brunta Nguana Ernest Durham Suade Loc Sauli Suolestaja Jake From Statefarm Remy Leeuwenhoek Eric Frost Danny Vargas Ryan Montana Adonis Ford Justice Washington Drederick Haytum Marc Schlager Featherweight Josh Jordan Rodney Derek Jarno Saarinen Malcolm Young Freaky Trevor Metal Angel Aiden Murphy Drake Danger Dragon Kingdad Maciej Galecki Morgan Freeman Finley Nielsen Jaylen Stout Gord Downey Bantamweight Pope Callixtus Vincent Duboulay Lennox Gilbey Blazej Maleszewski Dakota Simcoe Eduardo Chavez Money May Swinzey Mckinney Landin Durham Eja Igwe Ross Morrow Giancarlo Zuniga Mike Miami

Yuto Yoshida: "I do not know why he brought a cactus, but I also did not know he had such devastating hands. Cheers for the photoshoot. You are a warrior and a funny guy Mr. President. As for me, It is not over yet. I will continue to learn and become the fighter I aim to be."

Before the Budokai Fighting Federation took Tokyo by storm and dominated the 330k race, Bushido did the same at 290k. But prior to either of these unforgettable promotions, lived another organisation that played host to the toughest fighters Japan had to offer. Its name however did not seem to reach foreign shores in anything more than odd whispers, and its existence itself was all but assumed to be nothing other than a myth. Well, it was no myth. And now it is back, abandoning the shadows and moving into the neon spotlight of the Tokyo megatropolis for the first time in history. Who are we? Shinjitsu True Combat is the latest - and soon to be greatest - promotion to join the 400k+ race. We will look to provide young fighters with the opportunity to reach their potential and exceed it, by delivering fair fights at a pace decided by the managers. You will not be forced to take short notice matches nor punished for rejecting offers with good reason here at Shinjitsu. For a contract or any questions you may have, contact me in-game or here on the forums. All divisions Featherweight -> Heavyweight will be STRICTLY for 400k+ fighters Super-Heavyweight will be reserved for Open ID, relevant superfights, or ex-islanders (pending) Bantamweight will remain closed as there's never enough interest. When the ID ticks over the 400k mark, we will officially begin our hunt for talent. Hopefully with the next Island season "coming soon" then it shouldn't be too long a wait!

Apologies for the delay, I was left scrambling to fill the final spot on deadline day. Thanks to Balder Bull Jr, we have a full tournament and are now ready to rock and roll! Shuffled seeding and generated the bracket at random using challonge's on-site tools. First round matches are as follows: Fight offers to go out shortly. Preview pieces and interviews will be conducted in the lead up to the fights, so keep your eyes peeled!

That's right maggots, Savage Fightwear are relaunching our scholarship program, and this time it is bigger and better than ever. Details Here at Savage Fightwear we believe that Savages are not made, they are born. Similar to Apex predators, there is a will to hunt and kill in true savages which separates them from the rest. Our scholarship program is designed to shine a light on the most promising upcoming savages, providing a $100k, 122 day scholarship program as well as a whole new world of publicity and exposure. The program is not for everyone, many apply, most don't make it, and those who make it don't always complete the program. This year we will be looking for up to 10 savages to take part in the program, an increase on our previous intakes of 5 per program. Rules Savages must have no more than 10 fights on their record to enter the program, we believe after this landmark the program is no longer needed and you will have the toolkit to maul the world without entering the program. Fighters are not allowed to switch managers, if your manager releases you through the program, you will be dropped and no longer able to reap any of the benefits of continuing on the path. We will offer one place per roster, so if you have a whole stable of up and coming savages, choose wisely who enters the program, but feel free to nominate more than one. All fighters must have their bio included on the main fighter page, a custom avatar is preferred though not essential. Extra points will be assigned to you during the allocations phase for creativity, so the more character depth you provide, the more likely you are to enter and receive a scholarship. We will ask for regular check-ins particularly pre and post fight. You must have a spare sponsor slot so that we can transfer the money to you and welcome you into the savage family. You must walk, talk and act like a representative of MMAT's finest clothing establishment: Savage Fightwear. Benefits As already stated, entry into the program will provide your fighter with publicity and exposure the likes you have never seen. As well as a $100k 122 day sponsorship. Every fighter entering the program will be given a custom clothing card such as the one below(scholarship cards will be unique to the entrants this image is reference only): Upon Completion of the 122 day scholarship every fighter will then be given an upgraded, ultimate edition rare holographic card to wear on your fighter for life. See the example below(again for reference, scholarships will be unique): Click here to see the clothing on the fighter There will also be prizes and giveaways throughout the program. N.B. If anyone would like to sponsor a prize for the program, please share what you are willing to put forward in the thread below. Please bare in mind the program is 122 days in length as per the maximum sponsorship length allowed, this will allow for 3-5 fights although maybe less. The closing date for entries is Sunday 27th August, with the program rolling out on Sunday 3rd September. Managers, nominate your killers. Current nominees. Luke Smith Daniel "Hype Boy" Marsh Artemis Entreri Bo Duran Baby Dragon Favela Samurai Mick Taylor "Le Tigre" Olivier Dujardin Lamar Gordon Benji Bonanno Kwadwo Adunga Jr Teo King Juancho De La Rosa Floki Gunnarsson Jayilton Almeda "Le Tigre" Olivier Dujardin Surkho Dratchev

1 day until this kicks off, so it's time for a preview.... based on basically nothing but vibes because none of these guys have fought before. We don't know if they're the next coming of God or just like musicals. Remember to not clinch or grapple fellas, otherwise it's a straight DQ. Feel free to do that against me though! Duran vs Mundine In the red corner we have Duran who sports some really nice hair and allegedly hands made of stone. In the blue corner we have the Aussie Mundine. The former rugby league player, turned boxer, turned mouthpiece, turned back to boxer will be looking to use his bigger reach and weight. Both fighters come into this at their true height measurements, so that is a nice detail that both managers should be commended for. At this weight class, Mundine's heavier walking weight probably doesn't really translate too much as an overall advantage, but his added reach certainly does. Assuming all things are equal and Duran doesn't get inside and do a lot of damage to his body, Mundine has the chance to use his reach to jab to victory. Duran is also surprisingly feeling a touch emo, probably because he's not actually wearing proper boxing gloves like his opponent and feels left out. I'm not too familiar with Mundine's manager, but I give Mundine the physical advantage and maybe Duran the manager and hair advantage. We'll see who comes out on top! Steele vs Toney Another matchup with nice avatars, and another clear win in the hair department by Freddie Steele. Both guys are similar heights/reach, but there's a whopping 25lb difference in walking weight between them. This has gotta be the biggest discrepancy in the whole tournament (I can't actually confirm this cause I'm lazy. As of writing I've only looked at 3 matchups total). Both guys again come in with accurate heights (though Toney seems to have provided his true height, which is 1cm shorter than his listed probably padded pro height). Steele is the slightly longer fighter but much lighter. It's a real clash of different body shapes with Steele looking mighty lean and Toney choosing the fried chicken wrecking ball build. I'm not actually sure what's going to lend itself better to this tournament, but I'm leaning towards possibly the lighter more energy efficient man assuming all other variables are even, given it's still 15 grueling minutes of biffo they have to get through. I like both managers. Rush is Rush, who doesn't love a pink dolphin. Rollins runs one of the best public gyms around that I am thankful for and sometimes gulag some of my undesirables to. It's so good my guyscn't even know they're being excluded! Interestingly, Toney has levelled up his boxing primary which indicates either he is a terrific learner and/or has been heavily sparring. This probably indicates not as much time spent training physicals as some other competitors - which is a real surprise for the shorter, much rounder man. Overall, I think Steele has a chance here. His slight reach, better ability to last through the rounds, and nicer hair could edge things into his favour. Also Steel is actually wearing boxing gloves which tends to help in a boxing match, while Toney is still in his tighty whiteys. Come on mate, wake up! You've got a fight coming up! Cotto vs Hearns In the next matchup, we've got two relatively tall fighters in Cotto (190cm -wtf) and Hearns (185cm - accurate). The Cotto measurements are kind of whack, because it appears that in this alternative universe, Cotto has come back a whopping 20cm taller than his real-life counterpart. Very strange! Also really strange is that Cotto has chosen to come in with polished MUAY THAI primaries instead of boxing. Has manager Rocket gone bananas? Has he forgotten that this is a boxing tournament? Do Dutch people really exist? Does he realise that 190cm is pretty tall even for the MMATycoon 185ers? So many questions. I suspect Cotto probably has one eye on perhaps one day transitioning to the wider MMA Tycoon world rather than the immediate tournament, hence his decisions about how to train. He's shown some boxing primary increase, which indicates he's been on the skills, but one has to wonder if he's started from scratch properly like a real tycoon prospect. If so, I think he could be in real trouble in this boxing match with Hearns likely to be more proficient in the boxing arts right now. However, to his and Hearns' credit, both are actually wearing boxing gloves, so he's got that right. Hearns also brings the better hair and manager Alfred is a very experienced tournament player. Alfred's philosophy about fighters and their hiddens, good or bad, means that tournaments are the one place where things remain on a relatively even footing and people win or lose due to merit (much like Team Georgia's terrific recent World Cup win). Hearns to win the boxing match, but Cotto to possibly have an actual career later. Hagler vs Hopkins Jr. We have our first tie in the best hair stakes, with both guys being as bald as a baby. However, tiebreaker points are probably awarded to Hagler given he bothered to wear a hat to cover his shiny bald head. However, minus points in that he's wearing a rashguard. Does he know he's meant to be boxing? No time for that touchbutt in the park stuff. Hopkins clearly wins the fashion stakes with the best gloves/shorts combo currently in the tournament. Hopkins Jr. has a pretty significant height/reach advantage, but otherwise things seem pretty even for both guys. The lack in progress in boxing primaries for both means both have either been on the weights or are just really dumb, and it's hard to tell which. Team Butch will be looking for tournament revenge against Hopkins and his management, as they have recently crossed swords in the World Cup. In that matchup, the people's champ Buck Bolkvadze stunned the world with a complete performance before getting a tap. However, this is boxing! No kicking or submissions are allowed and we've got two new boys to be put through the blender. Tough one to call, most even matchup so far especially given no clear hair advantage. Leonard vs Tiger In another tied hair situation, this time both guys have hair but not really the most exciting hair. If the hair competition went to penalties, maybe Leonard would get the chocolates, but his hair certainly doesn't have the luscious volume of Hearns' or the smooth waves of Duran. However, Dick Tiger wins with best name in a landslide. So much so, he was actually under strong consideration by me before I decided to be a metagaming loser and pick a taller fighter in Hopkins. Leonard appears to have been putting some time into his skills with a slight edge in boxing primaries, but it's a pretty close fight on paper measurements. Both guys are a little uninspiring in the fashion department, both have hair, both have similar height. It's a tough one to call, but I'm going to say Dick Tiger wins because his outstanding name outweighs Leonard's slight edge in the hair department. Also Dick Tiger has a freakin TIGER in his avatar! It's not quite a sick-ass panther, but close enough. Alvarez vs Castro Latino vs Latino, hair vs hair, champion vs champion violence in this matchup. While Alvarez performs reasonably well in the hair area, the chocolates in this matchup have to go to Castro. While we don't count Alvarez's red hair as a big negative, we appreciate the manliness of Castro's adequate chest hair. Alvarez is truly the modern boxer though. Firstly, he's in colour as opposed to black and white, but also he's discovered the recent technology of wearing a shirt with his own face on it. This is a clear victory in the fashion stakes over Castro's tighty whiteys, though I'm a bit disappointed neither are wearing boxing gloves. It's again a very even matchup. Canelo probably has the more experienced manager, however he's probably more well known for his artistic prowess and has only just returned. Castro has been more active on social media with his Buzzes, which is quite incredible for a guy whose photo was taken when it was still black and white. Has this served as a distraction? Has his interest in thirst trap tiktoks hindered progress in training as per his buzzes about 'slow' learning? It could be you know. Say no to thirsty tik toks and train hard folks! Eubank vs Garcia On one hand, everyone loves Monkey because he comes up with great tournament ideas. On the other, his fighter Eubank is the only fighter in the tournament with a default mug! Automatic loss in the aesthetics department, though luckily Monkey did choose an avatar that somewhat fits Eubank. No trans-racial transitions here! Garcia's manager Scottie2Hottie on the other hand, has a bit of a thing for mustached men. Garcia is rocking a nice one, but astute readers will recall Scottie's fighter roster also rock the mo. Highlights on his roster include Torvik, Benny, and Theorist, who all sport facial hair. Garcia has also seemingly increased his skill levels in the Muay Thai department recently. This is a very strange development, though not on the levels of Cotto. Perhaps he's been brushing up on his striking defence? We'll have to see if that can overcome the tournament king in Monkey and his fighter Eubank. Turpin vs Jones Jr. In our final matchup, we again go into some disappointment in both the clothing and hair departments. Both guys haven't really inspired in both areas. Jones Jr is headed up by Thibs, who has had past success in this format with Ali. Jones Jr is also the only fighter not to have taken up sponsorship with Brazen Clothing, a move that his camp claim is purely about focus. It's all about focus with this team. Even after winning the HW GOAT Boxing tournament and receiving the generous prize, manager Thibs was a man of few words. It's rumoured that he'd lost his voice due to being continually being referenced by the likes of myself as the person to ask about testing learning speed - a duty he continues to fulfill today. On the other hand, we've got Turpin, headed up by returning player and fellow SMESH Eric Leoanrd. I had to really double check that's how you spell it, and it's true! Eric has thrown himself into the game, managing to land himself a staff gig at Steel Penn's latest escapade. Currently building his own roster carefully, Turpin will actually be his only currently active fighter on his roster. All eyes and attention of the camp is on Turpin who has the monumental task of taking on the camp that won the last boxing tournament.

Georgia vs. England Preview So everyone knows the Georgians are the biggest hit in town with the best avatars, best swag, best sliders, best delusional confidence, and so on. Well now we have the best preview too. No one could have predicted one of the most random teams in the competition would even make it out of groups, nevermind form a cohesive team in the first place. Anyway, here's our very accurate preview of how our semi-final against Engerland will go. Put on your hats and click your boot heels together, this preview is as cozy as eating a gooey Khachapuri. 135lb Mikheil Berishvili vs Luke "One step above being more generic than John" Smith Naturally when creating this tournament, Alfred cheated and gave himself a Granite chin with some KO power, alongside the cultural genocide when he denied various people the opportunity to represent their true heritage (including MMA giants like Vatican City, Western Sahara, and Florida among others). Luckily, our hero Berishvili has some form of chin and the perfect set of skills to still get the finish against this cheatcode of a creation at 135. His close quarters style is a real kill or be kill situation derived from his experience through the traditional Georgian practice of wife stealing through the bear hug technique. Our prediction is that if he avoids Smith's lead filled gloves (cheaters, you see), he will drag him down and make him his 4th wife via a submission. 170lb Buck Bolkvadze vs Weird Bloke at the Pub Our second Georgian hero takes on the only other guy weirder in the competition in the 170 matchup. It's an interesting matchup where both fighters share similar primaries but have shown slightly different things. Buck has shown a really well rounded striking game including some great clinching prowess and a surprisingly efficient submission game. What a student of MMA in such a short time! Very impressive. The other guy has been ok. The proof is in the pudding, Buck has polled 52%, 100%, 76%, and 75% in fight ratings in World Cup matches so far. The fans love him. Meanwhile, people don't love a weird bloke at the pub who is a bit too handsy. His last 'win' was a stinker at 39%. Keep your hands to yourself, otherwise Buck will chop them off with his chainsaw aggression. 300lb Robbie Banks vs Some Bastard Completing our trio of Georgian heroes, Robbie Banks provides some nice symmetry to the team. Starting at 135, our representative Mikheil had a very traditional Georgian name. Buck at 170 combined his traditional Georgian name with his other Georgian heritage, while Robbie follows with his fully typical Georgian name to round us out. We're Georgian through and through! Both big guys in this matchup came to the tournament with zero testing and no preparation. Truly a weightclass of fatties who rolled off the couch and into the ring. Robbie brings a world class ground and pound game while we're not quite sure what the Bastard brings. He seems to follow the patented Monkey tournament build mould of "hey if I put enough wrestling primaries in, they might think I'm a grappler instead of a striking/clinch demon". You can't argue with Monkey's tournament prowess though, and luckily for him and Engerland, the Bastard has recently discovered how to win. Eyes will be on how Banks can recover from his setback in his last fight. The Americans used the CIA to swap his invite to the fight out and fooled him into thinking it was a dance party. Banks was enthralling us all with his dance moves in the ring only to discover too late that Knox was actually trying to hit him instead of hit ON him. Further exposing the corrupt organisation, Banks' impressive slut drop dance moves were counted as 'knockdowns' which couldn't be further from the truth. He's not even injured! Georgian representatives have tried to reach Banks to ensure he doesn't get bamboozled by MI5 setups and remembers to actually fight. If he does, the Bastard better watch out, because big boy Banks is coming to cash his cheque. So in summary, Team Georgia will defeat the tyranny of Engerland - otherwise they cheated and we've already won the morale victory already like their cricket team.

Just a quick thanks to those that created fighters and helped fill out the teams even though it meant likely Ls and tanking their manager ranking. Big thanks also to those managers who had fighters not doing particularly well or who's team was technically eliminated after round two. There's usually some asshat who releases early and it was very cool to see that not happen this time around.

Round One Results Group C Mexico vs. Belgium Arriba! Arriba! Mexico, another team too sauced from the spicy worm at the bottom of the bottle to live up to expectations. They were beaten soundly by the waffle men from Belgium who were initially predicted a third place finish in the group. The trouncing didn’t begin at welterweight however as manager Cynic Chris took his first desperate steps out of the shadow of Karter with his very Mexican fighter Ominous Odinson. He faced John Daugherty’s Lucas Van Den Broeck who did he best impression of Forest Griffin to Odinsons Anderson Silva. Ominous Odinson wins by TKO at 1:44 of the first round and earns himself the KO of the night. Mexico were at this point looking every bit the group killers as predicted but then Scottie 2 Hottie came along with his crazy Mexican Loco Coco. He found himself Gordon Ryan’d by Belgian Ryan Gordon for almost two whole rounds before finally tapping out to the might of the tournaments unofficial favourite fighter. Belgium tied things up 1-1 meaning the final super-heavyweight match up would decide. This would be of great concern for the Mexican contingent for a couple of reasons. The first being that fighter Judas Gonzalez was a last minute afterthought recruited only to fill the cowardly boots of absentee Chris Karter and second, he was managed by the inexperienced Albert Summertop who is cousin to the great Alfred Winterbottom and whilst totally a real and different person altogether, is not a touch on his tactically superior cousin. He gave it his best try against the uber Belgian Kurt Waffles but in the end was beaten all over the place by the superior clinch fighter and dispatched within one round. Waffles got the TKO victory at 3:41 and finalised a great victory for his team. In truth, this was always going to be fairly competitive match up though I do consider Belgium winning a slight upset. Belgium go second in the group and Mexico just behind them in third. Belgium def. Mexico by two fights to one (9-5 in Points) Poland vs. China What in the blue blazes happened here? A truly baffling result from a bunch of poorly designed, poorly programmed Autobots from China who managed to pull off the upset against the bookies favoured Polish Team. Something was amiss from the start as Autobot One managed a shock first round submission over Poland’s KO Kapustka. Clearly programmed for the stinkiest of cheese, Autobot One was on a mission to clinch, pull guard and get the sub win and that’s exactly what he did. No one could ever imagine such a result from a Chinese import. Poland managed to pull back level after their man Serwacy Smolarek managed to figure out the Autobot Three’s programming and get the TKO victory just before the end of round one. No mean feat either I might add as apparently the manufacturers had made Bot Three’s chin of some sturdier material. It would be down Poland’s 300lb Brave Hut to save the day but unfortunately for them, he was too busy watching reruns of Klan in the locker room to support his teammates during their fights. Had he done so then he would surely have been able to avoid the fate of Kapustka and fend of the relentless hug attack from Autobot Two by following the game plan of Smolarek to victory. AutoBot Two needed just under two minutes to secure the submission over Hut and pull of the biggest upset of the opening round. Shockingly, China go top of the table after the first round which is not what was needed at all. Made purely to make up tournament to the magic number of sixteen teams, China were very much expected to be trounced at every turn. Team Poland go bottom of the group which again is quite the shock. Predicted to be a potential dark horse of the tournament, they now find themselves with their backs against the wall from get go. China def. Poland by two fights to one (10-5 on Points)

Round One Results Group B Wales vs. Canada The bastard Welsh got exactly what they deserved here in this one although it was sickening to see lazy no testing Bradley Burns pull a Granite Chin/KO Power out of his ass. The massacre began at bantamweight with Canadian BJJ Brown belt Michele Rene Gaspard executing his game plan flawlessly. He didn’t even give opponent Callum Walsh a chance to show off that KO power of his before clinching up, pulling guard and getting the submission in under sixty seconds. A great performance from him and one that earned him Submission of the Night. Next up at welterweight is where we got to see Bradley Burns’ undeserved gift of a fighter Brody MacDonald take on Welshman Robbie Mullen. Both fighters looked pretty equal at first but the power of MacDonald was obvious to see and was clearly the difference in the end. Unable to take the punishment being dish out, Mullen was TKO’d around the half way mark of the first round. With Canada now two fights up the victory was out of Wales hands. A big heart wasn’t enough for a consolation and so Welshman Jeremy Corbyn had to take his beating like a man. Jean Francois LaFleur made it look simple as he battered poor Corbyn into submission in under two minutes and completed the clean sweep of a likely very disappointed Welsh team. With such a dominant performance, Team Canada go straight to the top of Group B and currently look assured to find a spot in the next round. Wales on the other hand are going to need a miracle. Canada def. Wales by three fights to none (15-0 in Points) Scotland vs. England More disgusting than Burn’s granite chin fluke, the total and utter bastard Scots somehow figured out a way to sabotage the might of England and pick up a totally underserved and shock upset win. Everything looked fine and dandy as cool as a cucumber Alfred Winterbottom sent his young charge Luke Smith into battle. He was to face “Sir” Randy Elliot who must have given himself that name as everyone knows not a Scotsman alive is afforded such a polite and gentlemanly title such as Sir. Smith went to work straight away and within a few well placed big boy shots he and Alfred were walking back to the changing room celebrating a job well done. Next up is where things started to go wrong. Having convinced us of his English authenticity by explaining the difference between a shepherds pie and a cottage pie, Canuck manager Jimmy Normal, who was welcomed into the gracious Team England fold with open arms now faced the rumour of potential collusion and deceit between himself and the dirty poutine gobbling Team Canada. What other possible explanation could there be for his English warrior Charles Traynor losing to Scotsman Alex Grey? Hmm, it actually looked pretty close on paper but the judges gave it to Grey so maybe Jimmy is innocent and the Canucks simply bribed the judges? Maybe it wasn’t even them? Maybe it was the Scots doing the bribing? It’s certainly not beneath them. With the series tied now at 1-1, there was no need for England to panic as super dependable tournament specialist Monkey was up next at super-heavyweight with his fighter Vyvyan Bastard. Oh what’s that? Monkey thought he’d be a clever bollocks and not test? Time to panic! Facing that wily Panda loving Pika Choo and his fighter Panda McLeod, things weren’t looking good as McLeod was all over the place and winning the exchanges at every range. Panic turned to shock as McLeod had Bastard tapping out to triangle choke in just under three and a half minutes. The Scots had done it. A massive black eye to the might of England and it’s empire. Bastards. All of them. Jimmy and Monkey included. Scotland go into second place in Group B with a begrudgingly capable looking team. Mark my words heads will be rolling back at England HQ with a thorough investigation into the performance of certain members forthcoming. Scotland (puke) def. (puke) England two fights to one (7-5 in Points)

So here are the details on the contract/org signing bug that is actively being abused by a few managers. Frankly, it makes life as an org owner a pain in the ass because you end up with a fighter signed who can be signed by two, three or whatever orgs as the same time, without having loaned them out. So now suddenly you're competing with multiple orgs trying to all schedule the fighter for fights which makes matchmaking and planning a friggin' nightmare. And yes, I know the first thing somebody is going to say is, "Why would you put this out there publicly, now it'll only get worse, should have just reported it so it could be fixed without giving everybody the info they need to do it!" Well, the answer to that question is that I reported this issue MONTHS ago to Mike, got initial request for more details, provided it along with an example...and then heard crickets. Then I've reported it two more times over the past few months, as recently as a week or two ago, with detailed information (which I'm going to provide below) and examples, and have gotten ZERO feedback or response. So, apparently you'll get a response if it involves something that gets $ through paypal, but not something like this that becomes a major headache for the backbone of the game...the org owners! The answer to why put it out there publicly knowing it'll just make our lives worse? Because if Mike has every org owner pissed at him, maybe he'll do something about it. And frankly, I'm just about done with this Mickey Mouse bullshit and ready to just throw in the towel and leave the game. So here you go...essentially what is more or less happening is that a manager will wait till they've gotten two, three, whatever amount of offers for one of their Free Agents. Then, they go to the contracts page...and then open that same page over and over in multiple browers/tabs. Then one by one, they go from one tab to the next accepting the contracts one at a time, one per tab/page. Since the page was already loaded with the offers, and since Mike's game/application has shit ass error checking, it doesn't validate whether the offer is still valid and legit or not...page is open, it sends the response through, and voila, you're signed to two or three orgs at the same time without having to get loaned out. Enjoy the chaos folks! ~Hare P.S. If you have a fighter/manager who has done this, and you found they were signed to multiple orgs even though you didn't loan them out, but just thought there was some bug or glitch...know that it's not by accident. The manager did it purposefully with the intention of doing it. Doesn't happen by chance. So, they're just being a shit (or in one case, were just helping to test the scenario).

Vitali Klitschko Joe Louis vs I Have a soft spot for Vitali. He's like a flawed version of myself in a way. He uses his reach, jabs, and feints, really well, and has some power to apply the BOOM! I think he tries to copy me. And who could blame him? He just doesn't do it as well as I did. I did it classy. Joe Louis eh? Another smart boxer. I like the way he picks his punches. Jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, Look out! Loud engine sounds from a Brown Bomber overhead! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! It's a carpet bombing! Wouldn't work on me though. He could have chased me around the ring all day without getting a good chance to unleash the bombs. I'd be like, moving all the time, and throwing a jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, BOOM! every now and then. I'd make it look easy. I give this one to Joe Louis. He wants it.

LET THE TOURNAMENT BEGIN! Welcome to the World Cup of MMAT. Sixteen international teams, some very dubiously created at the last minute, will compete to decide just who is the baddest country when it comes to caged fisticuffs. The groups have been drawn and shuffled ten times on challonge.com which everyone can now see as well as each groups fight schedule. I'll post this up on the front page too so everyone can follow more closely without having to go search through the thread with it all. I'll be sending out fight offers pretty soon though I'm still waiting on two. One has a fight scheduled for the end of the week so I can't sign him until then and the other one is Scootz who is an autobot now so who knows. Just a quick run down of the format again. Sixteen teams. 4 Groups of 4. Each fight other once. Top 2 from each group move on to the knockout stages. From there it's an 8 team single elimination tournament all the way to a final to decide 1st and 2nd plus a 3rd place match to decide...er...3rd. Match wins are decided by a best out of three fights (135lbs, 170lbs & 300lbs) but will also be calculating points to use as a tiebreaker. 1st Round Finish = 5 Points 2nd Round Finish = 4 Points 3rd Round Finish = 3 Points Decision Win = 2 Points Draw = 1 Point Loss = 0 Points Any fighter that doesn't accept the fight offer will go down as a forfeit loss which is counted as a maximum point win for opponent. Write ups to come and as always I'll add anything I've forgotten later on. Any questions, just ask. Best of luck to all! (Except Australia, Scotland and Wales. The Yanks can do one as well actually)

Arena Name: Franky Sin Supernova Arena Capacity (40k-80k): 80,000 Location: Las Vegas Creator’s In-game Name(s): Louie DePalma Logo: History: Based in the city of Syn and in honor of one of tycoons original and greatest minds comes the Franky Sin Supernova arena. During the early days of Synchronicity, Franky envisioned one day, selling out a mega arena however did not know it would also be his name sake. Franky was a pioneer who was wise beyond his time, as he did not follow the normal script of so many along side him and instead, he preferred to be more original when super show being brought forth known simply as Supernova!! Now this legendary event name will be forever enshrined in the city of Las Vegas along with the trailblazer who was before his time, Frankie Sin.

Seriousy - Thanks for the poster! No one else offered, and I thought it was pretty cool! I do think I'll do it again this year. I will keep the things that made it good.. 1. Huge prizes (even if it means an entry fee). 2. Open to everyone, regardless of rank or reputation. 3. Seeded. That was a good idea. Keeping the 'big names' apart in the early rounds. Small improvement - I will use manager's highest all-time (historical) rank rather than current. 4. Double elimination. Three of the final top four lost a fight at some point but came back in our first tourney! 4. Large tourney. Minimum 32 players. 5. Full month to train, between creation date and first fights. Might even increase to 6 weeks. This did encourage a variety of builds. And, drawing on the experience of the first tourney, I hope to improve by.. 1. No draws. A rule that decides draws and means no rematches. 2. Earlier start. October 1st creation. Nov 1st (or 14th) first round. 3. Faster conclusion (a). No 'preliminary rounds'. That was a nightmare, it slowed the pace terribly, and only meant that the winners suffered a training disadvantage. I will ensure we get a good round number to avoid this. It could mean a few people won't get in. Anyone who was in the last tourney will get priority, after that it will be decided by manager's highest (historical) rank. 4. Faster conclusion (b). I might begin the tourney as two conscutive competitions, halving the time it takes for the first 4-6 rounds to conclude. Then, when there are only 8 (or 16?) left in the two groups combined, match them in a new (possibly single elimination?) bracket. This has added benefit of making leading fighters fight again, so less training advantage to those in the lead. I should be able to work this out to time the tourney final for end of February (rather than mid-summer lol). 5. A poll to decide which weight division we should follow last year's welterweight with. 6. I'll make a serious effort to get even more of the 'top' managers to take part. Let's see who's chicken and who really has confidence. 7. Delegation. In addition to sponsors/artist/writers/bookies, I'll look for one or two people to help me run it. It was actually pretty hard work to keep everything up to date! If anyone is wondering why I'm disclosing all this now, it's because I want this on the record to remind my future self! If I don't write it down I'll forget what I've learned by the timeI start the next one!

SYN 1000 Maluga vs Puno II 04 JULY 2023 LA Memorial Colossuseum Sponsored by Shadow Realm Apparel Event Discussion Thread Greetings SYNers! Welcome to an amazing card to kick of our one thousandth event. That's right, this event will be the big number 1000 in the books, a mile marker that very few organizations have ever achieved. Speaking of milestones, this was an extremely important milestone to the man who's kept this organization peeking at a high level and setting records left and right. This man being, Keyshawn Stacks. In the time he was at the lead of SYN, he took strides to help repair some issues and brought on staff to turn SYN into a well oiled machine. Setting records for PPV sales, highest rated events, and then turning around and breaking those recors again months later. He has left very large shoes to fill, and this card should have been his baby. So I step into his shoes to put on a show, but it's up to the managers and fighters to make this card live up to the bill. So I would like to ask you to make this card one for the ages, as we put on a show in honor of Keyshawn Stacks, and I would officially like to introduce and welcome Mr. Stacks to the Synchronicity Hall of Fame as one of the top owners to ever hold the title. We have a special card lined up with a whopping 6 titles on the line, and none other but the legend himself, Kilo Maluga in a rematch against Puno to headline this card in what is sure to be a monumentally epic night for Kilo, SYN, and all his followers around the world. More into that later. For now, let's jump into the fighter breakdowns for this card. I'll let your imagination fill in the rest. For the fighters on this card you all know and love (or hate) so you likely know what's going to happen, so go place your bets! Samuel Sycek vs Mickey Garcia Fighter: Samuel Sycek Age: 26 Record: 13-7 SYN: 1-1 Country: Czech Republic Manager: J Thorgrin Name: Mickey "The Celtic Aztec" Garcia Age: 34 Record: 31-15-1 SYN: 2-4 Country: USA Manager: Buff Minion Thoughts: This seems like a bit of a one sided match up, and with Sycek not mentally being up to the task, expect Garcia to finish this one in the first round. Davido Branko vs Lusmu Kutvonen Name: Davdio "Bjj" Branko Age: 32 Record: 25-20 SYN: 6-7 Country: Sweden Manager: Shape Shifter Name: "Savon Gansteri" Lusmu Kutvonen Age: 36 Record: 29-16-2 SYN: 12-6-1 Country: Finland Manager: Bloody Gutz Thoughts: Both guys are coming off of a loss to the current champ, Hlervu who's fighting later on this card. What does this mean? Probably nothing, but the winner will be the one more likely to step into the cage for the strap in the not too distant future. Kutvonen may look to capitalize on his red belt, but this fight can (and probably will) go every position possible, just a matter of who can capitalize sooner. Braynas Hlervu vs Bethania Valverde (135 Title Fight) Name: "The Many-Faced God" Braynas Hlervu Age: 39 Record: 32-16 SYN: 2-0 Country: Western Sahara Manager: Jet Name: "Countess" Bethania Valverde Age: 27 Record: 15-6 SYN: 2-0 Country: Spain Manager: John Daugherty Thoughts: Well, this should be a great fight. Talk about a hot start? Hlervu stepped into SYN with a title fight as his welcome and he did not disappoint in taking the belt. Some were not overly happy with his quick shot at the gold, but he quickly solidified his position to the claim with a quick first round TKO victory in his first title defense. At this weight class, it's not common to find guys with enough pop to win via KO, and that's exactly what Hlervu has been doing. Valverde will have a lot of work to do to win this one, but don't count out the Countess. A champion at Bellicose and now already in the spotlight with a shot to grab the gold, don't think that Valverde is taking this shot lightly. Kaarlo Susi vs Fabiano Capellio Name: Kaarlo Susi Age: 25 Record: 15-4 SYN: 2-1 Country: Finland Manager: Taina Valkoinen Name: Fabiano Capellio Age: 32 Record: 20-4 SYN: 4-0 Country: Italy Manager: Giuseppe Folioli Thoughts: Susi is young, very young. At only 25 years old, Susi is already winning on the biggest stage. He fell short last time out against Wolf, but many have fell to that fate. Susi keeps stepping up into the spotlight, and more importantly, keeps winning. He's got his work cut out for him as he's going up against another beast in Capellio, only Cpellio has been around a while and gained some experience over the youth. Will this be a youth movement, or will the veteran knock Susi back down to earth. Darsin Bleak vs Rod De Minaur Name: "Sandman" Darsin Bleak Age: 31 Record: 26-7 SYN: 7-4 Country: USA Manager: Outlaw Bleak Name: Rod "Demon" De Minaur Age: 31 Record: 31-8 SYN: 4-3 Country: Australia Manager: Igor Peixoto Thoughts: And the last non title fight of the night! Bleak is coming off a title loss, and I happen to know first hand that he's looking to quickly turn things around. Unfortunately, I also know that he's going up against tone of the top 155 fighters in the world in Rod De Minaur. Rod had a hell of a run capturing the 155 title and holding it until he ran into Tacitus Kilgore and lost a close fight via decision. Including that fight, he's now lost 3 of his last 4 and no way in hell that's sitting well with Rod or his manager. Rod has the skills and experience to take out Bleak, but Bleak has proven he can scrap with anyone, so we'll see who wants it more in this one. Colby Gebhardt vs Evan Duvernay (145 Title Fight) Name: Colby Gebhardt Age: 31 Record: 19-6 SYN: 5-2 Country: USA Manager: Maurice Simmons Name: Evan "Le Tueure" Duvernay Age: 31 Record: 28-10 SYN: 9-8 Country: France Manager: P J Jones Thoughts: Duvernay is hungry for the gold. He's not tasted gold since joining SYN, having lost both of his previous title shots to Dick Pawlick. Of late, under new management, Duvernay is now 5-3 and has won 5 of his last 7. Gebhardt will not go down easy as he's won 5 strait and will look to make it 6 as he steps up for his 2nd title defense. Olyn Seran vs Tactius Kilgore (155 Title Fight) Name: "The Conjurer" Olyn Seran Age: 35 Record: 28-17-1 SYN: 10-7 Country: USA Manager: David Septim Name: Tacitus Kilgore Age: 37 Record: 38-15 SYN: 6-2 Country: USA Manager: Billy Arseworth Thoughts: Seran is the champ, newly crowned. He's yet to prove he can hold the belt as he won it from Bleak who he had already defeated. Now, he'll put the belt on the line in his first title defense against a former champ who had a nice run until he ran into Graves. now, he's got a shot at getting that belt back and no doubt he's going to go all out to get back what he feels is rightfully his. Joe Exotic vs Oke Swahn (185 Title Fight) Name: Joe Exotic Age: 31 Record: 28-11-2 SYN: 13-3-2 Country: USA Manager: Billy Arseworth Name: Oke Swahn Age: 28 Record: 17-4-1 SYN: 2-0-1 Country: Sweden Manager: Jorma Oltsu Thoughts: Exotic was on top of the division for a long time. He lost his belt to Augustus and has been on a mission since to get it back. He had the shot last time out, but the judges ruled it a draw and both he and Swahn will have to run it back to make things right. The second fight should be even more exciting than the first, and maybe we'll get luck and the fight won't be left in the judges hands! Torhte Finlayson vs Khalil Burnett (265+ Title Fight) Name: Torhte "Gingy Bear" Finlayson Age: 35 Record: 42-4-0 SYN: 2-0 Country: Scotland Manager: Action Jackson Name: Khalil Burnett Age: 32 Record: 13-4 SYN: 4-2 Country: Australia Manager: Leon Price Thoughts: Man, what else can you say? 42-4? It seems like betting against Finlayson is losing odds every time. But, he's lost 4 so he can be defeated. Burnett got close last time, very close. They will be running it back to make sure that the judges didn't get it wrong. Kilo Maluga vs Adan Puno (265 Title Fight) Name: Kilo "Bloodbath" Maluga Age: 38 Record: 61-14 SYN: 48-10 Country: Kiribati Manager: Chris Karter Fighter: Adan Puno Age: 30 Record: 16-5 SYN: 4-2 Country: Philippines Manager: Freako Wimp Thoughts: We all know it by now, Kilo is a first ballot Hall of Famer with a resume so long it ran my printer out of paper twice, and ink once. He's had 61 knockouts, every single win of his career was by a knockout. How insane is that? What a career for Kilo. Why do I talk him up so much? Not to overshadow his opponent, Adan Puno, who is an extremely talented fighter who's also a heavy hitter and has won 3 of his last 4. Former DMMA champion who lost his SYN intro fight to Kilo for the belt. Now, they meet again, and again it's for the belt. We mentioned in our intro the significance of this card in being the 1000th event in SYN history, and that we introduce Keyshawn Stacks to the SYN Hall of Fame. Such a monumental event can't start with a roar and not end with a bang, right? What more fitting of a "bang" than a Kilo title fight to headline possibly the most significant card in org history. What makes it a fitting end, is that tonight will be the last time this particular bang will ever be experienced again. Win or lose, Kilo will be fighting for the last time in the cage. I have been unable to get a clear answer on if there is a medical reason behind the decision, but Kilo has had one hell of an amazing career and will undoubtedly go down into SYN history books as one of the greatest fighters to ever step in the cage. I want to officially send Kilo off to the Bahamas with a salute for a historic career of service in the cage. He's been a surgent as he's disected opponents, a dentist as he gave many opponents free teeth extraction. He's been a love demon, a psychologist, writer, philosipher, and well, frankly, just about anything he's wanted to be in the cage. There's nothing that man can't do inside of a cage, and I hope we hear from you again in some form in the future. Perhaps as a coach, commentator, or just a popular ringside guest hitting on the ring girls. No doubt, we'll look forward to inducting you into the Hall of Fame sooner rather than later as well.

@soyster89 Pickle v Picklesby 7/19. Former Champ Vs Actual Hall of Fame talent Lets make this happen!!! @Beatdown MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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2022 Dynasty Manager Hall of Fame Induction I have been pussy footing around with this for a while now but finally finished the bios for the first 8 managers to be inducted into the Dynasty Manager Hall of fame. This list could have gone a little longer as their where a few other deserving managers out there, most of which still have fighters in the DMMA Family so maybe this time next year you will get your call gents! For now, though here are the 8 lucky bastards to be inducted in the 2022 class. The backbone of what Dynasty MMA is all about! #1 Squirrely Dan Squirrely Dan and his Blacktallians fight camp have been the poster boys for Dynasty MMA. Dan and his team has been here fighting since the Beginning and have accumulated 39 Title fights in total. The list of former DMMA champions is quite the list indeed, names such as Xylon Kofel, Kareem Johnson, Koos Van Asch, Mauritz Assndrop, and of course the Legend himself Jaxon Magrath have all one DMMA championships under Dans management. With well over 200 DMMA fights there is no doubt The "Squirrey" One s DMMA tried and true! #2 Don Frye Dean Sutherland was the second selection with his Ukrainian army known as the Kersikov Family. Deans first Championship here at DMMA was with Andrei Kersikov at Heavyweight. Most recently though the rest of the pack has been slowly climbing the ranks, Vitali, Dmitri and Marko have all joined Andrei in DMMA's History of champions. Dean is currently closing in on his 70th Dynasty fight and we hope to see him eclipse the 100 fight mark at some point in 2023. #3 Alfred Winterbottom Are #3 inductee is Alfred Winterbottom who is second to only Dan in total DMMA fights. He currently sits at 98 fights with the promotion. Alfred has managed 3 DMMA champions thus far his first being the inaugural DMMA Heavyweight champ Kevin Faulk. The year of 2022 we saw a rise of two more former champs Constantin Niculescu and Aubrey Grant both earning their first belts of their careers. Winterbottom and the Hammer house of Horror fight team are far from done here at DMMA! #4 G Wad Gwad clocks in at #4 of the manager inductees to The DMMA Hall of Fame. Gwad has only managed 3 fighters with Dynasty, but they are all active to this day. Macca Outback has become quite the household name here as he continues his 3rd run as DMMA Middleweight champion. Yar Bol is itching ever so close to his first DMMA title and Get wet about Don is a former title challenger who I don't think we have seen the last of yet. Gwad now has 40 bouts here at DMMA as he closes in on #50. #5 Alex K. In the Second batch of DMMA Hall of fame Managers comes Alex K. The Brains behind the most prolific KO Artist in Dynasty History and 3 time DMMA Light Heavyweight champ Camaras Account. Alex K also had a good run with Segundo Garcia at one time capturing the MW title. Surely Camaras Account will be joining his Manager Alex in the near Future. #6 Action Jackson Action's managed the careers of former DMMA Heavyweight champ Bento Barboza and former Lightweight champ Ranger Alderidge. His most known fighter of his bunch in my eyes though had to has to be Devante Pinks though, he may not have reached the top of his division like his former training partners, but one thing is for sure when you stepped in the cage with Pinks you best be ready for war. #7 Freako Wimp Freako WImp has had his fair share of fighters under the DMMA Banner, but the one that strikes fear in me the most was the Unstoppable force known as Adan Puno. Puno had one of the most dominant runs in DMMA Heavyweight History at one point. Winning 8 straight including a title capturing performance over Hjallis Kalske. Wimp's still a big member of the DMMA promotion managing the careers of Swole Ricky Martin, Kazuma Kiryu, and Satoshi Ekaku all of which still have bright futures here at DMMA. #8 Outlaw Bleak Are Final Manager to be inducted may not have managed a lot of DMMA Fighters but the main one he did manage was one of the Original Hall of Famers himself in Renji Abari. Other then than Grimmjow Jaegerjacquez who had an average career during his time at Dynasty Abarai was the only fighter on Outlaw's roster. That said though were talking about the 4-time DMMA Featherweight champion here in Renji. Bleak now joins his Fighter in Dynasty History. Are next Fighter Hall of Fame Inductees will come soon!

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