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 Fred is a fighter which has went from rags to riches, nothing with his start or early career suggested a fighter with great potential or promise.
He joined us in the GAMMA contenders as a 3-2-0 rookie, WAY back in April 2011. His first fight was against Brenno Penna lasted 54 seconds with Fred being submitted by Armbar. This would be his first and last time he would get submitted. He then went on a fantastic run, winning 5 in a row, including a fight of the night award against Brenno. After going 5-1 in the contenders he was promoted to the main GAMMA roster and his first fight was against ex-185 kingpin, Bancroft Rothschild. A fight he lost by decision.
His next 8 fights were unspectacular, going 4-4-0 with two of his losses going to Nova Uniao. A very interesting fact is that although Fred lost a total of 10 fights in his career, he has only been stopped once and that was by Nova Uniao.
From then on Fred recovered and went on another good streak, winning 4 in a row (3 by a finish). That is when Fred changed his strategy and became more of a strategic fighter. His last 7 fights have been decisions. He got his big break to go up against 2 of the top tier GAMMA fighters, both ex-185 champions, Tank The Razors Edge and Karl Denke. Unfortunately he lost both.
At this point in your career, you would probably think that Fred was basically done for. Already in his late 20s and still to show his true ability. However Fred was not done! Fred pulled off a major win over ex-185lbs contender Frank Sinatra, then two revenge wins over both Nero Aurelius and Tank The Razors Edge, which set him up for a title fight against Raz Matazz, which was at that point in contention for the fight of the year.
Going into that fight Fred was the HUGE underdog. In fact Raz was already getting ready for his super fight "tour" to push for the #1 spot (at the time Raz Matazz was top 100 p4p). Raz had famously stated pre-fight "i think i need to get a super fight after i beat down Fred". The beat down did not come................Raz could not pull off the big KO and Fred maneuvered to another strategic decision win, his 4th win in a row.
They will be rematching end of January again, Fred being the underdog again, however irrelevant of the result, Fred has shown that anything is possible if you adjust your strategy and be persistent in your job. Fred probably wont go down as the most spectacular of fighters (he has just 5 fight of the night awards in his last 30 fights), and probably wont break all the records in wins, but he will most likely go down as the ultimate underdog.
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