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 MAIN CARD�
Main Event
Bantamweight Title Fight
#1 Harald Andersson (8-1, 7-1 NGF) v C-Andrzej Gajewski (17-2-1, 5-0 NGF)
A huge opportunity for Harald Andersson who lost out on his previous title opportunity to NGF Hall of Famer Arthur Pirozhkov at NGF 39.� Andersson has won 3 straight since that loss and he has 2 finishes in that time.� Andersson is a pure stand up fighter, which may not be good in this matchup, but he has elite take down defense, defending 88% of take down attempts.� He can fight aggressive, but he can counter very well.� He is outstanding in the clinch, landing 77% of his head punches and 55% of his body punches.� He has very good defensive skills, and he is improving his position at a 62% clip.� Andrzej Gajewski has been perfect since coming into the NGF; he is 5-0 and has defended his title 3 times.� There isn�t anything Gajewski doesn�t do well, he is quick, he can land strikes, he can shot in and get take downs at ease and he can control a fight in the clinch and on the ground.� He is averaging 19.9 punches per fight standing and 14.1 kicks so he can hurt you with his feet and hands.� This should be one hell of a fight, Andersson can hurt people, he has good power and he can rock his opponents with a single punch.� Gajewski is a little more rounded, but he also can knock an opponent down with a punch and then ground and pound until the fight is stopped, but he has stand up power as well.� If Harald can defend the take downs, we�ll have a great stand up battle and that could go either way.� Take down defense vs take down offense in this one.� PREDICTION: Gajewski 3rd round TKO
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Light Heavyweight Fight
Gunner Malone (16-7, 1-3 NGF) v #12 Johnny Jackson (12-5, 3-2 NGF)
Gunner Malone is back with the NGF, he came to the organization on a 9 fight winning streak and promptly lost his first 3 fights in NGF.� After winning his last against Travis Jones, Malone and NGF inked another contract.� Malone will try to start a winning streak by beating Johnny Jackson.� Malone has sensational kick boxing and strong Muay Thai but he has a suspect chin and no ground game to speak of.� Malone has very good power, he can end fights very quickly, all 16 of his career wins have come by (T)KO.� He is super accurate in the clinch, landing 94% of his head punches and 93% of his body punches.� He is in every single fight as long as he doesn�t go to the ground, he has lost 3 fights by submission.� Johnny Jackson may have corrected things after bouncing back in his last fight after losing 2 straight.� Jackson is a very good striker who can hurt someone quickly, but he is also very accurate, he is landing 78% of his stand up head punches, 82% of his body punches 59% of his head kicks and 75% of his leg kicks.� It�s his head kicks that you have to defend the most, he has 3 head kick KO�s and a bunch more that have rocked or cut opponents.� He�ll take and completely take over a fight in the clinch, he is averaging 15.6 clinch head punches and 7 body punches, he can just overwhelm opponents in the clinch.� This is a great fight, neither fighter is much of a ground fighter, so I think we�ll get a pure stand up battle.� I can�t wait!� PREDICTION:� Jackson 2nd round TKO
Heavyweight Fight
#3 Henkka Seppala (4-0 NGF) v #2 Randall Cunningham (12-2-1, 2-0 NGF)
This will be a #1 contender fight between 21 year old KO artist Henkka Seppala and 24 year old striker Randall Cunningham.� Seppala has been awesome in his early career, he has finished all 4 fighters the NGF has put in front of him and when he beat Dennis Bird, it was time for him to get a huge test.� Seppala is all stand up, he has exceptional wrestling skills, but he uses them more for take down defense more than anything else.� He is all power, looking to bash someone�s face in as soon as he can, but he�s not overly wild; landing 62% of his head punches.� He uses kicks to take out legs and he counters with nice combinations to earn points.� Seppala isn�t a great ground fighter, but he hasn�t been on his back very often.� Randall Cunningham is a great fighter, he is smart, he is quick and he is strong.� His weapon of mass destruction is his head kick, man; this guy can lift a fool right off his feet with a perfectly placed kick.� Cunningham averages 21.7 leg kicks, 7.1 head kicks and 5.5 body kicks per fight in comparison to 8.2 punches.� He has done a pretty decent job in the clinch, but he tends to use all knees and not much else there.� His defense has been elite as he is holding his opponent to under 43% on all strikes.� He is not a ground fighter, but the little time he�s been there, he has shown good ground striking defense.� Cunningham tends to be all kicks and knees, and one problem he has, if 2 losses is what you call a problem, is if those aren�t landing, he will be beat.� I like Seppala�s power, but Cunningham has the defense to avoid the big power and counter with kicks.� These guys both have monster head kicks so who knows, I love this match up.� PREDICTION:� Cunningham 2nd round KO
Heavyweight Fight
Roman Kowalski (9-6, 6-4 NGF) v #7 Stevie Gonzales (12-1, 1-0 NGF)
10 career fights inside the NGF makes Roman Kowalski one of the organizations vets, he�ll look to fight someone other than Karl Pope!� Kowalski is a good fighter, he is pretty good offensively in all areas, but he is just terrible at defense.� He has a fighting style that has him with his hands down, often walking straight in and he gets clipped all the time.� It�s weird that nobody has changed him at all.� He is allowing 75% of head punches to land, 91% in the clinch.� The good thing with Kowalski is he usually is the aggressor and he will out strike his opponents.� The one area he has not been good at is on the mat, he has been submitted 3 times and he is allowing 48% of opponent�s ground strikes to land.� Stevie Gonzales was successful in his first NGF fight and he showed incredible power and strength with a 1st round TKO of Third Dag at SNF 6.� Gonzales is 12-1 in his career with 6 KO�s and 4 other TKO�s.� He�s a powerful striker who can accurately land punches and leg kicks; he is landing 84% of his head punches and 80% of his leg kicks per fight.� He can push away from clinching very well; he likes to stay at kick boxing range for most if not all the fight.� He has no ability on the ground; he averages 2.5 take downs from standing per fight and hasn�t completed a single one.� His stand up defense is bordering on unbelievable, he is holding opponents to 41% success on head punches and 10% on combos and head kicks, and 22% on leg kicks.� We have to see if Roman has been working on anything, but if it�s not on striking defense, then training has been a waste.� Gonzales is too powerful and too elusive in my opinion.� PREDICTION:� Gonzales 2nd round KO
Bantamweight Fight
#5 Matti Teitsi (5-3, 2-0 NGF) v #3 Yoshiteru Goto (10-7-1, 4-1 NGF)
Matti Teitsi is coming into this fight on a 3 fight winning streak with a KO, decision and TKO win.� Teitsi is a superb Muay Thai fighter, he will take the fight to the clinch as soon as he can, he is averaging 30.1 punches in the clinch, mostly a dirty boxer fighter, but he has excellent clinch skills.� He isn�t a great striker standing, but he is a good counter striker when he needs it.� He has shown amazing take down defense and he is successful on 33% of his take downs.� On the ground he is a frustrating fighter, he can look so good, but he is so sloppy.� He is landing 83% of his ground strikes and he improves his position 78% successfully, but he has been submitted 3 times.� It�s hard to believe Yoshiteru Goto was 6-6-1 when he entered the NGF, he is such a good fighter, you would thing he would have 1 or 2 loses.� Goto uses an aggressive style, where he�ll get into inside, land big shots and get out, he is excellent at avoiding strikes, he is holding opponents to under 40% on all strikes.� Goto has exceptional wrestling, but he is NOT a ground fighter, he is a stand up fighter looking to land strikes with violence and destruction behind them.� He has very good kicking and when he�s not pushing the fight, he�ll land on average 9.3 leg kicks a fight, trying to slow down his opponent.� This one is not going to be on the ground, we may see kick boxing and clinch fighting, but this will not be a ground fight.� I like Goto and his experience in this one, he has only been really weak on the ground, so eliminate that and he�s been dominating, I think that continues in this one.� PREDICTION:� Goto 2nd round TKO
PRELIM CARD
Super Heavyweight Fight
Paulo Cesar Silva (4-3 NGF) v #11 Vic Miller (6-3, 2-0 NGF)
This is Paulo Cesar Silva�s chance to break into the top 15 by beating #11 ranked Vic Miller.� Silva is a different type of super heavyweight, instead of big punching, KO you out power, he has nothing in the way of a stand up game, he is all take you down and wrestle you to death.� Silva, shamefully, hasn�t landed a single stand up strike in his 7 fights, he has attempted 3.9 take downs per fight and he has attempted on average, 6.3 ground strikes.� He will hurt you with his ground and pound if he gets you down.� You couldn�t ask for a more even match up, who hasn�t landed a single stand up strike?� Two thumbs pointing at these two guys, weird.� Miller has averaged 1.8 head punches per fight, but hasn�t landed a single one.� He is successful on 67% of his take down attempts and he then averages 4.6 ground strikes and 2.3 submissions.� I don�t think we are in for much in the way of excitement in this one.� PREDICTION:� Miller 2nd round submission
Light Heavyweight Fight
Vinicius Oliveira (5-4, 5-3 NGF) v Travis Jones (10-4, 6-3 NGF)
Vinicius Oliveira will try and use his bjj skills to work a ground victor in this one.� Oliveira isn�t bad standing, he will land a good share of strikes, but he doesn�t have any kicking in his attack.� He can be one dimensional and he can be hit too much.� He has good submissions skills, so when the fight goes to the mat he will always have a shot.� Travis Jones asked for better competition and he got it in his last fight, he was promptly beaten down in the 1st round.� Jones is one of the weakest punchers in the division, but he is impressively accurate, he is landing 79% of his stand up head punches, 83% of his body punches and 63% of his leg kicks.� Jones will not knock anyone out, but he will out strike everyone, which makes him a judge�s darling.� He can be out pointed on the ground, but he has decent submission skills so he can capitalize on a mistake.� PREDICTION:� Jones decision win
Super Heavyweight Fight
#14 Leopold Stotch (7-4, 2-3 NGF) v #12 Buddy Threadgood (6-5, 5-5 NGF)
This will or should be a fun stand up battle between two good, powerful strikers.� Leopold Stotch is a very aggressive big man, he averages 18.2 stand up head punches, but he is only landing 48% of them.� Stotch will throw big hay makers and sacrifice accuracy, but he can KO anyone when he connects.� Buddy Threadgood began and ended pretty quickly.� He has no chin and his career will not last long with the way he gets knocked out.� He is skilled and he has KO power, but his defense stinks and he allows too many strikes to land.� Someone is getting KO�ed in this one, that�s one thing you can count on.� PREDICTION:� Stotch 1st round KO
Middleweight Fight
Nigel McHughes (9-9-1, 1-3 NGF) v Meg Didion (5-3, 2-2 NGF)
Oh picking on the girl huh?� Nigel McHughes will take on Meg Didion to see if the boy can beat up the girl, ok, not really, but they will fight anyway.� McHughes is just not good, he has decent conditioning, but he tends to wear out as the fights go.� He can strike well, but he can be out worked in fights, he does a lot like, back up, counter and gets beat up on the ground that causes him to lose decisions.� Meg Didion is a woman, that�s right, she is allowed to take TRT to compete with the boys, but it doesn�t seem to give her much of an advantage.� We had one training partner that said she learns at a turtles pace, so her skills don�t look like they have improved much from her 1st fight.� She is powerful and she can KO someone with her big punching, but she is nothing anywhere else.� She is a boxer, no dangerous kicks, no clinching, nothing as far as wrestling skills.� She can be taken down and then she is just not strong enough to do anything.� We�ll see if we have a stand up battle or McHughes wants to end this fight quickly by taking Didion down.� PREDICTION:� McHughes 2nd round TKO
Super Heavyweight Fight
Stef Jalz (5-7, 0-3 NGF) v Sawyer Hume (2-0, 0-0 NGF)
Stef Jalz is talented, no doubt, but he just doesn�t have the wrestling skills to compete with the competition he�s faced so far.� He has a black belt in bjj, but Jalz is under the impression he�ll be able to use his black belt skills whenever he goes to the ground, the reality is he gets pounded while he goes looking for the submissions.� He is a decent stand up fighter, but his NO take down defense kills him, he has been taken down 100% of the time.� Sawyer Hume will make his NGF debut in this one and he could be the match up that Stef Jalz has been waiting for.� Hume has not gone to the ground in his 2 fights, he is still training his bjj skills, so he doesn�t like to fight on the mat yet.� He is a strong fighter, he is quick and he has been a MONSTER in the clinch so far.� He just killed Jemarcus Quinn and� Grigory Stensky in the clinch, he blitz them by landing 100% of his head and body punches, he destroyed them with elbows, he averaged 11.5 over the 2 fights.� He has not been tested yet, he will in this one, so let�s see how good Hume is, because I know Jalz is good if he doesn�t have to worry about getting taken down.� PREDICTION:� Hume 2nd round TKO
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