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 CEC 226 : Exquisite Preview
205lbs : Jackie Treehorn v Jack Worthington
Treehorn will officially make his CEC debut here after his initial debut was a non-starter due to an issue with weight cutting. He came to us with an impressive 11-2 record and will look to his his solid all round skills to try to secure a win over his struggling opponent. Worthington is good, we know he is but a little inconsistency has hampered his progression. He is better in all primary areas of the fight game than the man he faces today but that doesn't mean he will walk away the winner. A tough fight that could go either way.
205lbs : Corporate Slave v Vladimir Tretiak
Slave bounced into action not to long ago with a nice stoppage win in his first ever mma fight and will feel confident that he can repeat that feat when he steps into the cage again. Tretiak won his first fight in CEC but since then has lost a trio of bouts, being stopped each time. He really needs to get his ground game working the way it was before and start tearing off limbs the way he used to.
170lbs : Flo Wer v Tatau Bloodgood
A new arrival for CEC will be welcomed with open arms and the hope that he can achieve great things. Flo Wer comes with a 3-0 record, he will look to build on that and remain undefeated while displaying his brutal ko power. He doesn't get an easy start though because he is pitted against Bloodgood, another fighter that loves nothing more than to knock people out and since the decisions of late have not been favourable to him we could see that hunger for the finish return, this one could be an explosive early end to the night for someone.
145lbs : Chris Snorodecki v Pelle Paniikki
Snorodecki is definitely a better fighter than he has shown the CEC fans, he can finish the fight due to his heavy hands and has also proven he can go the distance and earn a decision. However, his 1-4 record since joining us may suggest his jacket is on a loose peg but let's not kid ourselves here, the guy has only lost to fighters that are extremely talented. A win over Paniikki could do him the world of good, easier said than done though. On the ground Paniikki is a scary prospect and he is certainly no slouch standing either but it is where the fight could be won and lost. Standing I give Snorodecki the edge and on the ground it is surely a win for Paniikki one would think.
205lbs : Sluggo Brott v Peter Maynard
Brott came to CEC a long time ago with endless amount of potential, since then he has found it difficult to go on any sort of meaningful winning run, a change in manager brings a fresh approach to this warrior and maybe that is all that is required to send him to the top. Overall he is the more rounded fighter of the two but it isn't an easy win by any means. Maynard has some of the sweetest muay thai skills on display inside a cage, his kicks and knees have ended fights in some style and those are surely his most dangerous weapons. Both men know they can knock the other out, problem is that they also know it could be them lying on the floor at the end of it.
145lbs : Sammy Sugarol v Ken Hansen
Sugarol started slowly at CEC when he lost his first two fights here, since then he has turned it around though and has put two in the win column to even it all up, now he looks for three in a row against the newly signed Hansen. These are two fighters that are very good in all areas of mma, from the outside it looks as though there are many strengths and little to no weaknesses, looking a little closer you will see that both men have tasted defeat from knockout, could this be the way to win in this fight?
185lbs : Jack Ass v Sergi Lutsenko
Ass opened his CEC account with a solid decision win and added to the steady growing belief in some areas that we may have a future champion on our hands, there was nothing flashy about his performance but he handled his business in a confident manner. This fight will tell us a lot more about his credential though as he faces former champion Lutsenko. Now this is a man that if you can beat then you know you're good, 5-3 CEC record and those losses have been to guys that have held the 185lbs strap at one point, twice to the current champion, so it is not an easy task. For Ass to win it will need to be the performance of his life and it will probably take the full three round to do it as Lutsenko has never been stopped.
205lbs : Viiksi Tolonen v Tomi Juntunen
Three losses in a row has removed some of the fear that Tolonen created back when he was king of two divisions in CEC, he is still as good a fighter as he was but other fighters now believe the once invincible champion has flaws that were previously impossible to find, Viiksi needs to bounce back from his recent disappointments to prove once again why he was considered the deadliest opponent you could come across in all of Finland. Juntunen looks to exploit this lapse even further as he arrives for his first ever fight in a CEC cage, a skillful knockout artist himself could be catching Tolonen at the right time of his career as it would be a great scalp for him. Very evenly matched in all areas with Tolonen holding a slight ground advantage, this is going to be fantastic viewing.
170lbs : Jan Janssen v David Lemieux
Two very experienced fighters take to the cage for a chance to show why they should be next in line for a shot at the title in the 170lbs division. Janssesn recently put to bed his requirement to prove he was capable of beating a man he had twice lost to, I guess the three judges scoring their most recent fight 30:27 for him helped that. He is a very capable fighter, his ground game is something to be admired and he is in a position now where he can show the world what he can do. Lemieux has the same goal and with it the same opportunity. In his only CEC fight to date he won by knockout, in most of his fights he wins by knockout, I am pretty sure that his goal in this fight is to win by knockout. So essentially, Janssen wants it on the ground, to be safe, and this could get him the submission or decision win, Lemieux wants to remove his opponents head from his shoulders.
185lbs Title : Leo Sarsola v Gunnar Nelson
The Main Event is a spectacle that everyone wants to be part of, a fight that could be talked about for years as these two impressive specimens face off for a fourth, but I highly doubt final time. Their first encounter ended with a ko win for Sarsola in the third round of a fight he had been in complete control of. Fight two saw Nelson get revenge as he took all three rounds from all three judges in a decision win where he utilised some nice leg kicking to earn the nod. Their third was the most important and significant though as it was for the title that Nelson had just taken from Pao Ling. It started badly for Nelson as he was cut early but that seemed to only spur him on to take the opening round, with round two going the way of Sarsola it looked like a tight one until he got the fight to the ground and pounded out Nelson to win the title. So what more needs to be said? There is history to go along with the fact it is one of the biggest fights we will ever witness in our CEC cage, I honestly can't pick a winner but I know it is going to be a phenomenal fight, one worthy of finishing off a great event.
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