There was a time when we were stuck waiting a month or more at a time to see a UFC on PPV. This weekend we got a 7 hour UFC Broadcast, a Bellator on cable, and a team formatted EBI event on Fight Pass. I spent Saturday night with friends flipping between the Subversiv matches during the interminably long commercial breaks that followed a UFC Brazil card laden with finishes.
Lovato showed weaknesses in his wrestling defense when Salter pressed him, though avoided any meaningful damage when taken down, likely gave up rounds to a solid wrestler before getting the tap. The rest of the Bellator card delivered finishes and the usual flare of Bellator with entertaining scraps throughout.
The UFC card was sprinkled with solid names, Santos and Anders cobbled together to save a main event scrapped due to injury. It was a "red panty" night for Brazilian fighters as even lil' Nog managed to pick up a win after being gone due to steroid suspension. He clipped Sam Alvey and pounced to get the finish. Cowboy Oliveira got another stoppage win. Ewell beat a "failed to make weight" Renan Barao, Charles Oliveira became the most submitting-est fighter in UFC history (modern era or otherwise - which makes it all the more impressive, he also holds the most versatile submission win list in history by a considerable margin). Francisco Trinaldo picked up a stoppage win over the now retired Evan Dunhm, and Leites went out into the retirement pasture with a win as well. Augusto Sakai battered Herman on the feet and on the ground and TBH felt the fight could've been stopped before the last flurry led to the ground and pound. The elbows straight down didn't stop the fight but the hammer fists to a guy blocking them with his palm did? I dunno.
Sergio Moraes became the first guy to submit Ben Saunders who was quickly taken down at the start of both rounds and Moraes took nary a punch or a kick dragging Saunders down and methodically advancing position to sink in the fight ending head-arm triangle.
Zaleski picked up another HL reel win (put this guy on the MAIN CARD). Whoo.....take a deep breath just soaking all that in. What a night. Just wish it wasn't a 7 hour event. How do football fans watch double headers?
Subversiv:
For a more detailed MATCH BY MATCH Summary CLICK HERE.
Felt like Team Carlson Gracie tossed up some lower ranked guys to get crushed by far more experienced NoGi/heel hook knowledgeable competitors. TLI picked up some wins but then lost on a forfeit.
Beyond just their performance, guys finished heel hooks one-handed, folks tried to finish heel hooks and ankle locks but simply wrenching back and extended. People cheated at the outset of overtime rounds and set their hands illegally, referees wasted seconds of escape time by not fully understanding how the positions are defined as "escaping" et cetera. However, when mixed in with the superfights, we got a solid amount of finishes and grappling styles matched up with one another (and, holding us over until this ridiculously awesome Quintet 3 coming up in Las Vegas with it's own set of superfights booked as well).
TLI's 145 lb competitor forfeited, and thus gave what ended up being the tie breaking match out of 5 to Team 10th Planet. Curious....very curious. Also noticed Lloyd Irvin has continued to keep a very low profile these days. Weird, because this is the guy who once gave Dominic Cruz HIS BLUE BELT in the UFC ON CAMERA. Weird. Can't say for certain it has to do with hoping and waiting and praying his team avoids the whole #metoo movement, because his team won't be the only folks ostracized if the movement ever comes to JiuJitsu. There's a lot of scumbags out there sweating and hoping #metoo keeps its eyes away from the sport and the toxic gym cultures which abound. Back to TLI, All the domain buying and google analytics manipulation in the world won't hide the series of scandals that have surfaced in years previous if it becomes a hot button issue in JiuJitsu. Team 10th Planet manhandled their first team bracket then won on a forfeit. It is what it is. Not the way you want a team format event to be decided for the final, but then again, that's part of the draw. When you have multiple matches, and it's a team event, a set of more variables come to bear an impact on the outcome. 10/10 overall as it was cool to see EBI format, meets Quintet Team format, all in one event.
Lovato showed weaknesses in his wrestling defense when Salter pressed him, though avoided any meaningful damage when taken down, likely gave up rounds to a solid wrestler before getting the tap. The rest of the Bellator card delivered finishes and the usual flare of Bellator with entertaining scraps throughout.
The UFC card was sprinkled with solid names, Santos and Anders cobbled together to save a main event scrapped due to injury. It was a "red panty" night for Brazilian fighters as even lil' Nog managed to pick up a win after being gone due to steroid suspension. He clipped Sam Alvey and pounced to get the finish. Cowboy Oliveira got another stoppage win. Ewell beat a "failed to make weight" Renan Barao, Charles Oliveira became the most submitting-est fighter in UFC history (modern era or otherwise - which makes it all the more impressive, he also holds the most versatile submission win list in history by a considerable margin). Francisco Trinaldo picked up a stoppage win over the now retired Evan Dunhm, and Leites went out into the retirement pasture with a win as well. Augusto Sakai battered Herman on the feet and on the ground and TBH felt the fight could've been stopped before the last flurry led to the ground and pound. The elbows straight down didn't stop the fight but the hammer fists to a guy blocking them with his palm did? I dunno.
Sergio Moraes became the first guy to submit Ben Saunders who was quickly taken down at the start of both rounds and Moraes took nary a punch or a kick dragging Saunders down and methodically advancing position to sink in the fight ending head-arm triangle.
Zaleski picked up another HL reel win (put this guy on the MAIN CARD). Whoo.....take a deep breath just soaking all that in. What a night. Just wish it wasn't a 7 hour event. How do football fans watch double headers?
Subversiv:
For a more detailed MATCH BY MATCH Summary CLICK HERE.
Felt like Team Carlson Gracie tossed up some lower ranked guys to get crushed by far more experienced NoGi/heel hook knowledgeable competitors. TLI picked up some wins but then lost on a forfeit.
Beyond just their performance, guys finished heel hooks one-handed, folks tried to finish heel hooks and ankle locks but simply wrenching back and extended. People cheated at the outset of overtime rounds and set their hands illegally, referees wasted seconds of escape time by not fully understanding how the positions are defined as "escaping" et cetera. However, when mixed in with the superfights, we got a solid amount of finishes and grappling styles matched up with one another (and, holding us over until this ridiculously awesome Quintet 3 coming up in Las Vegas with it's own set of superfights booked as well).
TLI's 145 lb competitor forfeited, and thus gave what ended up being the tie breaking match out of 5 to Team 10th Planet. Curious....very curious. Also noticed Lloyd Irvin has continued to keep a very low profile these days. Weird, because this is the guy who once gave Dominic Cruz HIS BLUE BELT in the UFC ON CAMERA. Weird. Can't say for certain it has to do with hoping and waiting and praying his team avoids the whole #metoo movement, because his team won't be the only folks ostracized if the movement ever comes to JiuJitsu. There's a lot of scumbags out there sweating and hoping #metoo keeps its eyes away from the sport and the toxic gym cultures which abound. Back to TLI, All the domain buying and google analytics manipulation in the world won't hide the series of scandals that have surfaced in years previous if it becomes a hot button issue in JiuJitsu. Team 10th Planet manhandled their first team bracket then won on a forfeit. It is what it is. Not the way you want a team format event to be decided for the final, but then again, that's part of the draw. When you have multiple matches, and it's a team event, a set of more variables come to bear an impact on the outcome. 10/10 overall as it was cool to see EBI format, meets Quintet Team format, all in one event.
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