You know it's coming in hot when a Judo guy hits a flying armbar and nogi fist punch throat ezekiel in the first two matches. Debana opens up this event with 2 impressive submissions you don't see every day, and a welcome change of pace from watching "superfights" where neither guy attempts a submission in the 10 minute regulation nor the 5 minute wildly unnecessary overtime (*ahem* last Kasai event...).
Literally more action than entire Gi events and a lot of "Sub Only" scored events with "super" fights. But, I dunno man, maybe watching Canuto dance with the stars circle and handfight for 5 minutes is more your cup of tea.
Debana came to do work and took out 2 guys then ran into the much larger Khosaka who he couldn't finish, but TK was just glad to not get submitted and never really opened up in the match despite being the bigger man.
It was good to see Yoshiyuki Yoshida back in action (I loved his implementing Judo in his UFC career - hated that death looking KO by a laughably missing weight Anthony Johnson), and Yoshida faced the MMA veteran Daisuke Nakamura. Yoshida had a nice kimura to neck scissor transition, prior to that Nakamura followed up a kimura attack with some toe hold/footsies work.
Yoshida ended the match with a backtake off of a Nakamura leg lock entry, both guys were looking to engage the whole time, just didn't end in a submission.
Matsumoto vs Yokoi - Judo man goes for a kneebar, FTW. What a great night so far. Matsumoto hits another kneebar attempt late in the match and Yokoi counters with a toe hold attempt because Matsumoto has his legs triangled low around the knee, match ends in a draw.
Team Neo Judo advances through the first round
Up Next we have Team Carpe Diem vs Team Shrek (hahaha, yes!)
Mebtouche vs Silva
Mebtouche with a guard pass, Silva recomposes, a kimura attempt, laces the legs, Mebtouche gives up his back in a scramble. Mebtouche uses a waiter sweep to threaten 50/50, comes up for a guard pass, Silva turns out, at this point seeming confident he can turtle to avoid the guard pass and not be in much danger, Mebtouche falls back on a guillotine but Silva defends early and is on top. Silva laces the legs and rotates for a kneebar, but his ankles are crossed and he's extending away/into the hips, rather than getting the bite above the knee, so Mebtouche doesn't look particularly concerned. Silva with a late armbar attempt but the match ends in a draw. Mebtouche gets worked by the considerably smaller man.
Garmo vs Shrek
Garmo almost finishes a double leg, Shrek hits a rice bag throw (what we call it in Judo, not sure in other grappling sports), some more exchanges of semi close throws, Garmo getting to the front headlock that the less mobile Shrek gives up when he's on both knees, Garmo on top in half-guard. Garmo with the kimura locked up from top, Sekine using the big man leg scissor squeeze to trap Garmo's hip side foot. Sekine hits another takedown, the game plan is obviously to take out Garmo with pulling a draw.
Rida vs Moody
Moody is flailing from the jump with his lanky legs, and Rida dives on a toe hold which he transitions to a kneebar as Moody extends his leg to defend. Moody wasted time hunting for a foot with his already locked up and paid the price by being behind in the race from the outset then falling further behind.
Rida vs Fat Ninja
Rida only willing to pass predominately to one side, so Fat Ninja able to recompose when Rida gets close to a knee on belly/pass et cetera. Fat Ninja content to handfight from seated and look to invert from underneath/RDLR. Both guys at 2 stalling warnings apiece. Quintet flexes its muscles and DQ's both guys for not making any progress. Haha, I love this event.
Yamada vs Nakamura
Yamada talks a big game in his promo about tapping out the whole team so he's off to a good start with a high elbow guillotine from mount-ish position, rolls to his back to throw the leg over the shoulder and finish.
Team Carpe Diem seizes the day and wins to advance.
Team Neo Judo vs Team Carpe Diem
Omigawa vs Mietz
Mietz threatened with a semi deep head-arm triangle from mount/side mount but his head was too high and missed the opportunity to use the gift wrap to use it to transition to the back then got butthurt when they got reset when he shot a mounted triangled after hanging onto the head-arm triangle and mount for a couple minutes. Mietz briefly looked for a Caio Terra DLR/ankle lock which he used to scramble to top position with about a minute left. Match ends in a draw.
Ozawa vs Mebtouche
Ozawa on top in half-guard, both knees on the mat, Mebtouche correctly utlizes outside half-guard with an underhook Lucas Leite style to come up to top position. Ozawa turtles to avoid the guard pass and escapes the back take by getting back to his feet/tripod.
Ozawa looks for an ouchigari with an overhook, Mebtouche concedes bottom position and is immediately on another backtake. Ozawa spins the leg to hunt for a leg, Mebtouches looks for an ankle lock or kneebar, and Ozawa does the same in a brief shootout. Ozawa looks completely unfazed by the ankle lock attempts. Mebtouche again with the Lucas Leite outside half-guard come up to dogfight position, then rolling back underneath textbook style to sweep Ozawa when he posts/bases out. Mebtouche in the over/under position and looking for the kneebar/dogbar from there but nothing doing. Rinse wash repeat, same whizzer overhook to an ouchigari attempt, Mebtouche on the back take, Ozawa finally reacts and looks to backstep to the leg, but Mebtouche adjusts and ends up with an RNC attempt. Match ends in a draw with both guys in a toe hold shootout after and armbar from the back transition by Mebtouche.
Garmo vs Matsumoto
Garmo in deep on a front headlock/guillotine attempt to start.
Garmo stays on the front headlock as he defends a single leg from both knees, flips Matsumoto to his back, uses an ankle grip to lace the legs, then lock up a kimura/armbar attempt while still sitting topside. Garmo all over him, deep on an RNC/face crush, but crosses his ankles...and gets tapped. Wow. Damn, that must buuuuuuuurn deep. Ouch.
Matsumoto via double ankle lock with his back taken. Haha, damn. Ouch.
Matsumoto vs Yamada
Having seen Yamada finish his opponent in the first round with a guillotine, Matsumoto shoots a double and puts his head in a guillotine, from there Yamada transitions to a backtake with back triangle locked in and the handfight for the neck begins. Yamada via neck crank from body triangle with Matsumoto stuck on his side.
Yoshida vs Yamada
Yoshida on a bodylock pass, despite his muscular build, Yamada able to feed his own leg over the shoulder and force the omoplata to counter, surprising flexibility/dexterity for a guy with his build. Yamada neck cranks a 2nd victim from body triangle/belly down. Solid event. Will likely see some clarification soon from Quintet as to neck cranks being allowed.
Literally more action than entire Gi events and a lot of "Sub Only" scored events with "super" fights. But, I dunno man, maybe watching Canuto dance with the stars circle and handfight for 5 minutes is more your cup of tea.
Debana came to do work and took out 2 guys then ran into the much larger Khosaka who he couldn't finish, but TK was just glad to not get submitted and never really opened up in the match despite being the bigger man.
It was good to see Yoshiyuki Yoshida back in action (I loved his implementing Judo in his UFC career - hated that death looking KO by a laughably missing weight Anthony Johnson), and Yoshida faced the MMA veteran Daisuke Nakamura. Yoshida had a nice kimura to neck scissor transition, prior to that Nakamura followed up a kimura attack with some toe hold/footsies work.
Yoshida ended the match with a backtake off of a Nakamura leg lock entry, both guys were looking to engage the whole time, just didn't end in a submission.
Matsumoto vs Yokoi - Judo man goes for a kneebar, FTW. What a great night so far. Matsumoto hits another kneebar attempt late in the match and Yokoi counters with a toe hold attempt because Matsumoto has his legs triangled low around the knee, match ends in a draw.
Team Neo Judo advances through the first round
Up Next we have Team Carpe Diem vs Team Shrek (hahaha, yes!)
Mebtouche vs Silva
Mebtouche with a guard pass, Silva recomposes, a kimura attempt, laces the legs, Mebtouche gives up his back in a scramble. Mebtouche uses a waiter sweep to threaten 50/50, comes up for a guard pass, Silva turns out, at this point seeming confident he can turtle to avoid the guard pass and not be in much danger, Mebtouche falls back on a guillotine but Silva defends early and is on top. Silva laces the legs and rotates for a kneebar, but his ankles are crossed and he's extending away/into the hips, rather than getting the bite above the knee, so Mebtouche doesn't look particularly concerned. Silva with a late armbar attempt but the match ends in a draw. Mebtouche gets worked by the considerably smaller man.
Garmo vs Shrek
Garmo almost finishes a double leg, Shrek hits a rice bag throw (what we call it in Judo, not sure in other grappling sports), some more exchanges of semi close throws, Garmo getting to the front headlock that the less mobile Shrek gives up when he's on both knees, Garmo on top in half-guard. Garmo with the kimura locked up from top, Sekine using the big man leg scissor squeeze to trap Garmo's hip side foot. Sekine hits another takedown, the game plan is obviously to take out Garmo with pulling a draw.
Rida vs Moody
Moody is flailing from the jump with his lanky legs, and Rida dives on a toe hold which he transitions to a kneebar as Moody extends his leg to defend. Moody wasted time hunting for a foot with his already locked up and paid the price by being behind in the race from the outset then falling further behind.
Rida vs Fat Ninja
Rida only willing to pass predominately to one side, so Fat Ninja able to recompose when Rida gets close to a knee on belly/pass et cetera. Fat Ninja content to handfight from seated and look to invert from underneath/RDLR. Both guys at 2 stalling warnings apiece. Quintet flexes its muscles and DQ's both guys for not making any progress. Haha, I love this event.
Yamada vs Nakamura
Yamada talks a big game in his promo about tapping out the whole team so he's off to a good start with a high elbow guillotine from mount-ish position, rolls to his back to throw the leg over the shoulder and finish.
Team Carpe Diem seizes the day and wins to advance.
Team Neo Judo vs Team Carpe Diem
Omigawa vs Mietz
Mietz threatened with a semi deep head-arm triangle from mount/side mount but his head was too high and missed the opportunity to use the gift wrap to use it to transition to the back then got butthurt when they got reset when he shot a mounted triangled after hanging onto the head-arm triangle and mount for a couple minutes. Mietz briefly looked for a Caio Terra DLR/ankle lock which he used to scramble to top position with about a minute left. Match ends in a draw.
Ozawa vs Mebtouche
Ozawa on top in half-guard, both knees on the mat, Mebtouche correctly utlizes outside half-guard with an underhook Lucas Leite style to come up to top position. Ozawa turtles to avoid the guard pass and escapes the back take by getting back to his feet/tripod.
Ozawa looks for an ouchigari with an overhook, Mebtouche concedes bottom position and is immediately on another backtake. Ozawa spins the leg to hunt for a leg, Mebtouches looks for an ankle lock or kneebar, and Ozawa does the same in a brief shootout. Ozawa looks completely unfazed by the ankle lock attempts. Mebtouche again with the Lucas Leite outside half-guard come up to dogfight position, then rolling back underneath textbook style to sweep Ozawa when he posts/bases out. Mebtouche in the over/under position and looking for the kneebar/dogbar from there but nothing doing. Rinse wash repeat, same whizzer overhook to an ouchigari attempt, Mebtouche on the back take, Ozawa finally reacts and looks to backstep to the leg, but Mebtouche adjusts and ends up with an RNC attempt. Match ends in a draw with both guys in a toe hold shootout after and armbar from the back transition by Mebtouche.
Garmo vs Matsumoto
Garmo in deep on a front headlock/guillotine attempt to start.
Garmo stays on the front headlock as he defends a single leg from both knees, flips Matsumoto to his back, uses an ankle grip to lace the legs, then lock up a kimura/armbar attempt while still sitting topside. Garmo all over him, deep on an RNC/face crush, but crosses his ankles...and gets tapped. Wow. Damn, that must buuuuuuuurn deep. Ouch.
Matsumoto via double ankle lock with his back taken. Haha, damn. Ouch.
Matsumoto vs Yamada
Having seen Yamada finish his opponent in the first round with a guillotine, Matsumoto shoots a double and puts his head in a guillotine, from there Yamada transitions to a backtake with back triangle locked in and the handfight for the neck begins. Yamada via neck crank from body triangle with Matsumoto stuck on his side.
Yoshida vs Yamada
Yoshida on a bodylock pass, despite his muscular build, Yamada able to feed his own leg over the shoulder and force the omoplata to counter, surprising flexibility/dexterity for a guy with his build. Yamada neck cranks a 2nd victim from body triangle/belly down. Solid event. Will likely see some clarification soon from Quintet as to neck cranks being allowed.
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