Limelight My big stupid hype trains thread.

Just to finish off

XFC on Friday

- Tom O'Connor (28/Canada/LW/9-1) Vs Damonte Robinson (25/USA/LW/6-1-1)
- Carson Hardman (26/USA/WW/9-2) Vs Bellator vet LaRue Burley
- Austin Bashi (19/USA/BW/2-0) against the debuting Emmanuel Pugh

CFFC on Friday

- Laura Gallardo (USA/SW/3-1) Vs 3-1 Helen Peralta

Combate on Saturday

- Ernesto Ibarra (25/Mexico/FLW/5-0) Vs 8-6 Alan Cantu Garcia
- Manny Vazquez (27/USA/BW/12-3) against UFC vet Nohelin Hernandez

EFC on Saturday

- Shamidkhan Magomedov (26/Russia/WW/2-0) is fighting 10-3 Rasul Mammaev in his 3rd pro fight, so there must be some faith in him.
- Saygid Izagakhmaev (26/Russia/WW/17-2) tries to bounce back from missing his opportunity in front of Dana by fighting 11-4 Paulo Silva
- #13 BW Ruslav Sariev (24/Kazakhstan/BW/12-1) Vs 6-2 Ilmiyamin Dzhavatov
- Imamshafi Aliev (22/Russia/MW/5-0) Vs Bakhityar Umetaliev

MMA Series on Saturday

- Oleg Popov (Russia/HW/10-1) Vs Marcos Briagagao (25/Brazil/HW/13-2)
- Sergey Bobryshev (Russia/LW/10-1) Vs 13-6 Zalimkhan Yusupov
- Gulnazik Omarova (18/Kyrgyzstan/BW/3-0) Vs 4-3 Mariya Artyukhina

Superior Challenge on Saturday

- Kenneth Bergh (31/Norway/Russia/8-0) rematches his Contender Series opponent Antonio Trocoli (30/Brazil/LHW/11-3)

Mix Fight on Saturday

- Nair Melikyan (23/Armenia/LW/6-0) Vs 7-3 Kewin Jacques

CFFC again on Saturday

- #9 SW Elise Reed (28/USA/SW/3-0) Vs Contender Series vet Hilarie Rose (28/USA/SW/5-2)

Pancrase on Saturday

- Rui Imura (22/Japan/BW/4-0) Vs 7-5 Masahide Hiraoka
 
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Saygid Izagakhmaev

Country - Russia
Weight Class - Welterweight
Age : 26
Promotion - EFC
Record : 18-2

Saygid fights with a steady methodical grappling pace, but he's pretty effective at doing it. He also fights to finish and tries to do damage to people, so while his style isn't always thrill a minute, it's not like he's Danny Sabatello or Brant Moore or anything. He rebounded nicely from his loss to Carlston Harris infront of Dana and Harris' success in his UFC debut might have spurred him on a bit.

I'm not actually sure he'll be able to quite get over the hump with top level competition with his style as I'm not sure he has a plan B if it isn't working, but I'd quite like to see him given a chance. He's one of Khabib's guys, so that'll go in his favour.
 
Not quite hype train worthy, but worth noting from this weekend.

- Elise Reed (28/USA/SW/4-0) got another solid win in finishing DWCS veteran Hillarie Rose. I'm not quite sold on her sub defence from top position. At this point deserves a Contender Series shot though, maybe a fight against someone good off their back like Vanessa Demopoulos would be interesting.

Ekaterina Shakalova (26/Ukraine/BW/6-1) is going into the rankings after showing a decent ground game in her FEN win. Though tbh her stand up looked pretty horrible and she's only getting ranked because it's women's BW.

- Pavel Vitruk (30/Ukraine/BW/14-4-1) completely dominated Dinelo Lopes in a really good performance to bounce back from an understandable defeat against Dudaev.

- James Lyons (24/USA/FW/2-0) had a very impressive early career performance and has looked impressive in both his pro-fights I've seen so far. Not got much in the way of competition yet obviously, but I'm keeping an eye on him.

- Murat Bilarov (25/Russia/LW/5-1) scored a nice early KO and looked very aggressive in doing so.

- Khabib Nabiev (22/Russia/WW/4-0) had some excellent grappling, not quite befitting the Khabib name, but very good positional stuff and going for the finish regularly.
 
This week we have...

BRAVE on Friday for a superb prospects card.

- Mohamed Grabinski (26/Germany/LW/21-6) takes on UFC vet Lucas Martins
- Denis Maher (26/Belarus/MW/7-0) fights Rinat Sagyntay (25/Kazakhstan/WW/9-0) in a catchweight fight
- Ylies Dijiroun (29/France/LW/18-6) fights 6'4 LW Sam Patterson (25/England/LW/6-1-1)
- Abdulmutalip Gairbekov (31/Russia/FW/15-2-1) who hasn't lost in 8 years fights UFC vet Roman Bogatov
- Yanis Ghemmouri (26/France/FW/9-1) takes on Vladislav Novitskiy
- Badmatsyren Dorzhiev (27/Russia/FLW/5-0) Vs 9-4 Almanbet Abdyvasy Uulu
- Aydemir Kazbekov (Russia/BW/7-0) Vs Abdul Karim Badakhshi (Afghanistan/BW/4-0)
- Anastasia Feofana (31/Russia/SW/7-1) Vs Sevde Turk (Turkey/SW/4-0)
- Vadim Kutsky (29/Belarus/WW/15-1) Vs 8-2 Daniyar Abdibaev
- #7 FLW Muhammad Mokaev (20/England/FLW/5-0) Vs Ibragim Navruzov (27/Georgia/BW/5-1-1) at a catchweight
- Artem Lukyanov (20/Belarus/FLW/4-0) Vs Bakhtovar Yunusov (Tajikistan/FLW/4-0)

Battlefield on Friday

- Caio Machado (26/Brazil/HW/4-1-1) defends the HW title against 5-1 Chris Larsen
- Kyran Cameron (Canada/WW/5-0) challenges for the title against 12-7 Dejan Kakic
- Dario Sinagoga (Ireland/LW/4-0) fights Zackery Powell (25/Canada/LW/5-0)

LFA on Friday

- Terrance McKinney (26/USA/LW/9-3) looks to extend his winning streak to 3 against Michael Irizarry Ortiz (29/Puerto Rico/LW/12-3)
- Askar Askar (26/Palestine/BW/11-1) picks up the pieces from his failed UFC medical against Justin Wetzell (29/USA/BW/6-1)
- Robson Junior (20/Brazil/FW/3-0) who hasn't let anyone out of the first 2 minutes yet fights 3-1 Edwin Cooper Jr

Eternal MMA on Saturday

- Steve Erceg (Australia/FLW/6-1) Vs Cody Haddon (Australia/FLW/2-0)

Arena Global on Saturday

- Joelson Pantoja (23/Brazil/LW/5-0) Vs Paulo Henrique (29/Brazil/LW/9-3)
- Andreyna Rocha (20/Brazil/FLW/3-0) Vs 1-1 PRVT fighter Denise Gomes

KSW on Saturday

- #2 FW Sweet Sweet Parnagoat (23/France/FW/14-1-1) tries to bounce back against Filip Pejic who I hate for some reason.
- Ivan Erslan (29/Croatia/LHW/9-1) takes his first fight since his title shot loss against Mysalia
 
UFC Women's Strawweight signed Tabatha Ricci will fight Manon Fiorot.
 
Quick rankings update.

#11 SW Tabitha Ricci signed for the UFC (too early imo but whatever)

Heavyweight
  1. Mukhamed Vakhaev - 31 (Russia) 9-4-1
  2. Sergey Bilostenniy - 25 (Russia) 6-2
  3. Alikhan Vakhaev - 27 (Russia) 11-2
  4. Denis Goltsov - 30 (Russia) 26-6 Vs Mohammed Usman (PFL) 25th June
  5. Hugo Cunha - 28 (Brazil) 6-0 Vs Martin Buday (DWCS) 12th October
  6. Kang Ji Won - 25 (South Korea) 5-0
  7. Anatoly Malykhin - 33 (Russia) 9-0
  8. Ante Delija - 30 (Croatia) 17-4 Vs Hatef Moiel (PFL) 25th June
  9. Thomas Petersen - 25 (USA) 4-0
  10. Jesus Navarrete - 23 (Mexico) 7-0
  11. Kirill Grishenko - 29 (Belarus) 4-0
  12. Bruno Cappelozza - 31 (Brazil) 11-5 Vs Mo De'Reese (PFL) 25th June
  13. Alexandr Maslov - 27 (Russia) 7-1
  14. Kirill Kornilov - 30 (Russia) 9-0
  15. Renan Ferreira - 31 (Brazil) 6-2 Vs Ali Isaev (PFL) 25th June
Light Heavyweight
  1. Jailton Junior - 29 (Brazil) 13-2 Vs Nasrudin Nasrudinov (DWCS) 14th September
  2. Murtaza Talha - 23 (Bahrain) 3-0
  3. Anton Turkalj - 24 (Sweden) 7-0 Vs Kaloyan Kolev (DWCS) 12th October
  4. Tomasz Narkun - 31 (Poland) 18-4
  5. Muslim Magomedov - 26 (Russia) 9-0 Vs Evgeny Egemberdiev (ACA) 15th July
  6. Emiliano Sordi - 30 (Argentina) 23-8 Vs Daniel Spohn (PFL) 17th June
  7. Narsudin Nasrudinov - 29 (Russia) 9-0 Vs Jailton Junior (DWCS) 14th September
  8. Asylzhan Bakhytzhaluny - 30 (Kazakhstan) 11-2-1
  9. Joshua Silveira - 28 (USA) 5-0
  10. Shamil Akhmedov - 30 (Russia) 7-0
  11. Nick Maximov - 23 (USA) 6-0 Vs Cody Brundage (DWCS) 5th October
  12. Arman Petrosyan - 30 (Armenia) 4-0 Vs Hasan Yousefi (AMC) 18th June
  13. Amirkhan Guliev - 29 (Russia) 10-1 Vs Roman Gudochkin (ACA) 11th June
  14. Marthin Hamlet Nielsen - 29 (Norway) 7-1 Vs Cory Hendricks (PFL) 17th June
  15. Jamal Pogues - 25 (USA) 8-3
Middleweight
  1. Vladimir Mineev - 31 (Russia) 15-1-1
  2. Salamu Abdurakhmanov - 27 (Russia) 12-1
  3. Ikram Aliaskerov - 28 (Russia) 11-1
  4. Magomedrasul Gasanov - 26 (Russia) 16-2
  5. Mario Sousa - 24 (Brazil) 12-1
  6. Reiner De Ridder - 30 (Netherlands) 14-0
  7. Artem Frolov - 29 (Russia) 15-3 Vs Abdul Rakhman Dzhanaev (ACA) 28th August
  8. Alex Pereira - 33 (Brazil) 3-1
  9. Caio Borralho - 28 (Brazil) 8-1 Vs Aaron Jeffery (DWCS) 28th September
  10. Josh Fremd - 27 (USA) 7-2
  11. Azamat Bekovev - 25 (Russia) 12-2
  12. Mariusz Ksiazkiewicz - 31 (Canada) 8-1
  13. Abusupiyan Magomedov - 30 (Russia) 24-4-1
  14. Aaron Jeffery - 28 (Canada) 10-2 Vs Caio Borralho (DWCS) 28th September
  15. Hunter Colvin - 26 (USA) 3-0
Welterweight
  1. Roberto Soldic - 26 (Croatia) 18-3
  2. Nikolay Aleksakhin - 30 (Russia) 26-5 Vs Ray Cooper III (PFL) 17th June
  3. Amiran Gogoladze - 23 (Georgia) 11-1 Vs Handesson Ferreira (UAEW) 19th June
  4. Magomed Magomedkerimov - 31 (Russia) 27-4 Vs Curtis Millender (PFL) 17th June
  5. Kiamran Abbasov - 27 (Kyrgyzstan) 23-4
  6. Ray Cooper III - 28 (USA) 21-7-1 Vs Nikolay Aleksakhin (PFL) 17th June
  7. Ian Garry - 23 (Ireland) 6-0 Vs Jack Grant (CW) 26th June
  8. Michael Morales - 20 (Ecuador) 11-0 Vs Nikolay Veritinnikov (DWCS) 28th September
  9. Solomon Renfro - 24 (USA) - 7-1 Vs Lee Henry Lilly (CFFC) 3rd July
  10. Abdoul Abdoulragimov - 25 (France) 12-1
  11. Andrej Grzebyk - 30 (Poland) 17-4
  12. Jarrah Hussein Al-Silawi - 28 (Jordan) 16-3
  13. Eldar Eldarov - 29 (Russia) 13-2
  14. Benoit Saint-Denis - 25 (France) 7-0
  15. Saygid Izagakhmaev - 26 (Russia) 18-2
Lightweight
  1. Christian Lee - 22 (USA) 15-3
  2. Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov - 32 (Russia) 18-2
  3. Daniel Zellhuber - 21 (Mexico) 11-0 Vs Lucas Almeida (DWCS) 28th September
  4. Tofiq Musaev - 31 (Azerbaijan) 18-3 Vs Roberto Souza (Rizin) 13th June
  5. Shamil Musaev - 27 (Russia) 15-0
  6. Natan Schulte - 29 (Brazil) 20-4-1 Vs Mikhail Odintsov (PFL) 10th June
  7. Eduard Vartanyan - 29 (Russia) 19-4
  8. Mansour Barnaoui - 28 (France) 19-4
  9. Iuri Lapicus - 25 (Moldova) 15-1
  10. Achilles Estremadura - 29 (Canada) 7-0
  11. Yusuf Raisov - 25 (Russia) 17-2
  12. Magomed Umalatov - 29 (Russia) 10-0
  13. Khusein Khaliev - 32 (Russia) 21-2
  14. Rae Yoon Ok - 30 (South Korea) - 15-3
  15. Alex Martinez - 26 (Paraguay) 8-0 Vs Anthony Pettis (PFL) 10th June
Featherweight
  1. Islam Omarov - 23 (Russia) 10-0
  2. Saladhine Parnasse - 23 (France) 14-1-1 Vs Filip Pejic (KSW) 5th June
  3. Georgy Shakhrumanazov - 25 (Russia) 10-0
  4. Bibert Tumenov - 23 (Russia) 10-2
  5. Diego Lopes - 26 (Brazil) 19-3
  6. Gabriel Santos - 24 (Brazil) 7-0
  7. Jung Young Lee - 25 (South Korea) 7-1
  8. Canaan Kawaihae - 23 (USA) 6-1
  9. Felipe Froes - 29 (Brazil) 20-5-1
  10. Kleber Koike - 31 (Brazil) 27-5-1 Vs Mikuru Asakura (Rizin) 13th June
  11. Movlid Khaybulaev - 30 (Russia) 16-0 Vs Sheymon Moraes (PFL) 10th June
  12. Apti Bimazaev - 28 (Belarus) 17-3
  13. Mikuru Asakura - 28 (Japan) 14-2 Vs Kleber Koike (Rizin) 13th June
  14. Daniel Torres - 27 (Austria/Brazil) 12-4
  15. Ramazan Kishev - 29 (Russia) 17-3 Vs Magomedrasul Khasbulaev (ACA) 28th August
Bantamweight
  1. Rustam Kerimov - 29 (Russia) 14-0
  2. Herberth Sousa - 27 (Brazil) 15-1
  3. Kai Asakura - 27 (Japan) 16-3 Vs Shooto Watanabe (Rizin) 13th June
  4. Mo Miller - 28 (USA) 5-0
  5. Denis Lavrentyev - 32 (Russia) 11-2
  6. Jack Cartwright - 26 (England) 10-0
  7. Mateus Mendonca - 22 (Brazil) 9-0
  8. Abdul-Rahman Dudaev - 28 (Russia) 25-6 Vs Francisco Maciel (ACA) 29th June
  9. Alberto Montes - 26 (Venezuela) 5-0
  10. Zviad Lazishvili - 29 (Georgia) 12-0
  11. Vinicius De Oliveira - 25 (Brazil) 16-2
  12. Magomedgadzhi Sirazhudinov - 24 (Russia) 9-1
  13. Ruslan Sariev - 24 (Kazahkstan) 12-1
  14. Renat Khavalov - 22 (Russia) 4-0
  15. Francesco Nuzzi - 24 (Italy) 9-1
Flyweight
  1. Jake Hadley - 24 (England) 7-0
  2. Adriano Moraes - 31 (Brazil) 19-3
  3. Azamat Kerefov - 30 (Russia) 14-0
  4. Yuya Wakamatsu - 26 (Japan) 14-4
  5. Kurban Gadzhiev - 29 (Russia) 16-4
  6. Murad Magomedov - 25 (Russia) 11-0
  7. Muhammad Mokaev - 20 (England) 5-0 Vs Ibragim Navruzov (BRAVE) 4th June
  8. Phumi Nkuta - 25 (USA) 3-0
  9. Santo Curatolo - 26 (USA) 5-1
  10. Aren Akopyan - 27 (Russia) 12-2-1
  11. Luke Shanks - 25 (England) 7-2 Vs Nicolas Leblond (CW) 25th June
  12. Mehdi Baidulaev - 24 (Russia) 10-2
  13. Maycon Silvan - 28 (Brazil) 16-4
  14. Alberto Trujillo - 28 (USA) 5-2
  15. Victor Altamirano - 30 (Mexico) 9-1 Vs Vinicus Salvador (DWCS) 31st August
Womens Batamweight +
  1. Kayla Harrison - 30 (USA) 9-0 Vs Cindy Dandois (PFL) 25th June
  2. Chelsea Chandler - 29 (USA) 3-1
  3. Evelyn Martins - 18 (Brazil) 2-0
  4. Lisa Verzosa - 25 (USA) 6-1
  5. Lucia Szabova - 23 (Slovakia) 3-0
  6. Karine Silva - 27 (Brazil) 13-4
  7. Taneisha Tennant - 31 (USA) 3-1
  8. Melissa Croden - 29 (Canada) 2-1
  9. Genah Fabian - 31 (New Zealand) 3-1 Vs Julija Pajic (PFL) 25th June
  10. Hope Chase - 22 (USA) 3-1
  11. Ekaterina Shakalova - 23 (Ukraine) 6-1
Womens Flyweight
  1. Tereza Bleda - 19 (Czech Republic) 3-0
  2. Jingnan Xiong - 32 (China) 15-2
  3. Stephanie Geltmacher - 30 (USA) 5-1
  4. Jasmine Jasudavicius - 32 (Canada) 5-1 Vs Julia Polastri (DWCS) 14th September
  5. Brogan Walker- Sanchez - 32 (USA) 6-2
  6. Jamey-Lyn Horth Wessels - 30 (Canada) 4-0
  7. Lucrezia Ria - 28 (Italy) 8-2 Vs Carolina Jimenez (UAEW) 19th June
  8. Laura Fontoura -20 (Brazil) 5-0
  9. Colbey Northcutt - 28 (USA) 2-1
Strawweight
  1. Angela Lee - 24 (USA) 10-2
  2. Melissa Martinez - 23 (Mexico) 7-0
  3. Valesca Machado - 25 (Brazil) 8-2 Vs Piera Rodrigues (DWCS) 19th October
  4. Julia Polastri - 22 (Brazil) 8-2 Vs Jasmine Jasudavicius (DWCS) 14th September
  5. Piera Rodrigues - 28 (Venezuela) 6-0 Vs Valesca Machado (DWCS) 19th October
  6. Viktoriya Dudakova - 22 (Russia) 3-0 Vs Ksenia Lachkova (OFC) 12th June
  7. Svetlana Gotysk - 24 (Ukraine) 13-4
  8. Elise Reed - 28 (USA) 4-0
  9. Ewelina Wozniak - 28 (Poland) 5-0
  10. Rena Kubota - 29 (Japan) 11-3
  11. Emily Ducote - 27 (USA) 9-6
  12. Vanessa Demopoulos - 32 (USA) 5-3
  13. Loveth Young - 31 (USA) 3-1-1
  14. Jaqueline Amorim - 25 (Brazil) 3-0
  15. Karolina Wokcik - 26 (Poland) 8-2

14 ranked fighters with contender series fights booked now. <mma4>
 
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What are your thoughts on Vitor Petrino? Stumbled upon him while looking at some records on tap and watched the two pro fights of his I could get my hands on. Think he's extremely raw but his age, frame and power are significant enough for me to think he's got some promise.


second pro-fight against a 0-0 dude that's won three in a row since.


Pro-debut against 5-0 guy.
 
Thesnake101 said:
What are your thoughts on Vitor Petrino? Stumbled upon him while looking at some records on tap and watched the two pro fights of his I could get my hands on. Think he's extremely raw but his age, frame and power are significant enough for me to think he's got some promise.


second pro-fight against a 0-0 dude that's won three in a row since.


Pro-debut against 5-0 guy.
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I'll check those out when he gets chance. His last two fights have been against guys who are 1-13 and 0-6, so not sure what his management are doing.
 
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I'll check those out when he gets chance. His last two fights have been against guys who are 1-13 and 0-6, so not sure what his management are doing.
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They could just be padding his record (not too shocking given that he's from the brazilian scene) or just be making the best out of a shitty situation.

Did see he was supposed to fight the guy that Navarrete beat recently, so hopefully he goes back to fighting people with a pulse soon. Preferably ones that can test his ground game as that looked rough.
 
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- Dario Sinagoga (Ireland/LW/4-0) fights Zackery Powell (25/Canada/LW/5-0)
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Powell is from across the river from my hometown and he seems like he has some potential.

https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/fighters/89974-zackery-powell

EDIT: Powell was absolutely robbed in a sloppy fight(featuring one of the worst ref stand-ups I have ever seen), where both guys gassed but Powell dominated the grappling and won all three rounds. And his opponent missed weight by 7lbs.
 
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Ares Black said:
Powell is from across the river from my hometown and he seems like he has some potential.

https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/fighters/89974-zackery-powell

EDIT: Powell was absolutely robbed in a sloppy fight(featuring one of the worst ref stand-ups I have ever seen), where both guys gassed but Powell dominated the grappling and won all three rounds. And his opponent missed weight by 7lbs.
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I thought he definitely won, but he also seems to be a full on crotch sniffer, so I'm finding it hard to be passionately upset about it. Should have tried to do more damage to secure it but deffo a robbery. You could tell that even Dario and his coaches didn't think he won.
 
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I thought he definitely won, but he also seems to be a full on crotch sniffer, so I'm finding it hard to be passionately upset about it. Should have tried to do more damage to secure it but deffo a robbery. You could tell that even Dario and his coaches didn't think he won.
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Why even take a fight when your opponent misses by that much. That’s almost a whole weigh class above
 
Saw Patterson (25 LW) fight last night at Brave CV against a decent opponent and I think he showed some promise. Obviously a massive rangey guy for the weight class who uses his length fairly well. Also moderately impressed by his grappling since he was touted as a pure striker. Had some nice sweeps and escaped from a tight guillotine.
 
Hellowhosthat said:
I thought he definitely won, but he also seems to be a full on crotch sniffer, so I'm finding it hard to be passionately upset about it. Should have tried to do more damage to secure it but deffo a robbery. You could tell that even Dario and his coaches didn't think he won.
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Yeah I'm over it, I just hate to see such obviously bad judging, especially with the massive weight miss. Powell is still super green, hopefully this bullshit decision lights a fire under him.
 
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Terrance McKinney

Country - USA
Weight Class - Lightweight
Age : 26
Promotion - LFA
Record : 10-3

McKinney looks much improved to me lately. He's very reckless, but he's so fast and throws with such power that he can get away with it. Whether that'll translate to a higher level of competition is difficult to say. After winning both his last two fights in about 15 seconds, it took him just over a minute to dispose of Michael Irizarry, knocking him out from punches from within the guard, which shows what kind of power he has.

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Denis Maher

Country - Belarus
Weight Class - Welterweight
Age : 26
Promotion - BRAVE
Record : 8-0

Another guy where I'm liking him mainly for having eviscerating power. He fought a sensible fight against his opponent before just utterly crushing him with a devastating uppercut. His opponent was a 9-0 guy, so it wasn't like he was in there with some mug. Definitely one to keep an eye on.
 
Rankings after the weekend

Heavyweight
  1. Mukhamed Vakhaev - 31 (Russia) 9-4-1
  2. Sergey Bilostenniy - 25 (Russia) 6-2
  3. Alikhan Vakhaev - 27 (Russia) 11-2
  4. Denis Goltsov - 30 (Russia) 26-6 Vs Mohammed Usman (PFL) 25th June
  5. Hugo Cunha - 28 (Brazil) 6-0 Vs Martin Buday (DWCS) 12th October
  6. Kang Ji Won - 25 (South Korea) 5-0
  7. Anatoly Malykhin - 33 (Russia) 9-0
  8. Ante Delija - 30 (Croatia) 17-4 Vs Hatef Moiel (PFL) 25th June
  9. Thomas Petersen - 25 (USA) 4-0
  10. Jesus Navarrete - 23 (Mexico) 7-0
  11. Kirill Grishenko - 29 (Belarus) 4-0
  12. Bruno Cappelozza - 31 (Brazil) 11-5 Vs Mo De'Reese (PFL) 25th June
  13. Alexandr Maslov - 27 (Russia) 7-1
  14. Kirill Kornilov - 30 (Russia) 9-0
  15. Renan Ferreira - 31 (Brazil) 6-2 Vs Ali Isaev (PFL) 25th June
Light Heavyweight
  1. Jailton Junior - 29 (Brazil) 13-2 Vs Nasrudin Nasrudinov (DWCS) 14th September
  2. Murtaza Talha - 23 (Bahrain) 3-0
  3. Anton Turkalj - 24 (Sweden) 7-0 Vs Kaloyan Kolev (DWCS) 12th October
  4. Tomasz Narkun - 31 (Poland) 18-4
  5. Muslim Magomedov - 26 (Russia) 9-0 Vs Evgeny Egemberdiev (ACA) 15th July
  6. Emiliano Sordi - 30 (Argentina) 23-8 Vs Daniel Spohn (PFL) 17th June
  7. Narsudin Nasrudinov - 29 (Russia) 9-0 Vs Jailton Junior (DWCS) 14th September
  8. Asylzhan Bakhytzhaluny - 30 (Kazakhstan) 11-2-1
  9. Joshua Silveira - 28 (USA) 5-0
  10. Shamil Akhmedov - 30 (Russia) 7-0
  11. Nick Maximov - 23 (USA) 6-0 Vs Cody Brundage (DWCS) 5th October
  12. Arman Petrosyan - 30 (Armenia) 4-0 Vs Hasan Yousefi (AMC) 18th June
  13. Amirkhan Guliev - 29 (Russia) 10-1 Vs Roman Gudochkin (ACA) 11th June
  14. Ivan Erslan - 29 (Croatia) 10-1 (Re-entry)
  15. Marthin Hamlet Nielsen - 29 (Norway) 7-1 Vs Cory Hendricks (PFL) 17th June
Middleweight
  1. Vladimir Mineev - 31 (Russia) 15-1-1
  2. Salamu Abdurakhmanov - 27 (Russia) 12-1
  3. Ikram Aliaskerov - 28 (Russia) 11-1
  4. Magomedrasul Gasanov - 26 (Russia) 16-2
  5. Mario Sousa - 24 (Brazil) 12-1
  6. Reiner De Ridder - 30 (Netherlands) 14-0
  7. Artem Frolov - 29 (Russia) 15-3 Vs Abdul Rakhman Dzhanaev (ACA) 28th August
  8. Alex Pereira - 33 (Brazil) 3-1
  9. Caio Borralho - 28 (Brazil) 8-1 Vs Aaron Jeffery (DWCS) 28th September
  10. Josh Fremd - 27 (USA) 7-2
  11. Azamat Bekovev - 25 (Russia) 12-2
  12. Mariusz Ksiazkiewicz - 31 (Canada) 8-1
  13. Abusupiyan Magomedov - 30 (Russia) 24-4-1
  14. Aaron Jeffery - 28 (Canada) 10-2 Vs Caio Borralho (DWCS) 28th September
  15. Hunter Colvin - 26 (USA) 3-0
Welterweight
  1. Roberto Soldic - 26 (Croatia) 18-3
  2. Nikolay Aleksakhin - 30 (Russia) 26-5 Vs Ray Cooper III (PFL) 17th June
  3. Amiran Gogoladze - 23 (Georgia) 11-1 Vs Handesson Ferreira (UAEW) 19th June
  4. Magomed Magomedkerimov - 31 (Russia) 27-4 Vs Curtis Millender (PFL) 17th June
  5. Kiamran Abbasov - 27 (Kyrgyzstan) 23-4
  6. Ray Cooper III - 28 (USA) 21-7-1 Vs Nikolay Aleksakhin (PFL) 17th June
  7. Ian Garry - 23 (Ireland) 6-0 Vs Jack Grant (CW) 26th June
  8. Michael Morales - 20 (Ecuador) 11-0 Vs Nikolay Veritinnikov (DWCS) 28th September
  9. Solomon Renfro - 24 (USA) - 7-1 Vs Lee Henry Lilly (CFFC) 3rd July
  10. Abdoul Abdoulragimov - 25 (France) 12-1
  11. Andrej Grzebyk - 30 (Poland) 17-4
  12. Jarrah Hussein Al-Silawi - 28 (Jordan) 16-3
  13. Eldar Eldarov - 29 (Russia) 13-2
  14. Benoit Saint-Denis - 25 (France) 7-0
  15. Denis Maher - 26 (Belarus) 8-0 (New entry)
Lightweight
  1. Christian Lee - 22 (USA) 15-3
  2. Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov - 32 (Russia) 18-2
  3. Daniel Zellhuber - 21 (Mexico) 11-0 Vs Lucas Almeida (DWCS) 28th September
  4. Tofiq Musaev - 31 (Azerbaijan) 18-3 Vs Roberto Souza (Rizin) 13th June
  5. Shamil Musaev - 27 (Russia) 15-0
  6. Natan Schulte - 29 (Brazil) 20-4-1 Vs Mikhail Odintsov (PFL) 10th June
  7. Eduard Vartanyan - 29 (Russia) 19-4
  8. Mansour Barnaoui - 28 (France) 19-4
  9. Iuri Lapicus - 25 (Moldova) 15-1
  10. Achilles Estremadura - 29 (Canada) 7-0
  11. Yusuf Raisov - 25 (Russia) 17-2
  12. Magomed Umalatov - 29 (Russia) 10-0
  13. Terrance McKinney - 26 (USA) 10-3 (New entry)
  14. Khusein Khaliev - 32 (Russia) 21-2
  15. Rae Yoon Ok - 30 (South Korea) - 15-3

Featherweight
  1. Islam Omarov - 23 (Russia) 10-0
  2. Georgy Shakhrumanazov - 25 (Russia) 10-0
  3. Saladhine Parnasse - 23 (France) 15-1-1
  4. Bibert Tumenov - 23 (Russia) 10-2
  5. Diego Lopes - 26 (Brazil) 19-3
  6. Gabriel Santos - 24 (Brazil) 7-0
  7. Jung Young Lee - 25 (South Korea) 7-1
  8. Canaan Kawaihae - 23 (USA) 6-1
  9. Felipe Froes - 29 (Brazil) 20-5-1
  10. Kleber Koike - 31 (Brazil) 27-5-1 Vs Mikuru Asakura (Rizin) 13th June
  11. Movlid Khaybulaev - 30 (Russia) 16-0 Vs Sheymon Moraes (PFL) 10th June
  12. Apti Bimazaev - 28 (Belarus) 17-3
  13. Mikuru Asakura - 28 (Japan) 14-2 Vs Kleber Koike (Rizin) 13th June
  14. Daniel Torres - 27 (Austria/Brazil) 12-4
  15. Ramazan Kishev - 29 (Russia) 17-3 Vs Magomedrasul Khasbulaev (ACA) 28th August
Bantamweight
  1. Rustam Kerimov - 29 (Russia) 14-0
  2. Herberth Sousa - 27 (Brazil) 15-1
  3. Kai Asakura - 27 (Japan) 16-3 Vs Shooto Watanabe (Rizin) 13th June
  4. Mo Miller - 28 (USA) 5-0
  5. Denis Lavrentyev - 32 (Russia) 11-2
  6. Jack Cartwright - 26 (England) 10-0
  7. Mateus Mendonca - 22 (Brazil) 9-0
  8. Abdul-Rahman Dudaev - 28 (Russia) 25-6 Vs Francisco Maciel (ACA) 29th June
  9. Alberto Montes - 26 (Venezuela) 5-0
  10. Zviad Lazishvili - 29 (Georgia) 12-0
  11. Vinicius De Oliveira - 25 (Brazil) 16-2
  12. Magomedgadzhi Sirazhudinov - 24 (Russia) 9-1
  13. Ruslan Sariev - 24 (Kazahkstan) 12-1
  14. Renat Khavalov - 22 (Russia) 4-0
  15. Francesco Nuzzi - 24 (Italy) 9-1
Flyweight
  1. Jake Hadley - 24 (England) 7-0
  2. Adriano Moraes - 31 (Brazil) 19-3
  3. Azamat Kerefov - 30 (Russia) 14-0
  4. Yuya Wakamatsu - 26 (Japan) 14-4
  5. Kurban Gadzhiev - 29 (Russia) 16-4
  6. Murad Magomedov - 25 (Russia) 11-0
  7. Muhammad Mokaev - 20 (England) 5-0
  8. Phumi Nkuta - 25 (USA) 3-0
  9. Santo Curatolo - 26 (USA) 5-1
  10. Aren Akopyan - 27 (Russia) 12-2-1
  11. Luke Shanks - 25 (England) 7-2 Vs Nicolas Leblond (CW) 25th June
  12. Mehdi Baidulaev - 24 (Russia) 10-2
  13. Maycon Silvan - 28 (Brazil) 16-4
  14. Alberto Trujillo - 28 (USA) 5-2
  15. Victor Altamirano - 30 (Mexico) 9-1 Vs Vinicus Salvador (DWCS) 31st August
Womens Batamweight +
  1. Kayla Harrison - 30 (USA) 9-0 Vs Cindy Dandois (PFL) 25th June
  2. Chelsea Chandler - 29 (USA) 3-1
  3. Evelyn Martins - 18 (Brazil) 2-0
  4. Lisa Verzosa - 25 (USA) 6-1
  5. Lucia Szabova - 23 (Slovakia) 3-0
  6. Karine Silva - 27 (Brazil) 13-4
  7. Taneisha Tennant - 31 (USA) 3-1
  8. Melissa Croden - 29 (Canada) 2-1
  9. Genah Fabian - 31 (New Zealand) 3-1 Vs Julija Pajic (PFL) 25th June
  10. Hope Chase - 22 (USA) 3-1
  11. Ekaterina Shakalova - 23 (Ukraine) 6-1
Womens Flyweight
  1. Tereza Bleda - 19 (Czech Republic) 3-0
  2. Jingnan Xiong - 32 (China) 15-2
  3. Stephanie Geltmacher - 30 (USA) 5-1
  4. Jasmine Jasudavicius - 32 (Canada) 5-1 Vs Julia Polastri (DWCS) 14th September
  5. Brogan Walker- Sanchez - 32 (USA) 6-2
  6. Jamey-Lyn Horth Wessels - 30 (Canada) 4-0
  7. Lucrezia Ria - 28 (Italy) 8-2 Vs Carolina Jimenez (UAEW) 19th June
  8. Laura Fontoura -20 (Brazil) 5-0
  9. Colbey Northcutt - 28 (USA) 2-1
Strawweight
  1. Angela Lee - 24 (USA) 10-2
  2. Melissa Martinez - 23 (Mexico) 7-0
  3. Valesca Machado - 25 (Brazil) 8-2 Vs Piera Rodrigues (DWCS) 19th October
  4. Julia Polastri - 22 (Brazil) 8-2 Vs Jasmine Jasudavicius (DWCS) 14th September
  5. Piera Rodrigues - 28 (Venezuela) 6-0 Vs Valesca Machado (DWCS) 19th October
  6. Viktoriya Dudakova - 22 (Russia) 3-0 Vs Ksenia Lachkova (OFC) 12th June
  7. Svetlana Gotysk - 24 (Ukraine) 13-4
  8. Elise Reed - 28 (USA) 4-0
  9. Ewelina Wozniak - 28 (Poland) 5-0 (New entry)
  10. Rena Kubota - 29 (Japan) 11-3
  11. Emily Ducote - 27 (USA) 9-6
  12. Vanessa Demopoulos - 32 (USA) 5-3
  13. Loveth Young - 31 (USA) 3-1-1
  14. Jaqueline Amorim - 25 (Brazil) 3-0
  15. Karolina Wokcik - 26 (Poland) 8-2
 
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Thoughts about other prospects I caught this week.

- Sam Patterson (25/England/LW/7-1-1) has a pretty decent fight against a solid opponent in Djilroun. I think he's a little over reliant on teeps when he's standing but a solid performance overall. Not sure he's an elite prospect but I wouldn't mind him fighting for the BRAVE title.

- Abdulmutalip Gairbekov (31/Russia/FW/15-3-1) Didn't get the nod from the judges against UFC vet Roman Bogatov but I thought he should have won. Showed good power standing and a good varied striking offence but does need to work at getting off his back when he's being held down.

- Badmatsyren Dorzhiev (27/Russia/FLW/6-0) I liked his takedowns and control, but I'd like him to do more with it really.

- Muhammad Mokaev (20/England/FLW/5-0) ended up with a no contest after he glanced his opponents bollocks with a kick and the opponent acted like he'd hit him with a sledgehammer.

- Abdul Karim Badakhshi (Afghanistan/BW/5-0) was struggling a bit with the Dagi wrestling but then pulled out a really nice triangle.

- Vadim Kutsky (29/Belarus/WW/16-1) looked pretty decent but gassed pretty badly and didn't look as good as a shiny 16-1 record suggests he should be.

- Caio Machado (26/Brazil/HW/5-1-1) I'm actually pretty sure got briefly got knocked out against Chris Larsen, but then came back to knock him out instead. Good power and obviously great heart.

- Justin Wetzell (29/USA/BW/7-1) showed good solid offensive grappling and power against Askar Askar to completely derail that guys hypetrain (no idea why it existed in the first place based on what I've seen of him. Came close to being on TUF this season, so he's obviously on the UFC radar.

- Edwin Cooper Jr (28/USA/FW/4-1) completely dominated his young Brazilian opponent and completely took his shine. Really dominant in the grappling, transitioning from position to position and doing good damage.

- Salahdine Parnasse - (23/France/FW/15-1-1) got a random win by RNC against Filip Pejic but I was actually a little bit disappointed in his stand up which looked much more tentative than usual, still got the job done though.

- - Ivan Erslan (29/Croatia/LHW/10-1) bounced back nicely from his loss against Narkun with a dominant win against a solid vet in Mysalia, getting his man out of there without ever looking in trouble. Difficult to see him beating Narkun in a rematch though.
 
This week we've got

PFL on Thursday

- Claressa Shields (26/USA/LW/0-0) making her much anticipated pro-debut against 3-6 Brittany Elkin
- Alex Martinez (27/Paraguay/LW/8-0) has by far the biggest fight of his career against Anthony Pettis
- #6 LW Natan Schulte (29/Brazil/LW/20-4-1) tries to bounce back from his loss against Held by beating up his best friend Raush Manfio (29/Brazil/LW/12-3)
- Consistently inconsistent Akhmed Aliev (31/Russia/LW/20-6) takes on super strong but not showing much development lately Loik Radzhabov (30/Tajikistan/LW/13-3-1)
- #11 FW Movlid Khaybulaev (30/Russia/FW/16-0-1) tries to get an ex-UFC scalp when he takes on Sheymon Moraes
- Arman Ospanov (31/Russia/FW/11-3) leaves ACA to come to America and a tough test in Chris Wade.

ACA on Friday

- Herdeson Batista (28/Brazil/LW/15-5) has been winning more than losing lately and takes on veteran 34-13 Vener Galiev in the main event
- #13 LHW Amirkhan Guliev (29/Russia/LHW/10-1) fights 12-7 Roman Gudochkin
- Pavel Gordeev (27/Russia/LW/17-2) makes his ACA debut against 16-5 Denis Silva

EFC (the African one, not Khabib's) on Saturday

- Igeu Kabesa (27/DR Congo/FW/12-1) defends the FW title against 15-5 Pitbull Bros fighter Reinaldo Ekson
- Gian Souza (25/Brazil/FLW/7-0) is another Pitbull Bros guy who fights 7-2 Luthandro Biko who's only recent loss is to UFC fighter JP Buys
- Mzwandile Hlongwa (MW/South Africa/6-1) who's only loss is to Khamzat has what should be a layup against 2-3 Francoise Kundari

OFC on Saturday

- Sharaf Davlatmurodov (29/Tajikistan/MW/17-3-1) fights 20-10 Brazilian veteran Kleber Silva
- #14 HW Kirill Kornilov (30/Russia/LHW/9-0-1) has a fight confusingly booked with Edivan Santos who's also booked for the contender series later in the year so who knows if that'll actually go ahead.
- #6 SW Viktoria Dudakova (22/Russia/SW/3-0) has a tournament semi final against 10-6 Ksenia Lachkova

Banging Rizin card on Sunday

- #3 BW Kai Asakura (27/Japan/BW/16-3) opens his GP against Shooto Watanabe (32/Japan/BW/22-5-6)
- #10 FW Kleber Koike (31/Brazil/FW/27-5-1 in a great fight against #13 FW Mikuru Asakura (28/Japan/FW/14-2)
- #4 LW Tofiq Musaev (31/Azerbaijan/LW/18-3) defends the title against Roberto Satoshi Souza (31/Brazil/LW/11-1)
- Yutaka Saito (33/Japan/FW/19-4-2) takes on Musaev training partner Vugar Karamov (29/Azerbaijan/FW/15-3)
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