Limelight My big stupid hype trains thread.

[Hellowhosthat]

Kevin Cordeiro (21/Spain/BW/12-2) looked interesting last night on Combate in submitting Ricky Bandejas. It was a close fight before the sub in which he held his own against a good fighter and then when he got the opportunity to throw the triangle up he hit it well and ended up putting Ricky to sleep. One to keep an eye on.

 

[TorontoTO]

Kevin Cordeiro (21/Spain/BW/12-2) looked interesting last night on Combate in submitting Ricky Bandejas. It was a close fight before the sub in which he held his own against a good fighter and then when he got the opportunity to throw the triangle up he hit it well and ended up putting Ricky to sleep. One to keep an eye on.

Ricky took it on two week's notice, so I think Campbell was setting up Cordero to win.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Ricky took it on two week's notice, so I think Campbell was setting up Cordero to win.

Beating Bandejas on any notice is a good win for a 21 year old imo, Ricky's a good fighter.

 

[David Street]

The Brazilian scene I'd say is fairly spread out. Future and SFT are indeed probably the best promotions, I'm hoping LFA make going there a regular thing as it was nice having a lot of the best prospects in Brazil fight each other on the same cards rather than being spread over lots of different promotions.

What happened to Jungle Fight?

Shooto has a card coming up Sept 20 2021 has Lightweight Yamoto Nishikawa 14-3 dude is only 18. a prospect for you to check out, will be fighting Yuki Kawana 16-6-5.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Roberto Soldic (26/Croatia/WW/19-3) produced an okayish performance in beating Kincl. I think it was a little going through the motions by his usual standards but he still won comfortably enough. Maybe they can do the Mamed superfight at MW and after that it's probably time to move on to a bigger pond if possible.

Jakub Wiklacz (24/Poland/BW/12-3-1) pleased me greatly by snatching up a guillotine against boring Antun Racic and getting the finish. A rematch with Przybysz this time for the belt should probably be next for him.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Vitor Petrino

Country - Brazil
Weight Class - Light Heavyweight
Age : 24
Promotion - UAE Warriors
Record : 6-0

Sky is the limit with this dude. He'd been pointed out to me by @Thesnake101 in this thread before, but I didn't have him ranked as after beating ranked Rodolfo Bellato early in his career he'd been can crushing for some reason.

So I was interested to see how he'd do against Gadzhimurad Antigulov in his first fight since the UFC and a former ACB champ who's obviously much more experienced and has fought at a very high level.

Petrino didn't have it all his own way, after he tired a bit after nearly finishing Antigulov early he had to tough it out a bit and show a good chin to take a couple of shots when he decided to throw down and also had to dig deep to get the KO when tired.

I think it's good to see a prospect face a bit of adversity though. In this fight he showed me superb athleticism (throwing flying knees as a LHW), good power, good strength, good speed, good killer instinct and an ability to get back up off his back against a Dagestani wrestler. Still a little rough around the edges perhaps, but the potential is massive.

 

[Thesnake101]

Vitor Petrino

Country - Brazil
Weight Class - Light Heavyweight
Age : 24
Promotion - UAE Warriors
Record : 6-0

Sky is the limit with this dude. He'd been pointed out to me by @Thesnake101 in this thread before, but I didn't have him ranked as after beating ranked Rodolfo Bellato early in his career he'd been can crushing for some reason.

So I was interested to see how he'd do against Gadzhimurad Antigulov in his first fight since the UFC and a former ACB champ who's obviously much more experienced and has fought at a very high level.

Petrino didn't have it all his own way, after he tired a bit after nearly finishing Antigulov early he had to tough it out a bit and show a good chin to take a couple of shots when he decided to throw down and also had to dig deep to get the KO when tired.

I think it's good to see a prospect face a bit of adversity though. In this fight he showed me superb athleticism (throwing flying knees as a LHW), good power, good strength, good speed, good killer instinct and an ability to get back up off his back against a Dagestani wrestler. Still a little rough around the edges perhaps, but the potential is massive.

That whole event snuck by me, think I know what I'll watch tonight. Good to see Petrino pick up another legit win, hopefully the first of many.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Ramazan Kuramagomedov

Country - Russia
Weight Class - Welterweight
Age : 24
Promotion - UAE Warriors
Record : 9-0

Ramazan has come extremely close to the UFC in the past, once winning on the Contender Series against current roster member Jordan Williams and once being signed as a late replacement to fight Alex Cowboy but then being released when he had to drop out without fighting for the organisation.

On this evidence he's ready for the big leagues. Taking on a 12-3 guy, Ramazan dominated every moment of the fight with his grappling. Initially it's a little bit positional, but he gradually turns up the pace, pressure and strike volume as the fight progresses as he starts to work towards a finish. I know I bag on controlling grapplers a lot, but if you're being active with strikes and working towards a finish I have no problem with it. Ramazan got the finish right at the end of round two here and I'm hoping he gets another UFC chance at some point.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Josefine Knutsson

Country - Sweden
Weight Class - Strawweight
Age : 25
Promotion - Fight Club Rush
Record : 2-0

Josefine doesn't seem like a very nice lady at all. Going into this fight as a K-1 kickboxer, her opponent could reasonably have expected that grappling her was probably the best idea. Unfortunately for her, every time she did that she got ragdolled, elbowed in the face and had her face mashed in with ground and pound. Obviously things weren't going much better on the feet either.

Looks a scary prospect, can see a little Joanna Jedrzejczyk in her.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Updated rankings

#8 MW Alex Pereira got picked up by the UFC

Heavyweight

1. Sergey Bilostenniy - 25 (Russia) 7-2 Vs Roggers Souza (OFC) 10th September
2. Mukhamed Vakhaev - 31 (Russia) 10-4-1
3. Alikhan Vakhaev - 28 (Russia) 11-2
4. Hugo Cunha - 28 (Brazil) 6-0 Vs Martin Buday (DWCS) 12th October
5. Denis Goltsov - 31 (Russia) 27-7
6. Kang Ji Won - 25 (South Korea) 5-0
7. Kirill Kornilov - 30 (Russia) 10-0
8. Thomas Petersen - 25 (USA) 5-0
9. Bruno Cappelozza - 32 (Brazil) 13-5 Vs Ante Delija (PFL) 27th October
10. Ante Delija - 31 (Croatia) 19-4 Vs Bruno Cappelozza (PFL) 27th October
11. Renan Ferreira - 31 (Brazil) 8-2
12. Anatoly Malykhin - 33 (Russia) 9-0 Vs Amir Aliakbari (ONE) 24th September
13. Oleg Popov - 29 (Russia) - 12-1
14. Jesus Navarrete - 24 (Mexico) 7-0
15. Kirill Grishenko - 29 (Belarus) 4-0

Light Heavyweight

1. Jailton Junior - 30 (Brazil) 13-2 Vs Nasrudin Nasrudinov (DWCS) 14th September
2. Murtaza Talha - 23 (Bahrain) 3-0
3. Anton Turkalj - 25 (Sweden) 7-0 Vs Kaloyan Kolev (DWCS) 12th October
4. Vitor Petrino - 24 (Brazil) 6-0 (New entry)
5. Tomasz Narkun - 31 (Poland) 18-4
6. Muslim Magomedov - 26 (Russia) 10-0
7. Narsudin Nasrudinov - 29 (Russia) 9-0 Vs Jailton Junior (DWCS) 14th September
8. Emiliano Sordi - 30 (Argentina) 23-9-1
9. Asylzhan Bakhytzhaluny - 30 (Kazakhstan) 11-2-1 Vs Leonardo Silva (ACA) 24th September
10. Joshua Silveira - 28 (USA) 5-0 Vs Tee Cummings (LFA) 24th September
11. Rodolfo Bellato - 25 (Brazil) 7-1
12. Shamil Akhmedov - 30 (Russia) 7-0
13. Ivan Erslan - 29 (Croatia) 10-1
14. Marthin Hamlet Nielsen - 29 (Norway) 8-2 Vs Antonio Carlos Jr (PFL) 27th October
15. Amirkhan Guliev - 29 (Russia) 11-1

Middleweight

1. Vladimir Mineev - 31 (Russia) 15-1-1 Vs Magomed Ismailov (FNG) 16th October
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 Vs Chidi Njokuani (DWCS) 7th September
6. Reiner De Ridder - 30 (Netherlands) 14-0
7. Caio Borralho - 28 (Brazil) 8-1 Vs Aaron Jeffery (DWCS) 28th September
8. Josh Fremd - 27 (USA) 7-2
9. Azamat Bekovev - 25 (Russia) 12-2 Vs Rafal Haratyk (ACA) 11th September
10. Mariusz Ksiazkiewicz - 31 (Canada) 8-1
11. Aaron Jeffery - 28 (Canada) 10-2 Vs Caio Borralho (DWCS) 28th September
12. Hunter Colvin - 26 (USA) 3-0
13. Cody Brundage - 27 (USA) 6-1 Vs Shonte Barnes (DWCS) 5th October
14. Vladimir Vasilyev - 21 (Russia) 8-1-1
15. Abdul Rakman Dzhanaev - 31 (Russia) 15-2

Welterweight

1. Roberto Soldic - 26 (Croatia) 19-3
2. Ray Cooper III - 28 (USA) 23-7-1 Vs Magomed Magomedkerimov (PFL) 27th October
3. Magomed Magomedkerimov - 31 (Russia) 29-4 Vs Ray Cooper III (PFL) 27th October
4. Solomon Renfro - 24 (USA) - 8-1 Vs Jonny Parsons (DWCS) 19th October
5. Kiamran Abbasov - 27 (Kyrgyzstan) 23-4
6. Nikolay Aleksakhin - 30 (Russia) 26-6
7. Michael Morales - 20 (Ecuador) 11-0 Vs Nikolay Veritinnikov (DWCS) 28th September
8. Gabriel Bonfim - 23 (Brazil) 11-0
9. Abdoul Abdoulragimov - 25 (France) 12-1
10. Daniel Skibinski - 30 (Poland) 18-5
11. Ramazan Kurmagomedov - 24 (Russia) 9-0 (New entry)
12. Andrej Grzebyk - 30 (Poland) 18-4
13. Jarrah Hussein Al-Silawi - 28 (Jordan) 16-3
14. Benoit Saint-Denis - 25 (France) 8-0
15. Magomed Umalatov - 29 (Russia) 11-0

Lightweight

1. Christian Lee - 22 (USA) 15-3 Vs Rae Yoon Ok (ONE)21st September
2. Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov - 32 (Russia) 18-2 Vs Hacran Dias (ACA) 5th November
3. Daniel Zellhuber - 21 (Mexico) 11-0 Vs Lucas Almeida (DWCS) 28th September
4. Shamil Musaev - 27 (Russia) 15-0
5. Natan Schulte - 29 (Brazil) 21-4-1
6. Roberto Satoshi Souza - 31 (Brazil) 12-1
7. Milson Castro - 31 (Brazil) 14-3
8. Eduard Vartanyan - 29 (Russia) 19-4 Vs Raimundo Batista (OFC) 12th September
9. Yusuf Raisov - 26 (Russia) 18-2
10. Tofiq Musaev - 31 (Azerbaijan) 18-4
11. Mansour Barnaoui - 28 (France) 19-4
12. Vasily Takhtay - 25 (Kazakhstan) 9-0
13. Adam Masaev - 21 (Russia) 7-0
14. Iuri Lapicus - 25 (Moldova) 15-1
15. Achilles Estremadura - 29 (Canada) 7-0

Featherweight

1. Islam Omarov - 23 (Russia) 10-0
2. Saladhine Parnasse - 23 (France) 15-1-1
3. Bibert Tumenov - 23 (Russia) 10-2
4. Tae Kyun Kim - 27 (South Korea) 9-0
5. Diego Lopes - 26 (Brazil) 19-4
6. Gabriel Santos - 24 (Brazil) 7-0
7. Jung Young Lee - 25 (South Korea) 7-1
8. Canaan Kawaihae - 23 (USA) 6-1 Vs Jonas Bilheirino (DWCS) 2nd November
9. Movlid Khaybulaev - 30 (Russia) 18-0 Vs Chris Wade (PFL) 27th October
10. Kleber Koike - 31 (Brazil) 28-5-1
11. Felipe Froes - 29 (Brazil) 20-5-1 Vs Nurbergen Sharipov (ACA) 4th October
12. Apti Bimazaev - 28 (Belarus) 17-3
13. Daniel Torres - 27 (Austria/Brazil) 12-4
14. Ramazan Kishev - 29 (Russia) 17-3 Vs Magomedrasul Khasbulaev (ACA)
15. Paul Hughes - 23 (Northern Ireland) 7-1

Bantamweight

1. Rustam Kerimov - 29 (Russia) 14-0
2. Herberth Sousa - 27 (Brazil) 15-1
3. Kai Asakura - 27 (Japan) 17-3 Vs Alan Yoshiro Yamaniha (Rizin) 19th September
4. Mo Miller - 28 (USA) 5-0 Vs Brandon Lewis (DWCS) 14th September
5. Denis Lavrentyev - 32 (Russia) 11-2
6. Jack Cartwright - 26 (England) 10-0
7. Nathan Fletcher - 23 (England) 6-0
8. Mateus Mendonca - 22 (Brazil) 9-0
9. Abdul-Rahman Dudaev - 29 (Russia) 26-6
10. Alberto Montes - 26 (Venezuela) 5-0 Vs Christian Rodriguez (DWCS) tbc
11. Zviad Lazishvili - 29 (Georgia) 12-0
12. Vinicius De Oliveira - 25 (Brazil) 16-2 Vs Ray Borg (UAE Warriors) 29th October
13. Magomedgadzhi Sirazhudinov - 24 (Russia) 9-1
14. Marcos Breno - 23 (Brazil) 14-2
15. Ruslan Sariev - 24 (Kazahkstan) 12-1

Flyweight

1. Jake Hadley - 24 (England) 7-0
2. Tatsuro Taira - 21 (Japan) 9-0
3. Adriano Moraes - 31 (Brazil) 19-3
4. Rafael Ramos - 24 (Brazil) 10-0
5. Azamat Kerefov - 30 (Russia) 15-0
6. Santo Curatolo - 26 (USA) 6-1 Vs Kleydson Rodriguez (DWCS) 21st September
7. Yuya Wakamatsu - 26 (Japan) 14-4
8. Kurban Gadzhiev - 29 (Russia) 17-4
9. Murad Magomedov - 25 (Russia) 11-0
10. Muhammad Mokaev - 20 (England) 5-0 Vs Blaine O'Driscoll (BRAVE) 25th September
11. Azat Maksum - 26 (Kazakhstan) 13-0
12. Phumi Nkuta - 25 (USA) 3-0
13. Alden Coria - 23 (USA) 5-0
14. Aren Akopyan - 27 (Russia) 12-2-1
15. Luke Shanks - 25 (England) 8-2

Womens Batamweight +

1. Kayla Harrison - 31 (USA) 11-0 Vs Taylor Guardado (PFL) 27th October
2. Chelsea Chandler - 29 (USA) 3-1
3. Evelyn Martins - 18 (Brazil) 2-0
4. Lucia Szabova - 23 (Slovakia) 4-0
5. Karine Silva - 27 (Brazil) 13-4
6. Daria Zheleznyakova - 25 (Russia) 5-0
7. Taneisha Tennant - 32 (USA) 4-1
8. Genah Fabian - 31 (New Zealand) 4-2
9. Lisa Verzosa - 25 (USA) 6-2
10. Paula Cristina - 26 (Brazil) 5-0
11. Melissa Croden - 29 (Canada) 2-1
12. Hope Chase - 22 (USA) 3-1
13. Ekaterina Shakalova - 23 (Ukraine) 6-1
14. Amanda Leve - 24 (USA) 1-0

Womens Flyweight

1. Tereza Bleda - 19 (Czech Republic) 4-0
2. Jingnan Xiong - 33 (China) 16-2
3. Stephanie Geltmacher - 30 (USA) 5-1
4. Jasmine Jasudavicius - 32 (Canada) 5-1 Vs Julia Polastri (DWCS) 14th September
5. Brogan Sanchez - 32 (USA) 7-2
6. Jamey-Lyn Horth Wessels - 30 (Canada) 4-0
7. Laura Fontoura -20 (Brazil) 6-0
8. Lucrezia Ria - 28 (Italy) 8-3
9. Colbey Northcutt - 28 (USA) 2-1

Strawweight

1. Angela Lee - 25 (USA) 10-2
2. Melissa Martinez - 23 (Mexico) 7-0
3. Valesca Machado - 26 (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) 4-0
7. Yasmine Juaregui - 22 (Mexico) 8-0
8. Josefine Knutsson - 25 (Sweden) 2-0 (New entry)
9. Jaqueline Amorim - 26 (Brazil) 4-0
10. Svetlana Gotysk - 24 (Ukraine) 13-4
11. Ewelina Wozniak - 28 (Poland) 5-0 Vs Samin Beyik (BRAVE) 25th September
12. Yasmin Castanho - 24 (Brazil) 5-0
13. Emily Ducote - 27 (USA) 10-6
14. Stephanie Luciano - 21 (Brazil) 3-0
15. Rena Kubota - 29 (Japan) 11-3

 

[Hellowhosthat]

This week we have.

DWCS on Tuesday

- Always exciting and aggressive Josh Quinlan (28/WW/USA/5-0) fighting Logan Urban (27/WW/USA/5-1) who I haven't seen but seems to be a can crusher.
- #5 MW Mario Sousa (24/Brazil/MW/12-1) returns to the contender series in a fairly difficult stylistic matchup for him against Bellator vet Chidi Njokuani (32/USA/MW/19-7)
- Saimon Oliveira (30/Brazil/BW/17-3) tangles with Combate's Jose Alday (29/Mexico/BW/14-5-1)
- CJ Vergara (30/USA/FLW/8-2-1) fights a UFC vet trying to get back in 12-3-1 Bruno Korea
- Muin Gafurov (26/Tajikistan/BW/17-3) who went 3 rounds without getting finished with post USADA John Lineker fights 10-5 Chad Anheliger

Oktagon on Saturday

- Vojto Barborik (28/Slovenia/FW/13-1) has the toughest test of his career against veteran Euro gatekeeper 38-7 Ivan Buchinger

EFC (African) on Saturday

- Igeu Kabesa (27/Congo/FW/12-2) will get another chance to impress me after failing last time, this time against 13-10 Anicet Kanyeba

Eternal MMA is set for Saturday (but I wouldn't count on it, these Aussie events keep getting cancelled)

- Daniel Hill (25/Australia/LW/5-0) might fight Jack Becker (28/Australia/LW/8-2) but probably won't

European Fight Masters on Saturday

- Radoslav Paczuski (28/Poland/MW/3-0) has an intriguing fight against 8-3 Bellator vet Will Fleury

ACA on Saturday

- Ilya Khodkevich (25/Belarus/LW/7-0) and his great jab takes a tough test in 9-4 Vishkan Magomedov
- Bartosz Leko (?/Poland/MW/10-1-2) has a very tough fight against the extremely boring but extremely effective Ibragim Magomedov (?/Russia/MW/7-1)
- Vladislav Yankovskiy (?/Belarus/MW/7-0) fights 9-5 Vadim Shabadash
- Vazha Tsiptauri (?/Georgia/BW/10-1-1) fights 23-10-1 vet Ruslan Abiltarov

Pancrase on Saturday

- Yusaku Kinoshita (21/Japan/WW/3-0) fights 17-19 Kenta Takagi

Open FC on Sunday

- #1 HW Sergiy Bilostenniy (25/Russia/HW/7-2) fights 10-4 Brazilian Roggers Souza
- #8 LW Eduard Vartanyan (30/Russia/LW/21-3) fights Raimundo Batista (26/Brazil/LW/15-2)

 

[The_Renaissance]

The name 'Roggers' cracks me up.

 

[TorontoTO]

Do you have a highly touted Russian Hw prospect? You got to book them against Roggers Souza

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Do you have a highly touted Russian Hw prospect? You got to book them against Roggers Souza

The poor guy's break from fighting all these Russians was a fight with Gane lol.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Manoel Sousa

Country - Brazil
Weight Class - Lightweight
Age : 24
Promotion - SFT
Record : 7-0

Unreal potential on this guy, the one thing he needs to continue to work on is TDD and get ups because everyone is going to try and wrestlefuck him. They're going to do that because you can't afford to stand with this guy as he's a tank with unreal power and when I've seen guys in there with him you can kind of see the "oh shit, I need to take this guy down immediately" realisation once they start trading with him.

He's got decent enough TDD to make people work for it at the moment and good sub awareness and is good at explosively getting back to his feet when he gets the opportunity, but I'd like him to work at being a tiny bit more technical with it (which I'm sure he is doing). If he gets that aspect of his game right, then I think we could be looking at a future UFC champion.

 

[careto]

I was high on him but his last performance was a stinker. This sounds like he got tired of waiting for the UFC and will look an opportunity at a different promotion. ONE and Brave are my favorite destinations for him.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

I was high on him but his last performance was a stinker. This sounds like he got tired of waiting for the UFC and will look an opportunity at a different promotion. ONE and Brave are my favorite destinations for him.

I think maybe he didn't fancy the Nathan Fletcher fight, that would have been a high risk one. BRAVE would make sense if he still wants to get to the UFC, if he'd had a decent performance against Miller he'd be in the UFC already I think.

It'd be worth Coker asking the question though.

 

[careto]

I think maybe he didn't fancy the Nathan Fletcher fight, that would have been a high risk one. BRAVE would make sense if he still wants to get to the UFC, if he'd had a decent performance against Miller he'd be in the UFC already I think.

It'd be worth Coker asking the question though.

Agreed, I think the fact that he wasnt even called for a spot at DWCS lets you know they have currently no interest in him. This is the right time for him to go and get a decent contract in a different promotion because he still holds the belt and is young.

He could be a good addition to the London card, however, that is almost an impossibility. Im sure he would jump at the chance of a short notice fight for the UFC but not for Bellator. So, I doubt he will be making the move for these Euro cards. He would be a nice addition to the Bellator BWGP, though, so maybe Coker could make a move. I personally dont think its going to happen unless he has a work visa.

 

[TorontoTO]

For African EFC, Taka Mhandu is to look for

 

[The_Renaissance]

Anthony Romero's UFC hopes are over for now, he lost a decision and his unbeaten record to fellow DWCS alumni, JJ Okanovich (now 8-2).