Limelight My big stupid hype trains thread.

[David Street]

UFC released Umar... Shamil Gamzatov 14-1. Will he be added to your Light Heavyweights?

 

[Hellowhosthat]

UFC released Umar... Shamil Gamzatov 14-1. Will he be added to your Light Heavyweights?

No, if you've fought for the UFC you're ineligible.

 

[Thesnake101]

No, if you've fought for the UFC you're ineligible.

And let's be frank, Gamzatov is just a guy with a padded record.

 

[The_Renaissance]

And let's be frank, Gamzatov is just a guy with a padded record.

Yeah he didnt impress me at all during his two UFC fights, seemed a highly forgettable fighter.

 

[TorontoTO]

Rafał Haratyk is a free agent. He is up there in age at 34, but he is a good fighter at MW, which is rare

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Rafał Haratyk is a free agent. He is up there in age at 34, but he is a good fighter at MW, which is rare

I'm really not sure about Haratyk under USADA, but he's fun.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Dawid Śmiełowski has a real chance to beat Parnasse in my opinion. Dude is also a just bleed god, every fight is entertaining. Knockout power with solid wrestling and sub game. He should definitely be ranked

Just catching up. I don't really see it with this dude tbh. Spent most of the fight getting wrestlefucked and then found a nice kick. He was getting his ass kicked before coming back against Pejic IIRC too. I think Parnasse will have his way with this dude. He should eat up a fairly slow striker like him for breakfast.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Oumar Sy

Country - France
Weight Class - Light Heavyweight
Age : 25
Promotion - KSW
Record : 7-0

Sy is still a little green in some respects, but what I have to hype him for is his strength and athleticism. He has that kind of Gane aura about him where everything seems easy, even if Sy is much more of a grappler than a striker. Overwhelming opponent with a variety of takedowns, doubles, bodylock trips, singles. Dude has them all in his arsenal. Made a couple of positional errors grappling and I'd like to see him go to town a bit harder with the ground and pound but there's obvious potential here.

 

[careto]

Weird

 

[TorontoTO]

Weird

Super weird, I know they couldn't get him a guy in France because of commission rules, but the UFC really couldn't pick out a random 6 bout guy off the regionals anywhere in the world?

 

[David Street]

Super weird, I know they couldn't get him a guy in France because of commission rules, but the UFC really couldn't pick out a random 6 bout guy off the regionals anywhere in the world?

Wow, Cedrić Doumbe released? France because of commission rules, Wow this new commission? isn't it based on the boxing commission? As someone who enjoys making up good conspiracy theories.. I would think this is a plot against the UFC and Ares Fighting Championship by the commission and Hexagone MMA. I have not finished my new theory but am working up the details.

 

[Richard Fannin]

Wow, Cedrić Doumbe released? France because of commission rules, Wow this new commission? isn't it based on the boxing commission? As someone who enjoys making up good conspiracy theories.. I would think this is a plot against the UFC and Ares Fighting Championship by the commission and Hexagone MMA. I have not finished my new theory but am working up the details.

It's ok, he's not released! "Doumced" clarified in an interview (with Boxmag https://boxemag.com/ufc/ufc-france/cedric-doumbe-je-suis-toujours-a-lufc/ ) that he was still in the UFC, but they couldn't find him a guy on short notice for UFC Paris
(which sucks, it will be the first UFC event I attend in almost 4 years, and the last time I saw Doumbé fight live was at Glory 60 in Lyon, France, against my man Jimmy "JVO1" Vienot)
so some stuff got lost in French-English translation, and "UFC Roster Watch" (not an official source) thought he was cut or something.


Probably because he criticized the UFC Paris card, calling it the lamest UFC card ever?
https://lasueur.com/ufc-paris-cedric-doumbe-lufc-le-plus-nul-de-la-planete-17-08-2022
In the interview proper, he then explains that he only said that because he wasn't in it "It will be like a strawberry cake without strawberries. Or cake."

Doumbé is the kind of troll who talks a liiiittle bit of shit so his interviews have eye-catching titles, but when he elaborates you realize he pretty much always has a point, or that he was joking, like when he called the UFC Paris card the lamest ever.

Like, recently he called Ciryl Gane "overrated", which was a nice clickbait title, but in the interview itself he actually praised the guy and gave an impressively complete breakdown of every single one of his fights, explaining Gane's strenghts and weaknesses....

Doumbé is a bit like that all the time, lightly trolling... lots of people call him arrogant, but he's pretty much the anti-MVP. Or Sean O'Malley maybe.

MVP dabs on poor undersized journeymen who just want a paycheck, tortures the shit out of them and later acts like he's Muhammad Ali.
Cédric "le Meilleur" Doumbé also fights a bit "arrogant", but he dabs on world class strikers, not regional MMA journeymen.


"The Best" will be back, I'll keep on believing!

When it comes to "why is his fight against Darian Weeks off the table?", there's been talk that the French federation pulled out some obscure BS involving the 4-fights difference between him and Doumbé.
Darian is 5-2 in MMA (and fought in a bunch of amateur MMA tournaments against other pro-fighters, under the IMMAF banner) and Doumced is only 3-0 in MMA, and in France, since MMA was just legalized and they want to avoid squash matches, they can refuse a fight on the pretense that the fighters have an experience gap or 4 or more fights.

TLDR: Darian Weeks is considered too experienced for Cédric Doumbé, aka not competitive.

Which is BS of course, so who knows, did Cédric piss of the wrong people?

 

[EndlessCritic]

Allllllllllll Aboard!

 

[Richard Fannin]

Joseph Luciano
Rinya Nakamura

Oh @CorninginChristianburg it seems this dude Ismail Musukaev - Wikipedia is making his debut at FNG today.

Freestyle Euro Gold medallist, world cup silver and world championship bronze.

Damn, he is one of Takuto Otoguro's only losses in Freestyle wrestling Otoguro would avenge that loss 2 years later at the 2021 Summer Olympic, but it's still a big deal to be one of the 3 guys to have beaten the younger Otoguro brother.


Speaking of Japanese Freestyle wrestlers, one of Takuto's Japanese rivals is Rinya "The Hybrid" Nakamura

He is 27 years old, 5-0 in MMA, with his latest win (against 8-3 Gugun Gusman) being on "Road to UFC" via a nasty Kimura (in episode 3)


Nakamura also has a win over the much more experienced 23-5 (before their fight) Jungle Fight & Shooto Brazil Super Bantamweight champion & BJJ BB Aleandro "Muça" Caetano
I mean, he won his Shooto belt via DQ (illegal upkick), but it still looks good on paper!
Rinya Nakamura was only 3-0 when he took on Muça ,

You can watch the full fight there:


And his 3rd MMA fight, which he won in 25 seconds via TKO, was in Shooto 2022 against Shooto Japan super Veteran Yasuyuki Nojiri

(before their fight he was 5-1-2 as a pro,

Spoiler

with his sole loss being at Road to ONE: 5th Sexyama Edition against RIZIN's Sora Yamamoto who is a solid young FW gogeter, and never misses a RIZIN event when he's healthy!

and 12-5 as an amateur, but he wasn't fighting scrubs in random amateur regional orgs, he was almost exclusively fighting in amateur SHOOTO tournaments, winning several of them, fighting up to 3 times in the same day! You're bound to lose some with such a riddum; I mean, he fought 8 times in 2018... eight!)

All of this to say that Nakamura obviously isn't taking the MVP route!

He was supposed to fight the 10-2 "Silent Finisher" Toshiomi Kazama next, but it seems it was scrubbed?

TLDR; Is Rinya Nakamura DQ'd from your thread because he fought once under "Road to UFC"?
I suppose he is, but I hope you keep an eye on him regardless, he's very impressive so far!

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Updated the rankings in the usual place since last time I did them

#2 HW Sergiy Bilosenniy signed for Bellator
#3 WFLW Iasmin Lucindo signed for the UFC
#5 HW Waldo Cortes-Acosta signed for the UFC
#6 LFW Clayton Carpenter signed for the UFC
#18 LW Chris Duncan signed for the UFC
#20 LHW Jamal Pogues signed for the UFC
#21 LW Mike Figlak signed for the UFC
#21 WBW Tamires Vidal signed for the UFC


This weekend we've got.

LFA on Friday

BW - Teshay Gouthro (27/Canada/5-1) Vs Arnold Jimenez (28/USA/8-2)
MW - #16 Lydell Poag (24/USA/2-0) against Dylan Budka (22/USA/3-1)

Combate on Friday

FW - #22 Ivan Tena (23/USA/4-0) against 4-2-1 Roberto Romero Hernandez

ACA Young Eagles on Saturday

LW - Muslim Ibragimov (?/Russia/8-0) against 4-1 Ramazan Yuzyasharov
LW - Stanislav Nanaev (27/Russia/5-0) Vs Magomed Saliev (?/Russia/8-1)
HW - Zumso Zuraev (28/Russia/4-0) against a tough challenge for his experience level in Sultan Murtazaliev (9-5-1)
LW - #3 Adam Masaev (22/Russia/8-0) Vs Magomed Aliev (?/Russia/5-1)

KSW on Saturday
HW - GLORY champ Arkadiusz Wrzosek (30/Poland/0-0) makes his debut against Tomaz Sarara
LHW - #20 Damian Piwowarczyk (24/Poland/5-1) fights Bogdan Gnidko (?/Ukraine/7-0)

Eagle FC on Sunday

LHW - #11 Diyar Nurgozhay (?/Kazakhstan/7-0) fights 17-14 Konstantin Andreitsev
WW - Imam Shapi Mukhtarov (?/Russia/10-0) fights Azamat Dzhigkaev (?/Russia/7-1)
SLW - Uzair Abdurakov (27/Russia/15-1-1) fights 11-6-1 Maxim Konovalov

Fury on Sunday

WW - Sam Kilmer (21/USA/4-0) fights Isaac Moreno (24/USA/3-0)

DWCS on Tuesday

HW - #2 Eduardo Neves (22/Brazil/5-0) fights Michael Parkin (?/England/5-0)
WW - #22 Amiran Gogoladze (24/Georgia/14-2) fights Darrius Flowers (27/USA/11-5-1)
FLW - Erisson Ferreira (31/Brazil/11-1) fights Jesus Santos Aguilar (26/Mexico/7-1)
BW - #18 Cameron Saaiman (22/South Africa/5-0) fights Josh Wang-Kim (29/USA/5-1)
SW - #9 FLW Denise Gomes (22/Brazil/5-1) vs Rayanne Amanda (27/Brazil/11-5)

 

[TorontoTO]

Proof HW prospects are voodoo and who knows how they actually look once they take a step up. Neves looked amazing beforehand and he lost to Parkin, who I have seen his other fights and he looked like your typical European regional HW jobber. Gassed literally 2 minutes in. Shame Gogoladze dislocated both his shoulders, Saaiman looked good, but Wang-Kim looked incredibly bad and I think Saaiman is too raw for your typical UFC BW

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Proof HW prospects are voodoo and who knows how they actually look once they take a step up. Neves looked amazing beforehand and he lost to Parkin, who I have seen his other fights and he looked like your typical European regional HW jobber. Gassed literally 2 minutes in. Shame Gogoladze dislocated both his shoulders, Saaiman looked good, but Wang-Kim looked incredibly bad and I think Saaiman is too raw for your typical UFC BW

Yeah heavyweight is the biggest crapshoot division for ranking people. They mostly avoid tough opponents coming up (understandable as you can take a lot of damage in that division) so yeah lots of fighters look like killers until they hit resistance.

Amiran I think has him self to blame. It looked to me like he could absolutely tool Flowers on the feet but he initiated the grappling.

 

[careto]

Proof HW prospects are voodoo and who knows how they actually look once they take a step up. Neves looked amazing beforehand and he lost to Parkin, who I have seen his other fights and he looked like your typical European regional HW jobber. Gassed literally 2 minutes in. Shame Gogoladze dislocated both his shoulders, Saaiman looked good, but Wang-Kim looked incredibly bad and I think Saaiman is too raw for your typical UFC BW

Waldo is the only HW who has looked decent but I had higher expectations for Neves, though. However, he looked like an even shittier version of Renan Ferreira, good on his feet but helpelss in the ground.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Don't shoot on Adam Masaev unless you want him to nearly rag your head off.

 

[careto]

Don't shoot on Adam Masaev unless you want him to nearly rag your head off.

That looked painful af.