Editorials
Adrenaline MMA
If you know Extreme Challenge then you know one of
the greatest pioneers of MMA, Monte Cox. He put together
a fight card that I think is one of the most interesting
ones of the year in his first show Adrenaline. He
took guys from the WEC, IFL, and the UFC and from
other local events and made his card stand out. I
was really interested in Rory Markham and Mike Russow
vs. Jason Guida. After a pathetic attempt on TUF this
was his weight class and he had been training for
a fight so this was going to prove one way or another
if he was all that and a bag of chips too! Oh man
and that hard hitting Bart Palaszewski was also up
on the card to battle back from his loss in the IFL.
However first up was going to be Joe Jordan and Ryan
Williams. In the first round Ryan was making a statement
that he wasn’t worried about the record he was
there to bang. Joe was making a statement too. I think
it was if I leave my hands down the entire round will
this guy take me to the ground but I’m not sure!
So the entire first round was about Ryan throwing
some good punches and a couple kicks and Joe getting
hit and throwing a couple of his own. The round ended
with Ryan getting a takedown at the last second of
the round. Now the second round was a copy of the
first but this time Joe stepped up a bit with his
own punches landing some hard looping fists to Ryans
skull. They danced quite a bit in this round but the
third well that was the changing of the…oh wait
that’s another fantasy nope this was the same
as the second and it was Joe that was able to dance
out a decision in his favor.
Clay French and Jameel Massouh kicked it into high
gear and in the first round Jameel was able to go
punch for punch with Clay and stopped a nice double
leg attempt from Clay to keep it standing. Yeah that
lasted about another 15 seconds and Clay got it to
the ground and started to ensue a nice ground and
pound. Oh and hey Bas it’s the rubber guard
not the f’ing butterfly guard! Jameel tries
to get it to his feet but pays with a right to face
and Clay almost getting his back. Jameel gets to half
guard but he is taking some damage to do so. For the
rest of the round Clay GnPd his way to the end but
not after Jameel gets it back on the feet but he is
the one that catches the left hand of Clay. With an
attempted superman punch Clay pushed him off and shot
in, and got the double leg just at the bell. Round
2 off a round house Clay gets inside up against the
cage and right back to the ground. Clay was able to
get half guard then to side control where Jameel made
the mistake of turning away from Clay and for the
next 40 seconds give or take Jameel had to fight off
a RNC. Well it didn’t work to well and at about
the 3:55 mark he had to tap to the RNC.
Rory Markham and Jay Ellis was the third fight shown
and Jay was ready to roll but I don’t think
he was ready to climb but that’s what he did.
Some ridicules running over Rory move that literally
looked like he just climbed right over Rory and landed
on his hands and knees behind Rory and Rory took full
advantage of this and spun around and put Jay against
the cage and started to ground and pound him. To his
credit when Rory was trying to pass he got reversed
but Jay made the other mistake and in his flurry of
trying to punch Rory he left his head and arm out
for Rory to Triangle him 57 seconds into the first
round. Calm down Jay calm down!
Jeff Cox and Bart Palaszewski and maybe it was me
but Bart just looked way more comfortable on the feet
than Jeff but when Jeff shot the double leg and got
it Bart worked to the guard and Jeff tried to work
the head of Bart. Jeff was able to land quite a few
punches but Bart really was calm and worked his open
guard looking for submissions. Jeff defended them
and end of round one was Bart on his back with Jeff
working the top. Round 2 was a bit different with
Jeff getting a couple shots off on Bart and Bart shot
in for a nice double leg that Jeff defended. In the
middle of the round Bart defended a shot and came
back with nice combos of his own that rocked Jeff.
Jeff pushed Bart against the cage, Bart stuffed it
and back in the middle a kick to mid section and Jeff
was in trouble as Bart started to pick Jeff apart
with combos, kicks and shots. Jeff was running from
Bart at one point and Bart set up a high kick with
a nice left to the body and when Jeff leaned away
from it Bart delivered the right high kick to the
head and the TKO win!
Brian Gassaway took on the oh so game Forrest Petz
and with lots of punches thrown in the first 30 seconds
Forrest puts Brian against the cage but Brian gets
the reversal and delivers some nice knees and punches.
They get separated due to well just boardum on the
part of the ref and during a decent exchange between
the two of them Brian lands a hard left upper cut
that puts Forrest on the mat in a slow motion drop
to his knee but Brian jumps on him like hes a wounded
animal puts him against the cage and to Forrest’s
credit with Brian all over him he gets his back taken
but defends and rolls but Brian is mounted and all
over him so he tries to go to his knees at the end
of the round Brian has hooks in for a rear mount and
Forrest is getting hammered. Round two Forrest looks
like he recovered the flash ko and didn’t get
gun shy at all as he stood and traded with Brian for
the first couple minutes then in a clinch Brian gets
the body lock to takedown where its actually Forrest
that works the guard and is busy on the bottom. Brian
looked gassed and the ref had to stand em up again!
Forrest was way more aggressive with punches and was
more effective. Brian was had effective breathing
as he got taken down to the guard in the last minute
of the round. A bit of GnP and ding end of the round.
Round 3 started off with Forrest and Brian working
the stand up and Brian got in a good shot to the nose
of Forrest. Brian looked very tired as Forrest looked
for huge looping shots. But during a flurry Forrest
shot in took Brian down and just about mounted him.
Brian used his “experience” to get back
to guard but that double leg may have sealed the win
for Forrest. You could see the added lump to Brian’s
head getting bigger by the second as Forrest working
from the guard then at the 20 second mark the ref
stood them up! That was ridicules as Forrest was working
and did not stop from the GnP. Brian looked exhausted
as Forrest ran around the ring with his arms up. And
the decision goes to Forrest Fetz and rightfully so!
Terry Martin and Daiju Takase was the co-main event
and they started off there was a distinct difference
in height and reach to Daiju but it was Terry that
got the right shot to Daiju’s face to drop him
the beginning of the round. Daiju backed away and
tried to stay out of Terry’s fists way but Terry
was relentless on him so Daiju tried for a single
leg and was a bit slow getting up after the sprawl.
Standing back up Terry caught the game Daiju with
a right hook as he tried one of his own which dropped
him like a stone! He stood up real slow and Terry
let him instead of finishing it and continued the
onslaught of punches. Every time Daiju would try to
shoot or jump guard Terry made him pay. A nut shot
got Daiju the time he needed to recover as the doc
came to talk to Terry. It was a nasty shot! Daiju
immediately went to Terry and showed the respect that
it was not intentional. The fight continued even through
the bell for a couple seconds! Round 2 started off
with Terry catching another nut shot but continued
the match and Daiju shot in for a double that Terry
easily sprawled on and got back up. The stand up display
of Terry was making Daiju very cautious and then one
more groin shot got Daiju a point deduction. Again
the fight continued and they continued the stand up
and the shot and sprawl. This time Terry stayed on
top with a head and arm and landed some shots to the
body! The break up and the stand up, sounds like a
bad date huh? Well for Daiju it was as he got worked
over in the stand up but with a bit of flurry Daiju
kicked Terry again in the crotch and the ref stepped
in and said the end of this match! Terry got the win
by a painful DQ of Daiju.
The main event put Jason Guida and Mike Russow center
stage and I gotta say Jason looked even more outta
shape than his TUF showing. Oh well the stand up war
began and Mike pushed Jason to the cage and worked
a couple shots here and there but Jason pummeled his
way out of danger until about a minute and a half
in Mike got a single leg and some work on Mike’s
part and some coaching from Clay to Jason got him
back up on his feet. Mike delivered some shots as
he had Jason against the cage and then drops for a
takedown which Jason defended and it looked like Jason
had Mike in a guillotine but Mike defended with one
of his own and pushed Jason against the cage where
he had him trapped ala Horn vs. Marquardt in a guillotine
choke of his own and got he tap 2:10 in round 1.
