Ultimate Beatdown 8 Vengeance The Main Event

Ultimate Beatdown 8 Vengeance The Main Event

Originally Published on May 6, 2012 by The Editor in Ultimate Beatdown

 Heres The Main Event Reports From Ultimate Beatdown 8

Main Event Fights 3 x 5 Minute Rounds

Bout 1:

Harvey Chin Yoon Kent Vs Tee Jac Yee

Round 1:

Yee came straight out with a takedown, Kent tried to get back up but Yee took him back down Kent had him in guard. Kent managed to edge himself up against the cage. Kent then threw a kick and Yee again took him down and he was in Kents guard. Kent was defending well and overturned Yee placing some good punches, Yee again managed to unseat him and after regaining position commenced to ground and pound finishing the fight at 3:45 TKO ref stoppage.

Bout 2:

Yan Mysterious Vs Zeus (both Nickname, Zeus real name is Lin Zhee Yian, I do not have a name for Mysterious) 

Round 1:

I have seen Zeus fight on many occasions. he may only be young but he is improving and his skill is growing in leaps and bounds. After losing to the vastly more experienced Allamurad “Pretty Boy” a world top 50 ranked fighter recently, he went onto a mauy thai competition and was narrowly beaten by a Muay Thai champion with over 100 fights. But this is his cage, this is him after more training and recovery fighting  somebody called ‘Mysterious’.

Mysterious looked very confident a bit too confident as he was fighting with his hands down low and his chin held high, as we would see later that was a mistake.

Zeus who used to be a bit wild charging in and just swinging wildly continues to improve his game and he approached this fight as a learning experience as well as a fight. Zeus managed a couple of very solid takedowns but Mysterious defended the first one well and on the second one he sank a very tight guillotine on Zeus, very tight but not quite tight enough, even so it took a considerable time for Zeus to escape.

Once back on his feet Zeus attacked with a flurry of very good punches and some good knees. mysterious was rocked but still kept his hands low and chin high a left jab followed by a stinging straight right and Mysterious was down and out. A very solid display from Ultimate MMA’s brightest prospect.

Knock Out 4:20 of Round 1

Bout 3:

Mohd Ikan Vs Elson Na

Round 1:

Na started this round with a couple of solid kicks, then Ikam managed to get him up against the cage and use his knees. They separated and Ikan went for a takedown but Na got up easily.

Ikan takes it to the ground whilst against the cage and tries ground and pound but Na ties him up, again they separate.

Again it goes to the ground Na tries a guillotine but Ikan escapes and has top position, he looked very comfortable in mount but seemed unable to really take advantage of it, he looked to be breathing heavily, but he was in total control and Na could not shake him off.

Round 2:

Ikan came out with a different attitude and they both exchanged some solid stand up with powerful kicks and punches exchanged. It went to the ground with Ikan on top and this time his ground and pound was unstoppable and he overwhelmed  Na. TTKO due to ref stoppage at 1:00 Round 2.

Bout 4:

Roger Chan Vs Mohd Faizal Bin Mohd Fazi (E-Joy)

Round 1.

This fight was nice and even for the first two minutes,  Chan in an attempt to take control pulled e-joy to the ground in guard, with e-joy on top but nothing really came of it. e-joy stood up and with Chan still on his back he laid a few good kicks on Chan and then the ref stood Chan back up.

Chan got e-joy down and launched a fairly desperate flurry of very hard hammer fists which were really wearing the prone e-joy down eventually the non stop barrage brought the ref in to stop further damage. Chan had brought some real power with his blows and at 3:59 of round 1 it was TKO due to ref stoppage.

I feel I need at this point to talk about e-joy. he and his brother are from Malacca, his brother recently broke his leg while fighting at the F3 tournament in KL. These two guys are having to fight without access to any real MMA training facilities or an MMA coach. They are essentially self-taught. Whilst Melvin Yeo does try his best to help them improve from a distance, these boys are essentially teaching themselves. Some people tell me that Malays don’t ‘have it’ these boys show they do, they themselves admit many of their friends who started out with them have given up. But these two guys are triers. they may never trouble the likes of ONE FC but if they can act as a role model for other Malays and show what can be achieved maybe they can be the catalyst that gets more Malays into MMA.

Today e-joy may have lost but he is much improved from his last fight and still has the heart of a warrior.

Bout 5:

Antonio Graceffo Vs Steven Yeo

Round 1.

Graceffo came straight out with some fairly wicked kicks and punches. There is quite a difference in these two. Yeo is physically much bigger than Graceffo, it’s not muscle though, being kind you could say that Yeo is ‘soft’, Graceffo for a man of 40+ is still in very good shape. So fair play to Yeo for being prepared to tackle Graceffo who is very experienced.

So Graceffo was obviously the fitter and more experienced so what could Yeo offer to the bout beyond his size?

At this stage not enough. Graceffo has been a busy fighter recently and looked fresh and ready, he was in and out quickly, not allowing  Yeo to find him long enough to hurt him. Yeo was looking unlikely to be rocked a a single punch it was plain that Graceffos best bet was a submission, but how to take the big man down. Well, that’s why Graceffo came to the Ultimate MMA Academy to learn these skill and eventually Graceffo took him down and mounted Yeo, it was only a matter of time, Graceffo was very comfortable on top and just before the 4 minute mark of Round 1 he announced his move as he did it calling it a can-opener. Basically he had folded Yeo own arms around his neck and then lifted his neck into them, Yeo tapped.

The great thing about this bout is, that I am sure that Yeo never really expected to win, he just wanted to give it a go and see at what level he was at. Many people have called Graceffo out and when Graceffo has accepted the fights pulled out, Yeo was not one such person, he wanted to fight.

He definitely posed some new challenges to Graceffo but, after the fight the two fighters sat down and talked. Graceffo encouraging Yeo to keep it up, train harder, giving him some tips and they were both getting on like a house on fire. MMA at this level is all about helping each other, building relationships and friendships.

The Ultimate Beatdown series are not the glamourous events that you see on the TV, the fighters are not the best quality, but they have great heart and there is no pretension and no rampant egos.  This is grass-roots MMA at it’s best and I love to watch it, to see these people improve from fight to fight. 

Sadly we were the only MMA site to represent at this event.

Everybody afterwards was at the cafes next to the gym all eating and drinking together an MMA family.