FirePro June 17th, 2006 Tourney RESULTS!

[Grant Ellis]

All matchups were determined randomly

Bracket A: Chief Roberts gets a BYE

Bracket B: Ken Shamrock vs. Royce Gracie

Bracket C: Amar Suloev vs. Sam Greco

Bracket D: Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Ron Waterman

Bracket E: Genki Sudo vs. Mirko Cro-cop

Bracket F: Stefan Gamlin vs. Ikuhisa Minowa

[heckyl]

WAR CHIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[( o Y o )]

Amar vs Greco? Someone hates the ruskies :-D

[HolyRamenEmpire]

Btw, Amar, is he not Armenian? Anyhow, Amar will Lyoto Greco.

[heckyl]

Amar is Armenian indeed.

[Grant Ellis]

Royce Gracie vs Ken Shamrock
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A very predictable match which saw Royce attacking with the submission attempts from the bell. Shamrock was content to avoid engaging in too much of a ground war and picked away witrh strikes most of the fight, landing hard knees and inside punches.

As the match went on, and Gracie began to get frustrated, we saw ken work the submission game, and even come close to catching Royce in several armlocks.

Ken landed some solid shots from the mount cutting Royce open, and eventually wore him down to a TKO stoppage.

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WINNER: Ken Shamrock

[Grant Ellis]

Sam Greco vs. Amar Suloev
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In the second match, Greco was just too big and too skilled a striker for Amar. From the the get-go we saw the larger man land consistently and pick Amar apart with a series of kicks that could split a man in two.

The Armenian Red-Devil fighter tried firing back with some counter shots and even some dirty boxing, but he failed to take Greco down or secure a submission. Greco pressed onward until he got the KO victory.

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WINNER: Sam Greco

[Grant Ellis]

Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Ron Waterman
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The battle of the big men! Ron turned this into what looked like a collegiate wrestling match. he scored great takedowns throughout the fight and looked for the occasional knee fro mthe clinch. Fujita retaliated with some good guillotine attempts and some modest ground and pound midway, but Waterman kept off of his back and took control.

Ron Waterman slammed his way to a TKO victory.

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WINNER: Ron Waterman

[Grant Ellis]

Genki Sudo Vs. Mirko Cro-cop
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By far the most entertaining matchup was Genki Sudo versus Mirko Cro-cop. They were both on the attack the entire duration of the fight.

Somehow Genki managed to open a cut, which hindered the Croatian's ability to initiate offense, but he couldn't capitalize on it. Mirko managed to outmuscle Genki on the ground and work some bone-shattering combinations on the feet.

Genki fired back with his own unique brand of striking, including a spinning backfist, but failed to stop Mirko's attack and ended up getting KO'd late in the fight.

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WINNER: Mirko Cro-cop

[ArtOfWar]

Woo Hoo! WAAAR CC! You will take the whole thing for sure. Look out for that Sam Greco fellow, he has the backing of the forum God.

[Grant Ellis]

Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Stefan Gamlin
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Every now and again, a fighter who SHOULD have won his match ends up on the receiving end of an upset. This is one of those cases.

Minowa started early with some good takedowns. He controlled the larger man throughout the fight.

He came close to getting a leglock, but through a gift from the Gods Gamlin escaped.

And then he landed the big right hand.

CRASH. Minowa was out.

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WINNER: Stefan Gamlin

[Grant Ellis]

Ken Shamrock vs. Andre "The Chief" Roberts
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A real battle of attrition broke out!
The Chief took every shot thrown his way on the chin and returned smiling and even fired back with some of his own. Shamrock was not detered though, and eventually worked a number of submissions on the ground, but just like the hard punches, The Chief had a ground game of his own!

After 13 minutes of fighting, Shamrock was eventually able to stop The Chief and take the victory.

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WINNER: Ken Shamrock

[Grant Ellis]

Sam Greco vs. Ron Waterman
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A slow, yet tactical start.
Waterman tried clinching, but Greco matched power and avoided the takedown for about 10 minutes. Waterman then started to gas and althoug he did get Greco down he could not keep him there. Greco got back to his feet and began striking with the wrestler and managed to take him out standing with combinations and deadly axe kicks.

WINNER: Sam Greco
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[Grant Ellis]

Mirko Cro-cop vs. Stefan Gamlin
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Mirko stayed on the outside and picked him apart the entire time. End of story.
Mirko bloodied him up before 2 minutes hit, then KO'd him a few minutes later.

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WINNER: Mirko Cro-cop

[Grant Ellis]

Sam Greco vs. Ken Shamrock
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Shamrock was battle-weary from his wars against Royce and Andrei The Chief Roberts and ended up succumbing to the technical striking prowess of Sam Greco.

Greco by KO after two minutes.

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WINNER: Sam Greco

[heckyl]

Greco vs CroCop. oh shit oh shit!!

[Grant Ellis]

and before we bring you the tourney finals...we bring you....THE SUPERFIGHT!!!

Mark Hunt vs. Peter Aerts
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This was it!
The First Tourney Champion vs. The Mini-Tourney Champion.
The Samoan Juggernaut vs. The Dutch Lumberjack.

It was a high paced fight seeing Hunt going for combos and punch rushes and Aerts looking to use his kicks and elbows.

After coming up from some ground and pound the UNTHINKABLE happened and Aerts unleashed his trademark high kick finish!

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WINNER and SUPERFIGHT CHAMPION: Peter Aerts

[Grant Ellis]

THIRD KAKUTOUGI FIREPRO OPEN DRAFT TOURNAMENT FINALS!

Sam Greco vs. Mirko Cro-cop
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This was it.
The tourney finals.
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A very cautious start, with each man circling way outside, niether initiating.
Both picked at each other with sharp shots. Both landed.

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After about 12 minutes the pace began to pick up with Mirko actually knocking Greco to the canvas and pouncing. Greco recovered instantly, but his lungs were beginning to fail him. Eventually he lost the war to conditioning as Mirko pressed the action.

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Five minutes later, Mirko landed some devastating combinations and finally the high kick that did him in.

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WINNER OF THE THIRD KAKUTOUGI FIREPRO OPEN DRAFT TOURNEY: MIRKO CRO-COP
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[( o Y o )]

Aerts KO's Hunt??? Holy shit!! lol

I am going to officially refute the finals fight though.....Mirko got the road to the finals set for him against light weights and nobodies :-D

[Grant Ellis]

Aerts KO's Hunt??? Holy shit!! lol

I am going to officially refute the finals fight though.....Mirko got the road to the finals set for him against light weights and nobodies :-D

NOBODY KOs Hunt! It had to be a bad stoppage or something!

And yeah, it was luck of the dice, but Mirko did get an easier road... the game takes note of stamina and fatigue (hence Shamrock getting ko'd so fast) but in the end Mirko was king. :X

[bero]

what game is this?

[HolyRamenEmpire]

First time I got to see the tourney. Next time, I'll pick a heavyweight!

[Grant Ellis]

what game is this?


It is out of the FirePro series.

This was the first one on GameBoy Advance

[bero]

It is out of the FirePro series.

This was the first one on GameBoy Advance

Where can I buy it? Any by "buy" I mean download it illegally.

[Jofeljoh!]

what the hell? My boy Gamlin lost to Crocop?

That game is definately rigged!

[Grant Ellis]

what the hell? My boy Gamlin lost to Crocop?

That game is definately rigged!

Only when FM is fighting.

[Shinbone]

I knew it, Aerts is the only one who can KO Hunt:)

[heckyl]

the old Vitor could KO Hunt anyday.

[ArtOfWar]

I am going to officially refute the finals fight though.....Mirko got the road to the finals set for him against light weights and nobodies :-D

Hah, Mirko never gets the respect he deserves and you just like to pick on young, innocent moderators like me.

WAAAR Mirko!

(I think I'll go with Fedor next time:P)

[ArtOfWar]

Put your hands together for GRANT ELLIS Ladies and gentlemen! Once again, he's given us the virtual show of the century!!!!

Grant: I'm taking Lion Takeshi for the next event; if not, give me Hideo Tokoro :P