Of the 10 fights including the four-person title matches, the longest one ended in the 41st second of the Round 2 when Nate “The Terrible” Flores brought Matai “The Charge” Charley into submission.
The rest of the fights were done in a single round, the quickest and heaviest one gave the MMA fans the scariest knock-out when Guam’s Jonathan “Super Sayon” Tuck landed a left hook on Philippines’ Eduard “The Lanslide” Folayang’s jaw, eight seconds of Round 1.
Manglona and Teregeyo clinched the championship fight after defeating their respective opponents in the opening middle weight confrontation.
Manglona TKO’ed Donny “The Menace” Fejeran in the 48th second of Round 1 while Teregeyo forced Pete “The Dragon” Deleon Guerrero to yield after two minutes and 27 seconds in the first round of the opening fight.
“You want this?” referee Tony De Angelo was holding the brown Gorilla belt while asking both Syl and Keli in a face off prior to the championship fight.
In the next few minutes, Keli of Trench Tech Purebred Saipan tried but failed to hold his tears back when De Angelo raised his left hand declaring him to be the holder of the first title belt in NMI’s MMA history.
Both Syl and Keli were trying to put up a fight that was not the same as they did against their opponents earlier.
After demonstrating one style in the opening fight, they both tried to beat each other’s expectation by bringing out another fighting craft.
Unlike the previous MMA events that came more than a couple of months apart, the Confrontation was a brand new one. It gave them just a few hours of rest to prepare for the final fight. And since the fights in between went faster than expected, the hours of rest were too short for both fighters to forget how they fought earlier.
It did not completely work for Syl. It did for Keli.
Keli who beat Fejeran via TKO shifted to a ground up fight that forced Syl to tap it out.
The heavyweight fighters did not make their fights long either.
Kelvin “The Big Hit” Fitial brought Mike “The Ogre” Davis to submission with guillotine choke in the 10th second of Round 1 while Charleston “The Predator” Aiken showed no mercy on Myron “The Natural” San Nicolas clobbering to the canvass.
Jay “Tabi” Muna defeated Martin Ayuyu via submission two minutes and 39 seconds of Round 1; Lionel “Da Hellion” Borja TKO’ed Shawn Ogo in 55 second also in Round 1 and Derrick Aughenbaugh beat Jack “The Ripper” Crisosostomo via verbal tap out also in the first round.
All these fights, according to Ultimate Fighter Philippe Nover, were impressive. NMI he said has a lot of talents that if they just keep on training hard, “sky is the limit,” when it comes to reaching their goal in MMA.
Aside from this, the NMI’s MMA family had respectable and honorable fighters, and that impressed him even more.
