Yamma Pit Fighting 1 results with videos

The results of the first Yamma Pit Fighting 1 event.

Sherdog has a pretty good reports about the event, so read them if you want some details.

• Yamma CEO Bob Meyrowitz discusses Yamma's first effort
• The overview of Yamma Pit Fighting event
• Minute by Minute: Yamma Pit Fighting

Alexey Oleinik won Sherman Pendergarst by the Submission (Ezekiel Choke) at the last minute of the first/last round. In the next round of the tournament, he lost to Chris Tuscherer in an Unanimous Decision. Ricco Rodriguez won his first fight against George Bush and lost the next one, to Travis Wiuff, who won the whole tournament.

The super (veteran) fights were interesting. Russian Oleg Taktarov won Mark Kerr by a Submission (Kneebar) in the first round at 1:55 mark.

Patrick Smith won Eric "Butterbean" Esch by winning the standing battle and then forcing Butterbean to the ground, from where he wasn't able to stand up.


I have mixed feelings about the first Yamma event. I really liked the new "fighting field" - I think it worked very well, doing exactly what it supposed to to. Yamma had also a few good fights, like the Taktarov's. The camera angles were also well done.

I know that some of you disagree, but I think that on the other hand, everything else was just plain bad! The vast majority of the fights were boring - almost all of them were won by using the LayAndPray style, familiar from fighters with the wrestling background. Because of the limit on total fight time put by the NJ comission, Yamma had to make the first two rounds of the tournament to consist of only one five-minute round. That's a very small amount of time and it made the majority of fights look like this: "One fighter takes another down and keeps him there, throwing some punches, but doing no real damage. Because of the L'n'P tactics, the fighter below can't really do anything. If the referee stands the fighters, the strategy continues one or two times until the end of the round. The L'n'P guy wins because of the activity". Boooooring!.. There also were too many glitches and unprofessional looking things - beginning from the awkward time delays and continuing to the people working on Yamma (I wanted to hurt commentators and to kill the announcer).

If you look at the entertainment value, the M-1 Challenge 2 Russia event was hundreds times better - almost all fights were very interesting to watch, unlike the Yamma Pit Fighting 1. I actually had to force myself to watch it and did it only because of the new surface. I hope Yamma 2 will be better than the first one. I truly hope so, because the Yamma surface is really something new and exciting!

dojotube.com has some interesting post-fight interview with the tournament champion, Bob Meyrowitz, Ricco Rodriguez, Referee Dan Miragliotta, Mark Coleman and others. Check it out!