Featherweight Youngster Buschkamp Blazes to Victory in Germany
Tim Leidecker Jul 17, 2011
Martin Buschkamp (left) is the new Cage Fight Night
featherweight champ. | Photo: Tim Leidecker
BREMERHAVEN, Germany -- Martin Buschkamp captured the vacant Cage Fight Night featherweight title Saturday at Laola Fussballcenter, as the 20-year-old German Brazilian ran through the promotion’s four-man, one-night featherweight tournament with a pair of first-round submissions.
During midweek, the chances of the tournament even taking place looked uncertain after hometown boy Alex Becker went down with a torn ACL in training, and MMA Spirit representative Max Coga was unable to cut weight due to a struggle with the flu. Veteran promoter Bodo Elsbeck, who celebrated the 10th anniversary of his “Outsider Club“ with the Cage Fight Night 10 (his pro fighter event series) and Outsider Cup 24 (the newcomer portion of the show) combo event, secured two more-than-equal replacements on 48 hours’ notice in form of undefeated wrestler Marcel Jedidi and Dutchman Danny Peters.
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Buschkamp, a Sao Paulo-born student of Peter Sobotta, repeated his performance against young Asrih nephew Haj Haddou by displaying more impressive close-quarter grappling and an aggressive submission attack. Like Jedidi, Haj Haddou succumbed to a “mata leao,” Buschkamp’s bread-and-butter move.
“I am so happy to finally win a title,” Buschkamp told Sherdog.com
after his belt-clinching win. “I came in third at the Shooto
European championships last year and took home the bronze at the
European BJJ championships this year, that’s why it feels so good
to stand on the top step of the winner’s podium this time.”
Even though his tournament representative came up short, Pride Gym head coach Nordin Asrih was the other major winner of the night. The “Ultimate Fighter 13” cast member steered his army of 17-, 18- and 19-year-old pupils to a whopping 13 victories out of a possible 15. Exemplary for this tremendous team effort were the wins of lightweight trio Mohamed Grabinski, Anthony Adotey and Rostislav Zatuchnyy.
Grabinski scored a unanimous decision over Team Topfighter representative Nick Verhoeven in the most brutal fight of the night. The Belgian fighter surprisingly got the better of the standup exchanges, but was taken down and beaten up repeatedly through all three rounds. Hammerfists from crucifix position and knees to the head from side control rattled the brain of the young Belgian, who hung tough for 15 minutes.
Eighteen-year-old former 170-pounder Anthony Adotey made a successful transition from welterweight to lightweight by sawing through Kuwaiti kickboxer Ahmad Dawood. Model athlete Adotey staggered his hapless opponent with a machine-gun barrage of punches, battering Dawood from back mount before sealing the deal with a rear-naked choke.
Rostislav Zatuchnyy was responsible for the upset of the night, as he viciously knocked out former ISKA and WFCA kickboxing champion Denis Oliwka with a crashing overhand right. The crowd held its breath when the 28-year-old Darmstadt native crumbled back to the canvas after being helped to his feet. Fortunately, the worst injury Olivka sustained from the knockout was a minor cut on the left cheekbone.
Finally, in the local main event of the night, hometown boy Maurice van Waeyenberghe rebounded from back-to-back first-round knockouts with a nice TKO of his own, overwhelming previously undefeated Dane Martin Dideriksen with a flurry of punches midway through the first round. After the fight, van Waeyenberghe took to the house microphone and announced that he would donate his purse to a children’s cancer fund, earning him a huge round of applause from the already enthusiastic crowd.
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