Cage Warriors 162: Patrizi vs Girlean 2

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

This bout has been cancelled for a while now...

Aliu vs. Carlos
Leon Aliu, TKO, R1
Aliu is very bad but Carlos is a jobber. Highlight for aliu

Martignoni vs. Lupieri
Matteo Martignoni, TKO, R1
Michel’s brother?

Baselli vs. Ghercioiu
Daniel Ghercioiu, TKO, R1
The favorite is a Thai boxer going to mma. Don’t have high hopes but he is not your average 0-0 guy

Girlean vs Patrizi
Girlean 2nd RD TKO
Both these guys have shown holes in their grappling with Patrizi being down 2 rounds in his lost fight pulling back the comeback. Patrizi TDD was lacking last fight but once he was taken down he got to his feet quickly but I think that was more due to his Opp's poor BJJ. Girlean showed good scrambles against Cullen reversing him a couple times before KOing him in the 3rd. Im going to back Girlean as he showed better fight against a better opponent and he has beaten Patrizi before.
D'Anna vs Dias
Dias DEC
D'Anna has one of the most padded records I have ever seen he has only beaten 2 people with more than 3 pro fights. Dias has a poor record but has a win over someone with an actual pulse so I have to go with him here
Lupoli vs Leblond
Lupoli DEC
Both these guys have solid comp for their bad records. But Lupoli just has better wins and I think he gets it done through the distance avoiding the subs of Leblond
Aliu vs Carlos
Aliu RD1 KO
Pretty obvious who is going to win here
Ghercioiu vs Sadikov
Ghercioiu RD2 KO
Sadikov is coming in on a weeks notice and Ghercioiu is a very experienced kickboxer and Muay Thai guy so this should be a showcase for him
Pagliaruccio vs Creasey
Creasey DEC
Creasey skill for skill is 100% top 3 flyweight in Europe IMO he just has no chin but Tanio has no KOs so Im backing Creasey
Tetti vs Barbara
Tetti RD2 KO
I loved Tetti's last fight and liked his movement and feints. However he puts everything into all of his shots which means I'm not sure how he will do over 3 especially if Barbara can get constant TDs and wear on his gas tank but I'm going to back Tetti because if he can strike like he last fight did for 15 minutes then he will destroy Barbara.
Bertinazzi vs Adiguzel
Berinazzi RD2 SUB
Classic Wrestler vs Striker and Adiguzel has much lower level comp, I think Bertinazzi should outgrapple him and eventually sub him in RD2
Dia vs Bentayeb
Dia RD3 SUB
Clear Set up for Dia. Dia should primarily grapple as he owns a BJJ gym. I do worry about his chin and striking. Dia is huge for 170 and should have a range advantage. However I do worry as he got rocked his last fight against Milton Cabral and his striking defence isn't great as he doesn't use his range well and his chin is there to be hit and I fear it could be brittle but he should just grapple Bentayeb for 3 rounds and probably finds a Sub late.
Dolghi vs Battaglia
Dolghi RD2 KO
I'm risking picking Dolghi as again he is another kickboxer from Aurora who is converting to MMA. I saw a clip of him absolutely flat line KO some guy in Kickboxing so I'm going to take a risk and back him here but it wouldn't surprise me if Battaglia wins here by Grappling
Martignoni vs Lupieri
Martignoni RD1 KO
Lupieri has never left the 1st RD in 5 fights and has been KOED twice and Martignoni is Michelle's brother and his last 2 wins are Sub minute KOS against guys that are better than Lupieri this should be the quickest fight of the night.

* Edited at 10.23.2023, 2:16 PM ET *

Ghercioiu vs. Sadikov
Daniel Ghercioiu, SUB, R3
5th

Ghercioiu sub?

😄🤣😅🤣😄

@dcastledine 

From what I can tell Dolghi doesn't train at Aurora. He's also taking the fight on 1 week's notice. So the odds are definitely against him. With that said I agree he's not a bad kickboxer. He was able to hang with Yohan Lidon for a few minutes before getting KO'd. I'd like to back Dolghi with a full training camp. Not 1 week's notice. But I don't know much about Dolghi's opponent who has seemingly only fought low level regional guys. So maybe Dolghi does have a chance, idk.

At least we got cage warriors today 

My 6 year old niece could land better ground and ound than Martignoni 🤦

I hope Lupieri got paid at least 50 bucks to show up amd get his ass beat. Put him in the recycle bin with the other cans

Martignoni via 2nd Round TKO
Battaglia via 2nd Round TKO
Dia via 1st Round TKO

@BriCrisp thank you! What’s up with tapology lagging behind in results? 

@BriCrisp 

Good man.  Keep going.

Oh my god what a knock out!!!!!!!!!

FLATLINED HIM 

Adiguzel is a monster for that - knocked him the spark out!!!!

Bertanazzi is an absolute 🤡. The moment I saw how ****y he looked at the introduction I knew it was trouble. Annoyed at myself for picking him. Rushing in like a clown with no respect and getting put out. 

Oh and he clearly had a staph infection. Disrespect your opponent get KTFO

And I’ll take that perfect…

Bertanazzi with an absolute 🤡 sequence of strikes. Throwing absolute powder puff strikes like a little girl with his chin completely exposed and his hands below chest height. What did he expect was going to happen?

Juliana Pena must be his striking coach. That isn't going to work in Mens MMA

And a spinning back fist for good measure, I love it