CESMMA 39 Breakdown

               

                Classic Entertainment and Sports, working in collaboration with Cage Titans, brings CES MMA 39 to Memorial Hall in historic, Plymouth, MA November 4^th. The Ultimate Fighter Season 13 alumni, Chuck O’Neil headlines the card opposite Lawrence Massachusetts’ Wilfredo Santiago Jr in a Middleweight bout. The Main Card airs live on AXS TV, with commentators, Michael The Voice Schiavello and UFC Hall-of-Famer, Pat Miletich dissecting the action.

                17-8 Chuck O’Neil turned pro at Twenty-one years old in 2006. He was on Team Lesnar on TUF13, a TKO loss to, Season Winner, Tony Ferguson ended the competition in the Semifinal round for O’Neil. One of New England’s best, Cold Steel has held Welterweight Belts for Reality Fighting, Cage Titans FC and CESMMA. 

O’Neil Arm-Barred a vacant CESMMA WW title away from Ricardo Funch at CESMMA 26 and defended that belt three months later (1/30/15) with a First Round KO of Emmanuel Walo at CESMMA 29. He dropped a Unanimous Decision and the Title to Dominique Steele at CESMMA29, prompting the Six-foot-two inch, O’Neil to try a move up to the MW Division. After losing his debut fight in the new division Cold Steele has settled into the weight with two straight wins in 2016. In March he out-pointed Dennis Olson to win by UD and stopped Roy Jones with a first round (2:24) TKO in August at CESMMA 37. Twelve of O’Neil’s Seventeen wins have come by stoppage (6 Subs, 6TKO/KO).

               

              6-3 Wilfredo Santiago Jr is coming off his third consecutive first round finish. At Cage Zone 59 in August, The Brown Bomber stopped Nuri Shakir by TKO at 2:03. Santiago has been living and training in Albuquerque, NM at Jackson Wink MMA, in preparation for this fight. The Brown Bomber is a hard striker with a knack for the KO, five of his six wins have been TKO/KO (1 Sub win). Santiago is a finisher who has only been to Decision once, his last CESMMA appearance a UD loss back in 2013.

               

Undefeated, Manny Bermudez faces a step-up in competition in veteran, Saul Almeida in the Featherweight Division. 7-0 Bermudez has submitted his last two opponents, both by Guillotine-Choke: he caught Jeff Anderson 1:06 into their 6/18/16 bout and at Cage Titans 30 he stopped Rodrigo Almeida at 0:54. A busy fighter, Bermudez competes in his fifth fight of 2016, he began the year with a January Rear-Naked-Choke of Evan Parker at CESMMA 32 (1^st 1:43). The only time the Featherweight has been out of the first round came just twenty-two days later at Cage Titans 27 when he earned a UD over Dan Dubuque.

               

                           Saul The Spider Almeida is a veteran of Twenty-five fights, in addition to eight fights in CESMMA he has also competed for Bellator and most recently WSOF where he is coming off a two fight skid. A first round submission loss to Alexandre Almeida at WSOF 24 (10/17/15), broke a five fight win streak. 18-7 Almeida is just Twenty-seven years old, a win could start a streak that sees The Spider make a major run.

               

Also in the Featherweight Division, Undefeated fighters meet when 6-0 Peter Slippery Pete Barrett takes on 3-0 Jeremy The Beast Davis. Familiar scene for Slippery Pete, all six of Barrett’s fights have been with Massachusetts promotion, Cage Titans in Plymouth Memorial Hall. Five of Barrett’s six stoppage wins have come by TKO/KO, including his April first round stoppage (1:53) of Jeff Anderson at Cage Titans 28.

               

Clearwater, Florida’s Jeremy Davis has stopped each of his three wins, in June Don Shainis’ night was called by Doctor Stoppage following the opening round at Cage Titans 29. The Beast also has two 2015 wins by Guillotine, (7/24) First Round 2:20 Matt Indiero and (1/10) Second Round 2:59 Kirk Hubble.

                5-4-1 Flyweight, Remo Cardarelli takes on 2-0 Josh Ricci. Cardarelli began his Pro Career with four straight Submission wins, since tough match-ups and bad luck have plagued him. A pair of losses to Darren Mima and a win over Andy Aiello overturned by Massachusetts State Athletic Commission (for a Time-keeping error) has seen the Milford fighter’s record suffer. Cardarelli looks to get back on track when he faces Twenty-three year old, Josh Ricci.

                Ricci has stopped both previous opponents by Rear-Naked-Choke. In his Pro debut (1/8/16) he caught Dalton Bradley in the Third Round (2:02) at CESMMA 32 and last fight at Prodigy MMA- Resurrection (5/28/16) he stopped David Baxter in the Second Round (2:45).

                Finishing Bantamweights hook up when 3-0 Max Barrett takes on 3-1 Matt Almy. Barrett has stopped his three opponents (2TKO/KO 1 Sub) including his August TKO win over Devin Pelkington in the opening round (2:01). Almy is coming off a TKO win just weeks in the rear-view, (10/14/16) at Combate Americas Empire Rising a First Round (2:59) TKO of Freddy Arteaga.