Cage Titans is excited to announce the full fight card for the upcoming Saturday, November 10th return to the Local 103 Union Hall in Boston. The original card suffered a string of injuries and pull-outs but the show must go on and the matchmaker had to work overtime to make sure replacements were found. Either way, the fighters set to get locked in the cage together will be sure to put on a show! The main event will feature former top ranked 135lb fighter Dan Bonnell (11-9, Renzo Gracie) battling fast rising superstar Billy Giovanella (3-0 pro, Connors MMA). Billy is a former state champion wrestler who just currently cracked the Top 10 135lbers in New England after winning his first 3 pro fights in a two month span. In Dan though, Billy will be taking on by far his biggest test to date. Dan is a legand in New England MMA and has fought a whose who in the region and has stepped in the cage for every prominant promotion in the area. Dan is equally dangerous on the feet as he packs a tremendously powerful right hand and being a product of Renzo NH can submit anyone on the ground. As for Billy, his style is not a secret as he relys on his wrestling to take fights to the ground at will and grinds out decision victories by dominating position and using his ground and pound. This fight will be interesting on a couple levels, will Billy try to take it to the ground with the threat of Dan’s submission game or will we see a stand-up battle?
Triumph MMA’s Cody Anderson will be making his long awaited debut at Glory against Hector Sanchez from Allaire. Cody had a stellar amateur career rattling off a 5-0 record and earning the #1 ranking in New England. Since then though, his pro debut has been somewhat of a challange as not many have wanted to step up to fight him and when he did have something scheduled his opponent pulled out. It looked like that would be the case again here as he was originally scheduled to face two other opponents before it came to his final opponent in Hector. That being said, on 48 hour notice Hector stepped up to save the fight and the over 10 fight pro veteran will look welcome him to the ranks.
Another pro debut that has been a long time coming will be that of Joe Cloutier from Doomsday MMA. After losing his first 2 amateur fights, he went on a 5 fight win streak capturing an amateur title and the #1 ranking in New England at 185lbs. His step in to the pro ranks has been a long one spanning over 6 months including a string of bad luck, with shows being postponed, promotions cancelling events completely and opponents falling out last minute including his original opponent for this Glory event Roger Zapata who suffered a hand injury. On two and half weeks notice Josh Mellen took the fight which is sort of full circle as these two were set to fight in July but Mellen was forced to pull-out on two days notice with a staph infection. Cloutier is a big strong fighter that likes to muscle fights to the ground and work his submission game as 3 of his 5 ammy victories were way of sub. Mellen on the other hand is stand-up striker who definitely will try to keep this fight on its feet. Will this be a happy ending for Cloutier as he finally steps in the cage as a pro or will Mellen, who just settled in with a new camp at Maximum, play the role as a spoiler?
And the final pro fight will be between two amateur fighters both making their pro debuts. Former #1 ranked amateur Kin Moy from Redline will battle it out with Josh Beauparlant. Both these fighters will look to shake off some cage rust against one an other as both of them have been out of action for over a year. Kin, who calls himself the most nerdy MMA fighter, is known as a stand-up specialist but posses a very underated ground game. As for Beauparlant, he is known as the type of fighter who never backs down from a fight which showed in his amateur career by fighting in the Tournament of Champions against the likes of former top ranked ammys like Sergio Cabrera and Andre Soukhamthath.
The last fight on the Main Card will be for the Cage Titans Heavyweight Amateur Title as champion Nick Fontecchio from Connors MMA battles it out with challenger Ed Gillis from Doomsday MMA. Nick Fontecchio won the belt by stopping former #1 ranked, undefeated James Smith by TKO back in May. In that fight, Fontecchio followed his game plan to a T and used his superior wrestling to take the fight to the mat and stopped Smith via TKO in the 3rd. As for Gillis, he makes it no secret that his strength is wrestling, as he currently coaches it at Burlington High and was a stand-out wrestler back when he, himself was in school. Much like Fontecchio he used that wrestling in his last fight to completely dominate his opponent on the ground on the way to a submission victory. The story of this fight seems to be who has the better ground game and it should be interesting to see how it plays out.
