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Brad's Friday Fight Bodega - Somdet vs Gomez
Written by Brad Taschuk   
Friday, 27 November 2009 00:00
Relevance abounds this week, my faithful (and knowing many of you... faithless) readers.  Both of our fighters in today's Bodega special have fights merely days apart, and both of these fighters are on the lighter end of the weight spectrum.  One of these fighters (and if you haven't been following my articles I'll allow you to find out here) was also be featured in a recent piece I completed about the WEC's impending Flyweight division, because I swear, it's coming... eventually.  Maybe.

As far as our two featured fighters today go, Rambaa Somdet and Ulysses Gomez are the men in question.  Somdet has an extensive Muay Thai background, and prior to beginning his MMA career, actually fought a one-off K-1 fight, winning by decision.  Somdet's upcoming fight has actually already taken place.  On November 23rd, he took on Noboru Tahara, to determine Shooto's first Flyweight (115lb) champion, and emerged successful by way of a fairly dominating decision.  Of course, because Shooto likes to make life difficult for the rest of us, their weight classes are actually all one weight lighter than the name would suggest.  Gomez trains out of Marc Laimon's gym, and as one would expect from a fighter coming out of Cobra Kai, he possesses an excellent submission game.  Ulysses' upcoming fight hasn't taken place yet, but he is scheduled to take part in the second show of the re-branded Tachi Palace Fights on December 3rd, against Ben Nguyen.

This fight between Somdet and Gomez took place in the old Palace Fighting Championship, and was a semifinal of their (and what I think has been North America's only) Flyweight (125lb) tournament.  One unfortunate note about this fight, is that it was contested under three 3-minute rounds rather than 5-minute rounds, because that's just how Palace got down.

Before you click the link to go check this fight out, I also feel compelled to tell you that despite what your eyes and brain may want you to believe, this fight is in fact NOT in fast forward.  These guys are just that fast.


It's fairly easy to pick out Somdet's Muay Thai background in this fight, as his kicks are lightning fast and he showed some solid hands on the inside to compliment them.  Gomez should get a lot of credit for sticking around for the entire fight though, because Herb Dean (who hilariously outweighs both competitors combined) could have easily stopped that fight in the first round, and had the fight been contested with 5-minute rounds, surely Ulysses would not have made it out of the opening stanza.

Both of these fighters are very tough at 125 pounds (or under, in the case of Somdet) and when the WEC Flyweight division makes it's debut, expect to see them both inside the mini blue Octagon.  Until then, check out Somdet's title bid in Shooto, and Gomez doing his thing over in California.