MN's Bash Brothers win big in Savage

Marvin and Melvin Blummer (Photo by Rebeka Holmberg, courtesy of Savage Entertainment)

Minnesota's newest bash brothers, Marvin and Melvin Blummer, emerged from Saturday night's fights as a one-two punch to be reckoned with in the amateur ranks.

The twin brothers from Forrest Lake were both victorious and took home the new Savage Entertainment amateur titles at 145 and 155 pounds.

The fights, which took place in front of a sold out crowd at Neisen's Sports Bar and Grill in Savage, were on the undercard of a show headlined by a rematch between St. Paul's Mitch Jackson and Lake City's Ryan Stock.

Melvin Blummer was the first of the bash brothers to win gold last night when he defeated LeSueur's Bryan Purdom in lightning quick fashion in first round of their battle for the 155-pound amateur title. Blummer opened up with a flurry of punches and Purdom desperately tried to get a double-leg takedown to survive the flurry, but Blummer stuffed him on the takedown. Blummer clamped on a guillotine choke while blocking the takedown and fell to his back to synch it in, and it was lights out for Purdom.

Melvin's twin Marvin followed up in similar fashion two fights later when he defeated Cambridge's Jonathan Profant for Savage Entertainment's 145-pound belt. Marvin quickly knocked down Profant with a punch and tried to end the fight with a barrage of punches while Profant was on the mat. Profant was able to recover and get back to his feet. He didn't last on his feet very long though. Blummer floored him again with a right hand and jumped on top of him in the guard. Profant reversed the position and bullied him up against the cage, but Profant lowered his head while trying to move Blummer and Blummer caught him in a guillotine to force a tapout.

In the fight of the night, Mitch Jackson (9-1, 156 lbs.) defeated Ryan Stock (10-6, 154 lbs) by decision in the main event. This fight was a rematch of an amateur fight these two had a couple of years ago. That fight saw Jackson win a decision victory as well.

The fight saw Jackson take Stock down at will for three straight rounds and keep busy enough on top to only be stood up late in the third round.

Ryan Stock (bottom) tries to block a punch by Mitch Jackson (Photo by Rebeka Holmberg, courtesy of Savage Entertainment)

Stock was not able to neutralize Jackson's takedowns, nor was he able to get free when Jackson was on top. Stock did try a variety of submission attempts, including a kimura into an armbar as well as a rear naked choke in the third round that looked to have Jackson in trouble. He also did a fairly good job of keeping Jackson close while on his back to keep from suffering too much damage, but Jackson's wrestling skill was too much for Stock to overcome.

Jackson ended up wining the fight by a score of 29-27 on all three judges cards, losing a point in the first round when referee Joe Fipp deducted a point because of Jackson hitting Stock with illegal 12-6 elbows while on top.

The atmosphere in the room was electric and the crowd was pretty evenly split between the two fighters. Everyone was on their feet in the third round, and even though Stock is 0-2 against Jackson, people still wanted to see them fight again.

The second amateur fight of the night also went into the second round, with Anoka's David Bowser (1-0, 213 lbs) defeating Thomas Meadows (1-0, 210 lbs) out of Frederick, Wis. Meadows won the first round with some devastating looking uppercut rights and bullying Bowser around the cage, but he'd clearly gassed by the start of the second round and was looking to get out of there as quick as possible. After trying to run away from Bowser's punches, Meadows got taken down and quickly gave up his back and turtled up, causing referee Fipp to step in and end it.

In the first pro fight of the night, Jeremy Lafferty (145 lbs) defeated Jesse Sidebottom (141 lbs) in the first round by TKO. Lafferty started the fight by picking up Sidebottom to slam him, and Sidebottom ended up landing right on his face. While he was still awake and fighting, he never really recovered. Lafferty started throwing punches while in Sidebottom's guard, and the ref jumped in to stop it soon after.

Jeremy Lafferty slams Jesse Sidebottom (Photo by Rebeka Holmberg, courtesy of Savage Entertainment)

Rochester's Jared Chaney (2-3, 137 lbs) defeated Minneapolis fighter Brandon Bucholz (6-4, 137 lbs) in the first round with a guillotine choke. Bucholz controlled the entire fight, laughing off the strikes from Chaney and easily taking him down, but late in the round he put his head down and Chaney quickly clamped on a guillotine and forced Bucholz to tap.

Lake City's Dan Copp (169.5 lbs) beat Big Lake's Roland Larson (170 lbs) by TKO when Copp nailed Larson with a left hand and then followed up on the ground with a handful of punches for the stoppage.