on Nicky Ryan vs Kennedy Maciel:

“Of course Nicky didn’t achieve victory today. I’m obviously disappointed as well as he is in his performance but having said that Nicky is an extremely young competitor.”

Tonon went on to note that Nicky Ryan has been training for only 2 years adding:

“I was impressed with a few thing. He was attacked at one point in the match, his back was compromised for 10 to 15 minutes. ” Tonon continued “Those that do (know how it is to have someone on your back) for a period more than 2,3 minutes – there’s definitely been thoughts in your head like oh I should probably let this guy slip his arm around my neck and tap and you know he kept to the things we practice every day and he wasn’t able to escape quickly which is always what I want to see but he endured some hardship in that match and early on in his career it’s good for him to endure that.”

On his match:

“Every match I go into I have 2 main goals: the first is to win obviously, I think everybody, for the most part has that goal. The 2nd is to be exciting… Obviously I achieved the win but I also believe it was an exciting match. I thought there was a lot of exchange positions, you know a lot of attacks in both directions and I think he was trying to attack me as well.  There were some leg attacks on his side and some guillotine attempts and same for me I was moving into a bunch of different positions where I could attack my training partner or even wait for like some armbars off my kimura attempts. Honestly as  a competitor I think I did a very good job at competing in a professional setting where we kept the match exciting wasn’t just trying to stay safe and you know win.”

And as for the main event, Gordon Ryan v Felipe Pena Garry said:

“Gordon Ryan vs Felipe Pena had a lot of buildup leading up to this match, Gordon does a great job promoting as well as I’m trying to learn how to do that as well. I’m thinking he goes a step above even the kind of things that I do but it was a you know isn’t very exciting match it was almost the exact opposite of what I saw in that match to what I saw in Nicky’s match. You know, where Nicky struggled through the most of his match and he was trying to fight out of bad positions and eventually attacks in the end I think for Gordon most of his match was pretty dominant attacking style for the first 40 minutes. I think a couple times he got his guard passed but other than that I think most of the submission threats were coming from him and Philippe trying to sprint out of leg locks – he was definitely in danger a couple of times….”

Tonon went on to add:

“Either way Philippe made his way to Gordon’s back and effectively it was very good. Gordon I don’t think was dilligent enough with the hand fighting to make sure.. His hand made it a little past the shoulder line and this is something that we generally don’t accept in training and not as soon as I saw that I was a little fearful when the hand came behind I was like sh*t – this is very bad. And he got the submission so you know there’s nothing else to be said other than you know I’m obviously very disappointed and I’m sure that Gordon is as well….”

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