ALBANY, N.Y. – Randy Brown took the fight to the floor in the first, but he finished Brian Camozzi on the feet in the second.
After a knee to the head put Camozzi (7-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) down, a torrent of left hands from Brown (9-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) brought about an end to their fight, forcing referee John McCarthy to call it off at the 1:25 mark of Round 2.
The welterweight bout was part of the preliminary card of today’s UFC Fight Night 102 event at Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y. It streamed on UFC Fight Pass.
Brown showed glimpses of his striking prowess early on in this one, stinging Camozzi with a right hand that sent him staggering backward in the first frame. Brown followed that up with a takedown on a still woozy Camozzi, but almost got himself caught in an armbar when he got careless inside Camozzi’s guard.
Brown would survive that submission scare and make it into the second, which is when he reasserted control in a major way. After controlling Camozzi with a front headlock against the fence, Brown snuck in a short knee to the head that dropped Camozzi to the floor.
Sensing the finish was near, Brown moved to unload on the side of Camozzi’s head with a jackhammering series of lefts. With Camozzi clearly hurt and failing to respond, that was enough to bring McCarthy in for the TKO stoppage, handing Brown his third UFC victory.
“I came in here with intentions to do big things, so one step at a time, and that’s another step taken,” Brown said after the win. “I feel good. The energy was amazing.
“There was no way I was coming in here to lose. No way. In New York, my hometown, my second home away from Jamaica, come on man. I’m trying to get on that Brooklyn card, too. I’ll fight anybody. It doesn’t matter who.”
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(MMAjunkie’s Matt Erickson contributed to this report on site in Albany.)
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