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World Extreme Cagefighting veteran Courtney
Buck submitted Frank
Johnson with a first-round rear-naked choke in the Brutaal
Fight Night “The Rapture” main event on Saturday at the
Treasure Island Resort and Casino in Redwing, Minn. The end came
just 53 seconds into round one.The two featherweights traded from the start. Buck then latched
onto Johnson’s back, cinched a standing choke and finished it on
the ground.
Spawned by the
Minnesota Top Team, Buck has rattled off back-to-back
victories. The Burnsville, Minn.-based featherweight was released
by the WEC following losses to Brandon
Visher and former Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion Fredson
Paixao. None of Buck’s last 12 fights have gone the
distance.
Welshman Nathan Beer
stopped “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 9 alum Jeff Lawson
on first-round punches to capture the vacant featherweight
championship in the Shock-N-Awe
6 “Battleground” headliner on Saturday at the Pyramids Centre
in Portsmouth, England.
Beer, who christened his professional career with wins in his first
nine fights, got himself back on track with the victory. The
British Association of Mixed Martial Arts veteran entered the
match on the heels of consecutive defeats to Matt
Sellars and Rob
Sinclair. Beer has finished six of his 10 career wins by
knockout or technical knockout.
A qualifier on Season 9 of “The Ultimate Fighter,” Lawson was
eliminated in the quarterfinals by Jason Dent and
received his walking papers from the UFC following the show. The
32-year-old later appeared under the Sengoku Raiden
Championship banner in Japan, where he was submitted by
reigning SRC featherweight king Hatsu Hioki
with a first-round triangle choke.
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UFC veteran Alexandre
Barros notched a split decision victory over Henrique
Oliveira at a Showtime
Fights event on Saturday at the Hard Rock Café in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. He has posted a 4-2 record since being released by
the UFC following his January 2009 technical knockout defeat to the
world-ranked Martin
Kampmann … Shooto
Poland veteran Michal
Elsner submitted Ireneusz
Mila with a triangle choke 2:51 into round one of their
encounter at MMA
Challengers 6 on Sunday at the Spodek Arena in Katowice,
Poland. Elsner has won three fights in a row … King of
the Cage alum Derek Boyle
needed less than two minutes to dispatch Casey Kelly
in the Too Tuff 1
main event on Saturday at the Bully’s Sports and Entertainment
Centre in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Kelly met his demise inside
a rear-naked choke 1:51 into round one. Boyle has recorded
victories in each of his last three appearances … Gladiator
Challenge veteran Mike
Crisman submitted John Wood with
a second-round guillotine choke under The
Ultimate Combat banner on Friday at Club Vegas in Salt Lake
City.
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