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Jettisoned UFC welterweight Amilcar
Alves halted the first two-fight losing streak of his career,
as his anaconda choke submitted Edmilson
Santos in the Shooto
Brazil 21 headliner on Saturday at the Bennett College Theater
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The end came 46 seconds into round
two.A judo black belt, Alves was released by the UFC following
consecutive defeats to Mike Pierce
and Charlie
Brenneman. The
Nova União representative has won nine of his past 11
bouts.
Meanwhile, Alves’ teammate, Hacran Dias,
upped his latest winning streak to five fights, coaxing a tapout
from Arielson
Silva with a rear-naked choke 3:17 into the first round of
their encounter. The 26-year-old Brazilian has finished his last
three foes, two of them inside the first round.
Other winners at Shooto Brazil 21 included once-beaten Nova Uniao
product Fernando
Bruno (first-round rear-naked choke submission over Vitor
Pereira) and Jungle
Fight alum Elieni
Silva (first-round technical knockout against Eri
Franco).
Jory
Erickson stopped
International Fight League,
UFC and
Bellator Fighting Championships veteran Brad
Blackburn on first-round strikes in the CageSport
13 co-main event on Saturday at the Emerald Queen Casino in
Tacoma, Wash. Erickson finished it 2:50 into round one.
Blackburn appeared to have the fight in hand after he dropped
Erickson early in the bout. However, Erickson returned to an
upright position, regained his faculties and leveled Blackburn with
a punch of his own. Erickson brought it to an end with follow-up
blows, as Blackburn suffered his fourth consecutive defeat.
Meanwhile,
WEC alum Bryan
Caraway submitted Marlin
Weikel with a rear-naked choke 3:17 into the first round of
their featherweight duel. Anchored at the Urijah
Faber-led
Team Alpha Male camp, the 26-year-old won for the fourth time
in six bouts. Caraway found himself on the Zuffa LLC chopping block
in wake of consecutive defeats to Mark
Hominick at WEC
46 and Fredson
Paixao at WEC
50.
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Bellator Fighting
Championships veteran Bryan
Goldbsy took a unanimous decision from journeyman Aaron
Williams in the Atlas
Fights “Cage Rage 6” headliner on Friday at the IP Casino in
Biloxi, Miss. The victory brought a halt to Goldsby’s two-fight
losing streak … Brad
Peterson submitted WEC alum Aaron Brink
with a first-round armbar in the Rage
in the Cage 149 main event on Saturday at the Wild Horse Pass
Casino in Chandler, Ariz. Peterson sprang the submission 2:50 into
round one … WEC castaway Brendan
Seguin stopped Hector
Urbina on first-round strikes in the
Impact Fight League “The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre”
headliner on Friday at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills,
Mich. Urbina met his demise under a hail of elbows 3:51 into round
one … Surging Canadian welterweight Jordan Mein
won for the seventh time in his last eight appearances, as he
choked Keto Allen
unconscious with a first-round guillotine at Rumble
in the Cage 42 on Saturday at the Exhibition South Pavilion in
Lethbridge, Alberta Canada. Mein, who wiped out Joe Riggs less
than a month ago, needed just 42 seconds to finish the job.
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