Video: Donald Brashear, Patrick Cote Pick Up Wins at Ringside 11

by Nate Wilcox on Jun 5, 2011 11:27 AM EDT in MMA Events

Donald Brashear (Clement Allard/Canadian Press)

Former NHL enforcer Donald Brashear made a successful MMA debut last night at Ringside 11 with a 21 second TKO win over Mathieu Bergeron. Bergeron was the third announced opponent for Brashear's debut.

UFC veteran Patrick Cote also fought, picking up a win over Todd Brown via unanimous decision in a 190lb catchweight bout.

Brashear spoke to the Canadian Press after the fight:

"I threw a little of what I practised for the first guy and a little of what I practised for the second guy and put it into the fight with the third guy."
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"It also felt like I was home," he added. "As soon as I got in there [the cage], I was comfortable."
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"I'm having fun learning it," he said. "I haven't done much fighting yet. I love learning it and the fight was fun."

Complete Results via Ringside Report:

Patrick Cote def. Todd Brown via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27) (190 lbs. catch-weight)
Stephane Pelletier def. Dimitri Waardenburg via TKO (injury) Round 2 to become the first Ringside MMA bantamweight champion (for Ringside 135 lbs. title)
Donald Brashear def. Mathieu Bergeron via TKO (punches) at 0:21 in Round 1 (heavyweights)
Kevin Morin def. David Lafond via unanimous decision (29-28,29-28,29-28) (lightweights)
Marcus Hicks def. Yan Pellerin via TKO (punches) at 3:40 in Round 2 (light-heavyweights)
Dany Laflamme def. Justin Doyon (30-27, 30-27, 29-28) (lightweights)
Keven Tremblay def. Maxime Leger via submission (rear-naked choke) at 3:32 in Round 2 (featherweights)
Jerome Martin def. Tommy Cote via split-decision (29-28,29-28,28-29) (150 lbs. catch-weight)

Here's the Brashear fight:

SBN coverage of Ringside 11

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Patrick Cote isn’t in the UFC, Kendall Grove is. I wonder about Dana and Joe Silva sometimes.

by sheikybaby on Jun 5, 2011 11:54 AM EDT reply actions

Grove's gonna go.

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by SSreporters on Jun 6, 2011 12:00 AM EDT up reply actions

The guy Brashear beat did not look like much of a fighter.. doing the Lesnar defense special there.

by Horselover Fat on Jun 5, 2011 12:58 PM EDT reply actions

He was more of a hugger in the NHL.

His nickname is actually Huggy Bear.

by Jonathan. on Jun 5, 2011 5:37 PM EDT up reply actions

I don’t understand what this means.

by Horselover Fat on Jun 5, 2011 8:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQOrdomrbdY

That’s how most of his fights went. He hugged people, he never really went toe-to-toe very often.

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by ChillMike on Jun 5, 2011 10:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Aha.. Randy Couture-like in his boxing, is Donald Brashear.

by Horselover Fat on Jun 6, 2011 7:33 AM EDT up reply actions

I thought that was Ben Rothwell for a second!

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by John Danaher's Hair on Jun 5, 2011 1:35 PM EDT reply actions