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Jay Hieron vs. Jesse Taylor Was on the undercard. : (
Fabricio Werdum vs. Mike Kyle Round 1 Everyone please join me in booing Mike Kyle. Yuji Shimada of PRIDE fame is in the cage! They exchange in the center of the cage. Werdum kicking. Kyle catches a kick, can't capitalize. Kyle lands a right to the face, Werdum gets a single, takes him down. Kyle working for an arm bar?!? Werdum to side mount. Kyle stands, Werdum drops down in a guillotine. Gets the tap. Fabricio Werdum by submission.
Gilbert Melendez vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida The Strikeforce interim lightweight championship begins. Stoked. Ishida is giving up 4" in reach. Herb Dean in the cage. Melendez paces angrily in his corner. Ishida looks focused. Round 1 Ishida with a leg kick. Ishida shoots, Melendez sprawls. Ishida with a left eye poke. Melendez lands a right. Ishida circling into Melendez' power. Ishida shoots, fails. Melendez exchanges. Ishida leg kicks, Melendez lands with a combination. Again, leg kick answered with punches by Melendez. Gilbert lands a jab, and a hard left. Ishida is stunned. Ishida shoots, gets a single. Melendez working a choke but is now on his back. Ishida is on his back, working for an RNC. Gilbert reverses. Ishida working a guillotine, loses it. Now Melendez has top position. Ishida working a smothering guard, going for a kimura. Ishida up to one knee and Melendez working a single. BloodyElbow gives Melendez the first round 10-9. Round 2 Ishida still circling to his left. Melendez lands a jab and fires leg kicks. Ishida with a lightening fast shot. Melendez gets back up to his feet. They clinch against the cage. Now back to the center of the ring. Ishida's cauliflower ear is bleeding. Melendez pawing with jabs, lands a hard left and a second. Melendez landing combinations, Ishida shoots, grabs an arm but is eating lefts. Ishida stands, Melendez gets a double. Now working from behind Ishida. Ishida shoots at Melendez' legs, gets stuffed and pinned against the cage. Melendez is landing knees to Ishida's gut. Ishida stands, Melendez landing hooks to the body. Ishida fires back and backs Gilbert up. Melendez eye is bleeding. Bloody Elbow scores it 10-9 for Melendez. Round 3 Melendez feinting punches to start. Ishida lands with a jab. Another. They exchange. Melendez shoots. Ishida stuffs. Ishida beginning to land punches. Melendez scores. Ishida with a jab. Ishida shoots gets stuffed. Maybe a headbutt stuns Ishida. Ishida drops, Melendez pounces. landing GnP. Now in Ishida's guard. Hard combo of punches from Melendez. Gilbert takes his back, threatens the RNC once. Twice. Three times. Melendez pounds him out in 3. Dominant performance from the new Interim Strikeforce lightweight champ Gilbert Melendez. Gilbert Melendez by TKO in 3.
Between fight trivia question -- will Carano vs Cyborg be the first dueling corn-rows title fight in MMA history?
Gegard Mousasi vs. Renato "Babalu" Sobral Round 1 Big John McCarthy in the cage. Mousasi is looking blase at the staredown. They touch gloves. Trade leg kicks. Babalu throwing punches. Sobral catches a kick, gets the clinch. Mousasi gets the takedown, quickly to sidemount. Mousasi pounds Sobral out to stake the Strikeforce light heavyweight belt! Gegard Mousasi by TKO in 1.
Nice promo for "FEDOR" between fights. The man is marketable.
Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos vs. Gina Carano Round 1 Cyborg is landing. Gina gets the takedown, lands some ground and pound. Cyborg goes for a heel hook! Now has top position, landing punches. Cyborg is tagging Carano. Gina gets mount, lands some hard GnP. She stands up. Cyborg rushes her, landing shots with Gina's back on the fence. Cyborg backs up, tags Gina. Gina rolls for a knee bar, misses it completely. Gina goes for a superman punch, gets tagged coming in. Cyborg is imposing her will. Throws Carano. Lands shots, lets Gina back up. Cyborg scoring, battering Carano. Cyborg with a trip takedown to 1/2 guard. Working for an Americana. Gina rolls out of it. Cyborg still on top, landing huge shots. The ref stops a beating as the round ends! Chris Cyborg Santos takes the title at the very end of the first round.
Graphic by Eugene Schelfaut.