It was not as clean as Baysgur Susurkaev might have hoped, but he achieved his desired result only four days after he participated in the Contender Series of Dana White.
The 24-year-old Russian prospect waded through severe adversity in his Ultimate Fighting Championship debut, while he sent Eric Nolan with a second-round choke in the second round of their highlighted UFC 319 Middleweight Prelim on Saturday in the United Center in Chicago.
Nolan (8-4, 0-1 UFC) admitted defeat 2:01 in round 2.
Susurkaev (10-0, 1-0 UFC) was slowly out of the gate. Nolan doubled his puncture, linked uppercuts with left hooks and grabbed his shots from outside. He had heavily dazed Susurkaev Laat in the first round, but had no time anymore. Nolan did not benefit the postponement of one minute. Susurkaev took the top position on a failed attempt of the leg locking of the Dante Rivera Protégé, flirted with an arm triangle and went back. From there he flattened Nolan, hit his arms in place in front of the choke and let his squeeze the rest.
In the meantime, one -off Thunderstrike Fight League champion Michal Oleksiejczuk Gerald Meerschaert has thrown away with punches in the first round of their middleweight.
Meerschaert (37-20, 12-12 UFC) Boog 3:03 out in round 1.
Oleksiejczuk (21-9, 9-7 UFC) destroyed the Kill Cliff Fight Club representative with sharp One-Twos and easily denied his telegraphic Takedown attempts. He rocked Meerschaert with a left uppercut, followed by a left corner, reset and covered it with a two. Oleksiejczuk then came across his fallen counterpart and tore him in with bumps and hammervisten until referee Herb Dean had seen enough.
The reviving 30-year-old Oleksiejczuk has now achieved 16 of his 21 Pro victories by knockout or technical knockout.
Further in the Undercard, ex-Legacy Fighting Alliance Lupita Godinez Jessica Andrade surpassed a heavily fought unanimous decision in their strawweight scrap of their three-round women. Godinez (14-5, 9-5 UFC) pulled 29-28 scores across the board and won in so many trips for the second time.
Godinez (14-5, 9-5 UFC) grabbed the reins over the first two rounds, where she made contact with powerful One-Twos, over-hand rights and a persistent puncture. She mixed in a Takedown in the middle stanza, made a pass at an arm triangle and finally climbed to the entire mountain. To her honor, Andrade did not go down quietly. The Gaea project Cornerstone pressed Godinez for a large part of the third round, forced her in a fight and let fly with wings from both hands. Yet the finish that Andrade needed was not to materialize and her rally was short.
Andrade, 33, has risen three setbacks in succession.
Elsewhere, Factory X -Export Alexander Hernandez jumped the upset and cut Chase Hooper with bumps in the first round of their lightweight encounter. Hernandez (17-8, 9-7 UFC) pulled the curtain 4:58 in round 1, while placing his third consecutive victory in the books.
Hooper (16-4-1, 8-4 UFC) used his length and benefits, but saw all his good work in an instant.
Hernandez flew him at the end of a vicious counter right hand with the time that ran down, took a squatted position above him and cut loose with unanswered bumps to ask the interruption.
It was the eighth first round finish of the career of Hernandez.
MMA Lab striking in the prelims, MMA Lab recovered striking dragonfly from a knockout loss of December 14 to Joel Alvarez with a unanimous decision on the former ring of combat champion Edson Barboza in a three-round lightweight confrontation. All three jury members handed in 29-28 score cards for Klose (16-3-1, 10-3 UFC).
The 39-year-old Barboza (24-13, 18-13 UFC) tried to keep pace with radical legs and a punishing shot. However, Klose landed almost all impactful strikes. In the second round, Barboza faltered with a volley of right hands and took an important toll in the conflict, where he let go of footstumps, close-range punches and elbows over the top. A pounding lead right hand was Klose’s favorite weapon from a distance, and he made optimum use of it in the back of the game.
Barboza has lost back-to-back periods.
Finally, the Joseph Morales of Team Alpha Male imposed the previously unbeaten Alibi Idiris with a triangle in the second round of the final of the “The Ultimate Fighter 33” flight weight.
Idiris (10-1, 0-1 UFC) raised the white flag of surrender 3:04 in round 2.
Morales (13-2, 2-2 UFC) hit a Takedown halfway through the first round, progressed to full mountain and threatened with an arm triangle before he went to the back and secured position with a body triangle. He almost finished it with a coded choke in the last seconds. The bell saved Idiris, but his situation only deteriorated from there. Morales forced him to withdraw with a series of hooks to the body in the second round, swarmed with bumps and again attached himself to the back of the Titleholder of the Naiza Fighter Championship. Idiris returned to the top position, only to wander in the triangle. The tap followed shortly thereafter.
The 30-year-old Morales rattled four consecutive victories.
In other action, Karine Silva (19-5, 5-1 UFC) claimed a unanimous decision about Dione Barbosa (8-4, 2-2 UFC) in their three-round women’s flying weight, with 29-28 points of all three cageside judges.
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