Pat Curran used a spectacular head kick to knock out Marlon Sandro Saturday night and win the Bellator Fighting Championships Summer Series featherweight tournament.
Four minutes into the second round of what had been a good, back-and-forth fight, Curran exploded with his right leg directly across Sandro's face, knocking him flat on his back and out cold. Curran pounced and landed three punches on the ground, but those were unnecessary: The head kick was what did it.
Featherweight Tournament Final
Pat Curran defeats Marlon Sandro via KO (Round 2, 4:00)
Heavyweight Feature Fights
Cole Konrad defeats Paul Buentello via decision (Unanimous; 30-27, 29-28, 30-27)
Seth Petruzelli defeats Ricco Rodriguez via TKO (Ref Stoppage; 1st Round, 4:21)
Lightweight Televised Feature
Rene Nazare defeats Juan Barrantes via TKO (Doc. Stoppage; 2nd Round, 5:00)
Local Feature Fights
Saul Almedia defeats Tateki Matsuda via decision (Unanimous; 30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
Ryan Quinn defeats Brett Oteri via technical submission (Choked Unconscious; 1st Round, 1:49)
Andrew Calandrelli defeats Matt Nice via submission (Key Lock; 1st Round, 3:55)
Nik Fekete defeats Mark Griffin via TKO (Ref Stoppage; 2nd Round, 3:12)
Dan Cramer defeats Jeff Nader via TKO (Ref Stoppage; 3rd Round, 1:04)
<blockquote>goeb - oh wow what a KO....Curran is going to be a great FW for years to come, he's young, very durable (just watch the Alvarez fight) and a very patient counter striker.</blockquote><br /><br />seems to be getting better and better too.
oh wow what a KO....Curran is going to be a great FW for years to come, he's young, very durable (just watch the Alvarez fight) and a very patient counter striker.
Bellator was Awesome last night.the konrad vs buentello fight was frustrating but i had a feeling that one would be. it gave me a lot more respect for Konrad though, if he keeps at it he's young enough to really evolve into a very dangerous HW.and holy shit at curran, he's going to be serious trouble for pitbull/warren.sandro needs to work on his game planning and he'll be back i think, Bellator has a crazy FW division.congrats to the UG fighters who won tooBELLATOR!!
ya i suppose. it sucks pitbull got injured to delay things even longer, but hopefully when the next season starts and the events are weekly again things will speed up. lack of a UFC size roster doesnt help either.
This. Their tourny matchmaking really clogs up the pipes. Lombard has been champ for years and has had 1 title defense, it's like Strikeforce and Alistair all over again, except Lombard has taken 3 non title bouts in Bellator and 5 bouts outside of Bellator since winning their strap.
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