Dmitry
Menshikov (30-2, 3-1 ONE) shocked
Sinsamut
Klinmee (82-18, 4-3 ONE) to notch a dramatic come-from-behind
finish with a
vicious barrage of punches, elbows and knees. While Menshikov
likely was behind on the scorecards, he turned it up in the third
round to melt Sinsamut and force referee Olivier Coste to wave the
fight off at 1:33. Meanwhile in MMA,
Maurice
Abevi (8-1, 2-1 ONE) came to blows with Chinese veteran
Lipeng
Zhang (34-13-2, 3-2 ONE) in a 174-pound catchweight battle,
stifling anything of merit that the more experienced fighter threw
at him. All three judges turned in scorecards in favor of the Swiss
competitor, who earned his first career victory by decision.
In preliminary action, surging Chinese debutant
Rui Wei (70-3,
1-0 ONE) kept his lengthy win streak intact by outdueling former
champ
Hiroki
Akimoto (26-3, 6-3 ONE) to claim the unanimous verdict in a
back-and-forth 145-pound kickboxing clash;
Reece
McLaren (16-9, 9-6 ONE) won his engagement at 135 pounds by
surviving a bombardment and outworking China’s
Yong Hu (12-4,
8-1 ONE) by split decision; “Legatron”
Rungrawee
Sitsongpeenong (157-47, 5-1 ONE) threw down with Bulgarian
brawler
Bogdan
Shumarov (17-3, 2-1 ONE), prevailing in the all-action
170-pound kickboxing bout via split decision;
Chihiro
Sawada (8-0-1, 3-0 ONE) ground out
Noelle
Grandjean (5-2, 2-2 ONE) en route to a methodical unanimous
decision in their 115-pound MMA contest;
Zakaria
El Jamari (5-2, 1-1 ONE) pulled off the upset in a mighty
slugfest with
Thongpoon
PK Saenchai (79-24, 1 NC; 4-1, 1 NC ONE), earning the nod from
all three judges in their 125-pound muay thai banger;
Bianca
Basilio put
Nanami
Ichikawa to
sleep with a rear-naked choke just 35 seconds into their
132-pound submission grappling affair; the event commenced with a
135-pound muay thai collision as
Sean
Climaco (11-2, 1-0 ONE) folded
Josue Cruz
(17-3, 0-2 ONE) with a
brutal left hand to the midsection at 2:06 of the first round.