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July 23, 2022
Jason
Jackson has been on a roll lately, having conquered such foes
as Benson
Henderson, Neiman
Gracie and Paul Daley. He
can now add former Bellator
MMA champion Douglas
Lima to his ledger.
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Jackson (16-4) dominated Lima from start to finish, taking the
former three-time champ down in every round and controlling the
action from there, winning a horribly lopsided unanimous decision
in the main event of
Bellator 283 on Friday night in the Emerald Queen Casino in
Tacoma, Washington.
Lima (32-11) had little in the tank in terms of fighting back; he
seemed resigned to just accept the takedowns and survive. The crowd
angrily booed the lack of action for most of rounds three through
five, but Lima never had the desire to try and turn the tides. Lima
instead laid on his back, opened his guard from time to time, but
showed little effort in trying the snap his three-fight losing
streak.
Jackson did what he needed to in order to win; he just couldn’t put
Lima away. All three cage-side judges favored the Jamaican via
tallies of 50-45, allowing him to ascend the Bellator welterweight
title ladder.
Tofiq
Musayev made it look incredibly easy against Sidney
Outlaw in the co-main event,
stopping him in just 27 seconds. Outlaw (16-5) came right at
Musayev but that was his ultimate downfall. A crisp right-left to
the head wobbled Outlaw’s knees and as he tried to recover while
dancing like James Brown, Musayev (19-4) floored him with a
crushing right hook to the jaw. Outlaw crumbled in a heap and
referee Keith Peterson immediately stopped the lightweight
skirmish.
Lightweight contender Usman
Nurmagomedov remained unbeaten against Christopher
Gonzalez and he did it in a flash. After two minutes that saw
the lightweights size each other up, they finally let their hands
go. However, once Nurmagomedov (15-0) scored a textbook trip
takedown, the Russian
immediately locked in the guillotine and got the tap. Gonzalez
(7-2) tried to free himself, but the choke was instant and tight;
the end came at 2:54 of the opening frame.
Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran Lorenz
Larkin (24-7, 2 NC) thought his welterweight fight with
Mukhamed Berkhamov was going according to plan until he landed
an elbow to the Russian’s head. Unfortunately for everybody
watching the fight,
Larkin’s elbow was directly to the back of Berkamov’s melon
while he was trying to take “Monsoon” down. Berkamov collapsed to
the canvas once the referee yelled foul and after a few minutes of
speaking with the ref and translator, Berkamov (14-0, 1 NC) said he
was unable to continue. Since the blow was accidental and illegal,
the fight was declared a “No Contest,” officially coming to an end
at 2:52 of the first.
Chicago’s Davion
Franklin had been pounding out everybody he had faced coming
into his heavyweight showdown with Marcelo
Golm, but he suffered the first loss of his pro career via
submission. Franklin (5-1) scored three powerful slams in the first
and it seemed like he was going to snuff out his opponent, but Golm
(10-3) weathered the storm and slowly wore down Franklin.
With only 24 seconds left in the third, an exhausted Franklin
had a head kick caught, which turned into a takedown and eventually
a rear-naked choke, where “All Day” tapped out.
In preliminary action, rising middleweight prospect Dalton
Rosta remained unbeaten as he stuffed every single one of
three-time NCAA wrestling champion Romero
Cotton’s takedowns
before knocking him out 38 seconds into the third; flyweight
Veta
Arteaga submitted veteran Vanessa
Porto with a
superb guillotine choke at 3:47 of the second; Akhmed
Magomedov took out fellow featherweight Kevin Boehm
via
rear-naked choke at 1:16 of the first; lightweight Gadzhi
Rabadanov dominated Bobby King en
route to a lopsided unanimous decision win via tallies of 30-27
across the board; Roman
Faraldo KO’ed Luis
Iniguez with a
straight left to the jaw at 3:42 of the first of their
welterweight showdown; bantamweight Jaylon
Bates edged Mark Coates
via split decision (30-27, 28-29, 29-28); and Archie
Colgan took out Bryan Nuro
with
punches at 1:15 of the third in their 160-pound catch-weight
scrap.