Tony ‘Hulk’ Johnson Smashes Daniel Omielanczuk in ACA 114 Title Headliner

Bellator MMA and One Championship alum Tony
Johnson
is going to celebrate Thanksgiving in a big way after
capturing the Absolute Championship Akhmat heavyweight
belt.

In the main event of
ACA 114
, former Ultimate Fighting Championship competitor
Daniel
Omielanczuk
(24-10-1, 1 NC) clashed with Johnson (14-5-1, 1 NC)
for the vacant heavyweight championship. The battle lasted a mere
69 seconds, and saw Omielanczuk aggressively chasing his opponent
right out of the gate. At first, Johnson attempted to push away
from his opponent’s offensive by extending his fingers towards
Omielanczuk, but referee Herb Dean had
none of that. After receiving a warning, “The Hulk” clipped
Omielanczuk with a deadly duo of punches, sending the Polish
fighter crashing to the canvas with a left hook behind the ear
followed by a quick right hand on the jaw. Johnson dove down to
finish the job with a few follow-up punches until Dean jumped to
save Omielanczuk from any further harm. The finish marked the first
time that Poland’s Omielanczuk had ever been stopped with strikes
in his 36-fight career.

The co-main event saw Nikola
Dipchikov
(20-7) square off with Rafal
Haratyk
(13-4-2) in the middleweight division. The match
started slowly, as Dipchikov utilized unorthodox movement and
footwork to come out of his corner. His opponent Haratyk looked as
if he wanted to knock his head off with every punch he threw. The
Bulgarian capitalized on the wild aggression, targeting a
blistering left hand that rocked Haratyk. Sensing the finish,
Dipchikov pressed on the accelerator and nailed his opponent with
another left hand, dropping Haratyk to the canvas and forcing the
referee to jump in and stop the action at the 3:44 mark of the
first stanza. In his post-fight interview, Dipchikov staked his
claim for a crack at Salamu
Abdurahmanov
’s championship in his next fight.

It took three rounds of hard work for Aurel
Pirtea
(22-11) to edge UFC vet Levan
Makashvili
(17-4-1), but eventually, the Romanian fighter
convinced the majority of the judges cageside. “The Miner” looked
to move the action on the canvas for the majority of the fight
while Makashvili fought hard to keep it standing. In the second
stanza, Pirtea was inches away from securing a guillotine choke
finish, but his Georgian opponent resisted the submission attempt.
In the third, Pirtea punished Makashvili with some hard shots, and
did enough to take home a split decision victory.

Elsewhere, Leonardo
Limberger
(14-1) overcame Dmitriy
Parubchenko
(14-2) thanks to the judges’ unanimous scorecards
in a 145-pound affair. In the opening fight of the main card,
Bartosz
Lesko
(10-1-2) upended Rene
Pessoa
(22-7) via unanimous decision at the end of a close,
hard-fought battle.

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