CAGEFX 9: FINALLY; FULL RESULTS AND VIDEOS FROM MAY 28, 2010 CARD IN PLYMOUTH, MA

Posted on | June 6, 2010 | No Comments

By: Rich Bergeron

The wait was worth it for Cage Fighting Xtreme’s 9th event, the first one under the conditions of mixed martial arts regulation now in place in Massachusetts. Venue changes, politics, and capacity numbers all proved to be huge issues for the promotion to overcome in order to get this Plymouth event off the ground, but everything came together in the end for a spectacular show. When the dust settled, the final May 28, 2010 date faced another obstacle on fight night since the Boston Celtics would be engaged the same evening in a series-ending game 6 performance against the Orlando Magic. Still, a healthy crowd came out to cheer on the full card of fighters and to see the main event between undefeated heavyweight phenoms Christian Morecraft and Lee Beane that would make a huge star out of the “ultimate” winner.

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Fight News Unlimited captured full videos for most of the fights, but we only captured partial videos of some of the other fights. The main event ended with a dramatic win for Christian Morecraft, who goes to 6-0 with the win over Beane (now 6-1). The call to the big show came quickly. Former Fight News Unlimited Writer Jack Bratcher of PROMMANOW.COM detailed Morecraft’s new 4-fight UFC contract and his new date with Destiny against Stefan Struve in a recent dispatch. See the full fight video below. Lee Beane fought a smart fight and simply lost position in the worst possible way, playing into Morecraft’s punching power advantage. These two fought like two freight trains hitting each other at full speed, and Beane can only learn from the tough first loss of his career as Morecraft will immediately be vaulted to superstar status if he can demolish the “Shyskraper” Stefan Struve at UFC 117.

The Full CageFX 9 Main Event Fight:

The Co-Main Event featured Mark Griffin (3-2) getting back to his winning ways against Journeyman MMA Fighter Jerry “The Punching Bag” Spiegel (13-29-1). The footage tells the true story of Griffin’s complete dominance of this fight:

Fernando Rivera (2-13) had his own best weapon used against him as his own early guillotine choke couldn’t close the show. His opponent Bill Mahoney’s (1-1) guillotine turned the tables and made Fernando tap at 2:02 in the first round:

Bobby Favors and Shawn Galano literally shook the cage in their battle of super heavyweight slugging:

A controversial split decision went to Abe Pitrowski in his fight with Lionel Young. You be the judge of who won this one of only three decisions on this card:

Mark Giove didn’t let any judges get in the way of his amazing performance against Greg Mendes. His non-stop attack ended with a perfectly executed arm triangle choke at 3:42 of the first round:

Eric Hurd and Pierre Pierry were the second two fighters to take their contest to the judges on the night. Pierry won by unanimous decision in a fight he controlled:

Anthony Kaponis made fast work of John Downey in the next bout:

Chris Cole needed less than a minute to get the quickest knockout of the night against Nicholas Santos.

Jose Adriano dominated Doug Sonier, who has yet to get his first official pro MMA win. Adriano simply overwhelmed Sonier with fast and powerful striking:

The first fight of the night was also the first fight to go to a decision. Rob Costa took Johnny Kim the distance for the decision win. Fight News Unlimited only captured Round one of what turned out to be a great three round war.

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