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12-19-2009 10:08 PM:Alex Crispim, a second degree black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, showed a well-rounded game in wearing down A.J. Fonseca. Crispim won a unanimous decision, 30-27 on all three cards, in a featherweight fight to kick off Strikeforce at the H.P. Pavilion in San Jose.
Showing a great gas tank after taking the fight on just two weeks notice, Crispim (4-2) was able to get Fonseca on the deck in all three rounds. He worked chokes in each scenario.
The final round was his best. Although it wasn't without a little controversy. Crispim had Fonseca pinned against the cage. Fonseca was in a vulnerable position when he took two big knees to the face and then dropped to his rear end. Crispim then threw an illegal knee. The fight was halted for 30 seconds but no point was deducted. Fonseca was worse for wear with what looked like a broken nose.
Fonseca was out of gas and hurt. He got worked over on the ground in the final 90 seconds. Crispim worked an omoplata then transition to what looked like an armbar and then closed the fight trying for a heel hook.
Fonseca fights out of Sacramento and Urijah Faber's camp.
WILCOX DOWNS NAKAMURA IN A STAND-UP WAR
Daisuke Nakamura is excellent on the ground and Justin Wilcox is a dynamite wrestler so of course when the two locked horns, they stayed on the feet for 14-of-15 minutes. Nakamura really beat up Wilcox's face but his style wasn't judge friendly.
The Japanese veteran peppered Wilcox with jabs all the night. But when he would back pedal and retreat it looked like all of Wilcox's punches were landing. They weren't but Nakamura defensive movements were too dramatic. Wilcox, fighting out of American Kickboxing Academy, moves to 8-3 with a unanimous decision win 30-27, 30-27 and 29-28.
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Showing a great gas tank after taking the fight on just two weeks notice, Crispim (4-2) was able to get Fonseca on the deck in all three rounds. He worked chokes in each scenario.
The final round was his best. Although it wasn't without a little controversy. Crispim had Fonseca pinned against the cage. Fonseca was in a vulnerable position when he took two big knees to the face and then dropped to his rear end. Crispim then threw an illegal knee. The fight was halted for 30 seconds but no point was deducted. Fonseca was worse for wear with what looked like a broken nose.
Fonseca was out of gas and hurt. He got worked over on the ground in the final 90 seconds. Crispim worked an omoplata then transition to what looked like an armbar and then closed the fight trying for a heel hook.
Fonseca fights out of Sacramento and Urijah Faber's camp.
WILCOX DOWNS NAKAMURA IN A STAND-UP WAR
Daisuke Nakamura is excellent on the ground and Justin Wilcox is a dynamite wrestler so of course when the two locked horns, they stayed on the feet for 14-of-15 minutes. Nakamura really beat up Wilcox's face but his style wasn't judge friendly.
The Japanese veteran peppered Wilcox with jabs all the night. But when he would back pedal and retreat it looked like all of Wilcox's punches were landing. They weren't but Nakamura defensive movements were too dramatic. Wilcox, fighting out of American Kickboxing Academy, moves to 8-3 with a unanimous decision win 30-27, 30-27 and 29-28.
More...
Yahoo! Sports.
Cagewriter is an MMA blog edited by Steve Cofield.
