Making his professional debut Friday in front of a raucous crowd at Twin River Casino, welterweight John Gotti III stole the show on the preliminary card of “CES MMA 46.?br />
Gotti (1-0) forced his opponent, Vermont native Johnny Adams (0-2), to verbally tap due to excessive strikes at the 3-minute, 50-second mark of the opening round of their scheduled three-round welterweight bout.
The Oyster Bay, N.Y., native scored an early takedown and eventually cracked Adams?defense, landing a series of right hands from the full mount position late in the round that left Adams bloodied and bruised before he tapped with just over a minute remaining in the round.
The Gotti-Adams fight was the fourth and preliminary bout before the AXS TV main card, which began at 9 p.m. ET.
Also on the preliminary card, rising featherweight prospect Marquis Brewster (4-0, 1 KO) of Providence, R.I., kept his perfect record intact and scored his first career knockout victory, stopping 16-fight vet Raymond Yanez (4-12) with excessive strikes at the 2:17 mark of the opening round.
Since debuting 16 months ago in June of 2016, Brewster has won all four of his bouts, including two by submissions and a unanimous-decision win over Cody Hier at “CES MMA 42.?br />
Syracuse, N.Y., bantamweight Michael Taylor (1-0, 1 KO) scored a knockout in his professional debut on the preliminary card, stopping fellow debut Jessie Pires (0-1) of Fall River, Mass., with a pair of devastating elbows at the 2:43 mark of the opening round.
Taylor worked his jab early in the fight, catching Pires twice before body-slamming to the canvas. From there, Taylor maintained side control before gaining full mount midway through the round, where he landed back-to-back elbows to the forehead, the second one opening a gash not only over Pires?right eye, but on Taylor’s left elbow. Referee John English immediately stopped the fight, awarding Taylor the victory in his Twin River and Rhode Island debut.
Berkley, Mass., middleweight Pat McCrohan (3-1, 2 KOs) smothered Brunswick, Maine, native Buck Pineau (1-4) in a rematch of their “CES MMA 31?showdown, stopping him at 4:56 of the opening round due to strikes. McCrohan controlled the match from the opening bell, took Pineau’s back and began peppering him with rights and lefts from every angle before finally landing a series of unanswered rights to the temple. Pineau nearly survived the round, but referee Kevin MacDonald mercifully pulled the plug with 4 seconds remaining.
McCrohan, making his fourth appearance with CES MMA, bounced back from his submission loss to Ruslan Melikov at “CES MMA 37.?McCrohan and Pineau also fought in 2015 with McCrohan winning by knockout 58 seconds into the opening round.
Gotti (1-0) forced his opponent, Vermont native Johnny Adams (0-2), to verbally tap due to excessive strikes at the 3-minute, 50-second mark of the opening round of their scheduled three-round welterweight bout.
The Oyster Bay, N.Y., native scored an early takedown and eventually cracked Adams?defense, landing a series of right hands from the full mount position late in the round that left Adams bloodied and bruised before he tapped with just over a minute remaining in the round.
The Gotti-Adams fight was the fourth and preliminary bout before the AXS TV main card, which began at 9 p.m. ET.
Also on the preliminary card, rising featherweight prospect Marquis Brewster (4-0, 1 KO) of Providence, R.I., kept his perfect record intact and scored his first career knockout victory, stopping 16-fight vet Raymond Yanez (4-12) with excessive strikes at the 2:17 mark of the opening round.
Since debuting 16 months ago in June of 2016, Brewster has won all four of his bouts, including two by submissions and a unanimous-decision win over Cody Hier at “CES MMA 42.?br />
Syracuse, N.Y., bantamweight Michael Taylor (1-0, 1 KO) scored a knockout in his professional debut on the preliminary card, stopping fellow debut Jessie Pires (0-1) of Fall River, Mass., with a pair of devastating elbows at the 2:43 mark of the opening round.
Taylor worked his jab early in the fight, catching Pires twice before body-slamming to the canvas. From there, Taylor maintained side control before gaining full mount midway through the round, where he landed back-to-back elbows to the forehead, the second one opening a gash not only over Pires?right eye, but on Taylor’s left elbow. Referee John English immediately stopped the fight, awarding Taylor the victory in his Twin River and Rhode Island debut.
Berkley, Mass., middleweight Pat McCrohan (3-1, 2 KOs) smothered Brunswick, Maine, native Buck Pineau (1-4) in a rematch of their “CES MMA 31?showdown, stopping him at 4:56 of the opening round due to strikes. McCrohan controlled the match from the opening bell, took Pineau’s back and began peppering him with rights and lefts from every angle before finally landing a series of unanswered rights to the temple. Pineau nearly survived the round, but referee Kevin MacDonald mercifully pulled the plug with 4 seconds remaining.
McCrohan, making his fourth appearance with CES MMA, bounced back from his submission loss to Ruslan Melikov at “CES MMA 37.?McCrohan and Pineau also fought in 2015 with McCrohan winning by knockout 58 seconds into the opening round.
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