Horn, Sylvia Victories Highlight IFC
John Hanlon May 22, 2005
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 21 — In a night where the longest fight lasted
only three minutes 37 seconds, IFC Caged Combat excited the
sparsely filled Nationwide Arena crowd with five ref stoppages and
five submissions.
There weren’t any surprises. The fighters who you thought were going to win, did. Top-level fighters Jeremy Horn and Tim Sylvia disposed of their lesser opponents with relative ease.
The main event of the evening saw Aitor Canup drop his first fight
(5-1) to the much more seasoned Horn, who defended his 185-pound
ISKA belt. The Miletich fighter did not appear concerned with
pressing Canup, as he smiled and slipped most of the punches thrown
his way. After a brief scramble that left Horn butt-scooting, Canup
looked to score some points with leg kicks, but it was Horn who did
the serious damage from his back landing an up-kick that rocked the
Royce Gracie disciple.
Horn tried to follow up with some ground-and-pound but was unsuccessful within the guard of Canup. With little action, the referee restarted the fighters standing. Canup once again looked to press the fight by landing some solid combos as he rushed towards Horn. Using perfect timing and placement, Horn connected with a short left jab that incapacitated his opponent 3:36 into the first round.
Block had no trouble reaching the face of his foot-taller opponent, peppering it with jabs before the Miletich-trained Sylvia decided to swing back. Once the fists were flying, Block began bull rushing Sylvia with his head down, consequently eating some well placed knees.
Sylvia played the roll of Matador waiting for space to fire some right hands. When they finally landed, Block crumbled. Sylvia retained his ISKA super heavyweight belt 1:26 in the first stanza.
In welterweight action, hometown favorite Braden Workman quickly dispatched of Trevor Garrett 40 seconds into the bout. Workman, who had nearly half the arena chanting his name, dropped his aggressive adversary with a looping left hook. He then capitalized with a rear-naked choke, forcing Garrett to tap.
California-based fighter Mac Danzig won his third fight in a row via submission when he tapped Luke Spencer 1:56 into the fight. Danzig, who looked huge for the 155-weight class, muscled the shorter Spencer around. Not to be denied, Spencer used a beautiful lateral drop to toss Danzig to his back.
Undaunted, Danzig immediately transitioned to an armbar attempt that was avoided. Back on their feet Spencer looked to throw his opponent again with a hip toss, but during the throw Danzig was able to secure his back and from there work his superior sub game.
Ron “Killing” Fields was faster on the draw when it came to the ankle-lock game, submitting Wayne Pitman just 33 seconds into their match. From inside Fields’ guard, Pitman fell back looking for the leg-lock, only to find himself tapping shortly after.
Fields’ wife Jennifer was not as successful against Jennifer Howe, one of the country’s top female fighters. Howe overwhelmed the under-skilled Fields with a barrage of punches just 20 seconds into the bout.
Miletich trained Ryan Mcgivern looked good using his stand-up and groundwork to finish Eli Ayers 3:19 into their fight. The ref had no choice but to halt the action as Mcgivern rained punches down from mount.
Neil Rowe looked very stoic as Sean Sallee worked some heavy ground-and-pound. Rowe bided his time and shortly into the first round secured a triangle.
Josh Martin was forced to tap 1:12 into his fight against Jeremy Brown, who finished with a standing guillotine.
Controlling the fight early with technically sound stand-up skills, Matt Williams got caught with an uppercut by Tyler Combs. Combs did not hesitate to capitalize on the downed challenger forcing the ref to stop the fight at the 1:41 mark.
In middleweight action, Dustin Haslett won 42 seconds into his fight with Jamie Millins via referee stoppage.
There weren’t any surprises. The fighters who you thought were going to win, did. Top-level fighters Jeremy Horn and Tim Sylvia disposed of their lesser opponents with relative ease.
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Horn tried to follow up with some ground-and-pound but was unsuccessful within the guard of Canup. With little action, the referee restarted the fighters standing. Canup once again looked to press the fight by landing some solid combos as he rushed towards Horn. Using perfect timing and placement, Horn connected with a short left jab that incapacitated his opponent 3:36 into the first round.
The co-main event featured former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia squaring off against a
shorter version of Butterbean. Tipping the scales at 282 pounds,
the 5-foot-9 Mike Block had
a punchers chance against the 296-lbs Sylvia.
Block had no trouble reaching the face of his foot-taller opponent, peppering it with jabs before the Miletich-trained Sylvia decided to swing back. Once the fists were flying, Block began bull rushing Sylvia with his head down, consequently eating some well placed knees.
Sylvia played the roll of Matador waiting for space to fire some right hands. When they finally landed, Block crumbled. Sylvia retained his ISKA super heavyweight belt 1:26 in the first stanza.
In welterweight action, hometown favorite Braden Workman quickly dispatched of Trevor Garrett 40 seconds into the bout. Workman, who had nearly half the arena chanting his name, dropped his aggressive adversary with a looping left hook. He then capitalized with a rear-naked choke, forcing Garrett to tap.
California-based fighter Mac Danzig won his third fight in a row via submission when he tapped Luke Spencer 1:56 into the fight. Danzig, who looked huge for the 155-weight class, muscled the shorter Spencer around. Not to be denied, Spencer used a beautiful lateral drop to toss Danzig to his back.
Undaunted, Danzig immediately transitioned to an armbar attempt that was avoided. Back on their feet Spencer looked to throw his opponent again with a hip toss, but during the throw Danzig was able to secure his back and from there work his superior sub game.
Ron “Killing” Fields was faster on the draw when it came to the ankle-lock game, submitting Wayne Pitman just 33 seconds into their match. From inside Fields’ guard, Pitman fell back looking for the leg-lock, only to find himself tapping shortly after.
Fields’ wife Jennifer was not as successful against Jennifer Howe, one of the country’s top female fighters. Howe overwhelmed the under-skilled Fields with a barrage of punches just 20 seconds into the bout.
Miletich trained Ryan Mcgivern looked good using his stand-up and groundwork to finish Eli Ayers 3:19 into their fight. The ref had no choice but to halt the action as Mcgivern rained punches down from mount.
Neil Rowe looked very stoic as Sean Sallee worked some heavy ground-and-pound. Rowe bided his time and shortly into the first round secured a triangle.
Josh Martin was forced to tap 1:12 into his fight against Jeremy Brown, who finished with a standing guillotine.
Controlling the fight early with technically sound stand-up skills, Matt Williams got caught with an uppercut by Tyler Combs. Combs did not hesitate to capitalize on the downed challenger forcing the ref to stop the fight at the 1:41 mark.
In middleweight action, Dustin Haslett won 42 seconds into his fight with Jamie Millins via referee stoppage.
