Diabate Dominates in Long Awaited Return

Originally posted by Ricardo Mendoza - MMAWeekly.com

FRIANT, Calif. – Jared Hamman avenged his only career loss on Friday night as he stopped Poai Suganuma in front of a packed house at the Table Mountain Casino.

These two met at the same venue in April with Suganuma winning amidst controversy after the fight seemed to be stopped a bit prematurely. Like the first fight, Suganuma started out strong taking the fight to Hamman again with a furious barrage of strikes. On this occasion though, Hamman remained composed and weathered the storm as he landed a strong combination of his own that stunned the Hawaiian, who was forced to go for a takedown. Smelling blood, Hamman began to drop vicious strikes that eventually put out Suganuma at 2:34 of the opening round.

Highly touted Brazilian lightweight Fabricio Camoes made quick work of UFC veteran Sam Morgan, submitting him with a rear naked choke. Camoes immediately took Morgan down with a powerful slam, quickly transitioning to mount as Morgan gave up his back with Camoes sinking in the choke 47 seconds into the first round.

Pride veteran Cyrille Diabate returned to action after a year and half off as he faced off with Californian Jaime Fletcher. From the start it was clear that Diabate was the superior striker, as he seemed to have no difficulty in tagging Fletcher with an array of strikes both on the feet and on the ground. Fletcher rarely got any offense going in the fight except for a couple of takedowns that didn’t amount to much. As the fight entered the final round it seemed that Diabate had the fight in the bag as Fletcher mounted one last comeback, almost locking in a guillotine choke, but the Frenchman escaped and returned the favor with some brutal strikes. At the end of the day, Diabate earned a unanimous decision from the judges with scores of 30-27 on all three scorecards.

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