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Although the venue changed AEC still provided action packed MMA and kickboxing fights, not to mention a woman’s fight for the co-main event. Jack Whitfield returned kick boxing fight against Gary White. White proved to be a true test for Whitfield, but Whitfield held on to get the decision victory. Another kickboxing match was Alexander Clay versus Raul Estrada. This match was one of the matches of the night ending in a kick from Estrada to Clay’s mid-section that all of
Alabama Extreme Cage Fighting is known for its tournament style MMA fights, but hopefully the Clairdays will continue to have them on the card.
Results are as follows:
1. Bryan Thompson vs Daniel Taylor
Thompson wins by tapout
2. Brandon Young vs Alex Helms
Helms wins by strikes
3. Blake Sandlin vs Brandon Davies
Sandlin winner by choke
4. Andy Sanford vs Craig Jones
Round 2 winner by strikes- Andy Sanford
5. Cody Collins vs Zack Mitchell
Winner by judges decision was Mitchell
6. Jack Whitfield vs Gary White
Whitfield wins by judges decision
7. Cory Lightford vs
Lightford wins by verbal submission
8. Alexander Clay vs Raul Estrada
Winner was Estrada by referee stoppage due to a mid-section kick
9. Bakari Fullenwider vs Matthew Lara
Lara wins by tapout in the first round
10.Adam Garcia vs Matt Vaughn
Vaughn wins by referee stoppage due to strikes
11.Wesley Dunlap vs Andy Fike
Fike wins by choking out Dunlap
12. Jeremy Knighten vs Anthony Dudley
13. Michael Ward vs Aaron Whitley
Whitley wins by referee stoppage
14. Trevor Reed vs Gary Montgomery
15. Matthew Lara vs Nathan Hawkins
Hawkins wins by strikes
16. Thomas Oliver vs Daniel Turner
Oliver wins by choke
17. Anthony Dudley vs Maverick Dortch
18. Sara McMahan vs Tiffany Tucker
Tucker wins due to strikes
19. Dave Voss vs Chris Rose
Rose wins due to strikes
A big thanks to everyone that made this night possible and to all the fans
who came out and supported the fighters.
Joshsmith@blackeyemma.com
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AXC 5 RESOLUTION
On Saturday, January 2nd, neither the cold nor a local motor cross race down the road stopped MMA fans from AXC 5. We were all treated to eighteen action packed fights at the
Fight one featured Jessie Fowlkes against Anthony Moore with Fowlkes holding his own in round one. Round two had Fowlkes eating a left hook which lead to
Fight two had Trevor Read battling Josh Garner in a heavy weight bout. Read showed impressive knees in the clinch and a solid ground game. Read catches Garner in an arm bar forcing Garner to tap.
Fight three was Nic Sanders and David Voss in two of the four heavy weight fights of the night. In the fight, it remained even until Sanders slipped down and Voss capitalized on it, winning by guillotine choke.
Fight four was Steven Lollar against Lucas Elliot. After a Lollar knock down, Elliot was able to end the fight with a rear naked choke submission.
Fight five was Robin Mclamore versus Steven Spiegel; he took his back and gets the win.
Fight six had Russell Coleman fighting Roy Woods. After a Woods takedown leads to his victory by referee stoppage.
Fight seven had Butter beans son Brandon Esch fighting Josh Edwards. Unfortunately his night ended early with a shoulder injury, giving Edwards the win by referee stoppage due to Esch’s injury.
Fight eight had everybody talking with Doug Trotter beating Alex Ganey by knockout in an AXC record time of four seconds.
Fight nine was Jonathan Riley fighting Landon Aaron. Landon had his way with Jonathan and choked him out by rear naked choke.
Fight ten was another heavy weight match with Matt Ford squaring off against Bobby Thomas. Bobby slapped on a guillotine choke giving him the tap out win.
Fight eleven was Cody Southwood against David McAffee and after they both were swinging for the fences, David knocked down Cody and ended the fight with him putting on the rear naked choke on Cody giving him the Win.
Fight twelve had Will Maxwell versus Steven Krigger. The fight went two rounds and after Steven “brought the pain” by ground and pound, Will gave his back leading Steven to the win by rear naked choke in the second round.
Fight thirteen was Fear None’s Jonathan Abad taking on Daniel Avery. Abad took Avery down and rained down the punches making the referee stop the fight.
Fight fourteen may have been runner up as fight of the night. Wesley Dunlap and JJ McGraw went the distance and Dunlap came up short as the judges gave McGraw the win.
Fight sixteen was Cory Fowler fighting Bradley Johnson. Fowler showed off his quick hands landing several strikes to Johnson. Johnson hung on through the first round but fell by TKO in the second round due to strikes.
Fight seventeen was the Co-Main event for the bantam weight title. As predicted, Andy Fike won by submission in round two over Nick Collins.
The Main Event was also the fight of the night. The Welter weight strap was vacated and we had to have a winner between hard hitting Jack Whitfield and Travis Goode. Both fighters threw bombs and landed, but Goode took everything Whitfield had. Goode eventually got the win by TKO (strikes), giving him the stap Former champion Bobby “Buckshot” Baker, wants to redeem his fear none team mate and will challenge Goode at AXC 6.
Thanks so much to Ray, Luke and Wendy for their hospitality and allowing BlackeyeMMA the opportunity to cover such a great event.
