Marius Zaromskis (left) pounded out Bruno Carvalho on Saturday. | Photo: Henrik Wall/MMAViking.com
“Just kicking ass,” Zaromskis said, when asked what type of kick it was in the post-fight interview.
The fight drew much attention, as Carvalho, the Brazilian middleweight who once took on heavyweights, dropped from 185 pounds to welterweight to battle Zaromskis, the Lithuanian striker.
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Zaromskis flipped over his win.
Carvalho began using inside leg kicks to help gauge the distance of his much smaller opponent. Moments later, Zaromskis rolled in a forward somersault, using his heel to strike the Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt firmly in the head.
The strike immediately dazed the Carvalho, and the American Kickboxing Academy-trained Zaromskis went on to take a dominant position. Carvalho tried to gather himself from his back, seeking to grasp his pouncing opponent to stay in the fight, but Zaromskis followed the fallen fighter to the ground and used punches to force a stoppage at 4:58 of the first round. The bout ends Carvalho’s eight-fight winning streak and starts a two-fight run for Zaromskis.
“I need to watch video to see what it was,” Zaromskis said of the kick.
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Kruth (right) battered Kawaguchi.
“I was nervous and didn’t know much about my opponent,” Kruth said.
Kawaguchi was able to take the action to the ground early in the round, but Kruth was able to escape and get the fight back on the feet. “The Last Viking” began to find his range there, landing a big right and mixing in knees in the clinch.
The Japanese fighter tired midway through the first, and the Vallentuna Boxing Camp representative began to land the heavier blows in the exchanges. The Swede began finding more success in the clinch, grinding Kawaguchi to the ground, where he mixed in unanswered punches and elbows to bring an end to the bout at the 3:18 mark.
Hanna Sillen dominated Katrina Teer on her way to a unanimous decision in the opening bout of the night.
“The strategy was to keep the fight standing,” Sillen told Sherdog.com.
The Stockholm resident, just one of three female professionals in Sweden, ran her record to 5-1 in handing the American grappler a loss in her debut.
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Sillen pounded on Teer.
“I tried a three-punch combination to finish the fight but missed the last one,” Sillen said.
Rounds two and three continued the storyline that left the 29-year-old Teer battered at the end of round one. After exchanges on the feet, including an array of knees, punches and even a spinning back kick to the body, Sillen cemented the impressive performance on the top with classic ground-and-pound.
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