In the principle occasion of Cage Warriors 148, Modestas Bukauskas captured the 205lb title with a spotlight reel KO.
Bukauskas has managed to get his profession again on monitor, seeing himself shut the 12 months out with 2 wins after struggling an damage that noticed him cut from the UFC.
‘The Baltic Gladiator’ seemed sensational in the principle occasion, bettering in an enormous means since his final bout vs. Lee Chadwick. Bukauskas’ work fee may very well be seen all through the whole battle camp main as much as the bout and it was clear to see this may very well be one of the best model we’ve seen thus far.
Chuck Campbell was in a position to earn himself a victory in his final bout in opposition to long-time competitor Andy Clamp. Campbell will little question of been trying to rating the house victory upset and see himself a Cage Warriors champion at simply 6-1 with a win over Cage Warrior’s fan favourite. Campbell was coming into this bout undefeated in his final 4 bouts, with every efficiency being higher than the final.
With a win right here it begs the query, will we now see Modestas Bukauskas return to the UFC or stay and defend his title? This was positively a extra lively and harmful Bukauskas within the cage and performances like these will see nice success for the Baltic Gladiator.
Spherical 1 began off sluggish with Bukauskas controlling the cage and forcing Campbell to consistently be transferring as he bit on the feints of Bukauskas. Immediately you may see how far more Bukauskas was lively on this bout, consistently threatening with the ability he has and grappling in opposition to the cage. because the spherical went on each males seemed extra comfy.
within the second spherical, it was extra of the identical for Bukauskas, although a lot of the second spherical was spent controlling Campbell in opposition to the cage utilizing the knees and hammer fists to the leg whereas clinched in opposition to the cage. Goddard finally broke each males up seeing Campbell have much more power in his motion however the output remained the identical letting Bukauskas take management as Campbell finally started throwing extra ending the spherical with a flying knee.
within the third spherical, it was clear Modestas Bukauskas was in entrance by slight margins with each males nonetheless being very aggressive. Campbell had that one-shot energy ko and it was being revered however Bukauskas was coming in additional utilizing explosive actions to have Campbell react, Campbell wanted extra exercise on this spherical, the fixed circling out of distance and ready for Bukauskas to interact was slowly gifting away the rounds and likewise feeding extra confidence into the previous LHW champion.
it was the 4th spherical that lastly noticed Modestas Bukauskas safe the Ko with a phenomenal looping shot to safe the walk-off ko. It was nearly like Deja Vu having seen Modestas Bukauskas safe a ko in an analogous vicious vogue to initially win (once more) a vacant Cage Warriors Gentle heavyweight title. leaving followers desperate to see what’s subsequent for the heavy-hitting comeback grasp.
