BRAVO 👏
Your 𝗡𝗘𝗪 bantamweight champion Michele Martignoni 👑#CW144
🇮🇹 pic.twitter.com/DyBsrIEkeF— Cage Warriors (@CageWarriors)
October 7, 2022
The would possibly of Italian fighters couldn’t be challenged in Rome on
Friday.
Cage Warriors Fighting Championship made its
first foray into Italy on Friday, and the outcomes have been distinctive
for the house nation followers in attendance. When CW
144 got here to an in depth, all eight Italian rivals ended with
their fingers getting raised, with 5 of these victors scoring
finishes.
Within the headliner held at Fiera Roma in Rome, Dominique
Wooding put his bantamweight belt on the road in opposition to Michele
Martignoni. The pair placed on an entertaining battle for 5
rounds, with back-and-forth swings that thrilled the viewers.
Wooding (9-5, 3-1 CW) began sturdy and put his opponent in peril
within the opening body, touchdown a number of good pictures on Martignoni
(8-1, 2 NC; 3-1, 1 NC CW). “The Italian Thunder” rode out the storm
and guarded himself from severe hurt because of his artful
footwork. Martignoni’s deep-waters technique paid off beginning in
the second body as his English foe seemed to be slowly fading.
Martignoni turned up his quantity, and dragged the motion to the
canvas when the second offered itself. Within the championship
rounds, Martignoni saved his adversary at bay on the ft, whereas
dominating any time the struggle hit the mat or the cage wall. In
entrance of a partisan crowd, Martignoni picked up a unanimous
resolution victory (49-45, 49-46, 49-46) earlier than elevating the
championship belt to the sky.
🤯 An attractive sweep and Pedersoli Jr will get
him the end!
Carlo takes the Italians to 7-0 at #CW144
🇮🇹 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/7YMN76YQkP— Cage Warriors (@CageWarriors)
October 7, 2022
Within the 170-pound co-main attraction, Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran Carlo
Pedersoli Jr. (14-4, 2-0 CW) throttled “The Latvian Categorical”
Madars
Bertholds-Fleminas (10-4, 5-4 CW) with rear-naked choke.
Pedersoli and his opponent spent the opening spherical testing every
different’s reactions on the ft. Proper earlier than Spherical 1 wrapped,
“Semento” scored a takedown, which was the form of issues to come back.
Making the most of this perceived deficiency, Pedersoli moved the
motion on the mat early within the subsequent spherical, the place he started to hunt
for submissions. Bertholds-Fleminas defended nicely for the primary few
minutes, however a wild scramble resulted in a again take from
Pedersoli, the place he locked up a good physique triangle. From there, it
was solely a matter of time till the Italian snatched up a
rear-naked choke. Bertholds-Fleminas surrendered from the
submission on the 3:37 mark of the second stanza.
Relentless floor and pound in an motion
packed efficiency from Dylan Hazan 💥 One other huge win for the
Italians 🇮🇹📺 Watch #CW144
reside on @UFCFightPass
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📍 Rome, Italy 🇮🇹 pic.twitter.com/faU4NJ2n6Z— Cage Warriors (@CageWarriors)
October 7, 2022
Earlier on the billing, up-and-coming Italian prospect Dylan Hazan
(9-0, 4-0 CW) smashed late-notice substitute
Jefferson Machado de Filippis (2-2, 0-1 CW) with punches at
2:40 within the opening body of their 140-pound catchweight affair;
bantamweight teen Jasmine
Favero (2-0, 2-0 CW) executed a fast throw and wrenched the
proper arm of Awa Sow (1-2,
0-1 CW) to safe a shawl maintain armlock submission at 2:01 of Spherical
1; Dana White’s Contender Series alum Micol
DiSegni (10-4, 2-0 CW) outstruck Bryony
Tyrell (4-5-1, 0-2 CW) on the judges’ scorecards en path to a
unanimous resolution victory at strawweight; Emanuele
Zaccaria (5-1, 1-0 CW) submitted Bogdan
Barbu (17-14, 0-2 CW) with a slick heel hook simply 64 seconds
into their 135-pound conflict; Dario
Bellandi (3-1, 1-1 CW) compelled Joan
Arastey (2-1, 0-1 CW) to faucet attributable to triangle choke 53 seconds
into the second body of their middleweight encounter; 170-pounder
Emanuele
Sabatino (4-1, 1-0 CW) outpointed Karol
Michalak (3-3, 1 NC; 0-2 CW) on all scorecards (29-28, 29-28,
29-28).
