By Felix Rodriguez, Staff Writer
HOUSTON, TX, May 20, 2013 – The Humble Civic Center was the host to a great night of fights courtesy of Garcia Promotion’s Cage Combat 14 this past Friday, May 17th. From beginning to end amateur fighters from all over Texas showed up to fight – leaving their blood, sweat and tears in the cage. Local fighters were especially well represented by most of the major teams in the area including Silverback FC, 4OZ Fight Club, Kingwood MMA, Elite MMA, Bushi Ban, Gracie Barra Champions and many more.
The night kicked off with IVOZ’s Ramiro Ruiz and Silverback’s Mike Ross in a 115 lbs. matchup – a first at that weight here in Houston. Ruiz was mostly dominant throughout the fight, but was caught and dropped with one punch by Ross midway through the first round. Ross failed to capitalize though and Ruiz rallied back for a standing guillotine finish before the first round came to its end.
The first fight would then set the pace for the rest of Cage Combat 14 as an action-packed evening. All-in-all there were nine finishes and only four fights saw the final bell with all of these bouts being entertaining affairs. Like with any MMA event the night was not without some controversy, some felt that the Tyler Flores ‘s first round knockout over Sean Ferguson may have been a bit of an early stoppage, but the referee was most definitely trying to ensure the safety of Ferguson who will no doubt live to fight another day.
As for the highlights of the evening in the main and co-main events, Christian Sutton and Tony Orozco Jr. would leave the event as champions with Sutton taking the middleweight belt from defending champion Trevin Giles while Tony Orozco Jr. did the same at bantamweight, giving opponent Edward Longoria his first loss.
Here our TXMMA Fight Night Awards for Cage Combat 14:
Submission of the Night: John Rodriguez wins with his first round RNC on Santos Hernandez. We chose this one out of all the great submissions because of the devastating effect of Rodriguez’s end game. Hernandez was laid out cold for face-first after valiantly trying to fight off the choke.
KO of the Night: none
Fight of the Night: What the main event lacked in length it more than made up for in intensity. Christian Sutton came for Trevin Giles’ belt and he got it in the end with his signature guillotine before the first bell went off. Giles was heartbroken after the fight because he had trained to defend Sutton’s go-to technique and still could not keep him from having his way. Lots of emotional coming out of this fight. Looking forward to seeing more from both guys in the near future.
Garcia Promotions: Cage Combat 14 – Quick Results
Chris Sutton over Trevin Giles by submission (guillotine), RD1
Tony Orozco Jr. over Edward Longoria by unanimous decision
Manny Lozoya over Eric Charalambous by submission (RNC), RD1
Omar Khosravi over Michael Eaglin by unanimous decision
Randy McCullough over Steven Vera by submission (RNC), RD2
John Rodriguez over Santos Hernandez by TKO, RD 1
Tyler Flores over Sean Jefferson by KO, RD 1
Jay Sader over Jeremy Lieder by unanimous decision
Garvens Brun over Francisco Segura by TKO, RD3
Joe Scott over Joshua Kothman by unanimous decision
John Butler over Tyron Casanova by TKO, RD 1
Miguel Martinez over Max Mungai by TKO, RD 1
Ramiro Ruiz over Mike Ross by submission (guillotine choke), RD2
Cage Combat 14 – Complete Event Photo Gallery
The complete high-resolution gallery is now available on mikecalimbas.com. Check out the slideshow below for a pictorial of all the action from Humble.
