Stout Defends Title, Hominick Secures Title Shot

Bomber · 09-30-2006, 02:02 PM

September 30, 2006
by Freddie DeFreitas (Freddie@sherdog.com)

MONTREAL, Sept. 29 — The Bell Centre, home to the National Hockey League’s Montreal Canadiens in the heart of this city’s downtown, played host to professional mixed martial arts for the first time Friday night.

TKO ushered in a new era in Canada, as a fully licensed Octagon, courtesy of Zuffa, was the canvas for the evening’s masterpiece.

In the main event an estimated 5,000 fans saw TKO lightweight champion Sam Stout (Pictures) look to avenge his career-debut loss to Jay Estrada (Pictures). After his last showing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Stout had many critics — and facing the same man who choked him out over three years ago was no easy task.

The fight started with Stout looking to bang on the feet, but Estrada silenced the crowd when he took Stout down almost immediately. While doing his best to contain Stout, he worked from half-guard to guard looking to inflict damage upon the champion with punches and elbows.

After a lull in the action, referee Steve Mazzagatti brought the fighters back to their feet, where surprisingly Estrada began to find his mark with numerous jabs and straights before taking the champion back down to the mat to finish the round.

Round two began with Estrada looking visibly winded and Stout the fresher man. After a very brief exchange, Estrada secured a takedown and looked to work the champion again on the ground. Stout reversed Estrada and found himself in top position where he unloaded punches and elbows.

Looking to lessen the damage, Estrada exposed his left arm. Stout took little time in latching on and extending. Estrada tried valiantly to roll out, but made matters worse and was forced to tap to the armbar at 1:21 of round two.

Mark Hominick (Pictures) found himself on this night standing across the cage from tough French-Canadian Samuel Guillet (Pictures), who was a late replacement for Ivan Menjivar (Pictures). Guillet, having only taken the fight on about a week’s notice, was given the task of facing the former flyweight champion.

From the opening bell Hominick peppered his opponent with low kicks, the first of which left a noticeably large welt on the back of Guillet’s leg and echoed throughout the arena. With every kick the crowd gasped and Guillet stumbled.

After taking numerous vicious leg kicks, Guillet managed to take the former champion down to the mat with approximately a minute left in round one, when a solid elbow caught Hominick on the nose, possibly breaking it, the former champ stated after the fight.

Round two was virtually a mirror image of the first, with Hominick firing low kicks and Guillet taking them. After being dropped a couple of times from chopping kicks, Guillet again managed to take the former champion down to the mat, this time with two minutes remaining in the round. With his opponent working from the guard Hominick was poised and showed no signs of panic, as he never appeared to be in any real danger.

Heading into the third and final period it was clear Guillet was fading, and the damage of Hominick continually working on the submission fighter’s legs had taken its toll. At this point Guillet’s legs looked like raw meat and the hurt fighter constantly switched his stance from conventional to southpaw to avoid the blows.

Luckily for Guillet’s sake, the fight, which Hominick dominated on his way to a unanimous decision, was only three rounds. Hominick stated his next fight would be against Hatsu Hioki (Pictures) for the title he lost in March of this year.

For more from the same night, see http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=5744

lethalweapon · 10-04-2006, 11:10 PM

Stout is the man, enough said.

subgenius · 10-05-2006, 12:19 AM

I like Sam Stout. I wish that we could get TKO on PPV. I would have loved to have seen that card.

saskfighter · 10-08-2006, 01:06 AM

tko is a good premotion it has lots of good fighters on it . since i live in canada i get it on tv somtimes so that is great.