LAS VEGAS, June 22 -- In the South Point Hotel and Casino's arena, Tuff-N-Uff brought Sin City another edition of the Brawl in the Barn, an entertaining fight event that mixes various types of fightsports.

With eight fights total, Tuff-N-Uff did more than enough to tide the fickle fight crowd over until Saturday's massive Ultimate Fighter 5 finale at the Palms.

Tonight's card featured six professional mixed martial arts bouts, one grappling match and a lone kickboxing contest.

TUF 2 veteran Brad Imes (Pictures) thoroughly dominated opponent Vince Lucero (Pictures) in the featured attraction, scoring a somewhat easy submission in the first round. Lucero was no match for the much larger and taller Imes as he was dealt various punches from the outside and glancing knees while in the clinch.

Imes eventually forced Lucero down to the canvas by taking his back while standing up, and from there it was only a matter of time before the fight ended. Lucero was trying to block the peppering strikes when he gave up his neck, allowing Imes to secure a textbook rear-naked choke.

Lucero had no choice but to tap, ceasing the action at the 2:26 mark of the opening round.

The win allowed Imes to walk away with the Tuff-N-Uff heavyweight belt and he looks ahead to defending it sometime later this year. While he didn't face an elite-level opponent, Imes did look comfortable in the ring as he dominated Lucero from start to finish. Time will only tell whether Imes makes it back into a UFC Octagon and as long as he continues to win with relative ease like he did tonight, it shouldn't be out of question.

In the co-main event of the evening, former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir (Pictures) battled veteran Renato "Babalu" Sobral in a special grappling rules only exhibition match and the end result was a bit mixed.

Sobral won the contest 6-2 due to his reverses and achieving full mount late in the contest. The duel itself was rewarding from start to finish as it is always a treat to witness two world-class grapplers go head to head, but the only downfall was that the encounter was only six minutes in duration.

For fans of jiu-jitsu and grappling competitions, it would have been spectacular to have had the match-up scheduled for about 20 minutes, but it was better than nothing. Neither man was ever in danger of being submitted but Sobral was busier and was able to apply better pressure throughout, paving the way toward victory.

Undercard Bouts

In the lone female contest, Angela Magana capitalized on a few crucial errors by Crystal Harris (Pictures) as she secured a picture-perfect armbar midway through the first round.

Harris was pulled into Magana's guard and after posturing in an attempt to escape, she was lured into the armbar and forced to tap at the 3:10 mark.

Ethan Cox and Dan Evensen (Pictures) squared off in a special K-1 rules kickboxing match and it seemed as though Evensen was going to score an early knockout after dropping his foe with a left hook in the opening round.

After the two heavyweights slowed their pace in the second, a near catastrophe occurred as a charging Evensen inadvertently brought Cox with him as he flew over the ropes and onto the scorer's table. After the fight resumed, Evensen stumbled into the ropes after missing two wild kicks and was tagged by a loopy right hand, which sent him flying over the ropes again. Evensen flew into the first row of fans and the fight was called off. It was ruled a "No Contest."

In what was clearly the fight of the night, Ken Alexander and Waachim Spiritwolf went toe-to-toe both on the ground and on the feet. Alexander was trying to pull off every submission in his arsenal while Spiritwolf was in his guard, but Waachim to too well-versed to get caught.

The intensity continued and eventually Spiritwolf suffered a nasty laceration on his left eyebrow. After the ringside doctor cleared him to continue, Alexander scored another takedown, but was reversed.

After a stalemate on the ground, Spiritwolf crawled back up to his feet but motioned that his left elbow had been dislocated. The fight was immediately called off and Alexander was awarded with a TKO at 4:55 of the first round. Replays were inconclusive as to when exactly the injury occurred but it probably happened during one of Alexander's numerous armbar attempts.

Nick Breakers won his pro debut as he scored an arm-triangle against Carlos Fletes (Pictures) at 3:07 of the second round.

Both men were completely gassed after an entertaining, albeit sloppy, fight. Fletes couldn't break free from the choke and had no choice but to tap out.

Josh Gaskins (Pictures) was awarded a unanimous three round decision over TJ Brown (Pictures), winning it via tallies of 30-27 on all three cards. Gaskins scored dozens of takedowns but couldn't do any damage, resulting in dozens of stalemates and stand-ups from the referee.

Reynaldo Duarte dominated Bobby Sanchez (Pictures) in the bout that started off the event and wound up scoring a slick rear-naked choke, forcing Sanchez to tap. Sanchez looked distracted throughout and appeared to give little resistance once he was taken down and had his back taken. The submission came at 2:32 of the first.