Gegard Mousasi Outclasses Austin Vanderford in Bellator 275 Main Event

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Gegard Mousasi finishes Austin Vanderford in less than 90 seconds!

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Gegard Mousasi retained the Bellator MMA middleweight championship in the Bellator 275 main event.

Challenger Austin Vanderford looked to strike with Mousasi (49-7-2) and that quickly was his undoing. "The Dreamcatcher" quickly found his range and hurt Vanderford (11-1) with a slick three-punch combination. Mousasi never gave his opponent a chance to recover and landed a series of damaging blows on the ground to get the stoppage. The end came just 1:25 into Round 1.

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Sinead Kavanagh bounced back from her loss to Cristiane Justino by defeating fellow women's featherweight contender Leah McCourt. McCourt (6-2) started the fight off strong by getting top position on the ground but was eventually reversed with a kimura lock. Kavanagh (8-5) kept it locked in and cranked it for nearly the rest of the round. While McCourt survived, it was Kavanagh that was eventually wounded as she suffered a knee injury and was having issues supporting her weight. Despite the injury, Kavanagh kept pressing forward and was able to escape from McCourt's dangerous grappling to a unanimous decision win (29-28, 29-28, 30-27).

The featherweight bout between Ciaran Clarke and Aboubakar Tounkara did not end in a satisfying manner. Despite Tounkara (7-3) winning the first round, the fight was stopped in between frames after Tounkara suffered a shoulder injury at the end of Round 1. Unable to continue, Clarke (5-0) picked up a TKO win due to doctor stoppage.

Khasan Magomedsharipov managed to stay undefeated against fellow featherweight Jose Sanchez. Magomedsharipov easily controlled the fight in the clinch and on the ground with Sanchez (10-2) having little to offer at any point during the bout. The Russian took all three judges' scorecards (30-26, 30-27, 30-27) and improves to 7-0.

The first bout of the night pitted bantamweights Brian Moore and Jornel Lugo against each other. It was a back-and-forth affair but Lugo (8-0) was typically a step ahead on the feet. Moore (14-9) would get dropped early in Round 3 and never quite fought his way back into the bout. After three rounds, "A1" took a clear-cut unanimous decision win with scores of 30-27, 29-28 and 29-28.

In preliminary action, Brett Johns (18-3) outlasted Khurshed Kakhorov (8-1) and picked up a TKO victory at the 3:00 mark of Round 3; Davy Gallon (20-7) clobbered Charlie Leary (17-12) with a big right hand to win at 3:01 of the second frame via TKO; Stephanie Ielo Page (6-3) shocked Danni McCormack (5-1) and picked up a TKO victory in just 1:46 of Round 1; Darragh Kelly (1-0) needed just 1:47 to submit Junior Morgan (3-1) with a guillotine choke; Vladimir Tokov (7-1) took a clear-cut unanimous decision over Daniele Scatizzi (11-6) with scores of 29-28 across the board; Gokhan Saricam (7-1) picked up a dominant decision win (30-27, 30-27 and 30-27) over Kirill Sidelnikov (13-7); Nathan Kelly (4-2) picked up a unanimous decision win over Scott Pederson (1-3) with scores of 30-27, 29-28 and 29-28; and in the first fight of the night, Lee Hammond (2-0) hammered Jamie Hay (2-1) with punches to force a stoppage at 3:32 of Round 1.