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00:00You also have the welterweight Logan Storley going against Joseph Luciano.
00:04Of course, Storley, the longtime U.S. wrestler, was supposed to fight Umolatov,
00:08but Umolatov missed weight by almost four pounds, 3.6 pounds he missed.
00:13So they yanked him out of the fight.
00:15Not acceptable, not good enough.
00:16You're gone.
00:17Joseph Luciano now jumps in.
00:19The Australian was 10-3 with seven submission wins before this fight.
00:23He had one Bellator Champion Series fight before getting the main call-up here.
00:26And really, this was all of Storley.
00:30You know, he just dominated using that wrestling, taking his opponent down,
00:33trying to get the back, trying to, you know, push him up against the cage over and over and over.
00:3710-9s, all three rounds, 30-27 across the board.
00:41He moves on to the next round of this tournament.
00:43We'll see if anybody stopped that wrestling that he showed in his next matchup.
00:47Luciano now 10-3.
00:48Storley is 17-3.
00:50He'll face off against Masayaku Kikuri, who won his fight earlier in the night.
00:56Another featherweight battle was Jeremy Kennedy versus Moliv Habibulov.
01:00Kennedy, the Canadian, going against the Russian Habibulov, who won the 2021 PFL featherweight tournament.
01:05Hadn't fought since 2023.
01:07And this one was a victory for Habibulov, who gets a split decision win over Kennedy.
01:14A very interesting one back and forth.
01:15Kennedy did not like the decision.
01:17It was 29-28.
01:18All three ways, Habibulov got the win.
01:22Kennedy couldn't believe it, but I don't know why he couldn't believe it, honestly.
01:25When I was watching the fight, I thought Kennedy had a good first round,
01:28although the second and third were Habibulov.
01:30I thought he was doing a much better job of doing what he wanted to do, imposing his will,
01:34getting some good strikes, getting the takedowns to take his opponent against the mat.
01:38I am not sure why Kennedy really thought he won that fight, but he obviously did not.
01:43Not in the judges' eyes, not in my eyes.
01:45And now Habibulov, who's on as well.
01:48On the prelim card, you had Berkmanov against Thad Jean.
01:51Before I mentioned Thad Jean, who will be going on to semis, obviously.
01:54Before I get into this, you know now he was the winner.
01:56Berkmanov was the 31-year-old Russian.
01:58He was supposed to fight Zendeli, the PFL Europe champ, who was pulled out.
02:02So the alternate Thad Jean steps in on show notice.
02:0426-year-old American did what he wanted to do.
02:07He came in there, got the victory, showed why he was undefeated.
02:11He had a couple wins in the PFL over the last few years.
02:13And then now gets another one.
02:15He got a first-round KO, 425 into the first round.
02:19You know, it was a lot of feeling out early on.
02:22And Berkmanov went for the takedown early on.
02:25But Jean threw on the guillotine to stop him.
02:27You know, was able to, a couple other times, stop takedowns to the point that
02:30was really selling out to stop the takedowns.
02:31Berkmanov, you know, actually faked takedowns and then jumped up trying to
02:35throw some knees a couple times to see if he can catch his opponent.
02:38He could not.
02:38But then later in the fight, as we get laid into the round, you got a body
02:43kick with a body punch followed right away by Jean with about 40 seconds left.
02:46Berkmanov then catches a left hook that drops it to the mat.
02:50Jean jumps on his opponent, pounces on him, continues the pommel, gets the finish.
02:54Berkmanov moves to 17-3.
02:56Jean is now 9-0.
02:57And he said it didn't matter who was in front of him.
03:00He was supposed to be here a couple years ago running this tournament and didn't work
03:02out.
03:03Now he's going to do it here.
03:04And he is going to get a badass matchup against Jason, the ass-kicking machine.
03:08Jackson, these two guys, should give us some great stand-up.
03:11Can't wait to watch that.
03:12As we mentioned before in the featherweight tournament, Gabriel Braga beat Fred Dupras.
03:16Braga, the 26-year-old Brazilian, was supposed to be fighting Yves Landu.
03:21But Landu pulled out late.
03:23Instead, the alternate fighter, Fred Dupras, the Canadian, moves up, making his major
03:27promotion debut for a lot in Canada before that.
03:30And Braga gets the first round of submission, 437.
03:32He gets the face crank.
03:35You know, his opponent came game.
03:36The Canadian came in, was pretty much rushing him.
03:39But then he gets, Dupras threw the guillotine on Braga when Braga came for the takedown.
03:45You know, Dupras threw it on there.
03:46It was tight.
03:47Dupras, Dupras was in trouble.
03:49But being the veteran that he is, was able to wait it out, get out, eventually gets the
03:53back of his opponent later on when the position switches.
03:56Went for the rear naked choke, couldn't get it.
03:58But the face crank was enough that the Canadian taps out with 23 seconds left.
04:02He's now 8-2.
04:03Braga, 16-2.
04:04You also had Kikuri versus Giannis Bashar that we talked about earlier.
04:08Kikuri from Japan.
04:09Mostly Pancrease fighter.
04:10Bashar, the Tunisian fighter who's now fighting out of Greece for all small promotion fights
04:14before this one.
04:15Kikuri gets the TKO by round two retirement.
04:18Kikuri was going for some takedowns.
04:19Kikuri was doing a good job stuffing him.
04:21Towards the end of the first round, he looked like Bashar might have been getting tired.
04:24In the second round, Kikuri, by the end of that round, started picking him apart.
04:27And then Bashar decides he doesn't even want to get off the stool to answer the bell for the final round.
04:31Figured, I guess, that he was, you know, too tired to come back from the two rounds that he was probably down.
04:36He also had Kim over Kelly.
04:38Kim making his major promotion debut, beating Kelly, who's now on a two-fight losing streak.
04:42After being undefeated before that, he gets the submission win in that fight.
04:47Rear naked choke.
04:47Four minutes and 53 seconds into the first round.
04:50Rear naked choke.
05:04Rear naked choke.
05:06vegetables.
05:08saúde.
05:10horse.