Result: Jay White via Submission – Armbar (0:50 of Round 1).
Freddie Espiricueta vs. Nissen Osterneck (Middleweight Bout)
Round 1:
Freddie Espiricueta is wearing blue Muay Thai shorts and red gloves and is a native of Dallas, Texas. Nissen Osterneck is a native of Hawaii fighting out of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and brings his undefeated 4-0 MMA record into the cage. Osterneck is explosive out of the gate and rushes Espiricueta into the side of the cage looking for both underhooks. He lands an inside trip takedown and easily passes to side control. Espiricueta escapes and gets back to his feet where Osterneck lands a big knee and throws a high kick. Osterneck keeps after it and gets another takedown and passes to side control again, where he looks for a keylock. He decides to go to mount where he begins teeing off, picking his shots. He then pours on the strikes, which includes an elbow. The referee finally does his job and stops the brutality at 2:30 of the first round. Later in the night, the fans in attendenace would vote Osterneck the winner of the "TKO of the Night" award.
Official Result: Nissen Osterneck via TKO – Strikes (2:30 of Round 1).
Corey Mahon vs. Chris Bowles (Lightweight Bout)
Round 1:
Chris Bowles has a 7-1 record and has won all of his fights via submission. He is a native of Dallas, Texas training under HDNet Fight’s president Guy Mezger. He takes on a scrappy undefeated fighter (6-0) from Columbus, Indiana in Corey Mahon. Bowles is wearing black trunks and red gloves with Tre Telligman in his corner. Mahon is wearing old school white taduntaduns and blue gloves. Both men look to bang as the bell rings. Bowles lands a stiff right hand that drops Mahon in the center of the ring and gets on top looking to finish. Bowles begins raining body shots, as he works to pass Mahon’s half-guard. Mahon gets to full guard and Bowles begins striking as Mahon looks for a guillotine. Bowles defends and starts dropping shots as Mahon looks for an armbar. It doesn’t come close and both men stand. Mahon looks fired up and throws a big right hand that misses badly. At 36, Bowles is 15 years older than his 21-year-old counterpart and looks a lot more composed and methodical with his striking. Bowles keeps circling and picking his shots as Mahon continues to move forward. OTM scores the round 10-9 for Bowles.
Round 2:
Bowles lands a good body shot to start the round and Mahon returns a hard head kick, which is mostly blocked. Bowles secures a takedown and starts to pass Mahon’s half-guard. Mahon recovers to a full closed guard. Bowles throws some heavy leather from inside Mahon’s guard, but slows down, so the fight is stood up. Mahon explodes after the stand up and lands some hard knees followed by a takedown. Bowels’ face is battered and bleeding from the exchange, as Mahon passes to side control and gets Bowles’ back with both hooks in. He looks for the RNC and throws some shots as Bowels does a great defending and spins into Mahon’s guard. However, Bowels leaves his arm extended and Mahon locks on a picture-perfect armbar from the guard for the win. Very impressive skills demonstrated by Mahon. Mahon shows a lot of respect for Bowles and thanks Mark Cuban for treating everyone like professional fighters. He also mentions he’d like to come back and fight at his natural 145 pounds.
Official Result: Corey Mahon via Submission – Armbar (4:22 of Round 2).
--The crowd explodes with cheers as the commentators, Matt “The Law” Lindland and Ron Kruck, announce a big welcome to Randy “The Natural” Couture. Randy talks about his fighters Frank Trigg and Jay White, the upcoming Sport Fight event (that he and Lindland founded) that HDNet will be airing at the end of the month, and his desire to fight Fedor Emelianenko, who’s fight on New Year’s Eve will also be broadcasted on HDNet. Couture went on to state, "Unless the UFC wants to do a co-promotion with M-1 and make the Fedor fight happen, I'm going to have to wait 'til my contract expires. "I have no intention of breaching that contract; that expires in July. My employment contract expires with them in October. So I would assume the soonest you'd see me fight Emelianenko would be in October."--
Tristan Yunker vs. Pete Spratt (Welterweight Bout)
Pete “The Secret Weapon” Spratt is one of the premier strikers in the sport of MMA and always a Dallas favorite, as this Texas native has fought in the UFC, TKO, and participated on the UFC’s fourth installment of The Ultimate Fighter. He faces a tall welterweight at 6’3” in Tristan Yunker, who has wins over UFC veterans Clay Guida and John Halverson, as well as the host of “The Human Weapon” Jason Chambers. Tristan Yunker failed to make weight and will be enjoying a favorable size advantage as Spratt accepted the fight with 25% of Yunker’s purse coming his way.
Round 1:
The fight starts with Tristan Yunker coming forward and Pete Spratt landing a big right hand to Yunker's left eye. Yunker is hurt and gets out of danger by using his wrestling skills by shooting in for a takedown on the Texas native Spratt. Once on the ground, Yunker goes to side control and looks to take Spratt's back, but Spratt stays cool and is able to reverse the position and spin into Yunker’s guard. Once inside the guard, Spratt drops two big bombs that cuts Yunker’s injured left eye badly. Spratt lands a few more effective strikes inside Yunker's guard that cause the referee to stop the fight
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