BOSTON – Leave it to the hometown hero to save the preliminary card of one of the UFC’s most important events.
In the featured prelim bout of the UFC’s highly anticipated Boston debut, Massachusetts native Joe Lauzon was shot out of a cannon and decimated an overwhelmed Gabe Ruediger en route to a first-round submission victory.
The lightweight fight, which headlined the night’s Spike TV “UFC Prelims” broadcast, re-energized a TD Garden crowd and followed a string of fairly lackluster fights.