Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante vs. Yoel Romero is a fight in the light heavyweight division.
This will be Cavalcante’s first fight since he lost his light-heavyweight title to Dan Henderson. He won the title in August, 2010 but wasn’t able to defend it against Henderson in March of 2011.
Romero comes from the German fight circuit and this will be his first fight for Strikeforce. Romero is an Olympic silver medalist and has won his last four fights by KO.
Round 1- The fight started slowly with both guys feeling each other out and the crowd getting restless. Romero ran and bounced about ten miles in round 1 but did very little else. The crowd started to rain boos on the fighters pretty early on. An extremely boring first round goes to Cavalcante based on the fact that he is the only one who landed a strike. The round ends with Romero taunting Feijao, not sure why considering he hasn’t done anything. Here come the boos.
Round 2- Romero landed his first strike in round 2, unfortunately for Cavalcante it was to his nuts. That shot seemed to wake Romero up as he came with a flurry of knees and punches, landing some nice blows against the cage. Cavalcante unexpectedly took the silver medal wrestler down but couldn’t keep him there, as he is clearly tired.
So much for being tired! Feijao landed a vicious back fist and then jumped on Romero and hit him with some elbows. Romero was able to escape, but not for long, Cavalcante nailed him with a few more punches and knees and was able to finish by KO with 9 seconds to go in Round 2. Romero never knew what hit him.
After controlling much of round 2, Romero got a little cocky and Feijao made him pay. Cavalcante is probably back in the mix for a title shot after this impressive KO.
Official Result: Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante wins by knockout 4:51 into Round 2
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