CALGARY – Bryan Caraway had to weather a first-round storm, but the payoff was there in the third.
Caraway survived a first-round offensive onslaught from Mitch Gagnon that may have tired the Canadian, then went on to submit him with a third-round rear-naked choke, stopping Gagnon from a win in his UFC debut.
The bantamweight bout was part of the preliminary card of Saturday’s UFC 149 event at Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary. It aired on FX following additional prelims on Facebook and prior to the main card on pay-per-view.