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UFC Fight Night 25 Results: Waldburger defeats Stumpf in a Round One Submission

  In the third fight of the night, Welterweights TJ Waldburger and Mike Stumpf squared off in a heated ground battle.  Walderburger, a Texas native fighting out of Grappler’s Lair gym, entered the cage coming off a loss against Johny Hendrick…

 

In the third fight of the night, Welterweights TJ Waldburger and Mike Stumpf squared off in a heated ground battle. 

Walderburger, a Texas native fighting out of Grappler’s Lair gym, entered the cage coming off a loss against Johny Hendricks earlier this year.

Stumpf, who boasted an 11-2 record on coming into tonight looked to make an impact in his UFC debut. 

ROUND 1:

Waldburger starts the round aggressively with a great low kick which threw Stumpf off balance and sent him to the mat. Like a dog on a bone, Waldburger immediately took Stumpf’s back, and began to go to work. 

For the next 45 seconds Waldburger maintained his attack trying to secure a better position as Stumpf was turtled up protecting himself from strikes. As the fighters moved closer to the cage, Stumpf was able to turn the tables and mount his attack from the top on Waldburger. 

However, Waldburger a BJJ Purple Belt, showed a truly technical display of skill, first by regaining top position and stepping over Stumpf in an arm bar attempt. As Stumpf attempted to fight it off, Waldburger resembled a cyclone as he spun on the mat trying to maintain the arm bar from first a face down position and then turn over onto his back again. 

As Stumpf, began to sit up out of the arm bar, Waldburger had the frame of mind to pull of a smooth transition to a deep triangle arm bar that Stumpf immediately tapped to.   

Will Anderson is a Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report MMA. For anything related to MMA, you can follow Will on Twitter  @CageCrusader

UFC Live Blog: Jake Shields vs. Jake Ellenberger Updates

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NEW ORLEANS – This is the UFC Fight Night 25 live blog for Jake Shields vs. Jake Ellenberger, the main event of tonight’s UFC on Spike telecast from the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

Shields (26-5-1, 1-1 UFC) is coming off his first loss in more than six years, a unanimous decision setback against welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre at UFC 129 in April. Though Shields lost the fight, he snapped St-Pierre’s lengthy streak of 33 straight winning rounds. He also fights for the first time since the death last month of his father and manager, Jack Shields.

Ellenberger (24-5, 4-1 UFC) seeks his fifth straight win in the welterweight division. He hasn’t lost since his UFC debut, a split decision setback nearly two years ago to the day against Carlos Condit, St-Pierre’s next title challenger.

The live blog is below.

Round 1: Big ovation for Shields as Bruce Buffer announces him. The two Jakes look for position early, and Ellenberger lands the first takedown – though Shields pops right back up. Kick from Shields is countered by Ellenberger with with a left-right, and he then drops Shields in a hurry with a pair of big knees. He pounces and starts raining down strikes until it’s stopped. It’s a tremendously fast finish for Ellenberger and a fairly sizable upset – and the second straight loss for Shields more than six years without one.

Result: Jake Ellenberger def. Jake Shields, TKO (strikes), 0:53 Round 1

 

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NEW ORLEANS – This is the UFC Fight Night 25 live blog for Jake Shields vs. Jake Ellenberger, the main event of tonight’s UFC on Spike telecast from the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

Shields (26-5-1, 1-1 UFC) is coming off his first loss in more than six years, a unanimous decision setback against welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre at UFC 129 in April. Though Shields lost the fight, he snapped St-Pierre’s lengthy streak of 33 straight winning rounds. He also fights for the first time since the death last month of his father and manager, Jack Shields.

Ellenberger (24-5, 4-1 UFC) seeks his fifth straight win in the welterweight division. He hasn’t lost since his UFC debut, a split decision setback nearly two years ago to the day against Carlos Condit, St-Pierre’s next title challenger.

The live blog is below.

Round 1: Big ovation for Shields as Bruce Buffer announces him. The two Jakes look for position early, and Ellenberger lands the first takedown – though Shields pops right back up. Kick from Shields is countered by Ellenberger with with a left-right, and he then drops Shields in a hurry with a pair of big knees. He pounces and starts raining down strikes until it’s stopped. It’s a tremendously fast finish for Ellenberger and a fairly sizable upset – and the second straight loss for Shields more than six years without one.

Result: Jake Ellenberger def. Jake Shields, TKO (strikes), 0:53 Round 1

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UFC Live Blog: Jake Shields vs. Jake Ellenberger Updates

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NEW ORLEANS – This is the UFC Fight Night 25 live blog for Jake Shields vs. Jake Ellenberger, the main event of tonight’s UFC on Spike telecast from the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

Shields (26-5-1, 1-1 UFC) is coming off his first loss in more than six years, a unanimous decision setback against welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre at UFC 129 in April. Though Shields lost the fight, he snapped St-Pierre’s lengthy streak of 33 straight winning rounds. He also fights for the first time since the death last month of his father and manager, Jack Shields.

Ellenberger (24-5, 4-1 UFC) seeks his fifth straight win in the welterweight division. He hasn’t lost since his UFC debut, a split decision setback nearly two years ago to the day against Carlos Condit, St-Pierre’s next title challenger.

The live blog is below.

Round 1: Big ovation for Shields as Bruce Buffer announces him. The two Jakes look for position early, and Ellenberger lands the first takedown – though Shields pops right back up. Kick from Shields is countered by Ellenberger with with a left-right, and he then drops Shields in a hurry with a pair of big knees. He pounces and starts raining down strikes until it’s stopped. It’s a tremendously fast finish for Ellenberger and a fairly sizable upset – and the second straight loss for Shields more than six years without one.

Result: Jake Ellenberger def. Jake Shields, TKO (strikes), 0:53 Round 1

 

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NEW ORLEANS – This is the UFC Fight Night 25 live blog for Jake Shields vs. Jake Ellenberger, the main event of tonight’s UFC on Spike telecast from the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

Shields (26-5-1, 1-1 UFC) is coming off his first loss in more than six years, a unanimous decision setback against welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre at UFC 129 in April. Though Shields lost the fight, he snapped St-Pierre’s lengthy streak of 33 straight winning rounds. He also fights for the first time since the death last month of his father and manager, Jack Shields.

Ellenberger (24-5, 4-1 UFC) seeks his fifth straight win in the welterweight division. He hasn’t lost since his UFC debut, a split decision setback nearly two years ago to the day against Carlos Condit, St-Pierre’s next title challenger.

The live blog is below.

Round 1: Big ovation for Shields as Bruce Buffer announces him. The two Jakes look for position early, and Ellenberger lands the first takedown – though Shields pops right back up. Kick from Shields is countered by Ellenberger with with a left-right, and he then drops Shields in a hurry with a pair of big knees. He pounces and starts raining down strikes until it’s stopped. It’s a tremendously fast finish for Ellenberger and a fairly sizable upset – and the second straight loss for Shields more than six years without one.

Result: Jake Ellenberger def. Jake Shields, TKO (strikes), 0:53 Round 1

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Jake Shields and 5 of Georges St-Pierre’s Toughest Opponents

According to UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre in a video on the UFC’s Facebook page, Jake Shields is probably the toughest opponent he’s ever faced.The former Strikeforce middleweight champion stood toe-to-toe with the French Canadian for fi…

According to UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre in a video on the UFC’s Facebook page, Jake Shields is probably the toughest opponent he’s ever faced.

The former Strikeforce middleweight champion stood toe-to-toe with the French Canadian for five grueling rounds in their championship bout at UFC 129.

Before facing Shields, St-Pierre hadn’t even lost a round in four years.

He wasn’t able to come away with a victory, but Shields proved that he was one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the world and certainly worthy of a UFC title shot.

Fans have come to expect dominance from St-Pierre, who has virtually destroyed every upper-echelon foe thrown his way.

Even with his everlasting dominance, there have been moments in St-Pierre’s UFC career where he’s faced adversity.

Join Bleacher Report as we reminisce on Georges St-Pierre’s toughest opponents.

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UFC Fight Night 25: Shamar Bailey vs. Evan Dunham Preview and Prediction

At Ultimate Fight Night 25 this Saturday in New Orleans, Shamar Bailey will face Evan Dunham in a lightweight bout on the event’s preliminary card. The fight, which will be available for viewing on Facebook, pits a powerful wrestler in Bailey over th…

At Ultimate Fight Night 25 this Saturday in New Orleans, Shamar Bailey will face Evan Dunham in a lightweight bout on the event’s preliminary card.

The fight, which will be available for viewing on Facebook, pits a powerful wrestler in Bailey over the more well-rounded Dunham.

Nevertheless, Dunham, 29, arguably enters the fight in greater need of a win, after the Oregon native lost his second consecutive fight in January to title contender Melvin Guillard.  The two losses were the first of Dunham’s career, and amounted to a pump on the brakes of Dunham’s ride to the top of the heap at 155. An injury sustained in training further slowed his momentum, and this will be his first fight in eight months.

At 11-2 and 4-2 in the UFC, Dunham is more experienced Octagon-wise than Bailey, who fights for only the second time in the eight-sided cage (he is 12-3 overall, however). Bailey will be trying to build on a convincing (if unspectacular) win over Ryan McGillivray at The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale in June.  It could be said that Bailey, who was picked second overall on that season of the reality show, has to date not fully lived up to the expectations placed on him during his UFC affiliation. Though a surprise loss to Chris Cope in the show’s quarterfinals kept Bailey out of the championship, the UFC featured him on the live season-ending fight card.

This is Bailey’s chance to show that decision was correct. He hasn’t seemed to fully let go in the cage yet, and will need to do so against Dunham. If Bailey gets caught thinking, he’ll get caught in an armbar soon after.  

Bleacher Report’s Scott Harris

UFC Fight Night 25: Who’s On The Hot Seat

It’s been while since I’ve written this column. For those of you who are unfamiliar with how this works, I’ll explain it to you in very short and simple terms. I will go over the entire card and choose the fighters who I feel could lose their jobs shou…

It’s been while since I’ve written this column. For those of you who are unfamiliar with how this works, I’ll explain it to you in very short and simple terms. I will go over the entire card and choose the fighters who I feel could lose their jobs should they lose tonight.

This is the first time I have done this for anything other than a standard UFC pay-per-view, but I figured I could use the practice. The event is full of young, inexperienced (As far as the UFC is concerned) fighters who are either receiving their first shot in the Octagon or at the very least their second opportunity.

Sometimes a fighter can lose, but when they lay it all out on the line, UFC President will given them another chance. He is willing to reward those who would rather put on an exciting fight rather than play it safe just to get a win.

So without further delay, let’s take a look at “Who’s on the Hot Seat.”

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