By Chamatkar Sandhu
March 25th 2000
Dan Severn defeated Bart Vale via TKO (doctor’s stoppage) in 36 seconds of the second round in the main event of Continental Freefighting Alliance’s Collision at the Crossroads which went down at the Crossroads Arena Corinth, Mississipi, USA.
March 25th 2000
Jake Shields suffered his very first loss as a professional mixed martial artist when he was defeated by Marty Armendarez via TKO (punches) in 7 minutes and 34 seconds of the first round at International Fighting Championship’s Warrior Challenge 6 which went down at the Table Mountain Casino, Friant, California, USA. This card was headlined by Vladimir Matyushenko who defeated John Marsh via unanimous decision.
March 25th 2001
Pride 13: Collision Course was a mixed martial arts event held by the Pride Fighting Championships. This was the first Pride event allowing knee strikes to the head of someone in the “four-points” position (the opponent is on his hands and knees). It took place at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. Ken Shamrock was scheduled to fight Igor Vovchanchyn but he was injured two weeks prior to the event. He was replaced by teammate Tra Telligman.
Wanderlei Silva def. Kazushi Sakuraba TKO (Knees and Soccer Kicks) 1st Round 1:38
Tra Telligman def. Igor Vovchanchyn Decision (Unanimous) 3rd Round 5:00
Tadao Yasuda def. Masaaki Satake Decision (Split) 3rd Round 5:00
Mark Coleman def. Allan Goes TKO (Knees) 1st Round 1:19
Dan Henderson def. Renzo Gracie KO (Punch) 1st Round 1:40
Heath Herring def. Denis Sobolev Submission (Keylock) 1st Round 0:22
Guy Mezger def. Egan Inoue KO (Punch) 1st Round 2:25
Vitor Belfort def. Bobby Southworth Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) 1st Round 4:09
March 25th 2006
Antonio Silva was coming off four wins out of his first four fights when he then made it five out of five as he defeated Tadas Rimkevicius via TKO (punches) in 3 minutes and 22 seconds of the first round at Cage Warriors Fighting Championship Strike Force 5 which went down at the Skydome Arena, Coventry, West Midlands, England.
March 25th 2006
Ricco Rodriguez defeated Taylor Brooks via submission (arm bar) in the first round in the main event of MMA Xtreme 1 which went down in Tijuana, Mexico.
March 25th 2006
Eddie Wineland defeated Kurt Deeron via TKO (punches) in 2 minutes and 26 seconds of the second round at the Duneland Classic 3 which went down in Portage, Indiana, USA. Following this win he then made his debut for WEC two months later.
March 25th 2011
Hector Lombard defeated Joe Doerksen via TKO (doctor’s stoppage) at 4 minutes and 13 seconds of the very first round at Cage Fighting Championships 16 which went down at the Big Top Stadium at Luna Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. One year later he made his UFC debut.
March 25th 2011
Coming off his second stint in the UFC which ended in back to back losses Phil Baroni got back to winning ways as he defeated Nick Nolte via unanimous decision at Titan Fighting Championship 17 which went down at the Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
March 25th 2011
After competing in six amateur bouts Colton Smith made his professional MMA debut and got a victory over Brian Nielson via submission (rear naked choke) in 4 minutes and 19 seconds of the first round at M-1 Challenge 24 which went down at the Ted Constant Convocation Center, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. A year later he competed in and won season 16 of The Ultimate Fighter for the UFC.
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