Mike Malott, Jasmine Jasudavicius send crowd into frenzy at UFC 315
Mike Malott and Jasmine Jasudavicius are two of Canada’s best fighters, and both earned highlight stoppage wins on the UFC 315 preliminary card.
Charles Radtke was public enemy No. 1 this week, but Mike Malott put one on the board for Team Canada.
The 33-year-old from Burlington, Ont., sent the Montreal crowd into a frenzy when he knocked out Radtke early in the second round Saturday at UFC 315 presented by Skilled Trades College.
Radtke, 34, from Wisconsin, played up his villain role and had some choice words for Canadian fans as well as Malott earlier in the week when asked about the Canada vs. USA nature of the matchup.
“The firepower’s the difference,” Radtke said of the style clash. “I think Mike Malott being on the back foot is the issue. He said the bull vs. the matador type of theory, right? I don’t find myself necessarily as a bull, but if that’s what you’re going to label me as, I’ll take it. He possesses a lot of skills. Good ground game, good striking, but inevitably I just don’t think it’s enough.”
The boisterous crowd in Montreal yelled “(expletive) you, Radtke!” as some payback early and often in Round 1 of the featured preliminary bout.
After a competitive opening round, Malott proved that he, in fact, had significant firepower as he sent Radtke crashing to the mat after the welterweights traded heavy left hooks.
Malott followed up with some ground-and-pound as the referee stepped in.
“You guys have no idea what this means to me,” an emotional Malott said after earning his second consecutive win. He was coming off a unanimous decision over Trevin Giles in November in Edmonton.
One fight earlier, Malott’s Niagara Top Team teammate Jasmine Jasudavicius left no doubts that she is a legitimate title contender in the women’s flyweight division.
The St. Catharines, Ont., native made it look easy against Jessica Andrade, submitting the former UFC champion in only a couple of minutes.
Jasudavicius extended her winning streak to five in a row as she improved to 14-3 overall.
The 36-year-old red-hot contender was awarded her jiu-jitsu black belt by her corner after the third submission win on her current streak.
Jasudavicius has won seven of her past eight, while Andrade has now lost two straight and five of her past seven.
A title eliminator matchup could be on the horizon for Jasudavicius.
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Navajo Stirling is one of the more highly touted up-and-comers in the 205-pound division, and the New Zealander improved to 7-0 as a pro with a unanimous decision win over Ivan Erslan.
Erslan found success with his boxing in the opening round as Stirling attempted to set up his kicks and combinations with feints.
Stirling, a City Kickboxing teammate of former middleweight champion Israel Adesanya, began mixing things up in the second by taking his opponent down and defending multiple takedown attempts.
The 27-year-old finished strong, knocking Erslan down twice in the final round to seal the victory.
In other light-heavyweight action, Modestas Bukauskas and Ion Cutelaba required all 15 minutes, and their bout ended in a split decision in which none of the three scorecards looked different.
One judge gave all three rounds to Bukauskas, one gave all three to Cutelaba, and the third leaned toward Bukauskas in two of the three rounds.
“That’s trash,” Daniel Cormier said of the decision that went Bukauskas’s way on the official broadcast. “That’s actually a very bad decision.”
Both of the 205-pound opponents are 31 years old, yet Cutelaba has 19 UFC appearances compared to 10 for Bukauskas. According to the official stats, Cutelaba out-landed Bukauskas 121-52 in total strikes and 58-44 in significant strikes.
Cormier, a lifelong professional wrestling fan, also later referred to it as a “Montreal screw job” alluding to an infamous 1997 incident involving Brett Hart that took place in the same city.
