{"id":344398,"date":"2010-02-20T20:33:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T01:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-221043:1"},"modified":"2010-02-20T20:33:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T01:33:41","slug":"te-huna-dolloway-and-lytle-early-winners-at-ufc-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/344398","title":{"rendered":"Te Huna, Dolloway and Lytle early winners at UFC 110"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Te Huna stopped Igor Pokrajac at 3:26 of the opening round to the delight of the raucous sellout crowd, taking him down and pounding him out on the ground. Referee Steve Percival jumped in after giving Pokrajac a chance to fight back.<\/p>\n

Pokrajac gave a thumbs up to the referee just before it was stopped, but Te Huna had mount and was raining down blows.<\/p>\n

Pokrajac managed to hurt Te Huna at the end of the second round, blasting him with an elbow and then dropping with him a right.<\/p>\n

Te Huna, though, recovered quickly and dominated the third. The New Zealander fighting relatively close to home in in Sydney, Australia is now 12-4 with wins in six straight. Pokrajac (21-7, 0-2 UFC), a former protege of Mirko Filipovic, has lost both of his UFC fights.<\/p>\n

DOLLOWAY UPSETS RELJIC VIA SPLIT DECISION<\/strong><\/p>\n

While he was laid up with injuries, there was a lot of hype surrounding Croatian kickboxer Goran Reljic. C.B. Dolloway ignored all of it, A one-time wrestler at Arizona State, Dollaway did his best work on his feet, landing some hard shots.<\/p>\n

But he had a difficult time with Reljic, who had several very good
\nsubmission attempts. All three judges scored it 29-28 for Dollaway.
\nYahoo! Sports had it 29-28 for Reljic.\n<\/p>\n

"I was real happy, because I wasn’t sharp at my last fight," Dolloway said. "Certain circumstances allowed me not to (be sharp), but I came back and showed the real C.B. Dollaway." <\/p>\n

After an upset loss at UFC 100 versus Tom Lawlor, this makes two straight wins for Dolloway (10-2, 4-2 UFC). The runnerup on season eight of "The Ultimate Fighter" also cashed as a plus-150 underdog. The 6-foot-4 Reljic, who dropped from light heavyweight, is now 1-1 in the UFC. This was his first fight in nearly 21 months.  <\/p>\n

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WELTERWEIGHT GATEKEEPER LYTLE STOPS FOSTER<\/strong><\/p>\n

The underappreciated Chris Lytle did it again. Lytle, in his 16th UFC fight, scored a first-round finish of rising prospect Brian Foster. Lytle (27-17, 7-9 UFC), a fireman by trade, scored a kneebar at 1:41 of the first round.<\/a>  <\/p>\n

Foster had taken Lytle down and appeared to have gotten Lytle’s back. Lytle quickly went for the knee and forced Foster to tap.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Lytle picked up the $50,000 submission of the night bonus. Incredibly, this is the seventh time Lytle has received postfight honors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

"What a lot of people don’t know, I’ve been a ground guy a lot longer than I’ve been doing standup," Lytle said. "I try to keep it a secret and make them think I’m a standup guy. I have a pretty good ground game."<\/p>\n

He said as soon as Foster took his back, he began thinking submission.<\/p>\n

"That’s an old school move and a lot of the time, they don’t see it coming," Lytle said. If a guy takes my back, I immediately go for that knee." <\/p>\n

Lytle’s last submission victory came in 2007 against Matt Brown. <\/p>\n

Kevin Iole contributed to this report<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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