House of Hardcore celebró ayer un nuevo evento en The Sports Arena de St. James, Nueva York. A continuación, los resultados:

– Guido Maritato venció a Papadon por cuenta de tres tras aplicar The kiss of death.

– Matt Striker derrotó a TJ Marconi por cuenta de tres.

– Lance Anoai cayó ante Alex Reynolds, que apareció acompañado de Friedman y Maria. Reynols se llevó la victoria por sumisión tras la intervención en su favor de Friedman.

– Moose ganó a Dan Maff por cuenta de tres.

– Rhett Titus venció a Ben Ortiz, Pat Buck y Bull James en un combate a cuatro, tras aplicar la cuenta de tres sobre James.

– Open Challenge en un combate sin descalificaciones: Bully Ray derrotó a EC3 por cuenta de tres tras lanzar a EC3 contra una mesa. En el combate intervinieron Velvet Sky y Mick Foley.

– The Squad (Kenny y Mikey) vencieron a Team Tremendous (Dan Barry y Bill Carr) y a The NOW (Hale Collins y Vik Dalishus), acompañados por The Double Duprees. Kenny consiguió la victoria para su equipo al aplicar un Alabama Jam sobre Dalishus.

– Cody derrotó a Tommy Dreamer por cuenta de tres con un Cross Rhodes. Tras el combate, Cody toma el micro y agradece a Dreamer el combate de hoy, a lo que añade que le quiere y que jamás soñó con poder luchar con uno de sus héroes. Dreamer responde que el padre de Cody sí que era su héroe y recuerda cuando conoció a Cody, que era un niño de tan solo 10 años y añade que se alegra de haber luchado con él esta noche y de ver cómo ha crecido y se ha convertido en un wrestler de éxito.

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Background

This will be the third event that the organization has hosted in Atlanta, following UFC 88 in September of 2008 and UFC 145 in April of 2012.^[1]

The event will be headlined by a UFC Welterweight Championship bout between current champion Robbie Lawler and top contenderTyron Woodley.^[2]

A UFC Flyweight Championship bout between current champion Demetrious Johnson and challenger Wilson Reis was expected to serve as the co-main event.^[3] However on July 8, it was announced that Johnson pulled out due to an undisclosed injury and the bout was postponed.^[4] Reis was expected to remain on the card against promotional newcomer Sean Santella,^[5] but a few days later Santella announced the bout was scrapped because the UFC said “he needed to get more medicals done and there wasn’t enough time”.^[6] In turn, Reis will now face Hector Sandoval.^[7]

Cláudio Silva was expected to face Siyar Bahadurzada at the event. However on June 16, Silva pulled out due to injury and was replaced by Jorge Masvidal.^[8] In turn, Bahadurzada pulled out of the bout on July 12 citing an illness and was replaced by The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom winner Ross Pearson.^[9][10] Pearson fought only 22 days before the event, when he lost an unanimous decision to former Bellator Lightweight Champion Will Brooks at The Ultimate Fighter: Team Joanna vs. Team Cláudia Finale.

Ray Borg was expected to face Fredy Serrano at the event, but pulled out on July 21 due to injury and was replaced by Ryan Benoit.^[11]

Justin Scoggins was expected to face Ian McCall in a flyweight bout. However, only 2 days before the event, Scoggins announced he had struggles during the weight cut and was not going to make the contracted weight. The UFC pulled Scoggins, canceled the bout and McCall will still weigh in as an alternate. Scoggins announced he will move to bantamweight for his next fight.^[12]

Official fight card