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Oklahoma City, OK – Melvin Guillard looked to be on his way to upsetting Nate Diaz Wednesday night in the main event of Ultimate Fight Night 19, but made one critical mistake and was forced into submission.  

The main event capped off a night of stellar fights which aired free on Spike TV and 7,500 fans filled the Cox Convention Center.

Guillard looked impressive in round one knocking down Diaz with a big right hand and taking the Stockton native down with ease.  

Round two was a different story.

A mistake that has plagued Guillard on more than one occasion reared its ugly head once again.  Guillard succeeded on a takedown of Diaz, but gave up his neck doing so.  Diaz secured an air tight guillotine choke and Guillard tapped moments later 2:13 of round two.

With the victory, Diaz snapped a two-fight losing streak and snapped Guillard’s three fight winning streak.  

Sports Illustrated cover boy Roger Huerta appeared to have no ring rust in his co-main event fight against Gray Maynard.  

Huerta took control of the fight early on with his stand up and takedown defense.  Maynard was unable to get any offense going in round one, but turned it on in rounds two and three earning a split decision victory.

For whatever reason, Maynard waited till the last round to apply his wrestling skills taking Huerta down.  Maynard worked for kimura late in round three nearly ripping Huerta’s shoulder out of his skin.  I nearly tossed my cookies at the sight of Huerta’s shoulder coming out of his skin.  Huerta toughed it out, but was unable to get back to his feet losing the round to Maynard.

The judges awarded Maynard the fight with scores of 28-29, 30-27 and 30-27.

The victory moves Maynard, now 8-0 overall, even deeper into title contention. Huerta, meanwhile, drops to 20-3-1 with the first back-to-back losses of his career

Huerta still received a lot of love from the fans despite his plans to pursue his Hollywood dreams instead of UFC glory.  Good luck Roger and hope to see you soon, back in the Octagon.

Jake Ellenberger was impressive in his UFC debut, but fell a tad short to former WEC welterweight champion Carlos Condit in a split decision loss.

Ellenberger dominated Condit every second of round one nearly ending the fight on numerous occasions.  You have to give credit to the ref, who was spot on during this fight.  Condit was in trouble, but the ref had sense enough to know that he wasn’t in too much trouble, to stop the fight prematurely.  

Condit was the better conditioned fighter and took control of rounds two and three earning a split decision victory.  The scores were of 29-28, 28-29 and 29-28 in favor of Condit.

Condit earned his first career victory in the UFC, while Ellenberger’s four-fight win streak was cut short.

The first televised bout of the evening was off the hook as Nate Quarry and Tim Credeur beat the hell out of each other for three entertaining rounds.  

Credeur’s stand-up, which was shocking in his last fights, improved greatly as he pummeled Quarry in round one.  He was able to drop Quarry once and lumped him up under his right eye.

Quarry turned up the heat in rounds two and three dominating the stand-up, dropping Credeur on numerous occasions.  To Credeur’s credit, he peppered Quarry but couldn’t match his power.

Quarry used his ground and pound to neutralize the brilliant ground game of Credeur and did enough to secure a unanimous decision victory.  The scores were 29-28, 29-27, 29-28.

All the fights were great, but this one earned top honors as “fight of the night.”

Diaz earned a Submission of the Night bonus, Stephens earned the night’s Knockout of the Night award, and Quarry and Credeur won Fight of the Night honors for their performances,

OFFICIAL RESULTS
• Nate Diaz def. Melvin Guillard via submission (guillotine choke) - Round 2, 2:13
• Gray Maynard def. Roger Huerta via split decision (28-29, 30-27, 30-27)
• Carlos Condit def. Jake Ellenberger via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
• Nate Quarry def. Tim Credeur via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-27, 29-28)
• Brian Stann def. Steve Cantwell via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
• Mike Pyle def. Chris Wilson via submission (guillotine choke) - Round 3, 2:15
• C.B. Dollaway def. Jay Silva via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
• Jeremy Stephens def. Justin Buchholz via TKO (doctor’s stoppage, cut) - Round 1, 3:23
• Mike Pierce def. Brock Larson via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
• Ryan Jensen def. Steve Steinbeiss via technical submission (guillotine choke) - Round 1, 3:56

Oklahoma City, Okla-  The much anticipated tenth season of The Ultimate Fighter “the heavyweights” debuts tonight on Spike.  The star studded cast will feature four former NFL pros, a former IFL champion and Youtube legend Kimbo Slice all vying for the ultimate prize, a six figure contract in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.  

TUF starts at 10 o’clock tonight, but before that we have a stellar night of fights featuring many of the UFC’s up and coming fighters.

Ultimate Fight Night 19 will feature a main event between lightweights Nate Diaz and Melvin “The Young Assassin” Guillard as they look to stake their claim within the division.  

Young Nate Diaz is desperate for a victory as he has dropped his last two bouts it will be no easy task as Guillard is currently riding a three fight win streak.  

Diaz’ ground game is phenomenal with sick submissions and his boxing albeit unorthodox is always dangerous.  He’ll have a nice reach advantage but gives up size and strength to Guillard.

Guillard has struggled in the past against strong grapplers, but his raw power and explosiveness needs to be respected.  He has a strong punchers chance as Diaz is more than happy to stand and bang.  He might not want to shoot in on Diaz as Diaz has a very active guard and his dangerous off his back.  

Diaz looks hungry and has put on some muscle for this fight.  He’s determined to be the victor tonight and I like his chances.  Diaz will represent The 209 to the fullest with a second round submission victory.

“El Matador” Roger Huerta has been MIA pursuing the Hollywood dream in recent months, but is set to return to the warm embrace of “The Bully” Gray Maynard.  A victory over Huerta will solidify Maynard as a lightweight elitist.  

Huerta has been out of action for over a year since losing to Kenny Florian at UFC 87.  He had expressed his unhappiness with fighter compensation and will look to Hollywood for greener pastures.  He’ll get his chance after this fight with Maynard as it’s the last contracted one.  

The talented and undefeated Maynard is your typical wrestler with decent standup.  His last four victories have been all decisions and he needs an impressive victory here tonight.  

Huerta has been known to struggle with strong wrestlers as Clay Guida and Kenny Florian frustrated him with takedowns.  His muay thai should give him the striking advantage as Maynard has struggled checking leg kicks and body kicks.  He’ll also have to shake a decent amount of ring rust.

With that being said I like Maynard to grind out yet another unanimous decision via lay and pray.  Huerta is talented and should continue his fighting career instead of movies.  

Middleweight Nate Quarry will be in action as he faces Tim Credeur.  

Quarry has been impressive with exception to his humbling submission loss to Demian Maia.  Quarry has strong stand-up with KO power in both hands.  He’ll be facing a tough Tim Credeur.  

Credeur is tough on the ground with great submissions, but his standup is shocking in my opinion.  He hasn’t had much success against top level competition like Quarry and will struggle again tonight.  

Quarry has too much power in his hands and it will be on full display tonight as he KO’s Tim Credeur.

Former WEC champion Carlos Condit will be welcoming Jake Ellenberger to the octagon.  Condit was on a wrong side of a split decision against Martin Kampmann back in April.  He promises to deliver his second time around.  

Condit has had success on the feet with his precision striking, but the power beheld by Ellenberger might throw him off his game.  

Condit is a former champion and has the talent to challenge for the welterweight title; he should come out victorious tonight.

MAIN CARD

•Nate Diaz vs. Melvin Guillard
•Roger Huerta vs. Gray Maynard
•Carlos Condit vs. Jake Ellenberger
•Tim Credeur vs. Nate Quarry
PRELIMINARY CARD
•Steve Cantwell vs. Brian Stann
•Mike Pyle vs. Chris Wilson
•C.B. Dollaway vs. Jay Silva
•Phillipe Nover vs. Sam Stout
•Justin Buchholz vs. Jeremy Stephens
•Brock Larson vs. Mike Pierce
•Ryan Jensen vs. Steven Steinbeiss