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Two new champions were crowned at Tachi Palace Fights 11 “Redemption” on Friday night, as the promotion filled its vacant featherweight and bantamweight title slots at the Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino in Lemoore, Calif.

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Isaac DeJesus remains a lightning rod for controversy, but Georgi Karakhanyan can now call himself a champion following Friday night’s “Tachi Palace Fights 11: Redemption” card in Lemoore, Calif.

DeJesus, who has in the past battled with making weight (not to mention passing drug screens), came in more than a pound under for his featherweight championship fight with Karakhanyan.

Unfortunately, his powerful striking wasn’t enough to overcome Karakhanyan’s slick submissions, and DeJesus appeared to tapout on several occasions, despite refusing to acknowledge any of them.

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Welterweight Douglas Lima and middleweight Alexander Shlemenko both have staked claim to Bellator tournament titles.

At Saturday’s Bellator 57 event, both fighters won their respective season-five eight-man tournaments, and both have now earned guaranteed title shots with their division’s champions.

Bellator 57 took place Saturday at Casino Rama in Rama, Ontario, Canada, and the main card aired on MTV2 and EPIX prior to the Spike.com prelims.

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Dallas Jakobi became EFC Africa’s welterweight champion and earned revenge on titleholder Adam Speechly in the headliner of EFC Africa 10 Thursday at Carnival City Casino and Entertainment World in Brakpan, South Africa.

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Bellator Fighting Championships on Wednesday revealed that it would kick off its Season 5 Bantamweight Tournament in Ohio. Featherweight champ Joe Warren is in the pairings, aiming for a second championship belt. Read More >>

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Joe Warren and Patricio “Pitbull” Freire are expected to square off at Bellator 47 on July 23. If he wins, Warren intends to keep the belt as he enters the Season 5 bantamweight tournament, trying to become a two-division champion. Read More >>

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Tachi Palace Fights champions Darrell Montague (9-1) and David Loiseau (20-10) will each look to defend their…

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Tachi Palace Fights champions Darrell Montague and David Loiseau will each look to defend their belts for the first time at Tachi
Palace Fights 10, which takes place Aug. 5 at the Tachi Palace Hotel
and Casino in Lemoore, Calif.

Flyweight champ Montague meets three-time WEC vet Ian McCall, who
in February knocked off former world No. 1 flyweight Jussier da Silva,
while middleweight title holder Loiseau faces submission ace Giva
Santana.

Additionally, former champ Isaac De Jesus, who was stripped of
his belt after missing weight in his most recent outing, will look to
regain the title against Eddie Yagin.

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Friday night, Canada’s leading MMA promotion, Maximum Fighting Championship, cast its ring aside for a cage and set it up at The Colosseum at Caesars in Windsor, Ontario.

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BELEM, Brazil — The biggest stars of the ninth edition of Belem’s Iron Man Championship, welterweight Luis Sergio da Fonseca Melo and heavyweight Geronimo dos Santos, were the favorites to take titles Thursday night.

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