Kyle
Driscoll needed to bounce back and did so in dominant fashion
under the
Cage Warriors Fighting Championship banner. The
CW 155 main event did not even last a full round, as Driscoll
(14-4, 2-1 CW) stopped James Lynch
in less than four minutes on Friday at the Sycuan Casino Resort in
San Diego.



Right out of the gate, Driscoll cut loose with powerful shots that
forced his opponent to play self-preservation defense. Lynch (6-4,
4-3 CW) partially managed to intercept his counterpart’s strikes
with hooks and some timid calf kicks, but he looked much slower
than Driscoll. The key moment arrived with a right hand from
Driscoll that impacted cleanly on Lynch’s chin, knocking him down.
In a split second, Driscoll jumped into full-mount and landed hard
ground-and-pound. Lynch preferred to give his back in a desperate
attempt to escape, but it was to no avail as Driscoll kept scoring.
Referee Herb Dean
looked at the shots closely and called for the stoppage at the 3:58
mark of Round 1. In victory, Driscoll rebounded from a July 22
defeat to George
Hardwick that had snapped his previous eight-fight winning
streak.



In the bill’s 145-pound co-headliner, Roberto
Hernandez overcame Moses Diaz
at the end of a technical tilt. Hernandez (7-1, 5-0 CW) fought on
the back foot most of the contest, allowing his opponent to seize
the initiative and fire back with counterstrikes. Diaz (5-1, 0-1
CW) was more proactive and put his jab to work throughout the
fight, preventing “Green Light” from moving the action to the
canvas on different occasions. The clash remained competitive going
into the third period, where Diaz received a stern warning from
referee Jason Herzog for grabbing the fence. After neither of the
contestants managed to finish the fight inside the distance, the
cage announcer revealed three surprising 30-27, 30-27 and 29-28
scorecards in favor of Hernandez, who scored his seventh straight
win.



Elsewhere, John de
Jesus (16-11, 2-1 CW) dominated Damon
Wilson (6-2, 5-2 CW) ahead of a unanimous decision
victory—30-27, 30-27, 30-27—at featherweight; flyweight David Lopez
(3-1, 2-0 CW) scored an impressive comeback by dispatching Connor
Wilson (4-3, 0-3 CW) with a tight rear-naked choke at 2:34 of
Round 2; and in the main card opener, Sunni
Imhotep (4-1, 1-0 CW) upended Jovidon
Khojaev (2-2, 0-1 CW) on all scorecards at lightweight.



In preliminary action, James
Settle (4-4, 1-2 CW) put away Frans
Lincol Sormin (4-1, 0-1 CW) with punches at 2:28 of the second
stanza in a 137-pound catchweight after Sormin failed to make
weight by 0.4 pounds the day before; Chris Lewis
(3-4, 1-0 CW) stopped Elijah
Harris (4-3, 1-3 CW) with an elbow-and-punches combination at
3:42 of Round 3 in their heavyweight tilt; welterweight Anthony
Orozco (1-0, 1-0 CW) crushed Jeremy
Fattorusso (2-2, 0-1 CW) with punches at 2:44 of the first
stanza; IMMAF alum Teddy
Stringer (1-0, 1-0 CW) forced Bryant
Shell (0-5, 0-1 CW) to tap via rear-naked choke at 1:42 in the
opening period at lightweight; flyweight Francis
Breen (1-0, 1-0 CW) outpointed Enrique
Montalvo (0-1, 0-1 CW) by 30-27 counts on all scorecards; and
Johnny Gill
Jr. (2-0, 1-0 CW) overcame Jon Saragih
(1-1, 0-1 CW) with a rear-naked choke at 4:07 of Round 1 at
bantamweight.





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Kyle Driscoll Clobbers James Lynch, Delivers First-Round Finish in CW 155 Headliner