ROC 53 a smashing success

UFC president Dana White went looking for a fight, and he found it, at Ring of Combat 53, which some have said was the best ROC eva! It had three championship fights, a super fight, and as usual a deep under card!

Founder Lou Neglia was very pleased to have Dana White at the show. ROC has sent over 100 alumni to the UFC, with three of them, Matt Serra, Frankie Edgar, and Chris Weidman, earning world championships. So it was great to see movement in the other direction – with the head of the UFC coming to ROC, instead of the other way around.

Dana was very impressed with the all the fighters. We’ll keep you posted on who gets the next call.

Here are the results of the non-stop action from November 20th:

Elijah Harshbarger over Sidney Outlaw via 1st round guillotine choke

Randy Brown over Robert Plotkin via 1st round KO

Bradley Desir over Eddie Lenoci via 2nd round KO

Jonathan Delbrugge over Whitney Jean-Francois via 1st round RNC

Brian Kelleher over Josh Robinson via 3rd round KO

Jose Mariscal over Max Bohanan via UD

Eric Roncoroni over Michael Elshamy via 1st round TKO (doctor stoppage)

Sean Santella over Jay Pressley via 1st round RNC

Frank Buenafuente over David Moore via 1st round KO

Lester Caslow over Kenny Foster via 3rd round guillotine choke

Gregy Styles over Ryan Munger via 1st round KO

Tajuddin Abdul Hakim over Yazan Janeb via UD