Resurrection Fighting Alliance (RFA) 5 held its latest mixed martial arts event inside Viaero Event Center in Karney, Neb., last night (Nov. 30, 2012), featuring a featherweight championship main event between Jared Downing and Jordan Rinaldi. Check out complete RFA 5 results below.
It certainly didn't have the same mixed martial arts (MMA) "name" cache as its most recent predecessor earlier in the month, but Resurrection Fighting Alliance (RFA) staged another event last night (Nov. 30, 2012) from the Viaero Event Center in Karney, Nebraska.
RFA 5: "Downing vs. Rinaldi" wasn't littered with former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) castoffs this time around, but rather a pack of up-and-coming prospects who were lead by promising Featherweight standouts Jared Downing and Jordan Rinaldi.
The 145-pound bout would be contested for the promotion's first-ever Featherweight title, airing live on AXS.tv. And both men fought like there was something meaningful at stake ... perhaps more than just an RFA belt.
Rinaldi -- who was previously undefeated and boasts a submission over The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 14's Dennis Bermudez back in 2010 -- is a submission-savvy fighter who did everything he could to tapout Downing. "Demon Eyes," however, would have none of it, defending anything and everything in the early going to eventually dominate the action en route to a unanimous decision win.
And possibly consideration as a future UFC employee.
Here are complete RFA 5 Quick Results (via Pro MMA Now):
Jared Downing defeated Jordan Rinaldi via unanimous decision
James Krause defeated Joe Jordan via submission (guillotine choke) in round three
Mirsad Bektic defeated Doug Jenkins via unanimous decision
Pedro Munhoz defeated Bill Kamery via submission (heel hook) in round one
Kamarudeen Usman defeated David Glover via technical knockout (strikes) in round two
Matt Manzanares defeated Keven Gray via technical knockout (liver shot-knee) in round one
Jett Jones defeated Enrique Torres via unanimous decision
Jordan Sanford defeated Jesus Sandoval via technical knockout (strikes) in round one
Richard Barajas defeated Eric Shelton via unanimous decision
Josh Smith defeated Ryan MacDonald via submission (strikes) in round three
Kenny Navas defeated David Allen via submission (kimura)
For more RFA-related news and notes be sure to stay tuned to MMAmania.com.
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