Heavyweight prospect Shane Del Rosario kept his perfect record intact in the main event of Friday’s Strikeforce Challengers 9, scoring a first-round knockout of Lolohea Mahe at the Showtime-televised event in Everett, Washington.
“I knew he didn’t like shots to the body, so I kept hitting the body until he dropped. I’ve been training really hard and it’s finally paying off. I’m ready to step up the opposition and move on,” said Del Rosario, now 10-0, who hopes to fight former UFC champ Andrei Arlovski next.
In the night’s co-headliner, 135-pound women’s champ Sarah Kaufman also remained unbeaten, retaining the title with a third-round slam KO of Roxanne Modafferi.
“I got a knockout,” Kaufman, now 12-0, said. “It feels good to get the KO and to impress. She was really good at the take downs, but I could feel her getting tired. The opportunity was there with the body slam and I took advantage of it.”
In other main card action, Bobby Voelker topped Cory Devela by split decision, Mike Kyle submitted Abongo Humphrey with a second-round rear naked choke, and Caros Fodor earned a unanimous decision over Thomas Diagne.
Pictured: Shane del Rosario
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It was physically painful for me to watch Roxie get “Gerald Harris’ed” like that for a loss.
Thats assuming of course Kaufman’s win holds up in post-fight testing, and she doesn’t test positive for Klingon dna.
Although in all seriousness, the next fool that gets planted in the cage is going to be labeled as getting “Sarah Kaufman’ed”, if you follow.
And another day, another win, another payout for Shane Del Rosario.
Definitely time for a step up, which shouldn’t be a problem, because SF can use another talented HW to give them more matchmaking options…
I’ve been following Sarah for a while now, she’s a well schooled fighter with Greg Jackson and others.
She’s finished all her fights and gives her best every time.
Klingon DNA?, i guess i’m missing something, maybe the strength…Roxie pretty good at the grappling with Kauffman.
She didnt want to stand up with her, i thought she’d get rag dolled all over but held up well.