Tim Kennedy submitted previously unbeaten prospect Zak Cummings in the second-round of their main event middleweight matchup at Friday’s Strikeforce Challengers event at the SpiritBank Event Center in Bixby, Oklahoma.

Complete Strikeforce Challengers results and a photo gallery from the card are after the jump…

Middleweights Tim Kennedy and Zak Cummings, who are slated to square off in the main event of Friday’s “Strikeforce Challengers” event, successfully made weight on Thursday at the weigh-ins for the Showtime-televised event, which takes place at the SpiritBank Event Center in Bixby, Oklahoma.

Anderson Silva says he wants to fight at heavyweight and has his sights set of former-champion Frank Mir, Georges St-Pierre continues to recover from a groin injury and is likely to return to action in January, and Efrain Escudero vs. Cole Miller and Drew McFedries vs. Tomasz Drwal are set for the Spike TV broadcast of the UFC 103 undercard.

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Matt Hughes believes he will finally face Matt Serra sometime in the next six to eight months, though the bout remains unconfirmed at this time.
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