Video: Ghastly leg break ends fight at RFA 18 + complete results

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AXS-TV aired RFA 18 last night from Albuquerque, New Mexico and featured a solid night of fights, including the crowning of a new Flyweight champ. Alexandre Pantoja submitted Matt Manzanares in the second to take the RFA 125 pound crown.

UFC veteran Ulysses Gomez dropped another fight to Dream veteran Abel Cullum and Anthony Njokuani’s younger brother Chidi notched a decision win.

Here’s complete main card results:

Alexandre Pantoja def. Matt Manzanares via Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) ROUND 2 @ 2:38
Abel Cullum def. Ulysses Gomez via Submission (Guillotine Choke) Round 1 @ 1:29
Chidi Njokuani def. Steve Hanna via Decision (Unanimous)
Brenda Gonzales def. Heather Bassett via Submission (Armbar) Rd 1 @ 2:48
Mehdi Baghdad def. Evan DeLong via TKO (Head Kick and Punches) RD 1 @ 1:55
Justin Linn def. Adrian Cruz via TKO (Leg Injury) Rd 1 @ 0:22
Tim Sosa def. Zac Riley via Decision (Unanimous)

Of course most of the attention is on Adrian Cruz’s icky leg break loss to Justin Linn. Here’s Zombie Prophet’s slo mo vine of the grisly injury

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