A great night Saturday at the Clash of Warriors show ‘face off’. Tim Butler fought for the first time in over a year against a much larger opponent. Tim found the first round a little tricky getting his timing right in a mainly stand up round against the Polish fighter, but never looked in any serious trouble, nearly finishing with an arm-bar at one point.

The second round was much different with Tim taking  Zlotnicki down from the start and totally controlling the fight for the entire round, mounting twice and finishing just as strong as the beginning of the fight.

There was some confussion after this as the judges scored the fight a draw and a third round was supposed to take place, although was never mentioned in the rules meeting. By the time corners and judges had decided on the outcome both fighters had gone cold causing the verdict to be a draw and definate rematch for the future.

Making his B class pro debut Ben Rose took on Latvian pankration fighter Vadim Shpakov. This fight took a regular pattern from the first round as Shpakov jumped into a standing guillotine on Rose, who casaully walked across the cage and dumped his opponent away from his corner. From then on Ben brutally grounded and pounded the Latvian fighter especially to the right side of his ribs and his left eye, nearly shutting it by the end of the first. The next two rounds were the same as Ben controlled his opponent on the floor against the cage with ground and pound and winning the fight easily on decision.