Without a doubt, the fight of the night was the Aleksander Emelianenko Josh Barnett bout. Aleksander has some unbelievable boxing skills that are usually overlooked, so much so that I’m calling him the Russian Roy Jones Jr. Not only are his punches fast and pinpoint accurate, but he also puts together devastating, hard-hitting combos, slips punches and floats around the ring.

Emelianenko really peppered Barnett, throwing a huge amount of punches for a MMA fight. But the former UFC heavyweight champion weathered the storm and took some steam out of the Russian with body punches and overhand rights.

Aleksander may have punched himself out in the first, because in the final 60 seconds of the 10-minute round the Russian looked gassed.

The boxing match continued in the second until, eventually, the American submission wrestler took the fight to the ground and moved to side-control. He fired knees to Emelianenko’s head, then transitioned to the keylock. The Russian escaped Barnett’s first keylock, but was caught by the second attempt and was forced to tap 1:57 into round two.