Leites chokes out Boetsch
Thales Leites and Tim Boetsch engaged in a wonderful firefight, with Leites surviving some heavy leather before snaking in a fight-ending arm-triangle choke at 3:45 of the second frame.
For a round and a half, both men played a thrilling game of live action Rock 'em Sock 'em robots, with both giving as good as they got.
Midway through the middle stanza, "The Barbarian" cracked Leites with a brutal uppercut, forcing the Brazilian to seek a takedown. Once on the mat, Leites took over, failing on his first attempt at an arm-triangle, before finally choking Boetsch into unconsciousness on his second try.
Leites, who now finds himself in the thick of things at 185 pounds, did not escape unscathed.
Yikes.
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