🇨🇦 flyweight Gillian (The Savage) Robertson choked out American Cortney (Cast Iron) Casey in the third round on a UFC Fight Night card Saturday.
Quebec City middleweight Marc-Andre Barriault then stopped Poland’s Oskar Piechota late in the second round for his first UFC win after three straight losses.
“I wanted to be able to display my ground and pound a little bit more but the last 30 seconds I heard Din say ‘It’s not too late for a finish’ so I just went for the kill,” said Robertson Casey tried to keep the fight on the feet in the third but was taken down again less than two minutes in and Robertson finally locked in a choke to force Casey to tap.Robertson, a native of Niagara Falls, Ont., who fights out of Coconut Creek, Fla., was originally slated to fight June 20 in Saskatoon but the card was called off due to the global pandemic.Casey, at five foot seven, had a two-inch height and four-inch reach advantage.
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