Venator FC 3 Results: Rousimar Palhares knocked out; Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller submitted

The Venator FC 3 main event didn’t go as many expected.

Rousimar Palhares didn’t win by a first-round heel hook. Instead, he got knocked out in less than a minute by relatively unknown fighter, Emil Weber Meek on Saturday night in Milan, Italy. Right after the bell, Palhares rushed in for a single-leg takedown that often sets up his leg lock attacks. But this time, he wasn’t able to catch a leg, but instead ate several hard elbows and punches to the side of the head. With a shocking and impressive performance, Meek defeated Palhares via technical knockout at 0:45 of round one.

In the co-main event of the night, Luke Barnatt fought Stefan Croitoru for the Venator middleweight title. It was complete domination from Barnatt’s part. Barnatt excelled in the ground game and the standup battle, earning a second-round technical knockout over Croitoru, who stepped up as a late replacement for Jason Miller. With this performance, Barnatt is now 3-0 since his UFC release back in May 2015.

In a match up of two MMA veterans, Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou took on Matt Hamill. There wasn’t much of a fight here. Both fighters squared off, threw a few strikes without landing anything flush, and then Sokoudjou blasted the 39-year-old Hamill with an uppercut that knocked …

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