Daniel Gallemore Snags Victory FC Heavyweight Championship with Standing Guillotine

Victory Fighting Championship has crowned a new heavyweight king. They call him “Big Kansas.”Daniel Gallemore submitted “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 10 graduate Abe Wagner with a standing guillotine choke to capture the vacant heavyweight title in the Victory Fighting Championship 50 headliner on Saturday at the Kansas Expocentre in Topeka, Kansas. Wagner (10-8), who has not won a fight in nearly five years, tapped 97 seconds into round one. Gallemore (5-3) was in fifth gear from the start. The monstrous Bellator MMA veteran backed up Wagner with kicks, sat him down with a vicious right hand and caught him in the guillotine when he attempted to rise to his feet. From there, the conclusion was a mere formality. Wagner fought to free himself, but Gallemore cut off all means of escape, adjusted to a high-elbow grip and brought it to a close. The 30-year-old Gallemore has posted four victories across his past five bouts, all of them finishes. In the co-main event, Alexandre Pimentel got his hands on the Victory featherweight crown, as he dethroned Elevation Fight Team’s Jarred Mercado with a fourth-round armbar. Mercado (14-4) conceded defeat 3:59 into round four. The Blackzilians-trained Pimentel (15-1) bided his time for three-plus rounds. Mercado secured takedowns with ease, employed a smothering top game and delivered some effective ground-and-pound, cutting the Brazilian across the bridge of the nose with an elbow strike inside the first five minutes. Pimentel …

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