Tieva (yellow trunks), Gaffney (black trunks)
Andre “the diva” Tieva walked out into a hostile environment for his main event fight September 14th against Wisconsin’s Matt Gaffney. Gaffney the former WI state champion in wrestling, had many family, friends, and students of his wrestling program there to cheer him on. And in the process give Tieva an earful.
Both fighters came out throwing kicks to feel each other out. After over commited on a swinging punch, Tieva and was taken down by Gaffney. Tieva quickly swept Gaffney to his back briefly before a scramble ensued leading to an armbar attempt from the bottom by Tieva that nearly ended the fight. After getting back to his feet Gaffney hovered over The Diva until he tried to stand up too soon, Gaffney caught him with a clean right hand followed by another after Tieva tried to fire back. This staggered and dropped Tieva.
“Wild child” jumped on Tieva with repeated blows and looked to have the fight in the bag, until Tieva was able to grab a leg, recover, and wall walk back to his feet. After Creating some distance Tieva connected with a front kick to Gaffneys chin that forced him to retreat. Tieva chased him with a swinging right hand, but Gaffney was able to clinch up and attempt another takedown except this time Tieva had an Arm-in guillotine already locked up. The 2 fell and it wasn’t long before Gaffney had to tap at 3:02 of round 1.
This victory puts Tieva at 6-0 as a professional , which puts him in position to take on some big fights in the very near future.
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