Lombard stops Hess…
By Robert Przybylo
BPrzybylo@opubco.com
I didn’t get to see the Bellator event last night, but I followed along all night at the Bellator official site. Hector Lombard is the middleweight champion while Eddie Alvarez is the lightweight kingpin.
From reading the reports, sounds like a combination in round 1 was the undoing for Hess. It dropped him to a knee and gave him a mouse (swelling) under his left eye. By the time the second round started, the eye had almost swollen shut.
Lombard took advantage and took Hess down and cut him open on the right side, and Hess was a bloody mess the rest of the night.
The referee stopped the bout less than two minutes into the fourth round. It is the first loss in the career for Hess.
After an uneventful first round, Alvarez dropped Toby Imada in the opening second of round 2. He pounded away until Imada gave up his back and Alvarez took the crown with a rear-naked choke.
The fights will be shown tonight on ESPN Deportes.
For a recap of Hess’ fight, here’s the Bellator blog.
I’m going to try to catch up with Hess later this week and get his thoughts about things. I’m wondering if this is the first time he’s been cut in a fight.
Unfortunately for the Central Oklahoma product, this was his fate on this night.
Photo by Dave Mandel of Sherdog.com.
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