Dalton Rosta ran by Sadibou Sy on the PFL World Event on Friday night time, securing a second-round submission victory over the previous champion.
The primary spherical belonged to Rosta, who landed the higher of the placing exchanges, most of which got here towards the fence. With solely seconds to go within the spherical, Rosta lastly managed to muscle Sy to the mat and dropped a couple of bombs simply earlier than the bell.
Sy seemed slightly worse for put on following the spherical, taking his time to get off the canvas and make his technique to the nook.
Simply over a minute into the second, Rosta pumped a jab with a booming proper hand hidden behind it. As Sy tried to retreat, that allowed Rosta to hurry in and safe his second takedown of the combat. Rosta instantly took Sy’s again and dropped some heavy pictures, prompting Sy to show over, permitting Rosta to slip proper into facet management.
Rosta got here dangerously near ending the combat with an Americana, however Sy defended nicely and freed his arm from the hazard.
Whereas Sy was capable of defend his arm, he couldn’t do the identical for his neck. Rosta cinched in a d’arce choke with lower than two minutes to go, forcing Sy to faucet out and advancing himself to the semi-final spherical of the middleweight event.
Official Consequence: Dalton Rosta def. Sadibou Sy by way of submission (d’arce choke) at 3:29 of Spherical 2.
