Tachi Palace Fights 9 was a mixed martial arts event held by

Tachi Palace Fights Tachi Palace Fights (TPF) was an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion which hosted events at the Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino in Lemoore, California. Matchmaker for TPF was former fighter Richard Goodman. Regarded as a regional promotion, T ...

(TPF) on Friday, May 6 at the Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino in

Lemoore, California Lemoore (formerly, La Tache and Lee Moore's) is a city in Kings County, California, United States. Lemoore is located west-southwest of Hanford, at an elevation of . It is part of the Hanford-Corcoran Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA Code 2 ...

Background

Alexis Vila Alexis Vila Perdomo (born March 12, 1971) is a Cuban professional mixed martial artist. An accomplished wrestler, Vila is also a two-time World Champion and 1996 Olympic bronze medallist. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in ...

was due to take on John Dodson, but pulled out of the bout with an unknown injury. Dodson was to fight

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veteran

Mamoru Yamaguchi Mamoru Yamaguchi (born May 29, 1977) is a Japanese mixed martial arts, mixed martial artist who competes in Pancrase. He is the former List of Shooto Champions#Bantamweight Championship, Shooto Bantamweight (123 lb) Champion, former List of ...

. However, on April 18, Dodson pulled out of the bout due to undisclosed reasons and Yamaguchi instead fought John Dunsmoor. Phil Collins was expected to face

Waachiim Spiritwolf Waachiim Spiritwolf is a Native American professional mixed martial artist who last competed in the Welterweight division. A professional competitor since from 2006 until 2015, he competed for King of the Cage, Tachi Palace Fights, Bellator, an ...

at this event, but pulled out on February 9 due to personal reasons. Spiritwolf instead faced Jorge Lopez. Jamie Yager was set to fight

Alan Jouban Alan Michael Joubanhttp://boxing.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/boxingnvgov/content/results/2016_Results/07-07-16MMA.pdf (born November 25, 1982) is an American retired professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Welterweight division. A profess ...

, but pulled out of the fight due to injury. Stepping in to fill the void was

Chidi Njokuani Chidi Godson Njokuani (born December 31, 1988) is an American former Muay Thai kickboxer and current professional mixed martial artist who currently competes in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professio ...

. On April 25 it was announced that

Cole Escovedo Coleman Ruben Escovedo (born August 30, 1981) is an American former mixed martial artist from Fresno, California. He was the inaugural WEC Featherweight Champion. Mixed martial arts career Health issues Escovedo was forced into a well document ...

was tapped by the

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to fight against

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, leaving Tommy Vargas without an opponent. Farkhad Sharipov stepped in to fight Vargas. Featherweight champion Isaac DeJesus failed to make weight for his title defense against Russ Miura and was stripped of his belt. Both fighters agreed to a catchweight bout.

Results

Main Card

*Flyweight bout: Ian McCall vs.

Dustin Ortiz Dustin Ortiz (born December 25, 1988) is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Flyweight division and is currently signed to the Brave CF. A professional competitor since 2010, Ortiz has also formerly competed for the UFC, RFA, T ...

:McCall defeated Ortiz via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27) *Featherweight (non title) bout: Isaac DeJesus vs. Russ Miura :Originally, DeJesus defeated Miura via TKO (punches) at 2:52 of round 1; this bout was later ruled a no contest after DeJesus tested positive for marijuana. *Lightweight bout:

Efrain Escudero Efraín Escudero (born January 15, 1986) is a Mexican mixed martial artist. He trains under Drew Fickett and competes in the 155 lb (70.3 kg) weight class. Efrain was the winner of season eight of Spike TV's reality show ''The Ultimate ...

vs.

Fabricio Camoes Fabricio () is a Spanish male given name. Fabrício () is the Portuguese equivalent. Among those with the first name are: *Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer *Fabrício Guerreiro (born 1990), Brazilian mixed martial artist *Fabricio Oberto, A ...

:Camoes defeated Escudero via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) *Middleweight bout:

Anthony Ruiz Anthony Ruiz (born November 3, 1977) is an American professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the Light Heavyweight and Middleweight divisions of MMA. A professional since 2003, he has competed for Bellator MMA, Strikeforce, the WE ...

vs.

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:Harris defeated Ruiz via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28) *Flyweight bout: Kevin Dunsmoor vs.

:Yamaguchi defeated Dunsmoor via KO (punch) at 4:03 of round 2. *Middleweight bout: Jorge Lopez vs.

:Lopez defeated Spiritwolf via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27) *Bantamweight bout: Farkhad Sharipov vs. Tommy Vargas :Sharipov defeated Vargas via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28) *Welterweight bout:

vs.

:Njokuani defeated Jouban via KO (body kick) at 1:27 of round 3. *Lightweight bout: Art Arciniega vs. Josh Herrick :Arciniega defeated Herrick via submission (triangle choke) at 1:08 of round 1. *Bantamweight bout:

Cody Gibson Cody Michael Gibson (born September 11, 1987) is an American mixed martial artist who formerly competed in the Bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and last competed in Eagle FC. Background Born in Blackwell, Oklahoma, in ...

vs.

Walel Watson Walel Watson (born July 17, 1984) is an American mixed martial artist. A professional since 2008, he has fought in the UFC, Titan FC, and Tachi Palace Fights. MMA career Watson made his professional debut in 2008 for MMA Xtreme in Mexico at the a ...

:Gibson defeated Watson via TKO (punches) at 4:09 of round 2. *Featherweight bout: Jesse Bowen vs. Brad McDonald :McDonald defeated Bowen via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) *Welterweight bout: Kenny Ento vs. James Chaney :Ento defeated Chaney via TKO (cut) at 1:53 of round 2. *Lightweight bout: Alex Perez vs. Jesus Castro :Perez defeated Castro via TKO (punches) at 1:56 of round 1.

References

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