Leites chokes out Boetsch

Thales Leites and Tim Boetsch engaged in a wonderful firefight, with Leites surviving some heavy leather before snaking in a fight-ending arm-triangle choke at 3:45 of the second frame.

For a round and a half, both men played a thrilling game of live action Rock 'em Sock 'em robots, with both giving as good as they got.

Midway through the middle stanza, "The Barbarian" cracked Leites with a brutal uppercut, forcing the Brazilian to seek a takedown. Once on the mat, Leites took over, failing on his first attempt at an arm-triangle, before finally choking Boetsch into unconsciousness on his second try.

Leites, who now finds himself in the thick of things at 185 pounds, did not escape unscathed.

Yikes.