Keenan Cornelius Comes Away With The Win At Inaugural 3rd Coast Grappling Event

January 15, 2019

Third Coast Grappling hosted its first ever event over the weekend, and it certainly lived up to all the hype. Out of the competition’s twenty matches, eleven ended in submission, seven ended in points wins, and just two ended in referee decisions. The grappling was high-level, and the action was entertaining.

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Last night was wild. Thank you @pianojiujitsu and @draculinobjj for being in my corner, and everyone who came out to support. Also props to @mcguire3cg and @thirdcoastgrappling for putting this all together and thanks for having me be a part of it.

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Hunter Newton and Joe Dierkhising put up a tough fight against each other at 3rd Coast Grappling.

In the main event, Keenan Cornelius showed why he’s one of the best in the game by fighting off Aaron “Tex” Johnson’s leglock attempts and racking up an impressive 34 points to win their headlining match.

Here are the full results from the event:

Keenan Cornelius defeats Aaron “Tex” Johnson via points

Victor Pozas defeats Bill Cooper via heel hook

Roberto Jimenez defeats Diego Almeida via points

Jordan Holy defeats Cristian Guzman via heelhook

Hunter Newton defeats Joe Dierkhising via referee decision (Overtime)

Justin Ledet defeats Robert Perez via guillotine

Alana Kai defeats Aimee Olds via guillotine

Michael Gainer defeats Dean Paulino via pressure

Roberto Rivas defeats Efrain Rodriguez via points

Victor Seabra defeats Hector Da Silva via points

Randy Baker defeats Duke Edwards via choke (Overtime)

William Tackett defeats Colin McClelland via head-arm choke