Bobby Lashley wins MMA debut in 41 seconds, looking to jump to the UFC soon

Published on: 14th December, 2008

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Former WWE superstar Bobby Lashley knows he has to once again follow in Brock Lesnar’s foot steps entering MMA, as he had to when entering the Vince McMahon owned wrestling promotion. If his performance last night is any indication of how he plans to follow in his steps, Lashley is off on the right foot already. Lashley won his MMA debut over Joshua Franklin at MFA “There will be Blood” in Miami, Florida last night.

MMA Junkie had the scoop on Lashley’s winning debut performance which only lasted 41 seconds into the first round.

Lashley quickly ran in for a takedown and proceeded to ground and pound Franklin and opened a cut on his face. Ringside doctors came in to inspect Franklin’s cut and called the bout in the first round.

They also revealed a scoop on his possible second fight as well. Sources close to Junkie have told them that Lashley’s next fight is already being planned for February 2009, for the California based Palace Fighting Championship. They also revealed that Lashley will look to jump to the UFC as soon as possible, just like Brock Lesnar did after only 1 fight.

We look forward to seeing Lashley’s fight on tape as we are sure it should surface on youtube some time today or tomorrow, we will make sure when we find it you get to see it as well.

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V for vagina says:

December 14, 2008 at 4:50 am (Quote)

He should wait and get more fights under his belt then try and go to the ufc

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MMA BK1 says:

December 14, 2008 at 4:51 am (Quote)

he is going to have a hard time signing with the ufc he is still signed to the afl still

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- V for vagina says:
  
  December 14, 2008 at 4:52 am (Quote)
  
  @MMA BK1, that means the UFC wont sign him then I saw it the other day here that some fighter said the UFC wouldnt sign him cause he is still signed with Elite.
  
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hi says:

December 14, 2008 at 12:32 pm (Quote)

hes no brock but the ufc need some heavyweights.he needs to finish his last fight on his contract and then easily sign with the ufc.

here some hws the ufc should sign because they need more fighters in there hw divison but neither of these guys could beat brock.except fedor

of course fedor emelianenko
bobby lashley
brett rogers
dave herman
antonio silva
kimbo slice;hes not really good enough for the ufc but the hw divison just needs to fill out the roster
or they could take the 265 weight limit of and make the hw divison 206-any weight

and then they could sign

bob sapp for fun but he sucks
homg man choi
and a ton other giants.

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