Garchitorena flattens URCC foe in 9 secs

MANILA, Philippines–MIDDLEWEIGHT Bong Garchitorena of AMA East Rizal upstaged the favorites by scoring the quickest win in the Colt 45-Universal Reality Combat Championship (URCC) University Challenge on Saturday at the A. Venue Events Hall in Makati City.

Garchitorena needed just nine seconds to flatten Michael Yap with a lethal punch.

His victory was a second faster over the win of Emilio Aguinaldo College’s Jessie Jurial, who likewise scored a knockout win via a punch over Olivarez College’s Jorge Turmon in their bantamweight tiff.

La Salle’s Meshaal Al-Khuzeem, Jojo Tabang and Kevin dela Cruz and STI College’s Isiah Ordiz also dominated their rivals. Other winners were MCU’s Charles Lubrica (bantam), Our Lady of Fatima’s PJ Barros (fly), UE’s Patrick Gamba (light), University of Regina Carmeli’s Fadi Alhamoui and Entrepreneur School of Asia’s Karl Rodriguez.

Gamba’s win also earned the praise of MMA fans as he downed Alvin Solinap by armbar submission in 26 seconds of the first round.