In the main event, Stephen Ledbetter (6-1) of “Version 2.5″ Rory Singer‘s (11-8) Georgia-based Hardcore Gym wasted little time submitting Johnny Bedford (4-4-1) in a leg triangle in the first round.

Bedford nailed Ledbetter with some hard shots before taking him to the mat, which was his mistake.

Ledbetter climbed up Bedford’s back with his legs and locked in the choke.

Ledbetter is a veteran of Atlanta-based promotion Wild Bill’s Fight Night and most recently went three rounds in the WEC with ranked featherweight “Big Frog” Jeff Curran (30-9-1), losing a unanimous decision.

On the undercard, an exciting lightweight brawl ended in a slick submission victory for Kamrin Naville (1-3).

Naville and Ben Pierce (3-5) slugged it out in round one; but, Naville took Pierce to the mat in round two and worked an arm triangle submission from side mount to tap Pierce.

Note that Naville had missed weight for the fight.

Light heavyweight “CT” Robert Turner (2-0) of Louisville TKO’d Neal Hayes (0-1) of Atlanta in a first round ground’n'pound.

Middleweight Tony Hunter (0-3) got locked in a guillotine by Heath Davis (1-0) as Hunter shot for a double-leg takedown.  Davis tapped in under 30 seconds of round one.

Lightweight John Cofer (1-0) choked out Lawson McClure (1-1) by rear naked in the second round.

Bantamweight Bryan Goldsby (1-0) won a unanimous decision over Joey Marimberga (2-2) by scores of 30-27 twice and 29-38.

Lightweight Shawn Snow (1-1) choked out Michael Gordon (0-1) by rear naked in round one.