Tachi Palace Fights 7: Deck the Halls was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

 event held by Tachi Palace Fights

Tachi Palace Fights

Tachi Palace Fights is an American mixed martial arts promotion which hosts events at the Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino in Lemoore, California...

 on December 2, 2010 at the Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino in Lemoore, California

Lemoore, California

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Background

Chance Farrar was expected to fight at this event against Tommy Vargas, but due to a knee injury he was replaced by Martin Sandoval

Martin Sandoval

Martin A. Sandoval is a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 12th District since 2003.- Early life :Sandoval was born in The Back of the Yards, a neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side...

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Poppies Martinez suffered an undisclosed injury and was replaced by Ultimate Fighter

Ultimate Fighter

Ultimate Fighter - known in Japan as , is a fighting video game developed and published by Culture Brain for the Super NES.An updated version of it titled was later released exclusively in Japan for the same platform on December 11, 1992, which adds a choice of turbo speed levels to increase the...

 veteran Seth Baczynski

Seth Baczynski

Seth Baczynski is an American mixed martial artist. He was a cast member of Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter: Team Liddell vs. Team Ortiz. Baczynski formerly trained with Southwest MMA alongside Efrain Escudero and Santino DeFranco. Now he resides in Tempe, Arizona, training at Power MMA with Ryan...

, who will fight Martinez's original opponent, Tim McKenzie.

Jesse Wallace also suffered a knee injury training for his fight against Mike Guidry and was replaced by Jimmy Ambriz

Jimmy Ambriz

Jimmy "The Titan" Ambriz is an American mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Super Heavyweight division. He is a former King of the Cage Super Heavyweight Champion. His nickname "The Titan" is for his enormous size and raw power...

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Micah Miller was to challenge for Jorge DeJesus's featherweight belt, but Miller weighed in 1.2 lbs over the limit, and the bout was changed to a non-title matchup.

Results

• Light Heavyweight bout:   Nik Fekete vs.   Chris Bostick

Fekete defeated Bostick via TKO (punches) at 4:06 of round 2.

• Heavyweight bout:   Jimmy Ambriz
  Jimmy Ambriz
  Jimmy "The Titan" Ambriz is an American mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Super Heavyweight division. He is a former King of the Cage Super Heavyweight Champion. His nickname "The Titan" is for his enormous size and raw power...
  
   vs.   Mike Guidry

Ambriz defeated Guidry via TKO (punches) at 4:29 of round 2.

• Catchweight (150 lbs) bout:   Tony Llamas vs.   Sergio Quinones

Llamas defeated Quinones via submission (armbar) at 2:03 of round 2.

• Bantamweight bout:   Martin Sandoval vs.   Tommy Vargas

Vargas defeated Sandoval via unanimous decision.

• Middleweight bout:   Jaime Jara
  Jaime Jara
  Jaime Jara is an American mixed martial artist.-Background:Jara is the first fighter in MMA history to hold titles in 4 different weight divisions: Heavyweight, light heavyweight, middleweight, and welterweight. He currently competes in the Middleweight division...
  
   vs.   Jay Silva
  Jay Silva
  Jay Silva is a Brazilian-Angolan mixed martial artist, who has competed for the UFC and more recently Bellator. He regularly fights at middleweight.-MMA career:...
  
  

Silva defeated Jara via KO (punches) at 0:33 of round 1.

• Catchweight (175 lbs) bout:   Seth Baczynski
  Seth Baczynski
  Seth Baczynski is an American mixed martial artist. He was a cast member of Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter: Team Liddell vs. Team Ortiz. Baczynski formerly trained with Southwest MMA alongside Efrain Escudero and Santino DeFranco. Now he resides in Tempe, Arizona, training at Power MMA with Ryan...
  
   vs.   Tim McKenzie

Baczynski defeated McKenzie via KO (punches and elbows) at 2:15 of round 1.

• Welterweight Championship bout:   John Alessio
  John Alessio
  John Paul Alessio is a Canadian mixed martial artist who currently competes as a Welterweight. Alessio has fought for many of the major MMA promotions, including WEC, UFC, PRIDE, KOTC, MFC and DREAM.-Ultimate Fighting Championship:...
  
   vs.   Phil Collins

Alessio defeated Collins via TKO (punches) at 0:35 of round 3 to win the TPF Welterweight Championship.

• Featherweight bout:   Micah Miller vs.   Jorge DeJesus

Miller defeated DeJesus via submission (neck crank) at 4:11 of round 1.

• Flyweight bout:   Jussier da Silva
  Jussier da Silva
  Jussier da Silva, is a Brazilian mixed martial artist currently signed with the Shooto. He is the Shooto South America 123-pound champion. da Silva holds a notable win over Shooto's Bantamweight Champion Shinichi Kojima...
  
   vs.   Danny Martinez
  Danny Martinez
  Danny Martinez is an American mixed martial artist. He has competed in the TKO, XFC and Rage in the Cage promotions. In the latter, he is the current bantamweight champion...
  
  

Da Silva defeated Martinez via unanimous decision.

• Catchweight (212 lbs) bout:   Jorge Oliveira vs.   James Irvin
  James Irvin (fighter)
  James Lee Irvin is an American mixed martial artist who has competed as a Middleweight, Light Heavyweight, and currently as a Heavyweight. He is a former World Extreme Cagefighting heavyweight champion...
  
  

Oliveira defeated Irvin via submission (triangle choke/armbar) at 1:33 of round 1.