Hey, what's up, I'm cageside at Jeremy Horn's Elite Fight Night: Destruction. The crowd is rolling in, Rage Against the Machine just took over for hair metal on the sound system and things are looking good.

Tonight's main event features Steve "Razor" Sharp vs. Shane Brenner. For more on Razor, check out blogs.sltrib.com/martialarts for an exclusive story. The Trib MMA blog and thecagenews.com have a content-sharing arrangement for the most extensive Utah MMA news coverage around.

Also on tonight's card is DaMarques Johnson vs. George Stork. For more on DaMarques, check out the story Darkness Rising on www.thecagenews.com.

I'll be doing round-by-round updates, so if you can't make it down to South Towne, keep checking back here to read what you're missing.

I’ll post the latest round up top so you won’t have to keep scrolling down.

Steven Sharp vs. Shane Brenner

Round 1: Steve Sharp comes out to a huge ovation. Wow, everyone is on their feet here cheering for Sharp, who comes out in a ninja suit and rips off the head gear to show is trademark pink hair with a black Mohawk. They’re still standing and cheering here. Brenner takes the center of the cage. They exchange some tentative strikes. Sharp lands a hard outside kick to Brenner’s right leg. Sharp lands a few strikes and Brenner’s leg either buckles or got kicked, I couldn’t tell. Joe Riggs steps in to stop this fight, as Brenner is down holding his leg, which doesn’t look good. At :39, Sharp gets the victory. In Sharp’s victory speech he says Brenner came in with an injury and made it worse. Brenner, sitting on the ground, thanks everyone and confirms the previous injury.

DaMarques Johnson vs. George Stork

Round 1: Johnson cracks Stork with two hard rights. Stork grabs Johnson and pulls him into guard. Johnson goes to work from closed guard, avoiding a guillotine and landing some hard elbows to Stork’s forehead. Johnson stands up and nearly leaves his arm out for an arm bar. He takes Stork’s back and has one hook in. He reverses Stork into mount. Stork turns and gives his back. Johnson puts in one hook. He’s got a rear naked choke in tight. Stork rolls out of it and Johnson stands. He lands a hard, hard kick to the ribs. Stork stands up and Johnson cracks him in the jaw. Stork is wobbly. Johnson lands another kick to the body and another hard right to the face. Stork goes down. Johnson moves to jump on him but ref John Jordan steps in to save Stork. Johnson wins via TKO at 2:36.

James Birdsley vs. Lucas Montoya

Birdsley lands a few good shots. Montoya backs him up against the fence. Montoya picks Birdsley way up for a big slam. Birdsley grabs a tight guillotine on the ground and Montoya has to tap at :31.

Camrann Pacheco vs. Lance Gorman

Pacheco lands a hard couple of inside leg kicks. Gorman scores with a jumping knee and eats another couple of hard leg kicks. Gorman drops to the bat and Pacheco is all over Gorman. Pacheco is hammering down with both fists. Ref John Jordan steps in at :49 after Gorman has no answer for Pacheco’s “monkey strikes,” as the announcer puts it. Great fight!

News Flash! Joe Riggs is missing his sunglasses. It's a new twist on the "Theres' a white cadillac blocking somebody in and they're ready to leave. You gotta move your car." Never seen someone's missing sunglasses get an APB from the ring announcer before, but then again I haven't been hanging out with Diesel.

Chris Kennedy vs. Mike Arrant

Round 3: Kennedy lands a hard left to Arrant’s chin. Arrant swings back, but Kennedy grabs a single leg and takes him down. They roll around and Kennedy sinks in a rear naked choke. Great move!

Round 2: Arrant opens with a really high kick and goes over the head. Kennedy answers with a hard leg kick that gives Arrant pause. They go back into the clinch along the cage. Arrant is landing some good knees to the stomach. They separate and come back to the cage. Now they’re standing. Kennedy cracks Arrant on the jaw. Kennedy has enough of the standing game and takes Arrant down. Kennedy moves into half guard. He’s landing some hard elbows to Arrant’s head. Arrant bucks out of the position and reverses Kennedy. Kennedy works for a triangle choke. He can’t seem to get his leg locked but he’s holding onto it. Kennedy has a hold on Arrant’s head. He leg go of the triangle. Arrant in side control, moves to mount but overshoots it. He’s back into closed guard. Arrant is back into half guard. Kennedy is throwing some elbows form the bottom. He reverses Arrant with 10 second left in the round. Hard round to score. I think I’d give it to Kennedy.

Round 1: Note to fighters: Please, don’t fight your doppleganger and wear the same trunks. Thanks. Kennedy comes out first, Arrant answers with a few quick shots to the body. These are two strong guys and they’re both playing a power game on the cage. Arrant takes Kennedy down and lands a few punches and elbows from inside guard. They’re spending a lot of time on the mat, with Arrant landing a few punches here and there. He’s controlling the ation for now, but Kennedy brings it back up to the feet. Kennedy gets an arm-in guillotine and closes guard. Arrant must be OK, but Kennedy is still holding on tight burning out his arms. Arrant pulls out of the Guillotine and lands some punches to the face out of Kennedy’s guard. I’d give the first round to Arrant for control and damage.

Rad Martinez vs. Eddie Pelczynski

Round 1: For my sake, these guys are going by Rad and Eddie because typing Pelczynski is going to drive me nuts. Rad goes right for the takedown. Eddie looks for a triangle, but Rad gets up and backs off. Back to standing. Rad uses the jab to get back in close and take Eddie down again. Rad has Eddie’s arm trapped with his knee and is landing stiff punches to the face. Rad swings over for mount. This is bad for Eddie. Rad is swinging away. Eddie is covering up well but he can’t get out of the position. Ref John Jordan calls an end to it at 1:25 for Rad Martinez. And it looks like it's taking Rad Martinez longer than the fight just to get his shirt back on.

Alex Stauffer vs. Francisco Aleantra

Round 1: Joe “Diesel” Riggs reffing again, sporting a cagenews.com T-shirt.

Aleantra cracks Stauffer with a few big shots. Stauffer takes Aleantra down but Aleantra reverses. He stands and works for a standing guillotine. After 15 seconds of that he lets go and cracks Stauffer with a few shots. Both fighters stand in the middle. Stauffer grabs on and trips Aleantra. He’s got mount. Stauffer works on Aleantra, who gives up his back. Stauffer is being patient and looking for the rear naked choke. Aleantra covering well and defending, but there’s lots of time to work in this round. Stauffer has one hook in and keeps working. Now he’s got both hooks in, flattens Aleantra out and secures the choke. Riggs sees a tap, and Stauffer gets the win by submission at 3:01.

Toni Strader vs. Daniel Pollaccia

Round 2: Pollaccia works the jab and Strader comes at him with two or three looping rights that land. Pollaccia pushes Strader back into the cage. Jordan breaks it up for lack of action. Pollaccia hits Strader with a stiff left to the chin and Strader answers with another looping punch. Pollaccia’s striking is more accurate and methodical, but Strader could probably end this with one punch. Pollaccia has a Muay Thai clinch and is working the knees to the body. I’ll tell you this, Strader can take a punch. Strader’s gameplan here seems to be to take punishment and counter with some big punch when he can. Pollaccia continues the barrage and Strader looks like he’s just too exhausted to continue. He falls to the canvas. I couldn’t see exactly what happened to finish this off, but John Jordan calls the fight at 3:08 for Pollaccia due to knockout.

Round 1: These are the big boys. Strader comes in with a 10-pound weight advantage, 257-247. Pollaccia’s footwork isn’t fooling Strader, who grabs a single leg and works it. Pollaccia is dropping elbows from the top, but nothing serious. Strader stands up again and they’re jockeying for position. Pollaccia lands a kick to the body and a left to the chin. Strader staggers. Pollaccia moves in and eats a couple of wide rights. Pollacicia swings back and stuns Strader again. Strader dives and takes a left. Pollaccia’s got some good takedown defense. Pollaccia escapes the leg brag and swings around to land some shots with Strader turtled. Pollaccia mounts and his landing strikes to the face from top with Strader on his inees. Ref John Jordan is right there watching all of this. Pollaccia is definitely in control of this fight at this point. Strader doesn’t seem to have an answer here. Pollacia lands two hard knees to the head while the fighters are standing. Strader kieeps looking for a single-leg but it’s not going anywhere. Pollaccia is landing the better striking and avoiding the takedown. Strader comes out of nowhere to land two big punches, but Pollaccia recovers and presses Strader against the cage and lands another knee to the head. Strader landed some good shots, but Pollaccia definitely took this round.

Mike Ashbridge vs. Tallon Torres

Round 1: This is the first fight Joe “Diesel” Riggs is reffing. I don’t know how old Ashbridge is, but he’s got serious white hair and his nickname is The Geezer. Ashbridge connects with a good shot to the chin. Torres takes him down with a single leg and Ashbridge grabs a guillotine. The crowd stands up. Ashbridge can’t hold it. Torres gets out and mounts. Torres swings around and gets Ashbridge’s back from behind. He sinks in a rear naked choke and Ashbridge taps.

First up: David Castillo vs. Joe Bowden

Round 1: Castillo keeps his hands high and chin down, Bowden is coming out a little more open and is eating a few hands for it. Bowden tries a nifty spin move but doesn’t land anything. Castillo scores with a hard inside leg kick and lands a really really sick punch to the jaw. Bowden is down and out, and he’s really out. They’re attending to him right now. Looks like they’ve got him awake now, but he was out for a good minute at least. Official call is 1:03 in the first round for Castillo.

The guy singing the anthem would make any purebred hockey fan proud. If you don’t know what I mean, you aren’t one.