Fitial beats Quinata in ‘The Annihilation’

Kelvin “The Big Hit” Fitial capped Friday’s Trench Warz IX: The Annihilation with a first round beat down of Reuben “The Booben” Quinata in the main event.

In front of a jam-packed crowd inside Saipan World Resort’s Royal Taga Hall, the Marianas Elite heavyweight hammered the Spike 22 Fight Academy fighter into submission, forcing him to tap out a mere 4:25 seconds gone in the fight.

Quinata, a PXC Preba Hao champ in Guam, was repeatedly hit in the head by Fitial’s stinging jabs as the Saipan fighter’s reach proved effective against the smaller but heftier Quinata.

By the first minute of the match, Fitial had already succeeded in opening a cut above Quinata’s right eye and the latter tried to negate his opponent’s reach advantage—and at the same time prevent further damage to his eye—by taking the fight to the ground.

While Quinata wasn’t entirely successful with the tactic, he was able to put a stop to the pounding by pinning Fitial on one of the sides of the octagon.
Both fighters flayed away at each other with what appendage they had free, but when it became obvious that the fight was stalling, celebrity referee Frank “The Crank” Camacho stepped in and separated the two.

After a half minute of more stand-up fighting, both fighters ended in the ground with Quinata initially getting the upperhand by utilizing his entire 244 lbs. to staple Fitial on the mat.

The pride of Saipan, however, turned the tables on Quinata and proceeded to mount him and pounded him some more, exacerbating the condition of the Guam fighter’s now crimson face, as blood now proceeded to trickle down from his brow.

Moments later, Quinata waved the white flag of surrender by indicating to Camacho that he had enough and was quitting.

The whole venue exploded as Fitial leapt up from the mat and raised his two arms in triumph, while Quinata ingloriously retreated to his corner.

While elated with the outcome of the fight that raised his mixed martial arts record to 15 wins, two draws, and five losses, Fitial said he was kind of disappointed the match ended so abruptly.

“I didn’t expect the fight to end that quick. I thought he was ready and stuff and I wanted it to be a good fight because I’ve been training my hardest. I don’t know… I wanted to go stand-and-bang but he was trying to get on the ground but I already got my jujitsu [training] on the ground too,” he said.

For his part, Quinata said that he “ran out of gas” but mentioned that he would like to get a rematch against Fitial.

Asked if he would give him one, Fitial said he would only accede to one if Quinata trains harder the next time.

“I’ll give him the rematch. Everybody that asks me to a rematch, I give them. But they have to train hard because I always train hard,” he said.

The loss was the first in four matches for Quinata, who boasted a 67-0 win-loss record outside the ring.

In the semi main event, Fitial’s stablemate Myron “The Natural” San Nicolas improved to 7-1 after beating “Brutal” Bryson Sablan of Predators.

San Nicolas engaged Sablan in a fierce ground fight with the former using his superior grappling skills to get the upperhand majority of the match.

San Nicolas mounted Sablan then unleashed a flurry of punches—mostly on Sablan’s head—that forced the hand of Camacho to put a stop to the fight in the 1:51 mark of the first round.

The loss dropped Sablan’s MMA record to 3-2.

The rest of the matches, including the historic first female MMA fight between Tara “Tarantula” Sambile and Jen “Salbahe” Sambile, will be published in the following days.