Kamuela Kirk suffered his first octagon loss at the hands of Damon Jackson.

Damon Jackson improved his record to 20 wins after putting Kamuela Kirk away on the prelims at UFC Vegas 50. This marks Jackson’s 14 wins via submission and 16 finishes out of 20 wins. 

The experienced grappler found much success on the feet before putting Kirk on the ground, where Jackson was suffocating with his maximum pressure. “The Leech” eventually saw the opening he needed, latching onto an arm-triangle choke that forced Kirk to tap out at the 4:42 mark in the second round.

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“He’s a solid dude,” Jackson said of Kirk. “Lot of potentials. He’s young. I knew he had a really big jiu-jitsu background.

“I want someone in the top 15 [next]. I want someone top 15. I want to be challenged.”

While his ground acumen is recognized mainly as his best weapon, Jackson showed no fear of throwing hands in the opening round as he tagged Kirk with hard shots, setting up the takedown.

Kamuela Kirk definitely would improve coming out of this lost.