Newell won via technical knockout due to strikes at 3:00 of the first round.
FanHouse introduced you to Newell, who was born without a left hand, last week.
The 23-year-old had a 2-1 amateur MMA record before turning pro, and trains with both the Fighting Arts Academy in Springfield, Mass., and the Ultimate MMA Training Center in North Haven, Conn.
Newell was an all-state high school wrestler and also wrestled for four years at Western New England College, captaining the team in his senior year before taking up MMA.
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not wishing to take away from his victory or from the challenges he's had to overcome without a HAND; but comeon fanhouse!!!! he has an arm! he is only missing a wrist and hand. you make it sound like it's missing from the shoulder. an arm from shoulder to forearm is still a weapon. in the old days this type of reporting was called 'sensationalism.' for you it is par for the course.
must be a bummer when he tries to mash one out
let's give this courageous young man a hand...
(that was cheap and rather trite...even for me...I apologize, not to him but to the Comedy community)
congrats nick. brandon's dad good job.
Can't be too much longer before MMA trots out the midgets and masked Mexicans. It is, after all, the long and well established history of this category of "sport". Hey, I know: let's have Michael Vick go one on one with a bull mastiff! Now there's something even I might pay for...
Bruce, if you don't like it, don't watch it but is it ok if the rest of us enjoy the sport without snide comments from a non-fan...um-K pumpkin?
I am a one-legged man who used to compete in ass-kicking contests. I won my first match as well.
I am a Dyslexic who used to compete in Spelling Bees. I won my first contest too!!!!
My forman has a hair lip and no balls but wins all his bouts at kissing ass.
YO MAMA WALKS AROUND WITH A MATTRESS TIED TO HER BACK ,,,,,,YELLIN ,,,,,,CURB SERVICE