Heavyweights Ron Waterman and Analu Brash battled it out for the newly created X1 World heavyweight title in one of the most exciting fights of the night.

The two hulking specimens slugged it out early. Brash, a young up-and-coming fighter from Maui, landed a number of leg kicks, one of which sent Waterman crashing to the canvas. Then Brash swarmed his opponent, landing hammerfists from side mount before the fighters found their ways back to the feet.

Waterman scored a takedown and worked from the guard, attempting a can opener before bloodying Brash's nose. The round ended with Waterman scoring heavy leather on the feet.

Brash's battered nose seemed to be hurting his already failing conditioning as the second round started, and Waterman was ready to bring it to him.

"I knew as the fight went on that my conditioning was going to take over, cause I've seen him fight before and he gassed a little bit," Waterman said. "I lost 30 pounds for this fight, and I trained real hard for it, so I knew I could go 15 minutes hard and it ended up paying off for me."

Waterman got the fight to the mat again in the second round. He used a can opener to transition to side control, where he secured a keylock and forced the Hawaiian to tap out at 2:50.

"Once I get to side control, I just feel so confident there," Waterman said. "That's where my game is, so I had a couple tight submissions on him and he just fed that arm up one time right into a keylock. I knew once I had that pulled into my body tight that something was gonna break or he was gonna tap. It started snapping pretty hard, so I knew it was over."