RAF 14: Arman Tsarukyan vs. Dillon Danis Live Updates, Highlights and Results

It was much ado about nothing once the main event got started and Tsarukyan quickly ended matters with a technical fall, thanks to a 10-0 lead, in the first period.

The win gave Tsarukyan the RAF's middleweight crossover title.

The two men shook hands after the fight and Tsarukyan said their rivalry was over unless Danis wanted an MMA fight.

Sonnen referred to Tsarukyan as "the face" of RAF while Danis, who lost to Logan Paul in a boxing ring and is now 0-3 in RAF, was labeled "one of the all-time great villains in combat sports."

Villain? Certainly. But labeling Danis an all-time great anything seems a stretch.

Will these two guys follow the rules?

We'll soon find out when it comes to press-conference scrappers Tsarukyan and Danis, who've done a lot of talking heading into their main event.

Danis has lost to Colby Covington and Chimaev in the RAF.

Tsarukyan is 7-1, having lost only to Covington by 5-2 decision.

It's a middleweight crossover title match.

It was no contest on the mat between the ex-cage kings, with Chimaev using multiple takedowns and elite wrestling to run up an 11-0 lead on Lawler for a technical fall with 20 seconds remaining in the first period.

Chimaev, who'll meet fellow chatterbox Colby Covington in three weeks, was menacing when discussing the imminent matchup.

"I'm happy to get this guy finally and break his neck," Chimaev said.

The first of two fights billed as main events matches a pair of former UFC champions in Chimaev and Lawler.

Lawler, 44, is making his UFC debut.

Chimaev, 32, has beaten UFC alums, Danis, Tyron Woodley, and Gilbert Burns in RAF.

He's scheduled to meet Colby Covington next month in Abu Dhabi.

The night's second title match yielded the first successful title defense when Yepez retained her strawweight laurels by 8-7 decision.

Hildebrandt, 33, scored the match's first points before Yepez, 25, rattled off five in a row and entered the final period with a four-point edge.

Yepez said during the fight-week buildup that she'd long been a Hildebrandt fan and received a pair of wrestling shoes from Hildebrandt as a child years ago.

The women return to center stage for a championship match at strawweight.

Hildebrandt is a two-time Olympic medalist and Yepez is the reigning RAF champion.

The points came fast and furious in the featherweight bout, where Rivera became the No. 1 contender with a stirring third-period rally and a decision win on criteria.

Rivera trailed, 10-1, after two periods but rallied to tie it at 11 when he pushed Arujau off the mat with 2.1 seconds remaining. He earned the criteria tiebreaker by scoring the match's final point.

It was the largest comeback, from nine points down, in RAF history.

"I'm a bad motherf--ker," Rivera said. "I'm a bad motherf--ker."

It's a No. 1 contender match at featherweight, where the winner between Rivera and Arujau is penciled in for a title match next month.

"We go six minutes hard," Rivers said, "and then we get to go home."

It was a significant upset in RAF circles when Caliendo took an early lead and escaped with a 7-5 win over Burroughs, who won gold at the 2012 Olympics.

Caliendo, 23, led 4-0 after the first period and 5-0 after two, then saw Burroughs, 38, rally to within two points at both 5-3 and 7-5 in the third.

Analyst Chael Sonnen boosted the enormity of the win by suggesting Burroughs might be the greatest wrestler of all time.

"I don't care who it is," Caliendo said, "but I want the belt."

Back to middleweight for a three-rounder between Burroughs and Caliendo.

Burroughs is 2-0 in RAF after winning consecutive technical falls with scores of 11-0 and 10-0 while scoring five takedowns.

Caliendo has a win and a draw in two RAF appearances.

The pace went back to frenetic in the night's first championship bout, which Lovett won by late technical fall to become the RAF's lightweight king.

The final score was 13-2 in his favor after he led 2-0 after one period and 6-2 after two.

The match ended with one second remaining in the final round.

The match was delayed by video review in the third period when Oliver's corner challenged a call by the referee not awarding Oliver two points for a takedown.

The challenge was denied, giving Lovett an extra point.

Corners can challenge calls in RAF title matches.

Oliver had been the RAF's featherweight champion but relinquished the title when he missed weight.

"It feels pretty damn good," Lovett said.

It's a pair of elite RAF unbeatens with the 1-0 Lovett matching up with the 4-0 Oliver at lightweight, which meant a weigh-in limit of 155 pounds.

The organization's lightweight title, now vacant, is up for grabs.

The RAF's anti-stalling "shot clock" feature came into play twice against Elam, who promised high-scoring mayhem but went down meekly by 9-1 decision to Bastida.

The "clock" mandates an inactive competitor complete a scoring maneuver within 30 seconds or a point is awarded to the opponent.

Bastida led, 4-0, after one period and 5-0 after two.

Heading to the show's halfway point at heavyweight for a matchup of multiple-time college opponents Bastida and Elam.

"I'm very familiar with him," Elam said.

The pace slowed considerably in the meeting between Lewis and Gadzhimagomedov, which was far more a traditional duel of well-matched competitors.

Gadzhimagomedov, a 36-year-old Russian, won a 5-4 decision on points.

Gadzhimagomedov led, 2-0, after the first period and extended it to 5-0 by the end of two periods. Lewis scored two takedowns in the final 60 seconds to narrow the gap.

It's back to the cruiserweights with Lewis, a four-time ACC wrestling champion in college, making his debut with the organization.

"I think it's going to be really electric," Lewis said.

Mir was billed as a bully and competed like it, picking up her first RAF win by technical fall when she ran up a 10-0 lead in the first 31 seconds of Period 2.

Mir is the daughter of ex-UFC champ Frank Mir.

Mir led, 5-0, at the end of the first period and punctuated it with a hard slam of Chase, though the move came moments after the whistle that officially ended the round.

It's a pair of middleweights in the first women's bout of the night.

Mir, a 23-year-old based in Las Vegas, is 0-1 in the RAF.

The frenetic Chase, meanwhile, came to the mat swinging a pair of nunchucks.

"I have never seen energy like this from a woman, ever," analyst Julianna Pena said.

Downey ended his three-fight skid in sudden fashion when he scored a pinfall at 1:41 of the second period, impressing his father in his corner of the mat.

"I didn't want to lose with daddy here," said Downey, who'd already met UFC alums Joaquin Buckley and Yoel Romero on the mat and called out Joe Pyfer, Sean Strickland, and Anthony "Fluffy" Hernandez after the bout.

Another catchweight crossover is up for the third match, with Downey, on a three-match skid, hoping to better a 1-4 RAF record.

The catchweight is 205 pounds.

Two matches. Two technical superiority wins.

Uber-aggressive UFC stalwart Allen was up, 10-0, thanks to a series of two-point takedowns when the match was waved off with six seconds remaining in the first period.

"That's what we do," Allen said, playing to the crowd and calling out a fellow UFC name. "Where's Robbie (Lawler) at?"

Next up is a cruiserweight crossover match between Allen and Shlemenko, each of whom is better known for athletic endeavors outside RAF.

The weight limit is 190 pounds.

Allen is ranked fourth in the UFC at middleweight, 185 pounds.

Well, that was quick.

It took all of 101 seconds for Ragusin to score a technical fall, which is wrestling's version of a mercy rule, meaning the match ended when he assumed a significant lead on points.

First up, it's three periods (two minutes each) for a pair of RAF newbies.

Ragusin is a four-time national wrestling tournament qualifier from the University of Michigan and Archuleta is a former Bellator MMA champion.

Imagine a large square wrestling mat—not a ring and not a cage—laid flat on a stage in the events center (arena, auditorium) of a Las Vegas casino hotel.

That's the setting for RAF 14 at the Fontainebleau, where things are presumably about to get going. An in-house announcer just encouraged the crowd to make some noise when things go live on Fox Nation "in five minutes."

RAF's final pre-show press conference followed a frequent combat sports example with a brawl on Thursday afternoon.