Pretoria’s Gordon Roodman welcomed Cape Town’s rising star Justin Smith to Pretoria in Saturday night’s main card opener at EFC 77 in the Sun Arena at Menlyn Maine.

However, Smith was responsible for the only controversy of the tournament when he lost due to disqualification.

Roodman delivered a few telling blows to an equally storming Smith in the opening exchanges, before two illegal elbows to the back of the head by Smith forced a medical stoppage.

Smith suffers a disqualification loss for intentional illegal strikes. This was his first defeat as a professional.

The night’s main event was a nail-biting five round encounter. Joe Cummins from the UK clinched the EFC lightweight title in his decision victory over South Africa’s Martin van Staden.

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