Popular local fighters Mason Kinsella and Christian Young both won titles in front of their hometown fans at last night's Cage Warriors Academy South East 35 show.
Kinsella, who was serenaded to the cage by his large and vocal fanbase, wasted little time in sinking in a rear naked choke and forcing foe Carlito Ramos to tap in the very first round of their European featherweight title clash.
The BKK Fighters talent moves to 6-0 with the quickfire win, which he celebrated by scaling the cage at the Charter Hall in Colchester.
One fight earlier, charismatic Australian Christian Young, who fights out of Colchester's Combat Institute, completed a remarkable comeback from a serious injury to lift the flyweight title.
Young suffered a badly broken leg in a freak accident in training last year, but has shown true grit and resilience to not just get back in the cage, but win gold for the first time.
He moved to 5-2 as he survived two deep submission attempts from foe Alaa Cheaaibi before taking his back and raining down big punches to force the first round stoppage.
In the main event, featherweight champion Jacob Gifford moved to 5-1 by claiming a unanimous points win in an absorbing, close, technical battle with Alex Andrews (now 10-3) to defend his belt.
A unification clash at 145lbs between him and Kinsella would be a mouth-watering prospect - hopefully we could see that next.
Elsewhere on the card, BKK Fighters collected another title as Ben Edwards moved to 5-0 with a unanimous points win over James Hale to claim the welterweight crown, while Norbert Pietrzak (now 5-0) defended his heavyweight crown with a third round stoppage of Darryl John.
A new French star was born in the fight before that, with Oualy Tandia displaying some sensational striking and flashy footwork as he bludgeoned Nathan Lambert to a second round defeat in their European welterweight title clash.
Tandia's record now stands at a remarkable 20-2, with a 16-fight winning streak, and he appears to be very much the real deal.
In the other title fight on the main card, Shakh Mutalimov won light-welterweight gold with a first round guillotine choke of Claude Yanga.
Earlier in the evening, in a card shown live on TV in Norway, Joshua Onwordi defended his professional light-welterweight crown with a composed display against challenger OJ Mandt Johnsen.
Onwordi used accurate, technical counter-striking and clever grappling to move to 5-5 as a pro with a unanimous points win.
Cameron Stewart became a champ-champ, stopping the previously unbeaten Surkho Shamilov in the first round to add the Nordic welterweight title to his lightweight strap and improve his record to 7-2.
Force MMA KO machine Karl Mullings (3-0) made it three stoppage wins in a row by overpowering Hans Lovkoll in the first round to defend his light-heavyweight belt, while Adam Chabdaev needed just 33 seconds to finish William Timmis and claim the Nordic lightweight title.
Silverback MMA product Harry Hilden probably claimed KO of the night honors with a 13-second right-hand destruction of Alexander Kittelsen in their featherweight dispute.
And fight of the night, at least in your writer's opinion, was surely the brilliant lightweight scrap between BKK Fighters super prospect Mitchell Thorpe and the very tough Mohammed Saffa.
Thorpe, a star of the Karate Combat world, showed some dazzling striking, closing the distance with frightening speed and landing numerous right hands on Saffa.
But he also had to dig deep, as the teak tough Saffa refused to be deterred and forced him into some grappling heavy exchanges against the cage in a bid to nullify that elite level striking attack.
Thorpe moved to 2-0 with a unanimous decision win, and will have learned much from his second fight in the cage.
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