Ronnie Mann showed why he is regarded as one of the top featherweights in Britain on Saturday night when he submitted Steve McCombe of EFR Belfast inside two minutes at Cage Gladiators VIII: Invasion.

Mann was defending his British title belt and at first it looked like McCombe had come to mug him, as he initiated the opening exchange and clipped with a good right hand that he clearly felt.

But Mann’s instant response was to take McCombe down and from there the traffic was all one way.

Putting McCombe on his back, Mann used punches to pressure him into turning his back slightly. That was all the opening that the Trojan gym product needed, as he immediately took McCombe’s back and began working for a rear-naked choke.

McCombe defended doggedly but there are few on the domestic scene that can function well with Ronnie Mann wrapped round their back and the Belfast fighter was no exception.

Mann found an opening wide enough to snake his arm round McCombe’s neck and seconds later the disappointed Belfast man was tapping out.

The win puts Mann on a four-fight winning run and he may well be keen to take that momentum into a rematch with Robbie Oliver, the Tsunami Gym fighter who is generally acknowledged as Britain’s top featherweight and who took a decision win over Mann last year.

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