Eddie Cummings won it all. | Photo: Dave Mandel/Sherdog.com
It was almost -- almost -- the perfect Cinderella story for Joe Soto Saturday night at the Eddie Bravo Invitational 4 inside the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. Soto, a veteran of Bellator MMA and current Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight, was not expected to make it too far in the 16-man let alone all the way to the finals, but “One Bad Mofo” did just that.
Soto was like a salmon weaving his way upstream in the tourney. With the heel hook as the submission of choice for the majority of the combatants, Soto fended off leg and foot attacks en route to the final bout.