Josh Thomson looked quite comfortable in the friendly confines of his hometown.
The UFC and Strikeforce veteran did what he was supposed to do against a relatively unknown opponent, as he stopped Pablo Villaseca with a flurry of unanswered ground-and-pound at the 3:59 mark of round two in the Bellator 147 headliner at the San Jose University Event Center in San Jose, Calif, on Friday night.
“I cannot lose in this town, right? It felt good,” Thomson said. “He was young and hungry. I could tell he wanted to push the pace.