In a strong weekend of fight sports action around the globe, Bellator Birmingham may have stolen the limelight with the most dramatic package, which included four dramatic, diverse, first round finishes on its quartet of main card contests.

It was certainly the kind of card the fight league is aiming to produce with its European series on free-to-air, network Channel 5 television.

This one did not disappoint. Brent Primus, the former Bellator lightweight champion, admitted his "healthy obsession" for wanting a trilogy fight with Michael Chandler - the incumbent king - before and after stopping Briton Tim Wilde with a rare gogoplata submission at the Resorts World Arena.

Primus's triumph raised his record to 9-1, with his only defeat being at the hands of Chandler in a punishing 5-round contest in Hawaii in December.

Primus took the title from Chandler at Madison Square Garden in the summer of 2017.

Chandler fights Patricio Pitbull in a defence of the 155lbs crown in Chicago this coming weekend. It remains to be seen if the pair will have their trilogy next, but Primus said that "all I do is think of kicking his a--, I want that third fight so badly."

Primus even told me that if Chandler loses in Chicago to Pitbull, he would "take a fight with Chandler before the belt."