Vitor Petrino made easy work of Austen Lane in his heavyweight debut tonight at UFC On ESPN 70 by submitting him in the opening round.

Round One

Petrino lands a leg kick. Solid body punch for Lane. Low kicks for Lane. Calf kick for Petrino. When Lane tries to respond in kind Petrino chops at his base with a heavy kick and brings him down.

Petrino able to get to full mount and stays tight to him. Gradually Petrino works towards setting up an arm-triangle choke. He has the squeeze on, but he’s not moving off to the side to really tighten it up and so Lane survives.

Now Petrino blasts him with ground-and-pound, then opts to take Lane’s back. Petrino working for a rear-naked choke now and he’s got it in tight, forcing Lane to submit at 4.16mins of the opening round.