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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Phoenix Suns hope an eastern road trip will cure their woes when they kick off a three-game sojourn Wednesday night at Time Warner Cable Arena against the Charlotte Hornets. The Suns have dropped six in a row, including three straight on the road. Their home losses during this skid came against the Miami Heat, Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks, not exactly murders row. Phoenix hasnt won since an impressive road victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Dec. 5. During this slide, the Suns have fallen behind both the New Orleans Pelicans and Oklahoma City Thunder in the bid, albeit a very early one, for the eighth playoff seed out west. On Monday, Khris Middleton banked in a 3-pointer as time expired to give the Bucks a 96-94 win in Phoenix. Milwaukee, which was down one, burned two timeouts before the final possession. Middleton came to the ball near the left sideline and let fly with a contested, off-balance trey that hit the backboard and every part of the rim before falling through. On Dec. 8, the Los Angeles Clippers Blake Griffins game-winning 3 bounced off the front of the rim before sneaking into the basket. Some years, the breaks arent going your way. Obviously, so far this year, they havent, Suns head coach Jeff Hornacek said. Weve got to make our own breaks. Markieff Morris had 25 points and Isaiah Thomas gave 20 off the bench. Gerald Green finished with 12 for the Suns, although he shot 3-for-18 from the field and 2-for-15 from long range. Eric Bledsoe chipped in 11. The Suns will visit the New York Knicks and Washington Wizards on this trip. The Hornets have dropped three straight since a two-game winning streak. During this rut, Charlotte has averaged 94 ppg and twice failed to crack the 90-point plateau. One of those instances occurred Monday when the Hornets fell, 97-88, at Quicken Loans Arena to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Cleveland raced out to a 21-0 lead on Monday and never looked back. The Hornets fought back, several times cutting double-digit leads down, but the Cavs pulled away late in the third. We played a good enough offensive game to win...(but) our first quarter defense was obviously poor, Hornets head coach Steve Clifford said. The Hornets received 24 points out of Kemba Walker and 14 from Al Jefferson. Marvin Williams was Charlottes only other double-figure scorer with 10 off the bench. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist made his first start since Nov. 11, but managed only one point in 21 minutes. The Hornets beat the Suns by eight in Phoenix on Nov. 14 to snap a five-game series losing streak. The Suns have won two straight as the visitor in this series. Doug Rader Jersey . The club says Fridays surgery was successful. 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Mousasi (35-4-2) showed resilience after a disappointing February loss to top contender Lyoto Machida. Munoz (13-5) wasted little time working inside for a takedown, but Mousasi showed ample defence, earning top position in an early scramble. Munoz eventually worked back to his feet, but Mousasi was always a step quicker with his movement and more accurate with his strikes. As Munoz continued to press for a takedown, Mousasi battered him with elbows and eventually moved to his opponents back. Bloodied and battered, Munoz tapped out at the 3:57 mark of the first round when Mousasi applied a rear-naked choke. "I worked a lot on the rear-naked choke and the guillotine," said Mousasi. "I set it up with punches, and I was able to get it. Hes a wrestler, so he always comes forward. I wanted to pick up the angles and slowly pick up the pressure." In the nights co-feature, C.B. Dolloway (15-5) made his case for a top-10 ranking with an impressive win over Frances Francis Carmont (22-9), a Tristar Gym fighter who lives in Montreal. Carmont used powerful strikes to batter Dolloway in the opening stages of the fight, kicking hard to the body and firing big right hands. Unfazed, Dolloway began to taunt his opponent and hang his chin before unleashing a crisp left hook that dropped Carmont to the floor. Dolloway pounced to finish, but Carmont quickly recovered and moved back to his feet. The two continued to trade strikes throughout an entertaining first round before Carmont scored a late takedown. However, Dolloway swept immediately to the top and finished the round in top position. Dolloway looked to work the body in the second, while Carmont continued to attack the legs and body with powerful kicks. Dolloway eventually worked inside for a takedown, moving to his opponents back and securing the dominant position. An alert Carmont tried to work for a kimura, but Dolloway kept his arm tucked and again finished the frame in a dominant position. In the third, Carmont initially looked for a takedown, but Dolloway defended the move and countered with one of his own. As blood trickled down his face, Dolloway advanced to his opponents back, but Carmont defended a choke attempt and worked back to his feet. A relentless Dollaway turned back to his wrestling, bringing the fight to the floor and movving quickly to mount.dddddddddddd The pair scrambled for the remainder of the fight, but it was Dolloway who again was in top position at the bell. In the end, Dolloways effort was enough to earn him one of the biggest wins of his career by unanimous decision with scores of 30-27, 30-27 and 29-28. "Im exhausted, but I feel on top of the world," Dolloway said. "Francis was hard to get to, and he was a little bit more difficult to get past than I thought he would be. I took a while to adjust and to get into the fight. Now Ive just got to keep working. This is what I want, so Ive just got to keep on working to get there." In a middleweight matchup that failed to live up to expectations, Sean Strickland (15-0) earned a controversial split-decision win over Luke Barnatt (8-1). The contest played out at a moderate pace with neither athlete truly taking control of the pace. Strickland was the crisper striker in the early going, and scored an early takedown in the second frame. But along the way, Strickland suffered a broken hand, and it limited his offence for the rest of the contest. Barnatt picked up his offensive volume in the latter stages of the bout, but he never truly put together any significant combinations, and Strickland was awarded a split-decision win with scores of 28-29, 30-27 and 29-28. UFC president Dana White immediately posted on Twitter, stressing that he felt the wrong man was awarded the victory. "I should have pulled the trigger more," Strickland admitted after the win. "In the third round, I was pretty much useless. I know my cardio was there though, going into the fight, and I knew I could push the pace. I just gave Luke Barnatt a lot of respect. Hes a tough guy." In the nights first main-card contest, Swedish featherweight Niklas Backstrom (8-0) picked up a victory in his UFC debut, submitting Finnish veteran Tom Niinimaki (21-6-1) in the first round. Niinimaki worked hard to get the fight to the floor, but once there, Backstrom scrambled first for a guillotine choke and then transitioned to his opponents back. Once in place, Backstrom locked a sneaky rear-naked choke, forcing a tap from Niinimaki with 45 seconds left in the first round. "Life is weird you know; you just have to work the hardest that you can and then everything will fall into place," an emotional Backstrom said. "This has been a really, really big dream for me. Everything happens so fast in the UFC." ' ' '