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It be a staunch time to be a lady in fight sports actions.
Per week sooner than two ladies will headline a history-making boxing card at Madison Square Garden in Soundless York City, the UFC had several of its occupy in marquee positions on an 11-bout Fight Night mask in Las Vegas.
Tenth-ranked strawweight contender Amanda Lemos and most up-to-date flyweight title challenger Jessica Andrade went head-to-head in an ESPN+ major match at 115 kilos, two fights after flyweights Maycee Barber and Montana De La Rosa had a scheduled three-rounder in which Barber tried to originate on her No. 14 ranking.
Blow-by-blow man Brendan Fitzgerald shared the broadcast table with ex-opponents Daniel Cormier and Paul Felder, whereas teammate Heidi Androl worked the rest of the room for breaking files and characteristic pieces.
Breaking files indubitably did occur after three bouts when major card fighter Traipse Sherman was pulled from a scheduled assembly with Alexandr Romanov with a “minor effectively being anguish.” A preliminary bout matching Jordan Wright and Marc-Andre Barriault was which capacity of this truth lifted to the principle card.
The B/R fight sports actions group was in its veteran net site as effectively and took within the 5-hour mask to procedure relief up with a definitive checklist of winners and losers from the total card. Consume a maintain a look at what we came up with and in fact be at liberty to tumble a perspective or two within the comments half to enable us to know how we did.
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Consideration 115-pound ladies: Jessica Andrade is relief amongst you.
And he or she’s feeling fearless.
The former UFC strawweight champion returned to her title-winning territory in convincing style, recording the principle standing arm triangle submission within the promotion’s history in opposition to No. 10 contender Amanda Lemos in Saturday’s major match battle.
The victory tied her with Amanda Nunes for the most amongst ladies in UFC history (14), and the stoppage gave her eight in her UFC career, which is 2nd biggest to Nunes’ 10.
It was Andrade’s first battle at strawweight after a title loss to Valentina Shevchenko at 125 kilos at UFC 261 one 300 and sixty five days within the past. She fought once extra in that division in September sooner than shedding relief down.
She won a championship at strawweight in May perchance perchance perchance well 2019 and lost it three months later.
“I took a small bit atomize at flyweight, but right here’s my division,” Andrade acknowledged. “I’m prepared once more to battle for the title. For these who give me a shot, I’m going to be prepared. I’m going to salvage relief to the dwell.”
It completely gave the look of it in some unspecified time in the future of a decisive sequence, which started when Andrade blocked a entrance kick from Lemos within the heart of the cage and drove her foe to the fence.
She wrapped her left arm spherical Lemos’ neck whereas keeping apart her left arm and continued to squeeze except referee Keith Peterson intervened at 3: 13 of the principle.
“We worked loads on this. We realized it was one thing that also can work,” Andrade acknowledged.
“The extra I locked it in, the extra my coach was yelling, ‘Assemble no longer let it plod.’ I started hearing her gurgling, and I knew I would salvage the submission.”
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Clay Guida had somewhat a few things to apprehension about.
As soon as his bout with Peruvian prince Claudio Puelles bought to the mat, the 40-300 and sixty five days-former MMA passe nearly straight needed to battle off a guillotine choke that was adopted by a triangle choke and an armbar.
He managed to elude every of these submission attempts, but his 26-300 and sixty five days-former foe wasn’t accomplished.
Puelles fleet transitioned from the upper torso to the decrease, seizing his foe’s left leg to lock in a kneebar that triggered an instantaneous resign from Guida at 3: 01 of the principle spherical.
Guida was fighting for the 34th time within the UFC since 2006, when Puelles was 10 years former.
“I’ve worked laborious each day. I changed my lifestyles. I moved to The US,” Puelles acknowledged. “My dream was to be right here, but no longer staunch for a battle or two, to be right here.”
“And he’s bought like 60 fights, and I took him out within the principle spherical.”
It was the third kneebar submission in 5 UFC wins for Puelles, making him the staunch fighter within the promotion to bag that over and over by that suggests. He was overwhelmed in his debut with the firm in November 2016 but has since won 5 straight and is 12-2 with seven submissions as a skilled.
“I manufacture no longer apply it on the gymnasium. I staunch enact it due to I will hit it,” he acknowledged. “I persistently know I’m prepared.”
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Eleven weeks within the past, Marc-Andre Barriault was at a low point.
Nonetheless he had no hobby in staying there.
Relief within the Octagon after a crushing first-spherical KO loss in February, the usual Canadian bought relief on the winning facet in equally quickly style when he scored a submission defeat of Jordan Wright.
The bout was elevated from preliminary to major card about 90 minutes sooner than the principle strike, and Barriault took a few moments to alter as Wright came out aggressive and straight chased a takedown.
He did salvage Barriault to the flooring temporarily and was chasing one other takedown when Barriault seized his neck from a standing net site and dropped to the flooring to lock the maneuver in.
Wright tapped within seconds to provide Barriault the principle submission of a career stretching relief to 2014.
It be his 14th total victory—9 by KOs—alongside 5 losses and a no-contest.
“Guys manufacture no longer settle on to debris with me and my strength, so I wasn’t taken aback he attacked,” Barriault acknowledged. “My coach suggested me to staunch have confidence my instincts, I heard him issue, ‘It’s likely you’ll perchance also simply maintain got bought a guillotine. Have confidence, have confidence and plod for it.'”
A 2nd Quebec native made it two in a row for Canada within the next bout, when Charles Jourdain executed Lando Vannata with one other guillotine choke at 2: 32 of the principle spherical.
Jourdain bought Vannata to the flooring with a straight left hand and fleet went in to settle the choke.
“When I noticed my buddy enact a guy within the principle spherical I had some stress on me,” Jourdain acknowledged. “I’m a dim belt. Folks seem to neglect that, but it indubitably was a staunch reminder.”
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me thrice, and there is a staunch chance the UFC will discontinuance calling.
That was the net site where Philipe Lins chanced on himself heading into Saturday night, having lost every of his fights within the promotion by one-sided outcomes at heavyweight.
So in net site of doing the identical things and prepared for diverse outcomes, Lins dropped to 205 kilos and chanced on instantaneous success with a unanimous resolution over passe Marcin Prachnio within the card’s 2nd bout.
The 36-300 and sixty five days-former Brazilian was on the short dwell of a 43-15 strike margin within the principle spherical in opposition to Prachnio, though he did obtain the session’s lone takedown in two attempts. It was a precursor to the closing 10 minutes, in some unspecified time in the future of which Lins added three takedowns and landed 50 necessary strikes to his foe’s 44.
All three judges noticed Lins a 29-28 winner and boosted his skilled portray back to 15-5 total.
He’d been a full-time gentle heavyweight through August 2017 sooner than transferring to heavyweight and taking the UFC losses to ex-champion Andrei Arlovski (UD 3) and Tanner Boser (KO 1).
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Literally seconds after the earlier two-division champ declared there was “no chance” that cage-facet officers would award Mike Jackson a disqualification victory over Dean Barry, they did.
The card-opening welterweight bout resulted in anticlimactic style following a pair of fouls from Barry, a 29-300 and sixty five days-former from Eire, who within the start struck Jackson low with a spinning kick and then forced Jackson to bow out after his enticing peep was impacted by Barry’s illegally probing fingers.
Referee Chris Tognoni stopped the battle at 3: 52 of the principle and there was a delay sooner than the reliable verdict was be taught, in some unspecified time in the future of which interval Cormier implied officers must not maintain “the center” to procedure it a DQ and as an different would rule a no-contest due to they’d fought much less than a full spherical.
Ring announcer Joe Martinez spilled the beans, though, providing Jackson his first UFC victory after a loss and a no-contest in 2016 and 2018, respectively. Barry, within the period in-between, was making his debut with the promotion after going 4-1 in a pair of companies and arriving with three straight wins by enact.
“This is not always in fact the capacity I needed to salvage it,” acknowledged Jackson, who at +700 (wager $100 to bag $700), was the principle underdog on the card.
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Main Card
Jessica Andrade def. Amanda Lemos by submission (standing arm triangle), 3: 13, Round 1
Claudio Puelles def. Clay Guida by submission (kneebar), 3: 01, Round 1
Maycee Barber def. Montana De La Rosa by unanimous resolution (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Charles Jourdain def. Lando Vannata by submission (guillotine choke), 2: 32, Round 1
Marc-Andre Barriault def. Jordan Wright by submission (guillotine choke), 2: 36, Round 1
Preliminary Card
Sergey Khandozhko def. Dwight Grant by TKO (strikes), 4: 15, Round 2
Tyson Pedro def. Ike Villanueva by TKO (strikes), 4: 55, Round 1
Aori Qileng def. Cameron Else by TKO (strikes), 2: 48, Round 1
Preston Parsons def. Evan Elder by unanimous resolution (30-26, 30-27, 30-27)
Philipe Lins def. Marcin Prachnio by unanimous resolution (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Mike Jackson def. Dean Barry by disqualification (intentional imperfect), 3: 52, Round 1
