The lengthy, winding street to shut Worldwide Struggle Week is over. Its crown jewel occasion, UFC 303, wrapped up on Saturday night time with an additional degree of untamed that no person noticed coming.
The principle occasion noticed Alex Pereira proceed to flex his muscular tissues as the perfect 205-pound fighter within the sport with one other harmful knockout of Jiri Prochazka inside T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas. It was the second time in seven months that Pereira has battered Prochazka as “Poatan” provides much more finishes to his rising resume as each middleweight and light-weight heavyweight champion. He could even have his eyes on shifting as much as heavyweight later this 12 months.
The most important information to occur on Saturday, although, got here within the co-main occasion the place Diego Lopes was scheduled to face Brian Ortega. Sadly, Ortega suffered an sickness and was compelled to withdraw from the combat. Cue Dan Ige, who resides in Las Vegas and was coaching for a scheduled combat on July 20. Ige acquired the decision only a few hours earlier than the combat was set to go and was cleared by the athletic fee to make the combat with Lopes official. Lopes managed to take a unanimous choice over Ige, nevertheless it was simply the ultimate band assist on a card that noticed greater than six configurations to the primary and co-main occasions within the final two weeks alone.
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UFC 303 combat card, outcomes
- Alex Pereira (c) def. Jiri Prochazka by way of second-round TKO (head kick, punches)
- Diego Lopes def. Dan Ige by way of unanimous choice (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- Roman Dolidze def. Anthony Smith by way of unanimous choice (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
- Macy Chiasson def. Mayra Bueno Silva by way of second-round TKO (physician’s stoppage)
- Ian Machado Garry def. Michael Web page by way of unanimous choice (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- Joe Pyfer def. Marc-Andre Barriault by way of first-round knockout (punch)
- Andre Fili def. Cub Swanson by way of cut up choice (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
- Jean Silva def. Charles Jourdain by way of second-round knockout (punch)
- Payton Talbott def. Yanis Ghemmouri by way of first-round knockout (punches)
- Gillian Robertson def. Michelle Waterson-Gomez by way of unanimous choice (30-27, 30-27, 30-26)
- Martin Buday def. Andrei Arlovski by way of cut up choice (29-28, 28-29, 30-27)
- Rei Tsuruya def. Carlos Hernandez by way of unanimous choice (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- Vinicius Olivera def. Ricky Simon by way of unanimous choice (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
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