If Jason Knight has his way, he will cruise past Alex Caceres this Saturday night (Jan. 28) and move on to fight a young featherweight with some buzz behind him. With two straight wins, Knight is looking to make it three in a row and get one step closing to appearing on the official rankings. […]
If Jason Knight has his way, he will cruise past Alex Caceres this Saturday night (Jan. 28) and move on to fight a young featherweight with some buzz behind him. With two straight wins, Knight is looking to make it three in a row and get one step closing to appearing on the official rankings. […]
If Jason Knight has his way, he will cruise past Alex Caceres this Saturday night (Jan. 28) and move on to fight a young featherweight with some buzz behind him. With two straight wins, Knight is looking to make it three in a row and get one step closing to appearing on the official rankings. […]
If Jason Knight has his way, he will cruise past Alex Caceres this Saturday night (Jan. 28) and move on to fight a young featherweight with some buzz behind him. With two straight wins, Knight is looking to make it three in a row and get one step closing to appearing on the official rankings. […]
The gift of the gab is not Alex Caceres’ top priority. “Bruce Leeroy” is more concerned with winning bouts and climbing the featherweight ladder. He fell short in his last bout to Yair Rodriguez by split decision. He has an opportunity to rebound against Jason Knight this Saturday night (Jan. 28) inside the Pepsi Center […]
The gift of the gab is not Alex Caceres’ top priority. “Bruce Leeroy” is more concerned with winning bouts and climbing the featherweight ladder. He fell short in his last bout to Yair Rodriguez by split decision. He has an opportunity to rebound against Jason Knight this Saturday night (Jan. 28) inside the Pepsi Center […]
Rising featherweight Yair Rodriguez picked up his biggest UFC win when he edged Alex Caceres in the main event of last night’s UFC Fight 92 (watch full video highlights here) from Vivint SmartHome Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah, and he also got his toughest test in the Octagon thus far as well. The flashy 23-year-old
Rising featherweight Yair Rodriguez picked up his biggest UFC win when he edged Alex Caceres in the main event of last night’s UFC Fight 92 (watch full video highlights here) from Vivint SmartHome Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah, and he also got his toughest test in the Octagon thus far as well.
The flashy 23-year-old used his full arsenal of lightning-fast spinning kicks and strikes, and while they were certainly effective from ‘El Pantera,’ the more experienced ‘Bruce Leeroy’ was able to weather the early storm to arguably win a pair of later rounds on the judges’ cards. It could be argued that Caceres was in position to win the bout heading into the fifth and final round of both fighters’ first main event, but a lack of activity ultimately lead to a split decision victory for Rodriguez after one judge somehow scored it 49-46 for Caceres.
Yet the win, which earned $50,000 apiece for Rodriguez and Caceres as “Fight of the Night,” didn’t come without its lumps for the budding Mexican star, as Rodriguez was reportedly sent to the hospital to have both hand and foot injuries examined last night. Thankfully, ‘El Pantera’ avoided any serious injury, as UFC Vice President of Public Relations Dave Sholler detailed that he had no broken bones and only received some stitches on his hand in an email to MMA Junkie:
“Yair was discharged earlier this morning. X-rays and scans on potential foot and hand injuries came back negative. He did receive stitches for a cut.”
That’s music to the ears of the UFC, because with seemingly every champion getting knocked out or submitted in the first round, the promotion is going to need each and every young star they can get after the company was sold for a record $4 billion to media group WME-IMG in July.
Rodriguez is obviously one of their best and brightest young fighters, as he not only possesses a unique and unparalleled blend of striking speed, skill, and creativity, but also the key to the vast, fight-crazed Mexican market the UFC has been coveting for many years. “El Pantera” could become the star that they’ve been looking for from that part of the world, and even he was a bit wild when his gas tank ran out a bit in the early championship rounds last night, he’s emerged with a win and relatively unscathed.
It will probably be best if the UFC continues bringing him up slowly rather than throwing him to the many wolves that populate the top rungs of the UFC’s talented featherweight division, especially the grueling wrestlers. Who would you like to see the TUF Latin America winner face next?
For those who missed it, up-and-coming UFC contender Yair Rodriguez kept his unbeaten streak in tact, as he picked up a decision victory over Alex Caceres at Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 92 event.
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For those who missed it, up-and-coming UFC contender Yair Rodriguez kept his unbeaten streak in tact, as he picked up a decision victory over Alex Caceres at Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 92 event.
Featured above are “Full Fight Highlights” of the Rodriguez-Caceres bout, which served as the main event for the UFC’s first ever event in Salt Lake City, Utah.
For complete UFC Fight Night 92 results, click here.
UFC Fight Night 92 from Salt Lake City, Utah last night (August 6, 2016) featured some great performances from the fighters who took center Octagon, and one of those performances came at the hands of 145-pounder Teruto Ishihara. Ishihara came into his fight against Horacio Gutiérrez with full force, knocking out his Mexican counterpart with a
UFC Fight Night 92 from Salt Lake City, Utah last night (August 6, 2016) featured some great performances from the fighters who took center Octagon, and one of those performances came at the hands of 145-pounder Teruto Ishihara. Ishihara came into his fight against Horacio Gutiérrez with full force, knocking out his Mexican counterpart with a vicious left hand in the first round. Ishihara would be awarded with $50,000 for his ‘Performance of the Night’ honors.
Two notches above on the preliminary card was a heavyweight contest between Marcin Tybura and Viktor Pesta. The collision of the big boys lasted up until 53-seconds of the second round, when Tybura landed a thunderous headkick to Pesta’s skull shutting his lights out. Tybura would was given ‘Performance of the Night’, as well as $50,000 to take home along with his second round victory.
In the main event of the evening featherweight highlight reel combatants Yair Rodriguez and Alex Caceres went toe-to-toe in one of the most exciting main events in recent memory, as the two 145-pounders unleashed their respective unorthodox arsenals on one another. The bout would go all five rounds and would see the up-and-coming Rodriguez take home the split decision victory. Caceres won’t go home empty handed however, as the two men were given ‘Fight of the Night’ and will each take home an extra $50,000 for their efforts.
