Two high-level strawweights in Jessica Andrade and Karolina Kowalkiewicz will do battle. Andrade vs. Kowalkiewicz is set to take place on Feb. 24 in Orlando, Florida. Sources close to Combate confirmed the news earlier today (Dec. 1). Andrade is curren…
Two high-level strawweights in Jessica Andrade and Karolina Kowalkiewicz will do battle. Andrade vs. Kowalkiewicz is set to take place on Feb. 24 in Orlando, Florida. Sources close to Combate confirmed the news earlier today (Dec. 1). Andrade is currently the second ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) strawweight. Kowalkiewicz sits at the fourth position. There […]
Jessica Andrade saw Karolina Kowalkiewicz’s last outing and she didn’t have a positive takeaway. Last Saturday (Oct. 21), Kowalkiewicz took on Jodie Esquibel inside the Ergo Arena in Gdansk, Poland. The bout served as UFC Fight Night 118’s co-main event. Kowalkiewicz won the fight via unanimous decision. Speaking to A.G Fight, Andrade said the performance […]
Jessica Andrade saw Karolina Kowalkiewicz’s last outing and she didn’t have a positive takeaway. Last Saturday (Oct. 21), Kowalkiewicz took on Jodie Esquibel inside the Ergo Arena in Gdansk, Poland. The bout served as UFC Fight Night 118’s co-main event. Kowalkiewicz won the fight via unanimous decision. Speaking to A.G Fight, Andrade said the performance […]
With every decision comes a consequence and for those fighters who took part in battle at UFC Fight Night 118 (Gdansk), it’s their time to faces those consequences in the form of medical suspensions. A welterweight bout between former UFC Lightweight Championship challenger Donald Cerrone and Darren Till will headline this event while Jodie Esquibel […]
With every decision comes a consequence and for those fighters who took part in battle at UFC Fight Night 118 (Gdansk), it’s their time to faces those consequences in the form of medical suspensions.
A welterweight bout between former UFC Lightweight Championship challenger Donald Cerrone and Darren Till will headline this event while Jodie Esquibel vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz in a women’s strawweight bout will serve as the co-main event. Rounding out the four bout main card is Jan Blachowicz vs. Devin Clark in a light heavyweight bout and Oskar Piechota vs. Jonathan Wilson in a middleweight bout.
Some of the more notable suspensions include Cerrone being out 180 days until cleared by a maxillofacial doctor as well as having no contact for 30 days. Other fighters who got long suspensions include Kowalkiewicz, Clark, Damian Stasiak, and Sam Alvey being out for 180 days.
Here are the entire medical suspensions:
Donald Cerrone: suspended 180 days or until cleared by maxillofacial doctor, and suspended 45 days with 30 days no contact
Darren Till: suspended 7 days
Jody Esquibel: suspended 30 days with 21 days no contact
Karolina Kowalkiewicz: suspended 30 days with 21 days no contact
Jan Blachowicz: suspended 180 days or until cleared by left foot X-ray, and suspended 30 days with 21 days no contact
Devin Clark: suspended 180 days or until cleared by right calf and right elbow X-ray, and suspended 30 days with 21 days no contact
Oskar Piechota: suspended 7 days
Jonathan Wilson: suspended 30 days with 21 days no contact
Marcin Held: suspended 30 days with 21 days no contact
Nasrat Haqparast: suspended 30 days with 21 days no contact due to right orbital laceration
Brian Kelleher: suspended 30 days with 21 days no contact
Damian Stasiak: suspended 180 days or until cleared by right knee MRI, and suspended minimum 45 days with 30 days no contact
Ramazan Emeev: suspended 7 days
Sam Alvey: suspended 180 days for until cleared by right knee MRI
Andre Fili: suspended 45 days with 30 days no contact
Artem Lobov: suspended 30 days with 21 days no contact due to left brow laceration
Warlley Alves: suspended 30 days with 21 days no contact due to right brow laceration
Salim Touahri: suspended 30 days with 21 days no contact
Aspen Ladd: suspended 7 days
Lina Lansberg: suspended 45 days with 30 days no contact due to TKO
Josh Emmett: suspended 30 days with 21 days no contact due to right brow laceration
Felipe Arantes: suspended 30 days with 21 days no contact
UFC Fight Night 118 took place on Saturday, October 21, 2017 at Ergo Arena in Gda?sk, Poland. This event was the first that the UFC has hosted in Gda?sk and the second in Poland, after UFC Fight Night: Gonzaga vs. Cro Cop 2 in August 2015. The main card aired on the promotion’s streaming service, UFC Fight Pass, at 3 p.m. ET while the preliminary card also aired on UFC Fight Pass, at 12:15 p.m. ET.
Karolina Kowalkiewicz called out Jessica Andrade after her UFC Gdansk win and now she’s explained why. Yesterday (Oct. 21), Kowalkiewicz took on Jodie Esquibel. The hometown favorite turned in a dominant performance to take a unanimous decision victory. The win has snapped Kowalkiewicz’s two-fight skid. She lost her two previous bouts to Joanna Jedrzejczyk and […]
Karolina Kowalkiewicz called out Jessica Andrade after her UFC Gdansk win and now she’s explained why. Yesterday (Oct. 21), Kowalkiewicz took on Jodie Esquibel. The hometown favorite turned in a dominant performance to take a unanimous decision victory. The win has snapped Kowalkiewicz’s two-fight skid. She lost her two previous bouts to Joanna Jedrzejczyk and […]
Former UFC strawweight title contender Karolina Kowalkiewicz snapped a two-fight losing skid Saturday with a decision win over Jodie Esquibel at UFC Fight Night 118. Kowalkiewicz used her Octagon experience to control the fight with Esquibel, who was making her debut with the promotion. Following her performance in her native home of Poland, Kowalkiewicz called […]
Former UFC strawweight title contender Karolina Kowalkiewicz snapped a two-fight losing skid Saturday with a decision win over Jodie Esquibel at UFC Fight Night 118. Kowalkiewicz used her Octagon experience to control the fight with Esquibel, who was making her debut with the promotion. Following her performance in her native home of Poland, Kowalkiewicz called […]
UFC traveled to Ergo Arena in Gdansk, Poland, on Saturday evening for a card jam-packed with head-turning tilts, and it was Donald Cerrone and Darren Till who shone in the main event as they battled for welterweight supremacy.
A women’s strawweight cla…
UFC traveled to Ergo Arena in Gdansk, Poland, on Saturday evening for a card jam-packed with head-turning tilts, and it was Donald Cerrone and Darren Till who shone in the main event as they battled for welterweight supremacy.
A women’s strawweight clash between Karolina Kowalkiewicz and Jodie Esquibel, meanwhile, headlined the co-main event.
Here’s a rundown of the evening’s results as well as a recap of the action.
Main Card Results
Darren Till def. Donald Cerrone via first-round TKO (punches, 4:20)
Andre Fili def. Artem Lobov via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Ramazan Emeev def. Sam Alvey via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Brian Kelleher def. Damian Stasiak via third-round TKO (3:39)
Marcin Held def. Nasrat Haqparast via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Recap
The night belonged to Till, and it wasn’t particularly close.
In a big spot against Cowboy Cerrone, Till lived up to the hype and justified his place in the welterweight division as he sent the 34-year-old packing with a power-packed performance that was buoyed by tactical superiority in all phases.
Bloody Elbow offered an overview of the dominant outing:
ESPN.com’s Brett Okamoto noted Till stepped up with a chance to bolster his profile:
With the win in hand, Till understandably wasn’t short on confidence.
“I’m a f–king light heavyweight fighting in the welterweight division,” he said, per MMA Fighting(warning: NSFW language) on Twitter. “Look how powerful I am.”
Till also wasted no time in cutting an epic promo, as he called out Mike Perry—who was conveniently stationed ringside, as UFC showed on Twitter:
Fans should be ecstatic, too, because Perry didn’t hesitate to accept the 24-year-old’s challenge:
In other words, get your popcorn ready.
The early story on the main card revolved around hometown favorite Oskar Piechota, who maintained his undefeated record (10-0-1) with a thorough unanimous-decision defeat of Jonathan Wilson.
In control from start to finish, Piechota imposed his will against the American and sent him to the mat with a vicious right hand toward the end of Round 2, as UFC documented on Twitter:
Wilson was ultimately saved by the bell and battled to the finish in Round 3, but Piechota rode raucous energy from the Polish faithful to a victory on his biggest stage yet.
“The crowd took my level even higher tonight,” he said after the win, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal‘s Heidi Fang. “Without them it would have been a lot harder.”
Polish dominance continued in the ensuing bout, which pitted Jan Blachowicz against challenger Devin Clark in back-and-forth light heavyweight action:
But unlike Piechota, whom Wilson pushed the distance, Blachowicz stopped the proceedings in Round 2 when he embraced Clark in an instant and set up a rear-naked choke out of nowhere to take home the win:
By virtue of the win, Blachowicz was able to snap a two-match losing streak and regain his footing. And just like Piechota, he credited a return home for sparking his performance.
“It’s been an emotional week because everything started here,” he said, per Fang. “You can never stop doing what you love because of obstacles.”
It was also a night of redemption for Karolina Kowalkiewicz, who found her footing following consecutive losses to Claudia Gadelha and Joanna Jedrzejczyk.
In need of a bounce-back performance, Kowalkiewicz brought the heat and applied pressure on Jodie Esquibel with punches and knees:
Now back on the winning track, Kowalkiewicz is primed for a step up in the division with Brazilian Jessica Andrade in her sights, per Okamoto:
The 26-year-old will pose a stiff test for Kowalkiewicz if the fight is ultimately made, but her performance Saturday evening should inspire confidence that she can continue her climb up the strawweight ranks as 2018 approaches.
UFC traveled to Ergo Arena in Gdansk, Poland, on Saturday evening for a card jam-packed with head-turning tilts, and it was