Next up on the UFC Vegas 17 main card is a bantamweight tilt between Marlon Moraes and Rob Font. Round 1: Moraes starts things off with a body kick. He lands another as Font catches him with a right hand. Moraes shoots him and gets Font down soon after. Moraes looks to lock up the […]
Next up on the UFC Vegas 17 main card is a bantamweight tilt between Marlon Moraes and Rob Font.
Round 1: Moraes starts things off with a body kick. He lands another as Font catches him with a right hand. Moraes shoots him and gets Font down soon after. Moraes looks to lock up the guillotine submission but Font defends and has Moraes up against the fence. They’re back on their feet before Moraes gets him down again. It appears he’s finally using his jiu-jitsu in addition to being wary of the boxing of Font. Moraes stacks up temporarily and lands some strikes before entering Font’s guard. Font gets up to his feet and the two are swinging now. Font lands a huge combination that hurts Moraes. Moraes sees his spinning wheel kick blocked before Font rocks him with a jab and dropping him. Moraes does his best to fight back but Font unloads a barrage of strikes to eventually get the stoppage victory!
Official result: Rob Font defeats Marlon Moraes via TKO (R1, 3:47).
Opening up the UFC Vegas 17 main card is a heavyweight clash between Marcin Tybura and Greg Hardy. Round 1: Both fighters clinch up momentarily but return to striking. Tybura is landing a couple of nice body kicks. Hardy lands a right but Tybura eats it. Hardy connects with a leg kick but Tybura counters […]
Opening up the UFC Vegas 17 main card is a heavyweight clash between Marcin Tybura and Greg Hardy.
Round 1: Both fighters clinch up momentarily but return to striking. Tybura is landing a couple of nice body kicks. Hardy lands a right but Tybura eats it. Hardy connects with a leg kick but Tybura counters by rushing forward with a blitz. Tybura is having plenty of success with his striking but neither fighter has been seriously hurt yet. Hardy lands a nice body shot and follows it up with a hook that seems to have caught Tybura’s attention. The momentum is now with Hardy as he connects with plenty of strikes. Tybura goes for the takedown but Hardy defends and unloads a barrage of right hands. Tybura somehow eats them all and remains on his feet. The round comes to an end.
Round 2: Tybura is having early success in the second round as he lands a couple of left hooks. However, Hardy is doing well with his countering and appears to be much faster as of now. Tybura slips a Hardy strike and goes for a takedown but Hardy defends it once again. Tybura is mixing things up with kicks while threatening with the takedown. However, he is still yet to hurt Hardy. He goes for a deep double leg takedown and finally manages to take Hardy down. Tybura starts to land a number of hammerfists and Hardy isn’t doing anything to defend them. The referee calls an end to the fight.
Official result: Marcin Tybura defeats Greg Hardy via TKO (R2, 4:31).
LowKick MMA will be bringing you UFC Vegas 17: Thompson vs. Neal Results throughout the night (Sat. 19th. December 2020) from the UFC Apex facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the promotion’s final event of the year, originally slated to take co-main event status, a welterweight pairing of two-time title challenger, Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson and rising contender, Geoff […]
In the promotion’s final event of the year, originally slated to take co-main event status, a welterweight pairing of two-time title challenger, Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson and rising contender, Geoff ‘Handz of Steel’ Neal round out 2020 for the organization in a five-round headliner.
Making his first Octagon appearance since UFC 244 in November of last year ar Madison Square Garden, Thompson looks to improve on an impressive unanimous decision win over Vicente Luque over three frames, as he tackles fellow striking ace, Fortis MMA staple, Neal.
It’s a battle of two of the most technical strikers at 170-pounds today, with Wonderboy’s karate-bouncing style pitted opposite a traditional kickboxing flow of Sayif Saud product, Neal — who has knocked back five contenders in a row on his way to tonight’s first main event outing.
Neal, an alum of Dana White’s Contender Series most recently made an Octagon walk at UFC 245 in December last, stopping the outspoken, ‘Platinum’ Mike Perry with a high-kick followed by strikes in the opening-round. It’s a battle of striking styles tonight, with the victor emerging on the cusp of a potential title-eliminator next.
Promoted to the co-headliner as a result of Thompson and Neal’s reworked pairing, former UFC feathrweight kingpin, Jose Aldo ‘Jr.’ looks to snap a three-fight slide and nab his first win at bantamweight since his division move at the end of last year. Dropping a close split decision loss to one-time title challenger, ‘Magic’ Marlon Moraes, Aldo still competed for undisputed vacant bantamweight spoils against Petr ‘No Mercy’ Yan in July at UFC 251, dropping a late ground-and-pound loss.
Standing across from the Manaus favourite is streaking bantamweight contender, Marlon ‘Chito’ Vera. A winner of six-straight at 135-pounds, the Ecuadorian finisher last featured at UFC 252 in August in another co-main event slot, finishing ‘Sugar’ Sean O’Malley late in the opening-round with strikes, after he connected with a damaging calf kick which exacerbated a prior leg injury.
UFC Vegas 17 Results: Thompson vs. Neal
Main Card (ESPN+ 7 p.m. ET)
Welterweight: Stephen Thompson vs. Geoff Neal
Bantamweight: Jose Aldo vs. Marlon Vera
Welterweight: Michel Pereira vs. Khaos Williams
Bantamweight: Marlon Moraes vs. Rob Font
Heavyweight: Marcin Tybura vs. Greg Hardy
Preliminary Card (ESPN+ 4 p.m. ET)
Welterweight: Anthony Pettis vs. Alex Morono
Bantamweight: Sijara Eubanks vs. Pannie Kianzad
Catchweight (195-pounds): Deron Winn vs. Antonio Arroyo
In the UFC 256 co-main event former interim champion Tony Ferguson takes on the streaking Brazilian Charles Oliveira. Round 1: Both men start the fight with some low leg kicks. Charles Oliveira lands the best of them. The Brazilian backs up Tony Ferguson who fights well off the fence. ‘Do Bronx’ is getting aggressive early. […]
In the UFC 256 co-main event former interim champion Tony Ferguson takes on the streaking Brazilian Charles Oliveira.
Round 1: Both men start the fight with some low leg kicks. Charles Oliveira lands the best of them. The Brazilian backs up Tony Ferguson who fights well off the fence. ‘Do Bronx’ is getting aggressive early. He presses Ferguson again and manages to complete a takedown. Oliveira is in half guard but it’s something of a stalemate right now. The Brazilian postures up, lands and elbow before advancing to mount. Ferguson is just trying to hang on and avoid taking any damage in this precarious position. Oliveira postures up for a few seconds to land some punches before Ferguson ties him up again. Oliveira gets off some more damage before grabbing the arm bar. He’s got it hyper-extended, Ferguson should tap but he doesn’t – round one ends.
Round 2: Ferguson leaps in with a big hook at the start of round two. It seems like his arm may be seriously hurt. Oliveira secures another takedown and it working for position as he eats a nasty, illegal up kick. We have a brief break in the action before getting back underway. Oliveira has a nasty cut on his eye right now. Ferguson is scrambling for his life but Oliveira is not letting him up. Oliveira has Ferguson stacked up against the fence, he lands a nice knee to the body. ‘El Cucuy’ is in a strange position as he tries to get back up but it’s leaving him wide open to Oliveira’s ground attacks. Ferguson is working for a submission from the bottom but it never really looked likely – round two ends with Oliveira on top.
Round 3: Two kicks and a straight right at the start of the final round from Ferguson. Oliveira is landing some nice low kicks. The Brazilian capitalizes on a scramble to pick up his opponent and slam him to the mat. He’s in side control, continuing his dominance we’ve seen in the previous two rounds. Oliveira jumps into mount. Ferguson tries to explode out and Oliveira switches for the triangle choke – it looks super tight. He eventually lets it go and maintains top control. Ferguson is trying but is finding it impossible to get anything going from the bottom. Ferguson managed to sneak out and get top position for half a second before Oliveira slams him back down to the mat. Oliveira rides out the final round on top – what a performance.
OFFICIAL RESULT: Charles Oliveira def. Tony Ferguson via unanimous decision
Next up on the UFC 256 main card is a women’s strawweight clash between Mackenzie Dern and Virna Jandiroba. Round 1: Both fighters are feinting early on. Dern lands a leg kick. Dern is aggressive soon after with a flurry of strikes. Jandiroba responds with a big right but Dern eats it. Dern continues to […]
Next up on the UFC 256 main card is a women’s strawweight clash between Mackenzie Dern and Virna Jandiroba.
Round 1: Both fighters are feinting early on. Dern lands a leg kick. Dern is aggressive soon after with a flurry of strikes. Jandiroba responds with a big right but Dern eats it. Dern continues to throw plenty of strikes but Jandiroba is game as she returns some of her own. Dern seems to have caught Jandiroba in an exchange as she goes for a takedown attempt soon after. Jandiroba is clinched up against the fence as she is doing a good job of defending the attempt. They separate soon after and return to striking. Jandiroba lands a nice body kick. Dern responds with an overhand right. Jandiroba connects with a one two. She lands a body kick soon after as the round comes to an end.
Round 2: The second round begins and it’s more of the same as they return to striking. Dern, however, seems to be the slightly superior striker and is landing more. Dern lands a leg kick but slips. Jandiroba isn’t interested in jumping into her guard as the fight returns to the feet. Dern clinches Jandiroba up against the fence soon after. Jandiroba reverses and lands a big knee to the head of Dern. Jandiroba is doing much better this round. Dern lands a nice uppercut. The fight is stopped momentarily as Jandiroba is accidentally poked to the eye. The fight resumes. Jandiroba clinches Dern up soon after. It’s unclear how but Dern’s nose seems to be cut as she gets taken down by Jandiroba. It might be a broken nose. After a few scrambles including a leg lock attempt from Jandiroba, the round comes to an end. After a replay, it was a knee to the nose that led to Dern’s nose getting cut.
Round 3: If Dern has a broken nose, she’s looking to end things early as she is more aggressive with her striking. She looks for a takedown soon after but Jandiroba lands a nice elbow. She reverses and now Dern is against the fence. They separate soon after. Dern lands a nice one two and seems to have hurt Jandiroba. She goes for the takedown attempt again but Jandiroba is doing a good job of defending yet again. Dern pulls guard but Jandiroba refuses to jump in. It’s become a slugfest with just two minutes left in the fight. Dern lands a nice body kick. The fight goes to the ground soon after and Dern ends it on top which might sway the judges on the final round.
Official result:Mackenzie Dern defeats Virna Jandiroba via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).
Next up on the UFC 256 main card is a middleweight bout between Kevin Holland and Jacare Souza. Round 1: Holland starts off with a big right hand. He follows it up with a leg kick but Souza catches it and takes him down. Holland is kept down but responds with some big elbows. Holland […]
Next up on the UFC 256 main card is a middleweight bout between Kevin Holland and Jacare Souza.
Round 1: Holland starts off with a big right hand. He follows it up with a leg kick but Souza catches it and takes him down. Holland is kept down but responds with some big elbows. Holland gets up eventually and lands more elbows. Holland pulls guard as he goes for a failed guillotine. Souza lands some strikes but is caught with a right as they look to separate! Holland goes for the finish as he lands a number of huge strikes as the referee calls an end to the fight.
Official result:Kevin Holland defeats Jacare Souza via knockout (R1, 1:45).