UFC Vegas 63 Octagon Interviews: Allen Calls For Interim Title Fight

UFC Vegas 63 wasn’t an especially stacked Fight Night card, and even the event’s back-and-forth bouts didn’t exactly provide a massive amount of action. The card did still feature a few notable individual performances, and MMA News ha…

UFC Vegas 63 wasn’t an especially stacked Fight Night card, and even the event’s back-and-forth bouts didn’t exactly provide a massive amount of action. The card did still feature a few notable individual performances, and MMA News has all of the most important quotes and callouts from the event’s post-fight interviews inside the Octagon. De…

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Arnold Allen scores TKO victory over Calvin Kattar after unfortunate knee injury – UFC Vegas 63 Highlights

Arnold AllenCount it 10 straight victories for surging UFC featherweight contender, Arnold Allen after tonight’s UFC Vegas 63 main event — with the Ispwitch native scoring a second round TKO win over Calvin Kattar, after the Massachusetts striker suffered an injury to his right knee in the closing stages of the first round. Sharing the Octagon […]

Arnold Allen

Count it 10 straight victories for surging UFC featherweight contender, Arnold Allen after tonight’s UFC Vegas 63 main event — with the Ispwitch native scoring a second round TKO win over Calvin Kattar, after the Massachusetts striker suffered an injury to his right knee in the closing stages of the first round.

Sharing the Octagon with Kattar in his first promotional headliner, Allen managed to land well on the feet throughout the opening round against New England Cartel favourite, Kattar, countering on cue as well as firing multiple left hands down the straight throughout.

Toward the end of the opening frame, however, Kattar attempted to fire off a flying knee, however, landed awkwardly on his right leg, appearing to injury his right knee in the process as he fell to his back on the canvas.

Allowed to continue by both the Octagon-side physician as well as referee, Herb Dean into the second round, Kattar ate a low kick to his left leg in the first exchange of the frame, resulting in him clutching his right knee once more, forcing a halt to the fight as he fell to the canvas again.

Weighing up his next fight off the back of a disappointing clash with Kattar, Arnold Allen offered to compete for both an interim featherweight crown, or compete for undisputed gold against Alexander Volkanovski.

Below, catch the highlights from Arnold Allen’s win against Calvin Kattar

Twitter Reacts To Steve Garcia’s Brutal TKO Win Against Hooper

Steve Garcia put on a dominant striking display for the short period of time that his fight with Chase Hooper lasted at UFC Vegas 63. After being knocked out in the first round of his last matchup at UFC 275, “Mean Machine” wasted no time going after H…

Steve Garcia put on a dominant striking display for the short period of time that his fight with Chase Hooper lasted at UFC Vegas 63. After being knocked out in the first round of his last matchup at UFC 275, “Mean Machine” wasted no time going after Hooper in their featherweight bout. A barrage of…

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MMA Twitter Reacts To Tresean Gore’s Vicious Choke

Former The Ultimate Fighter finalist Tresean Gore picked a wild way to earn his first win in the UFC Octagon. Gore showcased his vastly improved wrestling against Josh Fremd on the UFC Vegas 63 main card. He lost back-to-back fights to begin his UFC te…

Former The Ultimate Fighter finalist Tresean Gore picked a wild way to earn his first win in the UFC Octagon. Gore showcased his vastly improved wrestling against Josh Fremd on the UFC Vegas 63 main card. He lost back-to-back fights to begin his UFC tenure, including to TUF winner Bryan Battle in his debut. After…

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Khalil Rountree hands Dustin Jacoby close split decision loss in striking battle – UFC Vegas 63 Highlights

Khalil RountreeExtending his undefeated run to three straight fights, The Ultimate Fighter finalist, Khalil Rountree keeps it standing throughout his three round UFC Vegas 63 main card opener against GLORY Kickboxing alum, Dustin Jacoby — landing a close (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) split decision victory. Rountree, who entered tonight’s outing against Jacoby off the back of a […]

Khalil Rountree

Extending his undefeated run to three straight fights, The Ultimate Fighter finalist, Khalil Rountree keeps it standing throughout his three round UFC Vegas 63 main card opener against GLORY Kickboxing alum, Dustin Jacoby — landing a close (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) split decision victory.

Rountree, who entered tonight’s outing against Jacoby off the back of a pair of devastating victories over Karl Roberson, and Modestas Bukauskas — the second of which courtesy of a brutal leg stomp TKO win, earned his third consecutive victory with tonight’s win.

Electing to stand with kickboxing talent, Jacoby throughout tonight’s main card opener, Rountree managed to keep his energy reserve primed for a third round series of explosions landing the bigger shots compared to a peppering approach from the always-active Jacoby throughout the three round limit.

Following the victory, Rountree informed former UFC middleweight champion, Michael Bisping, and Dana White and UFC matchmakers that he would not be fighting again until EA Sports made a character of him in their UFC 4 video game.

Below, catch the highlights from Khalil Rountree’s close decision win over Dustin Jacoby

Steve Garcia flattens Chase Hooper for quickfire TKO, lands 4 separate knockdowns – UFC Vegas 63 Highlights

Steve GarciaIn a truly dominant victory at the featherweight limit, Steve Garcia knocks back popular division prospect, Chase Hooper — landing a stunning four separate knockdowns in the opening minute and a half en route to a first round TKO win on the preliminary card of UFC Vegas 63. Garcia, who entered tonight’s UFC Apex facility […]

Steve Garcia

In a truly dominant victory at the featherweight limit, Steve Garcia knocks back popular division prospect, Chase Hooper — landing a stunning four separate knockdowns in the opening minute and a half en route to a first round TKO win on the preliminary card of UFC Vegas 63.

Garcia, who entered tonight’s UFC Apex facility clash with Hooper off the back of a June knockout loss of his own against Hayisaer Maheshate, returned with a vengeance tonight — dropping and rocking Hopper in each lengthy exchange the two partook in.

Landing three separate knockdowns before the eventual first round win, Garcia floored the Dana White‘s Contender Series alum with a left hook after Hooper missed with a spinning effort, forcing referee, Herb Dean to step in and call a halt to the action.

Below, catch the highlights from Chase Hooper’s first round TKO loss to Steve Garcia