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Ignacio Bahamondes scores vicious walk-off head kick KO against Christos Giagos – UFC Vegas 90 Highlights

Ignacio Bahamondes climbed back into the win column in spectacular fashion at UFC Vegas 89 on Saturday night. Mixing…

Ignacio Bahamondes climbed back into the win column in spectacular fashion at UFC Vegas 89 on Saturday night.

Mixing up his striking, Bahamondes connected with a stellar spinning heel kick that appeared to have Giagos comprised in the early going of the opening round. He immediately followed that up with another spinning heel kick, this time to the body of Giagos. Already looking worse for wear, it was just a matter of time before Bahamondes connected with the knockout blow.

That moment came with nearly 90 seconds left in the round and Bahamondes uncorked a nasty head kick that connected clean and dropped Giagos against the fence. The referee immediately stepped in, calling for the stoppage.

Official Result: Ignacio Bahamondes def. Christos Giagos via KO (head kick) at 3:34 of Round 1.

Check Out Highlights From Ignacio Bahamondes vs. Christos Giagos at UFC Vegas 89:

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Rose Namajunas details string of horrific nightmares ahead of UFC Vegas 89 return: ‘I had to fight a dude’

Rose Namajunas says she usually visualizes her fights, and often times it happens while she is sleeping, but before…

Rose Namajunas says she usually visualizes her fights, and often times it happens while she is sleeping, but before her UFC Vegas 89 main event scrap against Amanda Ribas, she was plagued by nightmares.

Namajunas was looking to avoid the first three-fight losing streak of her career as she was facing Ribas in her second fight at flyweight. Although Namajunas was the betting favorite to win, but she says leading up to the fight, she had nightmares over it as she vividly saw her lose three times.

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“Leading up to the fight, too, I have really vivid dreams a lot of the time,” Rose Namajunas said on The MMA Hour. “Sometimes I’ll be able to visualize the fight, and for this one, I never had this happen before, but I literally saw in my dreams I lost the fight three times. ‘

“The first two times, there was unfair circumstances. One, I got robbed, and then the first time it was like — this sounds crazy, but I was supposed to go fight her and then at the last second they switched it to a dude. So I had to fight a dude and then I was getting beat up, and then all of a sudden I ended up falling into a rear-naked choke and finishing the person, but they still gave it to them. So that was weird. I was like, that doesn’t make any sense.

“The third dream that I had — nightmare, I should say — I had the feeling that I lost but I don’t remember what happened in the fight and I was just trying to piece it together. It was just that post-loss feeling in the locker room, where it just sucks. I was like, ‘Did I get knocked out? Did I get choked out? What happened?’”

“So that was weighing on me a bunch leading into it. I feel like I’ve got divine visions in my dreams a lot of the time, but I’ve also had spiritual attacks in my dreams too, so I had to discern what was real and what wasn’t. I had to keep telling myself, ‘That has no bearing. I’m just going to do it anyways and it has no bearing on the outcome,’” Namajunas continued.

Ultimately, Rose Namajunas was able to get the win as she beat Amanda Ribas by decision to return to the win column in a big way at UFC Vegas 89.

Rose Namajunas calls out Maycee Barber

Following Rose Namajunas’ win over Amanda Ribas, the former strawweight champion called out Maycee Barber.

Barber is currently ranked fourth at flyweight and coming off a decision win over Katlyn Chookagian at UFC 299. A fight against Namajunas does make sense as the winner could get a title shot at 125lbs.

Namajunas also has full confidence she can become champion at flyweight and hold titles in two different weight classes in the UFC.

NSAC withholds Igor Severino’s fight purse after being DQ’d for biting his UFC Vegas 89 opponent

Igor Severino has not been paid for his UFC Vegas 89 scrap with Andre Lima. Per a report from…

Igor Severino has not been paid for his UFC Vegas 89 scrap with Andre Lima.

Per a report from MMA Fighting, an anonymous source revealed that Severino’s fight purse has been withheld by the Nevada State Athletic Commission after biting Lima in the second round of their preliminary-card bout inside The APEX. There is no word on the amount as the NSAC does not publicly disclose salaries.

Immediately following Severino’s disqualification, Dana White revealed in a text message to combat sports journalist Kevin Iole that the Brazilian newcomer had been released by the promotion and likely faced serious consequences with the NSAC who oversaw Saturday’s event in Las Vegas. No word on what those repercussions will be, but a fine and potential suspension are likely.

Andre Lima cashes in on Igor Severino’s big bite

Lima, who was in good spirits despite brandishing a hellish-looking bite mark on his left bicep, later received the first ever “I got f*cking bit” bonus from the UFC CEO, who revealed that ‘Mascote’ would get an extra $25,000 for his trouble. However, White later doubled it to 50k after Lima hilariously had the bite mark tattooed on his arm.

Dana White gives Andre Lima 50k after getting bit by Igor Severino

Severino initially denied biting Lima before cameras closed in on the evidence he left on his opponent’s arm. He has not publicly commented on the incident or his prompt UFC release.

Though he didn’t get the win the way he had hoped, Andre Lima kept his perfect record intact, moving to 8-0 in his mixed martial arts career. Severino dropped to 8-1.

UFC’s Laura Sanko snaps back at former MMA champion who says her commentary is ‘Ruining the fights’

While the UFC’s return to The APEX delivered some epic finishes, Laura Sanko may have scored the biggest knockout…

While the UFC’s return to The APEX delivered some epic finishes, Laura Sanko may have scored the biggest knockout of the night.

Sanko returned to the commentary table on Saturday night for a loaded UFC Vegas 89 card featuring the return of former two-time strawweight world champion ‘Thug’ Rose Namajunas. As usual, Sanko was a welcome addition to the broadcast, sharing her expertise through the 13-fight card. However, not everyone was appreciative of her efforts.

Crawling out of whatever hole he lives in these days, former WEC lightweight champion Jamie Varner went on the attack, calling out Sanko and her “annoying” commentary in a pair of scathing posts online.

Varner expressed his disdain for Laura Sanko’s commentary on X, writing: “Leave the commentary to the people that have actually fought. A female UFC fighter should have that job, she is just annoying and it’s obvious she is trying so hard and doesn’t know what she is talking about.” Varner added in a follow-up post that Sanko is “a try-hard that speaks about things she knows nothing about. Talking about blast doubles and how tiring it could be in the first round of the fight, like what do you know about any of those things? Stay in your lane.”

Laura Sanko Reminds Jamie Varner of the time they fought on the same card

Clearly, Varner forgot that Laura Sanko is in fact a former fighter, having amassed a 5-1 overall record while competing for promotions such as Titan FC and Invicta. Responding to Varner’s criticism, Sanko even recalled details of when the two former fighters appeared on the same card together.

“It’s ok that you don’t like my commentary, but respectfully, I’ve been a part of this game and training since 2006,” Sanko wrote. I’m a brown belt in Jiu Jitsu and while I can’t compare my career to yours I have in fact fought. And if UFC had a 105 division I would have fought a lot longer.

“You and I actually fought on the same card in 2011 for Titan FC. We warmed up next to each other in the basement of the Memorial Hall building in KCK. My best friend braided your hair because you couldn’t find anyone to do it. I remember thinking how cool it was at the time to be on a card with you. I had followed your career in the WEC and was a little star-struck to be honest.”

For those curious, the event in question was Titan FC 20 in September 2011. Sanko won her bout against Kyla Potter in less than a minute via armbar while Varner lost his fight with current BKFC standout Dakota Cochrane.

Sanko put her mixed martial arts career to bed in 2013, but she was far from done in the sport. After earning her spot as a roving reporter for the UFC, she was given a shot at the commentary booth in 2021, joining the broadcast team for Dana White’s Contender Series. Two years later, Sanko made history at UFC 293 in Australia by becoming the first woman in the promotion’s Zuffa era to serve as a color commentator.

Sanko’s energetic and insightful commentary has been a welcomed addition to every broadcast she participates in and has quickly become a favorite among fight fans.

UFC Vegas 89 winner Julian Erosa calls out controversial trans athlete Lia Thomas: ‘I don’t like cheaters’

UFC standout Julian Erosa planned to call out controversial trans athlete Lia Thomas following his win on Saturday night….

UFC standout Julian Erosa planned to call out controversial trans athlete Lia Thomas following his win on Saturday night.

Returning to the Octagon at UFC Vegas 89, ‘Juicy J’ burst back into the win column with a quick first-round guillotine submission victory over Ricardo Ramos. It was an impressive victory that snapped a two-fight losing streak and got him to an even 7-7 record under the UFC banner.

Speaking with members of the media during his post-fight press appearance, Erosa revealed his grand plan to call out Lia Thomas, a collegiate swimmer who has been mired in controversy ever since she won an NCAA national championship as a trans woman.

“I don’t know how you guys feel about this whole situation, but I don’t like cheaters so I wanted to call out Lia Thomas,” Erosa said. “I wanted to encourage her… er… Encourage him to transition from women’s swimming to women’s MMA. Then I’ll transition into a woman and beat that dude’s ass. That’s what I wanted to say because it’s all about getting a little bit of shock value, but in the world that we’re living in, there’s no common sense anymore. It’s becoming a bit ridiculous.

“That’s one of the big things that’s going on now. I just don’t agree with me in women’s sports. The whole Fallon Fox thing. Guys that are fighting in women’s MMA and knocking them out, it’s a bad look.”

Julian Erosa planned to call out Lia Thomas during his post-win octagon interview at #UFCVegas89.

"I don't like cheaters. … I wanted to encourage him to transition from women's swimming into women's MMA, and then I'll transition into become a woman and beat that dude's ass." pic.twitter.com/2dOVt4BlOO

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Who Is Lia Thomas and why is Julian Erosa calling her out?

For those unfamiliar, Lia Thomas is the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship, having won the women’s 500-yard freestyle swimming event in 2022. Thomas began swimming on the men’s team at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. Two years later, Thomas began transitioning via hormone replacement therapy but was still required to compete in the men’s division during her junior year.

After taking a year off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Thomas returned for the 2021-2022 season and met the NCAA hormone therapy requirements to swim on the women’s team.

Thomas has been at the center of a public debate over the inclusion of trans women in sports with many outspoken conservatives demanding that Thomas and all trans women be banned from competing in women’s sporting events. However, multiple Olympic-level swimmers, including silver medalists Brooke Forde and Erica Sullivan have spoken out in favor of seeing Thomas compete among other women.

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Nancy Hogshead-Makar also supported the participation of trans women saying, “so long as they can demonstrate that they have lost their sex-linked, male-puberty advantage prior to competition in the women’s category.”

In 2022, Sports Illustrated dubbed Lia Thomas “the most controversial athlete in America.”

“If you went through male puberty, there’s nothing you can do to shrink your bones down,” Erosa added. “The proof is in the pudding. You have Mr. Thomas who, whatever he was ranked as a man, is now just beating all the women. It’s obvious. It doesn’t matter how much estrogen you’re taking. Obviously, it’s a gray area, but these gray areas are stupid to me because it’s common sense. I’m not the smartest crayon in the box, but if I don’t know anything about anything, I can still tell you it’s unfair in my opinion.

“People are going to have their own opinions and say whatever they want, but it’s something that I strongly believe in. It’s so funny to me that women will fight for their own spaces and then they’ll also fight for trans women to be in those spaces. Those are just men. When’s it gonna be when there are hundreds of men in these sports and it just becomes another man sport? It’s so weird to me.”

In January, Thomas legally challenged the World Aquatics gender inclusion policy which only allows trans women to compete in the women’s category as long as any male puberty was halted by age 12.

Rose Namajunas calls for Maycee Barber fight after UFC Vegas 89 win: ‘She’s just like a bully in there’

Former two-time undisputed strawweight champion, Rose Namajunas turned in her first victory at the flyweight limit last night at…

Former two-time undisputed strawweight champion, Rose Namajunas turned in her first victory at the flyweight limit last night at UFC Vegas 89 in her return against Amanda Ribas, and wants to test herself against the surging top-5 contender, Maycee Barber in her return – heaping praise on the Colorado youngster.

Namajunas, a former two-time undisputed strawweight champion, snapped a two-fight losing skid with last night’s unanimous decision win over Brazilian favorite, Ribas – which included a flyweight defeat in her weight class bow back in September at UFC Fight Night Paris against streaking incoming headliner, Manon Fiorot.

Rose Namajunas eyes Maycee Barber next

And laying out a roadmap to a potential title tilt in the future – Wisconsin native, Namajunas noted her interest in rematching Fiorot or a clash with Erin Blanchfield after UFC Atlantic City next weekend, before calling out the aforenoted, Barber, with plans to mint herself as a two-weight champion this year.

“I think she’s (Maycee Barber) a savage,” Rose Namajunas told assembled media after UFC Vegas 89. “You know, she’s a big girl, she’s strong. She’s just like a bully in there. I knew her when she was really young and she’s a lot different now. And, you know, she kind of like, called me out back when she was younger and things like that. So, you know, I think it’s kind of funny, but she’s really tough.”

“That [fight] would definitely motivate me and get me going every day because I know she throws with really bad intentions,” Rose Namajunas explained. “But yeah, anybody else is cool, too. Erin Blanchfield, Manon, [the] title. Yeah, it don’t matter.”

In the midst of an impressive six-fight winning steak since a decision loss to current flyweight champion, Alexa Grasso, the current number four ranked contender, Barber most recently landed a decision win over Katlyn Cerminara earlier this month at UFC 299 – to go with a stoppage win over common-foe, Ribas, and a decision success against ex-title challenger, Jessica Eye.

Who wins in a future fight: Rose Namajunas or Maycee Barber?