2024-04-11 07:00:10
Allen beat Curtis on points, Hernandez lost to Jackson by split decision.
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On the night of April 6-7, the UFC Vegas 90 tournament took place. In the main event of the evening, Brendan Allen and Chris Curtis met in the middle division
Preliminary card fights
1. Melissa Mullins, who will fight in the women’s bantamweight, was defeated by knockout in the second round from Nora Cornall
2. Dylan Budka in the middle division lost by knockout in the second round to Cesar Almeida
3. Jin Matsumoto in the bantamweight category defeated Daniel Argueta by submission in the second round
4. Heavyweight Walter Walker lost via unanimous decision to Lukas Brzeski
5. Bantamweight Pedro Falcao lost via unanimous decision to Victor Silva
6. Norma Dumont won a unanimous decision over Germaine De Randemier in the women’s bantamweight division.
7. Court McGee lost via unanimous decision to Alex Morono in the welterweight division.
UFC Vegas 90 highlights
With the main thing
The main card of the tournament opened with a lightweight fight featuring Trevor Peake and Charlie Campbell. The guys started the fight with a passive kicking fight in the center of the cage. However, the middle kicks and high kicks of both fighters never reached their target.
With a little pressure, Campbell looked better. And at the end of the round, he also performed a successful takedown, as a result of which he definitely took this segment to his advantage. After the break, Charlie decided to consolidate his advantage.
He went forward at his opponent with aggressive exchanges and pulled him to the ground again. Pieck managed to get to his feet and shocked his opponent with a hard blow to the head. And a little later, he himself transferred his counterpart to the canvas, working as the first number on the ground.
In the final segment, Charlie again took the initiative. The American didn’t even think about fighting his opponent at close range and for the third time during the fight he decided to check whose wrestling skills were better.
Campbell controlled his opponent on the ground until the end of the fight. This round definitely affected the result of the entire fight. In the end, Charlie Campbell won by unanimous decision.
Ignacio Bahamondes and Christos Giagosgloballookpress.com
Another lightweight bout took place between Ignacio Bahamondes and Christos Giagos. While the Chilean was taking a closer look at his opponent, his opponent managed to inflict a number of hard hits on him.
There was also a successful takedown from Giagos. Bahamondes struggled to his feet and continued to fight standing. The beginning of the fight looked discouraging for the Chilean, but one episode decided absolutely everything.
First, Ignacio threw powerful high kicks, after which his opponent was in a groggy state. Although Giagos was not knocked down, he was unable to recover. Then he missed a number of hard hits.
It all ended a minute and a half before the end of the first round after Bahamondes hit another high kick to the jaw. Christos fell to the ground, and the referee stopped the fight, awarding the Chilean a victory by technical knockout.
In the featherweight division, a fight took place with the participation of Morgan Charrier and Chepe Mariscal. After several exchanges in the standing position, the American decided to dry out the fight with passive work on the ground.
Chepe easily pulled his opponent down, but suddenly fell into a guillotine. During the round, Morgan made 2 submission attempts, but the Frenchman was unable to finish off his opponent. After the break, Mariscal continued to defend.
He ate many of his opponent’s blows with his face, and at the end of the segment he himself missed a takedown. In the final round, Chepe took the initiative. He shook Charrier several times while standing.
And at the end of the fight, just like in the first round, the American pulled Morgan down. The confrontation ended with passive control from Mariscal on the ground and a series of blows to the head. As a result, thanks to a successful ending, Chepe took the fight to his advantage by a split decision.
Allen and Jackson had difficulty dealing with their opponents
Alexander Hernandez and Damon Jacksongloballookpress.com
In the co-main event of the evening, Alexander Hernandez and Damon Jackson fought in the featherweight division. Both fighters were in no hurry to force events and looked closely at each other, throwing single blows.
Over time, Jackson seized the initiative and constantly put pressure on his opponent, forcing him to actively move around the Octagon. If the opening five minutes turned out to be dry and uneventful, then immediately after the break Alexander and Damon started a real showdown.
The fighters hit each other in the head several times with hard hits. But towards the end of the round, Jackson used a cunning tactical move. After an aggressive chop, he pinned his opponent against the net, where he scored several more hits.
Hernandez immediately ran to make up the score early in the final period. He knocked Damon down, but failed to finish him off. Jackson, in turn, decided to fight again.
He moved his opponent down, worked as number one on the ground and made 2 attempts at choking techniques. However, none of them resulted in submission. The meeting lasted all 3 rounds, and the judges’ opinions were again divided.
The first referee gave the fight in favor of Alexander Hernandez. The other two remained on his opponent’s side. Thus, Jackson won by split decision and ended a streak of two defeats in a row.
The main event of the evening featured a middleweight bout between No. 6 and No. 14 ranked Brendan Allen and Chris Curtis. At the start of the fight the pace was very low.
Allen slowly looked closely at Curtis and rather carefully approached at close range, because he was afraid of his knockout power. In the first segment of the fight, Chris looked preferable, because he combined much more often and landed more hits.
The second segment also remained with Curtis, who constantly put pressure on his opponent in the standing position. True, by the middle of the fight everything changed. In the third round, Allen poked him in the eye, and Curtis was unable to fully recover even after the pause.
Chris was forced to give the initiative to his opponent. Brendan was constantly moving forward and hitting quite a lot. During the championship stretches, Allen also added his fight. Four of his five takedowns were successful.
However, Allen was unable to keep Curtis on the ground for a long time – his opponent quickly rose to his feet. At the very end of the meeting, Brendan could have finished ahead of him, but after an accurate hit with his knee to the head, he did not have enough time to finish off Chris.
Allen won the bout by split decision and extended his win streak to seven straight fights in the UFC middleweight division.
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