Des Moines, Iowa-Bantamweight Cory Sandhagen, on Saturday night unexpectedly defeated Deiveon Figueiredo, and forced the old fly-bench champion to send the champion two times because of the injury of the left series after a leg lock on the 2nd round.
The first round of the first five main events in UFC Fight Night was the whole Sandhagen. He took Figueiredo to the ground and drowned him with strikes without letting Figueiredo was comfortable.
The fight ended in 4: 08 of the 2nd round.
Sandhagen (18-5 mma) called for a title shoot later this year and said that defeating one of Figueiredo's caliber has greatly increased the reliability. Meanwhile, Figueiredo (24-5-1) returns to the drawing board.
Orum I want the winner, Sand Sandhagen said on June 7 because he planned to hold tabs at the UFC 316 main event between Newark, Bandweights Merab Dvalishvilli and Sean O'Malley in NJ.
The joint event saw the first loss of Bo Nickal, the former one champion star Reenier de Ridder Eli, former Penn State wrestling, and won the second round of TKO. Middleweight de Ridder (20-2) used a comprehensive combination and a large number of knees to finish Nikal (7-1) at 1:15.
Welterweight Daniel Rodriguez laughed at Santiago Ponzinibbio at the last time and won a third round of Ko in an incident with the audience on his feet. Rodriguez (19-5) respected Ponzinibbio (31-9) and is trying to stay active for the rest of the year.
Bandamweight Montel Jackson had little problems to beat Daniel Marcos, and unanimously decided on the score card of all three judges unanimously. Jackson (15-2) filed the first loss of Marcos in 18 fights, while Jackson won a row in a row and exhibited a versatile skill set with fixed pressure in the 2nd and 3s.
Bandamweight Serhiy Sidey unanimously made an unanimous decision to Cameron Smotherman in a wrestling-based match against 30-27, 29-28, 29-28. Sidey (12-2) won the last two, while the Smotherman (12-5) fell to 1-1 in the promotion.
Light Mason Jones, the Wells Fargo Arena crowd to the Boos showering unanimously decided to marry Jeremy Stephens unanimously broke the decision of the UFC des Moines.
Jones (16-2) checked the center of the octagon with an effortless boxing and several delivery attempts. Stephens (29-22) jumped among different disciplines, including naked articulated boxing, and returned to UFC for the first time since 2021.
Since June 2000, UFC was the first journey of UFC 26 where the center took the stage. The introduction will pass through the Middle West for Montreal, Quebec, Canada for UFC 315 on May 10th.
-Zin Bando, Field Level Media
