UFC Vegas 64 went down final evening (Sat., Nov. 5, 2022) inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada that includes a girls’s Strawweight combat that noticed Amanda Lemos earn a thunderous knockout win over prime contender, Marina Rodriguez (highlights). Within the co-main occasion, Neil Magny wrapped up Daniel Rodriguez and made him faucet in spherical three (see it here).
Greatest Winner: Amanda Lemos
Coming into the combat Rodriguez was adamant that yet one more win can be greater than sufficient to stamp her ticket to her first-ever title combat. And he or she would have been proper since it could be her fifth straight win. However all of that went out the window after Lemos shocked her in spherical quantity three, knocking her out with a vicious barrage of strikes giving her consecutive win quantity two. All instructed, Lemos is now 7-2 contained in the Octagon and might be eying a spot within the High 5 come subsequent week. Whether or not or not a title shot follows stays to be seen, however one factor that’s for sure is that she put the whole division on discover.
Runner Up: Neil Magny
Neil Magny might have but to succeed in a title combat, however he now has bragging rights for days after he turned the winningst fighter within the Welterweight division after submitting Daniel Rodriguez to earn his twentieth victory with the promotion. That’s quiet an honor seeing as what number of nice fighters have come earlier than him, reminiscent of Matt Hughes, Georges St-Pierre, Robbie Lawler, Tyron Woodley, amongst others. The win additionally earned him a cool $50K in post-fight bonus cash and may give him some much-needed confidence and momentum shifting ahead after struggling a troublesome loss in his earlier combat.
Greatest Loser (s): Marina Rodriguez and Darrick Minner
Rodriguez was only one extra win away from incomes her first-ever shot at a UFC world title earlier than she bumped into the buzzsaw that’s Lemos. Losses are all the time robust, nevertheless it stings a bit extra while you had been so near reaching what you’ve got labored in your whole profession. That mentioned, she’s going to nonetheless have loads of alternatives to get again into title competition. However the identical can’t be mentioned for Minner as a result of he suffered his third straight loss after he was stopped by Shayilan Nuerdanbieke through technical knockout (TKO) within the very first spherical. With a file of 2-4 contained in the Octagon, Minner might be at risk of getting his pink slip as a result of aside from one submission win and one by means of unanimous choice, he hasn’t proven a lot to show his price on the large stage.
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