The Final Combating Championship returned to us tonight, October 19, 2024, for UFC Vegas 99, happening dwell from the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Headlining the occasion was a middleweight affair between no. 13 ranked former LFA middleweight champion Anthony Hernandez (13-2) 1 NC and no. 14 ranked former SBC welterweight champion Michel Pereira (31444444-12) 2 NC.
Hernandez got here into the bout on a five-fight win streak, showcasing victories over the likes of multi-time BJJ world champion Rodolfo Vieira (guillotine coke), Josh Fremd (UD), Marc-Andre Barriault (arm-triangle choke), Edmen Shahbazyan (TKO), and Roman Kopylov (rear bare choke) since 2021.
Pereira then again got here into tonight’s primary occasion on an eight-fight win streak, having defeated the likes of Zelim Imadaev (rear bare choke), Khaos Williams (UD), Niko Value (UD), Andre Fialho (UD), and Santiago Ponzinibbio (SD) down at 170 lbs earlier than transferring as much as 185 lbs the place he’d since gone 3-0 with stoppage wins over Andre Petroski (TKO), Michal Oleksiejczuk (rear bare choke), and Ihor Potieria (guillotine choke).
These wins got here at 1:06, 1:01, and 54 seconds of the opening spherical respectively.
Proceed studying to see how our UFC Vegas 99 primary occasion of the night went down:
Official Consequence: Anthony Hernandez def. Michel Pereira through TKO (elbows) at 2:22 of spherical 5
Pereira harm Hernandez with a phenomenal snap kick to the physique within the opening minute, persevering with to land photographs on Hernandez’ physique earlier than going upstairs and for a second it regarded like we had been about to see one other early end for the Brazilian.
Hernandez stayed in there nevertheless and began to put on on Pereira your entire second half of the primary.
Hernandez seemingly broke Pereira all through spherical two, securing a number of takedowns and touchdown heavy floor and pound from prime place whereas additionally trying to find submissions.
The beatdown continued in spherical three, Hernandez combating his good struggle and giving Pereira no house to work or breath; it’s shocking Pereira made it out of that spherical with how exhausted he regarded.
After an identical spherical 4 Hernandez secured yet one more takedown within the fifth, simply utterly mauling Pereira at will. He received himself in place to land a vicious elbow that opened a nasty reduce on Pereira, unloading on extra till Herb Dean stopped the struggle halfway by way of the fifth and closing spherical.
Anthony Hernandez has now received six-straight fights contained in the UFC’s middleweight division.
Of the 11 fights tonight between the preliminary and primary playing cards 9 went to the gap, the one finishes being Joselyne Edwards submitting Tamires Vidal with a rear bare choke at 4:33 of spherical three, after which Anthony Hernandez stopping Michel Pereira in spherical 5, each stoppages coming within the final scheduled spherical.
We received loads of cage time tonight at UFC Vegas 99 although there have been some very entertaining clashes.
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