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In the primary occasion of UFC Battle Evening, middleweight Anthony Hernandez received the victory over Georgian Roman Dolidze by securing a fourth-round rear-naked choke Saturday evening on the UFC Apex.
‘Man, I need a title shot,’ Hernandez mentioned within the Octagon following the win. ‘What do I gotta do?’
Hernandez (15-2, 1 NC MMA) has now completed 12 of his final 16 fights, and he’ll be watching intently to see who comes away victorious within the UFC 319 major occasion subsequent Saturday in Chicago. As for Dolidze (15-4 MMA), it snapped a three-fight profitable streak in a crowded division.
Ladies’s strawweight Iasmin Lucindo from Brazil and bantamweight Steve Erceg from Australia received their respective fights by unanimous choice. Lucindo (18-6 MMA) has received three of her final 4 and prevented opponent Angela Hill (18-15 MMA) from restarting her win streak. Erceg (13-4 MMA) snapped a three-fight dropping skid by shifting as much as bantamweight from flyweight. He utilized a number of submission makes an attempt to frustrate Jamaican Ode’ Osbourne (13-9 MMA) and safe the win.
Featherweight Andre Fili received again within the win column with a split-decision win over Mexico’s Christian Rodriguez, utilizing his kickboxing abilities to get the job executed. The judges’ scoring was 29-28, 28-29 and 30-27. Fili (25-12 MMA) has received 4 of his final seven whereas Rodriguez (12-4 MMA) has misplaced three of his final 4 since final July.
Brazilian bantamweight Jean Matsumoto did sufficient to safe a split-decision win over Miles Johns, taking two of the three judges’ scorecards 29-28, 28-29, 29-28 by diversifying his placing all through the 15-minute affair. Matsumoto (17-1 MMA) bounced again from his lone loss to Rob Font (22-8 MMA) in February. In his post-fight interview, Matsumoto requested a rematch with Font later this fall for an upcoming UFC Battle Evening occasion in Brazil. In the meantime, Johns (15-4, 1 NC MMA) has dropped back-to-back outings.
The six-fight UFC Vegas 109 major card kicked off emphatically with England’s Christian Leroy Duncan securing a first-round spinning again elbow knockout towards Eryk Anders at middleweight. Duncan (12-2 MMA) has received two in a row, whereas Anders (17-9 MMA) fell to .500 within the UFC and continues to alternate wins and losses courting again to Oct. 2019.
–Discipline Degree Media
