UFC 327 ‘Prochazka vs. Ulberg’ play-by-play, results & round scoring
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Jiri Prochazka (203)
vs. Carlos Ulberg (204)Paulo Costa (205) vs.
Azamat Murzakanov (205)Curtis Blaydes (261) vs.
Josh Hokit (233)Dominick Reyes (205)
vs. Johnny Walker (205)Nate Landwehr (145) vs.
Cub Swanson (146)Patricio Freire (145) vs.
Aaron Pico (145)Randy Brown (171) vs.
Kevin Holland (171)Live NOW! Mateusz
Gamrot (156) vs. Esteban Ribovics (155)Lupita Godinez (116)
vs. Tatiana Suarez (116)MarQuel
Mederos (155) vs. Chris Padilla (158: Missed Weight)Kelvin Gastelum (185)
vs. Vicente Luque (185)Francisco Prado (170)
vs. Charles Radtke (170) Sherdog's live
UFC 327 coverage will begin Saturday at 5:30 p.m. ET.
Prado crowds the American early, walking him down but not offering much in the way of big swings for the first 20 seconds. Prado eventually fires first with a heavy low kick, clipping Radtke with a left hand and following it with a hard body kick and another left to the midsection. Radtke has to blink it out and steels himself, checking a leg kick and tripping Prado up with a lunging single-leg takedown. Radtke scoops up Prado’s leg and dumps him to the mat, and he smoothly lowers himself down into the guard and fights off an initial reversal attempt. Prado explodes to his seat, and Radtke gladly welcomes this as he sneaks around to take the Argentinian’s back. Radtke has his right leg draped around Prado’s own leg, using it to climb around to pursue full mount. Prado sits up further and tugs on the fence links to improve his position, doing so all while Radtke is imposing his weight on him from behind. Prado posts off his right arm to work his way up, and Radtke quickly mat returns him and follows a rolling Prado to reassume the back take.
Prado twists and turns, with Radtke draping his right arm around the chest. Prado offers up a feeble kimura attempt that is more about controlling the wrist, but he has to abandon it when Radtke slides around to get into half guard on top. Radtke postures up every so often to pump his fist into Prado’s upper chest, but few of his blows have any mustard on them. Prado scoots his way to put his back to the fence and wall-walk, and he suddenly rolls over to snag hold of a leglock. “Chuck Buffalo” buffaloes his way out of it and twists himself around to reassume top control. He maintains this position until the round concludes.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-9 Radtke
Dayne Fox scores the round: 10-9 Radtke
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-9 Radtke
Radtke locks down the body triangle and starts pawing at Prado with extremely light punches, using them perhaps only to make Prado think something bigger is coming to open the neck up. The Argentina native does not fall for it, instead staying composed until he can explode and turn himself all the way around to get on top. Prado sits up to jack down two hard elbows, and Radtke answers his third buck with an armbar setup. Prado stands up to shake his limb out of the danger and reasserts himself back on top. Off his back, Radtke is aggressive with elbows, slashing them upwards and gashing open Prado’s forehead. Blood sprays from the veritable axe wound, and it is pouring out all over the American. The round ends, and for a moment when the cutperson tends to the damage, one can nearly peer into the hole all the way to Prado’s skull. Just bleed.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-9 Radtke
Dayne Fox scores the round: 10-9 Radtke
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-9 Radtke
The intense squeeze from Prado forces crimson fluid to further flood from his forehead all over his face, but the submission is unable to get the job done. Radtke wriggles out of the choke and finds himself in the open guard of his adversary. The offense of Radtke is not particularly his focus, as he can ride out the round to a likely victory. Prado turns to his knees, and he falls into rear-naked choke danger with 25 seconds to go. He turns back over, and surrenders his back. Radtke considers an arm-triangle choke, but Prado spins around thanks in part to how slippery he is covered in plasma, and he bashes Radtke a few times until the canvas-painting match expires.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-8 Radtke (30-26 Radtke)
Dayne Fox scores the round: 9-9 (29-27 Radtke)
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-8 Radtke (30-26 Radtke)
Gastelum goes right after the fellow former welterweight, kicking his way into a big left hand. Gastelum takes a flush kick and counters over the top, throwing with venom as Luque has to back himself up to the wall. Every impact from Gastelum has a loud sound to it, and he keeps Luque to his back foot aiming shots at his discretion. Luque whips a low kick at his foe and lashes out with two punches, and Gastelum ducks and hurls his left hook. Gastelum hooks his arms beneath Luque’s backside to lift him up and put him down with a double-leg takedown, and he succeeds in grounding the Brazilian. Luque is quick to turn to his knees, so Gastelum leans on him imposing his weight and kneeing Luque in the sternum.
Luque works his way back to his feet, but it is Gastelum who keeps grinding until Luque shoves him back. Gastelum lumbers his way back in behind a left hand, and Luque times a picturesque uppercut to knock the TUF 17 winner clean off his feet. Luque leaps on top into the guard of his foe to finish the job, and Gastelum slows him down and threatens an armbar to a triangle choke off his back. Luque lets him roll over so he can set up his favored anaconda choke, sliding his left arm under the chin and rolling himself over. As Luque turns to his back, the choke is absolute. Out of options and about to go out on his shield, Gastelum has no choice but to tap out. MacDonald waves the fight off, and Gastelum appears surprised that he got clipped and caught in that submission. The victorious Brazilian discloses in his post-fight interview that he weighs about 200 pounds in the cage now, and that he plans on sticking around at middleweight for the foreseeable future.
Mederos advances and is quick to see that Padilla might try to grapple with him, as Padilla drops way down to motion an ankle pick or some such move. Mederos shuts it down and pushes his foe away, only for Padilla to crowd him and tie him up in the clinch against the fence. Mederos again breaks off, and “Taco” slowly marches him down behind a big right hand. They clash front kicks at the same time, with Padilla composed and methodical as he approaches. Mederos’ head movement is not keeping him safe as he sticks around too long in the pocket and eats strikes. Padilla backs him to the fencing again, kneeing him in the breadbasket while he holds him there. Mederos would prefer the open cage, and he pays for it on the way out by taking an elbow off the temple. Mederos resets and crashes forward with a double, only to bang square into the man who calls himself “Taco.” Mederos stop a trip-to-throw attempt by planting his feet, and when he kicks his way forward, Padilla tries it again.
Mederos is constantly fight off his back foot as Padilla continues to crowd him, with “Taco” not committing to big strikes but rather picking his shots clinically. Padilla gets caught sticking around, struggling to find his range and get out of the crossfire of the heavier fighter. Padilla forces a clinch, and the whole time they are trading, Padilla’s coach is talking more trash than a club hockey player chirping from the bench. Mederos drills Padilla coming in with an elbow that slashes open a wound above Padilla’s eyebrow, causing blood to leak directly into his right eye. The round ends.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-9 Padilla
Dayne Fox scores the round: 10-9 Padilla
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-9 Padilla
Mederos welcomes pocket exchanges even though he is at the volume disadvantage, with Padilla peppering him with offense for days. Mederos connects with another flush elbow, and he scoops a hefty left hook behind it. Padilla tries for a vertical elbow, and Mederos ducks it and shoots in on the hips to no avail. Padilla lands his upward-arcing elbow when loosing it again, and he walks through several leg kicks that trip him up to close in on his adversary. Mederos takes body shots and slings back four punches upstairs when he finds a moment to strike. Padilla walks face-first into a stern elbow, and he shakes his head and picks up his lunchpail to keep going strong. The round ends with Padilla getting ushered to his seat after landing a trio of low kicks.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-9 Padilla
Dayne Fox scores the round: 10-9 Padilla
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-9 Padilla
Mederos manages to get some space, and he scores a heavy right hand and an elbow while Padilla is walking straight into the fire. Padilla connects with a knee that changes Mederos’ expression, and he follows the possibly fatiguing or injured Mederos down but not recklessly as to take an elbow that is waiting for him. Padilla throws everything at his opponent, and Mederos is starting to get sloppy as he is getting bullied. Mederos sits down on his punches when Padilla tags him with a right hand, and Padilla hacks out with an elbow and takes a knee as well as an eye poke on the way out. Padilla complains after Mederos’ middle finger goes into the eye socket, and Peterson has no choice but to deduct a point from the fouling Mederos. The crowd is thrilled that Peterson took a point. Padilla wants to get right back to business, not letting the slowing Mederos have a breather, and he marches forward with impunity throwing caution to the wind. Mederos looks to slug back, but the technician that is Padilla has thoroughly flustered and puzzled him across nearly 15 minutes of stand-up. Padilla goes right after Mederos, ignoring big elbows to crash into him and thump him up with a couple knees before the bell sounds.
It takes a bit of time for the judges to collect the scorecards, and at least one official is not pleased by the scores that have been issued and visibly shows the disgust on his face. When the numbers are initially read by Bruce Buffer, Padilla is awarded the win by majority decision, with two 29-27 scores that overrule the 28-28. After the next bout, the UFC booth displays the scorecards for this match back on the screen, stating that there was an inaccurately tabulated round. The result is changed from a majority decision to a majority draw, as one of the two 29-27s was flipped to a 28-28. Your guess is as good as ours.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-8 Padilla (30-26 Padilla)
Dayne Fox scores the round: 9-9 (29-27 Padilla)
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-8 Padilla (30-26 Padilla)
Suarez introduces herself with a jumping side kick, and Godinez is out of the way in time. Suarez slowly works her way in, and she gets nailed with a hard right hand that stuns her to her core. Godinez slings her opponent to the floor, where she starts pounding on Suarez with more right hands. Suarez turns around to try to stand up, and when she does, Godinez lifts her up and throws her unceremoniously to the floor. Godinez knees her foe in the stomach when Suarez gets back up again, and she finds Suarez shooting in on her hips for a double. Suarez is now in the driver’s seat, pushing past Godinez’ left leg that briefly tried to set something up and push her off. Suarez establishes herself in half guard, but she largely smothers.
Suarez keeps holding on from above, landing the occasional hammerfist or elbow to stave off any referee reset. Suarez smacks Godinez and then elbows her, and Godinez answers back with an elbow off her back. Suarez is much more interested in maintaining top control to try to clear out any cobwebs than doing much damage or losing position. Godinez frames off with her legs, forcing Suarez to change her position and keep striking. She stays there until the horn sounds, and judges could go either way.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-9 Godinez
Dayne Fox scores the round: 10-9 Godinez
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-9 Suarez
Ribovics is quick to start up with his kicks, going to the lead leg, high and then low again. Gamrot keeps his gloves up to defend the one upstairs, and he flashes out a few jabs to keep Ribovics honest. Ribovics lunges forward behind his fists, and both men pound strikes off one another’s gloves. Gamrot snatches up a single and puts the Argentinian to his back, landing right in side control. Gamrot keeps heavy chest pressure, smacking Ribovics with the occasional blow to stay busy.
Ribovics explodes to turn himself over, getting to his knees while Gamrot still rides him, all the while working him in the temple with his right hand. Ribovics crawls around to get to the fence, and he wall-walks to stand again. Gamrot sucks away his hips to drag him to his knees again, and Ribovics is looking to his corner for advice while the cheap suit that is Gamrot is clinging to him. Gamrot has his right arm draped across the chest like a malevolent seat belt, but there is a stalemate between the two as neither can escape or advance for a prolonged stretch. Gamrot wriggles his way around to put Ribovics on his back again, and Ribovics pushes off the wall with his feet. Gamrot is in side control chest-to-chest, thwarting Ribovics’ escape attempt and punishing him with a few elbows to the side. As Ribovics turns to his seat, the round concludes.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-9 Gamrot
Dayne Fox scores the round: 10-9 Gamrot
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-9 Gamrot
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Francisco Prado (170) vs. Charles Radtke (170)
BETTING PREVIEW | SCOUTING REPORT | ODDS: Radtke (-185), Prado (+154)Round 1
Here is a grammatically correct sentence in the English language: “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” Look it up. While you were away, “Chuck Buffalo” Radtke (11-5, 4-2 UFC) was walking out to the cage ahead of the first fight of UFC 327. To forego the standard introductions and pleasantries—to quote gold standard play-by-play caller Jon Anik, we never take your viewership (and readership) for granted—Radtke will try to buffalo skidding Argentinian Prado (12-4, 1-4 UFC). Fists are soon to fly before referee Marc Goddard, and they wade towards one another without a glove touch in sight.Prado crowds the American early, walking him down but not offering much in the way of big swings for the first 20 seconds. Prado eventually fires first with a heavy low kick, clipping Radtke with a left hand and following it with a hard body kick and another left to the midsection. Radtke has to blink it out and steels himself, checking a leg kick and tripping Prado up with a lunging single-leg takedown. Radtke scoops up Prado’s leg and dumps him to the mat, and he smoothly lowers himself down into the guard and fights off an initial reversal attempt. Prado explodes to his seat, and Radtke gladly welcomes this as he sneaks around to take the Argentinian’s back. Radtke has his right leg draped around Prado’s own leg, using it to climb around to pursue full mount. Prado sits up further and tugs on the fence links to improve his position, doing so all while Radtke is imposing his weight on him from behind. Prado posts off his right arm to work his way up, and Radtke quickly mat returns him and follows a rolling Prado to reassume the back take.
Prado twists and turns, with Radtke draping his right arm around the chest. Prado offers up a feeble kimura attempt that is more about controlling the wrist, but he has to abandon it when Radtke slides around to get into half guard on top. Radtke postures up every so often to pump his fist into Prado’s upper chest, but few of his blows have any mustard on them. Prado scoots his way to put his back to the fence and wall-walk, and he suddenly rolls over to snag hold of a leglock. “Chuck Buffalo” buffaloes his way out of it and twists himself around to reassume top control. He maintains this position until the round concludes.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-9 Radtke
Dayne Fox scores the round: 10-9 Radtke
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-9 Radtke
Round 2
Prado starts off the round advancing like the previous frame, albeit less aggressively and taking shots on the way in. Radtke probes out a jab a few times to disrupt Prado marching after him, and he strafes to the side to evade big swings that follow. Radtke keeps putting his jab in the youngster’s face, and he shoots down low for a single that he completes with relative ease. Radtke is so quick on the draw that he gets Prado down and assumes back control before Prado can realize what happened. Prado stands and leans over to try to shimmy “Chuck Buffalo” off of him, but the Valle Flow Striking product is heavy and keeps a tight grip around the waist with his legs. Radtke keeps hold of Prado’s left arm to set up a straight armlock, and he lets Prado fall over to his back to start pursuing chokes from this position instead.Radtke locks down the body triangle and starts pawing at Prado with extremely light punches, using them perhaps only to make Prado think something bigger is coming to open the neck up. The Argentina native does not fall for it, instead staying composed until he can explode and turn himself all the way around to get on top. Prado sits up to jack down two hard elbows, and Radtke answers his third buck with an armbar setup. Prado stands up to shake his limb out of the danger and reasserts himself back on top. Off his back, Radtke is aggressive with elbows, slashing them upwards and gashing open Prado’s forehead. Blood sprays from the veritable axe wound, and it is pouring out all over the American. The round ends, and for a moment when the cutperson tends to the damage, one can nearly peer into the hole all the way to Prado’s skull. Just bleed.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-9 Radtke
Dayne Fox scores the round: 10-9 Radtke
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-9 Radtke
Round 3
With a huge chunk out missing in the center of his forehead, Prado is nevertheless cleared to continue his fistfight. It takes one single punch from “Chuck Buffalo” to smear away the Vaseline and force the blood to flow. Prado starts off aggressively, his corner imploring him to finish the fight lest he come up short on the scorecards. Radtke is ready for it, and he trades a few punches until Prado pushes off in an exchange and jams at least one full knuckle deep into Radtke’s eye socket. It is a horrific poke, and Goddard quickly brings in the doctor to check on it. During the stoppage time, Goddard goes over to Prado’s corner to shout at the fighter’s Argentinian teammate, Santiago Ponzinibbio, for issuing corner advice while during foul stoppage time. The physician tells Radtke that there appears to be no visible damage to the eye itself, and the crowd starts chanting for Goddard to take a point. Radtke tries to flush out the eye with some water, and he tells Goddard he is good to go and passes the finger vision test. Goddard listens to the audience and enforces the rules, deducting one point from the offending Prado. They resume four-plus minutes to go, and Prado comes out like his hair is on fire. He shuts down a takedown shot from Radtke and rails him in the stomach with a flush kick. Radtke sells out for a single, dropping down to his knees to complete the takedown, but Prado stonewalls him this time around and backs him off with a thudding left hand. Prado, leaking from a hole in his head and way down on the scorecards, swings with everything he has in every one of his strikes. Radtke shoots in on his hips, and Prado times this perfectly to snatch up a guillotine choke. Prado clings to the submission with everything he has, nearly mounting his opponent with the maneuver.The intense squeeze from Prado forces crimson fluid to further flood from his forehead all over his face, but the submission is unable to get the job done. Radtke wriggles out of the choke and finds himself in the open guard of his adversary. The offense of Radtke is not particularly his focus, as he can ride out the round to a likely victory. Prado turns to his knees, and he falls into rear-naked choke danger with 25 seconds to go. He turns back over, and surrenders his back. Radtke considers an arm-triangle choke, but Prado spins around thanks in part to how slippery he is covered in plasma, and he bashes Radtke a few times until the canvas-painting match expires.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-8 Radtke (30-26 Radtke)
Dayne Fox scores the round: 9-9 (29-27 Radtke)
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-8 Radtke (30-26 Radtke)
The Official Result
Charles Radtke def. Francisco Prado via Unanimous Decision (30-26, 30-26, 30-26)Kelvin Gastelum (185) vs. Vicente Luque (185)
BETTING PREVIEW | SCOUTING REPORT | ODDS: Gastelum (-250), Luque (+205)Round 1
Moving right along, two grizzled UFC vets with a combined 49 bouts in the Octagon between them come to blows at 185 pounds. With 25 appearances with the promotion on his ledger prior to this pairing, Gastelum (20-10, 1 NC; 14-10, 1 NC UFC) is the relative elder statesman as the winner of the 17th season of “The Ultimate Fighter.” Kill Cliff FC’s Luque (23-12-1, 16-8 UFC), who was part of Team Blackzilians on the 21st season of the same reality show, has only fought 24 times on the roster. Veteran referee Kevin MacDonald and his sweet moustache will appropriately handle this preliminary pairing, one that commences without a glove touch.Gastelum goes right after the fellow former welterweight, kicking his way into a big left hand. Gastelum takes a flush kick and counters over the top, throwing with venom as Luque has to back himself up to the wall. Every impact from Gastelum has a loud sound to it, and he keeps Luque to his back foot aiming shots at his discretion. Luque whips a low kick at his foe and lashes out with two punches, and Gastelum ducks and hurls his left hook. Gastelum hooks his arms beneath Luque’s backside to lift him up and put him down with a double-leg takedown, and he succeeds in grounding the Brazilian. Luque is quick to turn to his knees, so Gastelum leans on him imposing his weight and kneeing Luque in the sternum.
Luque works his way back to his feet, but it is Gastelum who keeps grinding until Luque shoves him back. Gastelum lumbers his way back in behind a left hand, and Luque times a picturesque uppercut to knock the TUF 17 winner clean off his feet. Luque leaps on top into the guard of his foe to finish the job, and Gastelum slows him down and threatens an armbar to a triangle choke off his back. Luque lets him roll over so he can set up his favored anaconda choke, sliding his left arm under the chin and rolling himself over. As Luque turns to his back, the choke is absolute. Out of options and about to go out on his shield, Gastelum has no choice but to tap out. MacDonald waves the fight off, and Gastelum appears surprised that he got clipped and caught in that submission. The victorious Brazilian discloses in his post-fight interview that he weighs about 200 pounds in the cage now, and that he plans on sticking around at middleweight for the foreseeable future.
The Official Result
Vicente Luque def. Kelvin Gastelum R1 4:08 via Submission (Anaconda Choke)MarQuel Mederos (155) vs. Chris Padilla (158: Missed Weight)
BETTING PREVIEW | SCOUTING REPORT | ODDS: Padilla (-180), Mederos (+150)Round 1
It may not be Taco Tuesday, but it’s the next best thing as “Taco” Padilla (17-6, 4-0 UFC) is fighting. For those not keeping score, the Californian has defied expectations and the betting odds to win his first four fights in the promotion. Whether his streak ends or Mederos (11-1, 3-0 UFC), who has won three straight in the UFC, comes to a halt, they will have the next 15 minutes to decide. “Taco” may have opted for a few more tacos during training camp, as he missed the lightweight cap by two pounds ahead of their match. He gives 20% of his purse, a clap of hands and zero nonsense to his opponent, as referee Keith Peterson stands ever vigilant.Mederos advances and is quick to see that Padilla might try to grapple with him, as Padilla drops way down to motion an ankle pick or some such move. Mederos shuts it down and pushes his foe away, only for Padilla to crowd him and tie him up in the clinch against the fence. Mederos again breaks off, and “Taco” slowly marches him down behind a big right hand. They clash front kicks at the same time, with Padilla composed and methodical as he approaches. Mederos’ head movement is not keeping him safe as he sticks around too long in the pocket and eats strikes. Padilla backs him to the fencing again, kneeing him in the breadbasket while he holds him there. Mederos would prefer the open cage, and he pays for it on the way out by taking an elbow off the temple. Mederos resets and crashes forward with a double, only to bang square into the man who calls himself “Taco.” Mederos stop a trip-to-throw attempt by planting his feet, and when he kicks his way forward, Padilla tries it again.
Mederos is constantly fight off his back foot as Padilla continues to crowd him, with “Taco” not committing to big strikes but rather picking his shots clinically. Padilla gets caught sticking around, struggling to find his range and get out of the crossfire of the heavier fighter. Padilla forces a clinch, and the whole time they are trading, Padilla’s coach is talking more trash than a club hockey player chirping from the bench. Mederos drills Padilla coming in with an elbow that slashes open a wound above Padilla’s eyebrow, causing blood to leak directly into his right eye. The round ends.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-9 Padilla
Dayne Fox scores the round: 10-9 Padilla
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-9 Padilla
Round 2
Despite a dime-sized hole in Padilla’s head that leaks the first time it gets struck, he is fine to continue and gets right back onto his train of beating Mederos to the punch and kick. He calmly chains strikes together, varying his target ranging from the calf to behind the ear. Padilla opens up with several front kicks, spurring Mederos into rushing at him with left hooks that further inflict some facial damage. Padilla kicks the lead leg twice and then the body, and his third kick is caught. He backpedals, and Mederos ties him up for a possible takedown but nothing comes of it as Padilla steers them to the fencing. Mederos gains a lick of space to slash out with a number of hard elbows, and Padilla stays right in his face taking damage and hitting back just as hard. Padilla’s pressure is overwhelming, so Mederos posts off and thrusts his thumb into Padilla’s eye. Padilla does not take long before wanting to get back after it, stringing powerful punches together. Mederos gives him pause with a low kick, but Padilla is quick to get right back on the attack.Mederos welcomes pocket exchanges even though he is at the volume disadvantage, with Padilla peppering him with offense for days. Mederos connects with another flush elbow, and he scoops a hefty left hook behind it. Padilla tries for a vertical elbow, and Mederos ducks it and shoots in on the hips to no avail. Padilla lands his upward-arcing elbow when loosing it again, and he walks through several leg kicks that trip him up to close in on his adversary. Mederos takes body shots and slings back four punches upstairs when he finds a moment to strike. Padilla walks face-first into a stern elbow, and he shakes his head and picks up his lunchpail to keep going strong. The round ends with Padilla getting ushered to his seat after landing a trio of low kicks.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-9 Padilla
Dayne Fox scores the round: 10-9 Padilla
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-9 Padilla
Round 3
Mederos wants to touch gloves to start off the last round, and he is warned for outstretched fingers when doing so. Padilla stalks him down, shoulder-rolling a hook to author a right hand over the top. Padilla rips the body and closes in to clinch, landing a knee before getting pushed back with an elbow. Padilla plods ever forward, knowing that he will likely be facing more elbows, so that he can put hands on his foe. Mederos manages to score when Padilla advances, and then Padilla jams a knee into his chest. Mederos hacks with elbows, and surprisingly, the huge gash on Padilla’s head is not drowning him. Padilla jacks Mederos in the jaw with two punches to set up a double, and he gingerly deposits the MMA Lab product to his seat. Padilla jumps down to get his left leg around Mederos’ thigh, and Mederos pulls on the fence several times to stand back up even as Peterson slaps his hand away and tells him to knock it off.Mederos manages to get some space, and he scores a heavy right hand and an elbow while Padilla is walking straight into the fire. Padilla connects with a knee that changes Mederos’ expression, and he follows the possibly fatiguing or injured Mederos down but not recklessly as to take an elbow that is waiting for him. Padilla throws everything at his opponent, and Mederos is starting to get sloppy as he is getting bullied. Mederos sits down on his punches when Padilla tags him with a right hand, and Padilla hacks out with an elbow and takes a knee as well as an eye poke on the way out. Padilla complains after Mederos’ middle finger goes into the eye socket, and Peterson has no choice but to deduct a point from the fouling Mederos. The crowd is thrilled that Peterson took a point. Padilla wants to get right back to business, not letting the slowing Mederos have a breather, and he marches forward with impunity throwing caution to the wind. Mederos looks to slug back, but the technician that is Padilla has thoroughly flustered and puzzled him across nearly 15 minutes of stand-up. Padilla goes right after Mederos, ignoring big elbows to crash into him and thump him up with a couple knees before the bell sounds.
It takes a bit of time for the judges to collect the scorecards, and at least one official is not pleased by the scores that have been issued and visibly shows the disgust on his face. When the numbers are initially read by Bruce Buffer, Padilla is awarded the win by majority decision, with two 29-27 scores that overrule the 28-28. After the next bout, the UFC booth displays the scorecards for this match back on the screen, stating that there was an inaccurately tabulated round. The result is changed from a majority decision to a majority draw, as one of the two 29-27s was flipped to a 28-28. Your guess is as good as ours.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-8 Padilla (30-26 Padilla)
Dayne Fox scores the round: 9-9 (29-27 Padilla)
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-8 Padilla (30-26 Padilla)
The Official Result
Chris Padilla vs. MarQuel Mederos is Ruled a Majority Draw (29-27, 28-28, 28-28)Lupita Godinez (116) vs. Tatiana Suarez (116)
BETTING PREVIEW | SCOUTING REPORT | ODDS: Suarez (-155), Godinez (+130)Round 1
A potential strawweight title eliminator and notable ranked pairing sits low on the prelims, as the UFC buries its No. 2 and No. 6 115ers beneath a slew of other quite unranked bouts. Suarez (11-1, 8-1 UFC) is aching to put further distance from her championship loss to Weili Zhang, while Godinez (14-5, 9-5 UFC) would like nothing more than to upset the apple cart and get a crack at gold herself. The only women’s bout on the billing is officiated by referee Herb Dean, and it opens with a fist bump.Suarez introduces herself with a jumping side kick, and Godinez is out of the way in time. Suarez slowly works her way in, and she gets nailed with a hard right hand that stuns her to her core. Godinez slings her opponent to the floor, where she starts pounding on Suarez with more right hands. Suarez turns around to try to stand up, and when she does, Godinez lifts her up and throws her unceremoniously to the floor. Godinez knees her foe in the stomach when Suarez gets back up again, and she finds Suarez shooting in on her hips for a double. Suarez is now in the driver’s seat, pushing past Godinez’ left leg that briefly tried to set something up and push her off. Suarez establishes herself in half guard, but she largely smothers.
Suarez keeps holding on from above, landing the occasional hammerfist or elbow to stave off any referee reset. Suarez smacks Godinez and then elbows her, and Godinez answers back with an elbow off her back. Suarez is much more interested in maintaining top control to try to clear out any cobwebs than doing much damage or losing position. Godinez frames off with her legs, forcing Suarez to change her position and keep striking. She stays there until the horn sounds, and judges could go either way.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-9 Godinez
Dayne Fox scores the round: 10-9 Godinez
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-9 Suarez
Round 2
Suarez races out of her corner to engage, pushing out a few jabs and a pair of front kicks behind them. Suarez initiates a clinch, takes a right hand on the inside and drives a knee to the solar plexus. Keeping to the tie-up, Suarez further pounds the body with knees until she shoots for a takedown. On her second effort, the former title challenger dumps Godinez on her face. Godinez climbs back up, and Suarez mat returns her and takes her back. Suarez gest her hooks in, but uses one leg to shut down Godinez’ attempt to escape and take some of her focus away. Suarez wraps her left arm under the chin, fastening the rear-naked choke as Godinez is calm and composed. As Suarez readjusts her grip, it is now dead-to-rights and Godinez has nothing left to do. Right before she loses consciousness, the light flickering from her eyes, Godinez surrenders for the first time in her career. Suarez dismounts her defeated foe when the tap is registered by Dean, and she screams as loudly as she can to unleash her emotions after a crucial win. She declares that she wants another crack at the belt, and dedicates her victory to her deceased brother who lost his battle with cancer.The Official Result
Tatiana Suarez def. Lupita Godinez R2 2:29 via Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)Mateusz Gamrot (156) vs. Esteban Ribovics (155)
BETTING PREVIEW | SCOUTING REPORT | ODDS: Gamrot (-180), Ribovics (+150)Round 1
A battle of elite MMA teams nearby in Florida will treat fans and end with bragging rights for the victorious camp. American Top Team’s Gamrot (25-4, 1 NC; 8-4 UFC) will come to blows with Kill Cliff FC rep Ribovics (15-2, 4-2 UFC), and it could be real “Fight of the Night” bait for these two top-tier lightweights. Before getting after it, they bump fists while referee Kevin MacDonald watches on.Ribovics is quick to start up with his kicks, going to the lead leg, high and then low again. Gamrot keeps his gloves up to defend the one upstairs, and he flashes out a few jabs to keep Ribovics honest. Ribovics lunges forward behind his fists, and both men pound strikes off one another’s gloves. Gamrot snatches up a single and puts the Argentinian to his back, landing right in side control. Gamrot keeps heavy chest pressure, smacking Ribovics with the occasional blow to stay busy.
Ribovics explodes to turn himself over, getting to his knees while Gamrot still rides him, all the while working him in the temple with his right hand. Ribovics crawls around to get to the fence, and he wall-walks to stand again. Gamrot sucks away his hips to drag him to his knees again, and Ribovics is looking to his corner for advice while the cheap suit that is Gamrot is clinging to him. Gamrot has his right arm draped across the chest like a malevolent seat belt, but there is a stalemate between the two as neither can escape or advance for a prolonged stretch. Gamrot wriggles his way around to put Ribovics on his back again, and Ribovics pushes off the wall with his feet. Gamrot is in side control chest-to-chest, thwarting Ribovics’ escape attempt and punishing him with a few elbows to the side. As Ribovics turns to his seat, the round concludes.
Sherdog Scores Jay Pettry scores the round: 10-9 Gamrot
Dayne Fox scores the round: 10-9 Gamrot
Scottie Smith scores the round: 10-9 Gamrot
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Randy Brown (171) vs. Kevin Holland (171)
BETTING PREVIEW | SCOUTING REPORT | ODDS: Brown (-122), Holland (+102)Round 1
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Patricio Freire (145) vs. Aaron Pico (145)
BETTING PREVIEW | SCOUTING REPORT | ODDS: Pico (-345), Freire (+275)Round 1
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Nate Landwehr (145) vs. Cub Swanson (146)
BETTING PREVIEW | SCOUTING REPORT | ODDS: Landwehr (-122), Swanson (+102)Round 1
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Dominick Reyes (205) vs. Johnny Walker (205)
BETTING PREVIEW | SCOUTING REPORT | ODDS: Reyes (-130), Walker (+110)Round 1
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Curtis Blaydes (261) vs. Josh Hokit (233)
BETTING PREVIEW | SCOUTING REPORT | ODDS: Blaydes (-142), Hokit (+120)Round 1
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Paulo Costa (205) vs. Azamat Murzakanov (205)
BETTING PREVIEW | SCOUTING REPORT | ODDS: Murzakanov (-192), Costa (+160)Round 1
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Jiri Prochazka (203) vs. Carlos Ulberg (204)
BETTING PREVIEW | SCOUTING REPORT | ODDS: Prochazka (-118), Ulberg (-102)Round 1
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