UFC 249 All Events : Results


UFC 249 All Events : Results

After long hustle UFC President ‘Dana White’ finally made his promise by organizing UFC 249. After WWE, UFC is the second industry who continued their events amid lockdown. By taking proper precautions and medical facilities, UFC made it possible for their fans.

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Here is the results of all bouts –

Quick Results

Main Event

Lightweight:

  • Justin Gaethje(22-2-0) def. Tony Ferguson (25-4-0)

Bantamweight:

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  • Henry Cejudo(16-2-0) def. Dominic Cruz(22-3-0)

Featherweight:

  • Jeremy Stephens(28-18-0) def. Calvin Kattar(21-4-0)

Heavyweight :

  • Francis Nagnnou(15-3-0) def. Jairzinho Rozenstruik(10-1-0)

Greg Hardy (6-2-0) defeats Yorgan De Castro (6-1-0) by unanimous decision.

Preliminary Card

  • Aleksei Oleinik (59-13-1) def. Fabricio Werdum(23-9-1) by split decision
  • Welterweight : Anthony Pettis(23-10) defeats Donald Cerrone(36-15) by unanimous decision.
  • Vicente Luque (18-7-1) def. Niko Price (14-4) by TKO ( doctor’s stoppage)
  • Strawweight Carla Esparza(17-6)def. Michelle Waterson (17-8) by split decision (30-27,29-28,27-30)

Early Prelims

  • Featherweight :Bryce Mitchell (13-1) def. Charles Rosa (12-4) by unanimous decision
  • Light Heavyweight : Ryan Spann(18-5) def. Sam Alvey(33-14) by split decision

Detailed Results


Main Event


Lightweight:
Justin Gaethje(22-2-0) def. Tony Ferguson (25-4-0)

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A sold-out crowd that might otherwise have attended would have seen Gaethje beat Ferguson to the punch from the opening horn, peppering the veteran with counter right hands, left hooks and leg kicks. Ferguson wobbled Gaethje with an uppercut late in Round 2, but the rest of the fight the 31-year-old-Gaethje controlled the action with his heavy hands and crisp timing.

When he landed a sharp jab to Ferguson’s nose late in Round 5, Ferguson stumbled and Dean stopped the bout.

The win earned Gaethje the interim lightweight championship, but he refused to accept the belt, telling the in-ring interviewer, Joe Rogan, that he preferred to wait for the undisputed title. That title shot — against champion Khabib Nurmagomedov — could happen later this year if circumstances during the pandemic allow.

Ferguson was originally scheduled to face Nurmagomedov in a title fight, when the outbreak set off a chain of events that led to a new venue and kept the Russian champ from leaving his home country to fight.
Gaethje stepped in as a replacement.

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Bantamweight: Henry Cejudo (16-2-0) def. Dominic Cruz (22-3-0)

Dominick Cruz comes out moving, circling, darting in and out. Henry Cejudo, defending his U.F.C. bantamweight title, commits to heavy leg kicks, hoping to make Cruz more stationary.

Cruz, a longtime former champion, hasn’t fought since 2016, while Cejudo is competing for the first time in 11 months.

Early in Round 2, Cruz appeared to regain his rhythm, tagging Cejudo with several clean counter punches. Late in the round a clash of heads opened a bloody gash in Cejudo’s hairline, prompting a fight doctor to examine the wound.

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When the action resumed, Cejudo struck, hitting Cruz with a knee to the face, then raining punches on him until the referee stopped the bout with just 2 seconds remaining in the round.

Featherweight: Jeremy Stephens (28-18-0) def. Calvin Kattar (21-4-0)

After weathering Stephens’s power punches early, Kattar peppered Stephens’s left leg with sharp kicks, raising dark welts on his thigh. Late in Round 1, Kattar landed a front kick and an overhand right that froze Stephens, a veteran of 47 pro fights.

Midway through Round 2, as Stephens wound up to throw a right hand, Kattar beat him to the punch, stepping to crack Stephens across the chin with a right elbow. Stephens crumpled and Kattar pounced, landing a left elbow that cut Stephens’s forehead, forcing the referee to stop the fight.

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Heavyweight : Francis Nagnnou (15-3-0) def. Jairzinho Rozenstruik (10-1-0)


After Surinamese heavyweight Jairzinho Rozenstruik defeated veteran Alistair Overeem in November, he called out the No. 2 contender, Francis Ngannou. He figured his kickboxing skills would neutralize the Cameroonian’s power, and that a win would propel him to a heavyweight title shot.

But this was not as he assumed. Ngannou needed less than half a minute to blast Rozenstruik, knocking him unconscious with a thunderous overhand punch. Rozenstruik slumped against the fence and needed immediate medical attention as the referee stopped the bout.

Greg Hardy (6-2-0) defeats Yorgan De Castro (6-1-0) by unanimous decision

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In the first round De Castro, a Cape Verde native now fighting out of Brocton, Mass., appeared to be the superior fighter, landing several sharp right hands to Hardy’s head, and series of chopping kicks to Hardy’s left thigh.

Then an apparent toe injury slowed De Castro midway through Round 2, allowing the 31-year-old Hardy to seize the initiative.

Afterward, Hardy said he blocked De Castro’s leg kick when he heard commentator Daniel Cormier suggest it at ringside. In an empty arena, the fighters can hear the broadcasters’ every word, and Hardy credited Cormier’s commentary with turning the fight in his favor.
Hardy (5-2, 1 no contest) recorded his first win of 2020, after competing five times in.

Preliminary Card


Aleksei Oleinik (59-13-1) def. Fabricio Werdum (23-9-1) by split decision

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As heavyweight Aleksei Oleinik pressed forward in the opening round, his cornermen shouted for him to hit Fabricio Werdum’s body.Seemed like a good idea.

Werdum entered the octagon with the sloping shoulders and fleshy midsection of a middle-aged dad — he’ll turn 43 in July. Oleinik had trimmed some body fat since his last U.F.C. fight nearly four months ago, but was actually the older of the two combatants by a month.


So while Oleinik dominated Round 1, by midway through the second, the bout looked exactly like a matchup between fighters whose combined age was 84. The pace of Oleinik’s attack slowed. Werdum managed to land a few punches, and wrestled Oleinik to the mat. They traded blows in the final round and the final buzzer sounded without a decisive winner.


In the end, two judges favored Oleinik’s power punching, awarding him a split decision. The win marked Oleinik’s 59th victory in 73 pro bouts. Werdum, a former U.F.C. heavyweight champion, dropped to 23-8-1.

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Welterweight : Anthony Pettis(23-10) defeats Donald Cerrone(36-15) by unanimous decision


Donald Cerrone finished the first round against Anthony Pettis with swelling on his face, but at least he finished the first round.
Cerrone, who is better known as Cowboy, has lost his last three bouts, and was stopped in the first round of his previous two. He and Pettis competed evenly in Round 1, with Cerrone landing a takedown, and Pettis connecting with several clean punches.


One more close round. Cerrone completed another takedown. Pettis landed heavy blows to Cerrone’s body — a left hook and a spinning back kick.Somebody has to win.

These two fighters are 0-5 combined in their most recent fights.
Cerrone landed a right kick to Pettis’s face. He knocked Matt Brown unconscious with a similar shot in 2016, but Pettis took it and kept fighting. Pettis had controlled much of Round 3 until then, but Cerrone’s thunderous right kick tilted the momentum his way.For but a moment.
Overall, the judges favoured Pettis, awarding him the bout 29-28 on all three cards.

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Vicente Luque (18-7-1) def. Niko Price (14-4) by TKO ( doctor’s stoppage)

Niko Price’s body didn’t give out, even after nearly three rounds of trading punches and kicks at midrange near the center of the octagon. And his fighting spirit didn’t break, even as blood streamed from a cut below his right eye and dripped from another cut above it.

But after welterweight Vicente Luque landed a perfectly timed counter left hook late in Round 3, Price hit the canvas. When the referee called timeout, the fight doctor looked at Price’s quickly swelling right eye, and the two cuts near it, and advised the referee to stop the bout.

Strawweight : Carla Esparza(17-6)def. Michelle Waterson (17-8) by split decision (30-27,29-28,27-30)

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Strawweight contenders Carla Esparza and Michelle Waterson spent two-and-a-half rounds in a tense, tactical, tightly contested chess match.Then a fight erupted in the final 30 seconds.

Waterson, a karate expert fighting out of Albuquerque, N.M., landed a left roundhouse kick to Esparza’s body. Esparza absorbed the blow but trapped Waterson’s leg and tried to drag her to the mat, where Esparza’s experience as a college wrestler would give her an advantage. Waterson escaped and Esparza landed a left-right combination. Esparza kept pursuing and Waterson swatted her across the face with a left roundhouse kick.

In a bout without a clear winner, the opinions among the judges were divided. One scored all three rounds for Esparza, while another awarded all three to Waterson. Esparza (16-6) prevailed on the third judge’s card to win her third straight U.F.C. bout.

Early Prelims


Featherweight
Bryce Mitchell (13-1) def. Charles Rosa (12-4) by unanimous decision

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Rosa, a 33-year-old jiu-jitsu black belt, figured to challenge Mitchell if their bout turned into a grappling match, but the third time Mitchell pretzeled himself around Rosa and yanked on his arm, it was clear which fighter was more skilled in fighting on the ground.

Mitchell won on all three judges’ cards and is now 13-0, with nine wins by submission. Rosa moves to 12-4 overall

Light Heavyweight
Ryan Spann(18-5) def. Sam Alvey(33-14) by split decision


Ryan Spann finished the fight wobbly. Veteran light-heavyweight Sam Alvey hit him hard several times in the final round of the opening bout of U.F.C. 249, catching Spann with a short right hook, and later landing a flurry of blows before the final horn.

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But Spann, a 28-year-old contender, had already won the first two rounds, and emerged with a split-decision win.