Khalil Rountree Jr. gave Alex Pereira the whole lot he might deal with but it surely was not sufficient to win the sunshine heavyweight title as “Poatan” earned a technical knockout victory in the primary occasion of UFC 307 in Salt Lake Metropolis on Saturday.
Pereira improved to 5-0 since transferring as much as the 205-pound division final yr together with his third consecutive title defence.
Rountree did properly within the first two rounds, briefly knocking Pereira down after dodging a head kick try and even touchdown a head kick of his personal.
Pereira gained momentum again in Spherical 3 by discovering a house for his jab and placing Rountree on the again foot and turning on the fuel. He battered Rountree to earn a late fourth-round win.
Julianna Pena defeated Raquel Pennington in a detailed break up resolution within the co-main to change into a two-time ladies’s bantamweight champion.
Pena had success along with her grappling within the first half of the struggle and Pennington started touchdown damaging strikes principally within the closing two rounds.
Kayla Harrison improved to 2-0 within the UFC and 18-1 in MMA with a unanimous resolution win over Ketlen Viera on the primary card and had a message for each Pennington and Pena earlier than they fought.
“Girls, take pleasure in it when you can as a result of the queen is residence and I’m coming for that (expletive) gold,” the two-time Olympic gold medallist in judo stated after her victory.
Harrison is presumed to be subsequent in line for a title shot within the ladies’s 135-pound division.
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Mario Bautista picked up the most important win of his profession earlier on the primary card. Bautista was on the fitting aspect of a break up resolution towards former featherweight champion and Corridor of Famer Jose Aldo of their bantamweight contest.
Bautista has gained seven in a row together with his previous three all going the gap.
Aldo’s most notable former opponent, Conor McGregor, posted on social media that he thought the judges’ rendering was a “grime resolution.”
Roman Dolidze picked up his second consecutive win with a technical knockout victory over Kevin Holland in middleweight motion. Dolidze was getting the higher of the motion on the bottom within the opening spherical however the finish of the struggle was anticlimactic with Holland sustaining a rib harm through the first 5 minutes and his nook stopped the struggle earlier than the beginning of Spherical 2.
Inaugural UFC ladies’s strawweight champion Carla Esparza formally introduced her retirement from blended martial arts following a detailed loss to Tecia Pennington on the preliminary card.
The 2-time titleholder defeated Rose Namajunas to win the primary all-female season of The Final Fighter again in 2014 and beat Namajunas in a title struggle a second time in 2022. Esparza is one among most achieved fighters in ladies’s MMA historical past.
In different preliminary motion, Joaquin Buckley saved rolling within the welterweight division and picked up one other highlight-reel knockout as he completed widespread former title Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson within the third spherical.
UFC 307 marked the group’s third pay-per-view occasion in as a few years to happen at Utah’s Delta Heart.