UFC Fight Night live updates and results — Rob Font vs. Cody Garbrandt

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Former UFC bantamweight champ Cody Garbrandt will tackle the surging Rob Font in the primary occasion of Saturday’s UFC Struggle Night time in Las Vegas. The winner can have the within monitor on a future title shot in a wide-open division, among the best within the UFC.

ESPN has Garbrandt ranked No. 4 and Font ranked No. 5 at 135 kilos.

Garbrandt (12-3) snapped a three-fight shedding streak by knocking out Raphael Assuncao in Might 2023. The Ohio native has gone to determination solely twice in 10 UFC fights, reflecting an aggressive fashion that makes him a fan favourite. He held the bantamweight title in 2016 and 2017. Garbrandt, 29, is coming off a bout with COVID-19 that triggered blood clots and different critical well being points. However now wholesome, “No Love” stays one of the crucial harmful fighters on the earth.

Font (18-4) has gained three in a row, most lately a first-round TKO over former title challenger Marlon Moraes in December. The Massachusetts native has 12 finishes in 18 profession wins. Font, 33, has gained six of his final eight fights total.

Within the co-main occasion, the following UFC ladies’s strawweight title challenger may very well be decided in a bout between former champion Carla Esparza and the red-hot Yan Xiaonan. Esparza (17-6), who gained the inaugural UFC strawweight championship in 2014, has gained 4 straight. Yan (13-1, 1 NC), a standout from China, is on a 12-fight unbeaten streak going again almost 11 years.

Additionally on the cardboard, middleweight contender Jack Hermansson will tackle blue-chip prospect Edmen Shahbazyan, former ladies’s featherweight title challenger Felicia Spencer meets Norma Dumont and grizzled heavyweight veteran Ben Rothwell faces the debuting Chris “Beast Boy” Barnett.

Comply with alongside as Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi and Jeff Wagenheim recap the motion or watch the fights on ESPN+.

Struggle in progress:

Welterweight: Courtroom McGee (20-10, 8-9 UFC, -115) vs. Claudio Silva (14-2, 5-1 UFC, -105)

Outcomes:

Males’s flyweight: Bruno Silva (12-5-2 1 NC, 2-2 1 NC UFC) defeats Victor Rodriguez (7-4, 0-2 UFC) by first-round KO

What a begin to 2023 for Silva. After profitable by knockout in March, he did it once more two months later, crushing Rodriguez in simply 60 seconds.

The 31-year-old from Brazil, who got here into the 12 months winless in three straight, landed a knee from the clinch that landed on Rodriguez’s chest, inflicting him to again off. Silva went proper in pursuit, throwing an overhand proper that collapsed his opponent to the canvas, producing the stoppage at precisely the 1-minute mark — the fifth-fastest knockout in UFC males’s flyweight historical past.

Moments later, Silva was holding up a hand-written “75K DANA” signal, his plea to UFC president Dana White that he believes he deserves a postfight bonus. He positive made a powerful case.

Rodriguez, a 28-year-old from Soldotna, Alaska, misplaced his second in a row after coming to the UFC on a four-fight profitable streak.

— Wagenheim

Watch this combat on ESPN+.

Males’s featherweight: Josh Culibao (9-1-1, 1-1-1 UFC) defeats Nuerdanbieke Shayilan (19-7, 0-1 UFC) by unanimous determination

For greater than a 12 months, Culibao had been in search of his first UFC victory. He almost had one in his final combat, but it surely ended up being a draw.

Now, Culibao lastly has what he needed. Culibao beat Nuerdanbieke through unanimous determination (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) in a hard-fought battle. Nuerdanbieke tried exhausting to get issues to the bottom, however Culibao staved off principally all of his makes an attempt and saved issues on the ft.

“It’s been an extended journey,” Culibao mentioned in his postfight interview. “I feel I’m the primary fighter to go one loss, one draw after which lastly one win. It’s an enormous weight off my shoulders.”

Nuerdanbieke had clinch management for nearly your entire first spherical, however as soon as Culibao was in a position to break away he let his fingers go. Within the second spherical, Nuerdanbieke appeared winded with all of the unsuccessful makes an attempt to get Culibao down and Culibao was in a position to get off with mixtures. Within the third spherical, Culibao had his most success, bloodying Nuerdanbieke’s face with huge proper fingers. Nuerdanbieke almost had a takedown late, however Culibao escaped, obtained to his ft and landed a tough mixture.

Culibao, 26, misplaced his UFC debut to Jalin Turner in February 2023. The Australia native went to a cut up draw final October in opposition to Charles Jourdain. These had been the one two non-victories of his profession. Nuerdanbieke, a 27-year-old China native, was making his UFC debut on a two-fight profitable streak.

— Raimondi

Watch this combat on ESPN+.

Males’s flyweight: David Dvorak (20-3, 3-0 UFC) defeats Juancamilo Ronderos (4-1, 0-1 UFC) by first-round submission

Dvorak, 28, of Czech Republic, scored a formidable stoppage over a late-replacement opponent in Ronderos.

The flyweight prospect posted his tenth profession first-round end as he tapped Ronderos, 26, of Columbia, through rear-naked choke simply 2:18 into the combat. The choke got here moments after Dvorak landed a winging proper hand that visibly damage Ronderos and backed him as much as the fence.

Ronderos appeared for the house run in overhand proper fingers, however Dvorak noticed them coming and expertly slipped out of the best way, and landed counter photographs.

Ronderos took the combat this week after Dvorak’s authentic opponent — 25-year-old promising prospect Raulian Paiva — needed to pull out due to weight administration points, based on the UFC.

Dvorak, who hasn’t misplaced since 2012, went into Saturday ranked No. 11 by the UFC.

— Okamoto

Watch this combat on ESPN+.

Light-weight: Damir Ismagulov (23-1, 4-0 UFC) defeats Rafael Alves (19-10, 0-1 UFC) by unanimous determination

After almost two years out of the cage, Ismagulov had a impolite welcome again, getting dropped within the opening seconds by Alves, who instantly clamped on a guillotine choke.

However Ismagulov labored his neck free, doing so methodically, simply as he did every thing else for the remainder of the quarter-hour in profitable his fifteenth straight combat.

Ismagulov, a 30-year-old Russian who has not misplaced since 2015, gained by determination (29-28, 29-28, 29-28), as he has all however certainly one of his previous six. He landed greater than twice as many strikes as his opponent, together with a sequence of exhausting physique photographs whereas the combat was on the canvas. He was by no means in bother, though he drained in Spherical 3, giving Alves an opportunity late within the bout.

However down the stretch Alves, who’s 30 and from Brazil, merely didn’t have the urgency wanted to show the combat his approach. Consequently, his five-fight profitable streak got here to an finish.

— Wagenheim

Watch this combat on ESPN+.

Nonetheless to come back:

Bantamweight: Rob Font (18-4, 8-3 UFC, -115) vs. Cody Garbrandt (12-3, 7-3 UFC, -105)
Strawweight: Yan Xiaonan (13-1, 6-0 UFC, -120) vs. Carla Esparza (18-6, 8-4 UFC, +100)
Heavyweight: Justin Tafa (4-2, 1-2 UFC, -190) vs. Jared Vanderaa (11-5, 0-1 UFC, +160)
Ladies’s featherweight: Felicia Spencer (8-2, 2-2 UFC, -180) vs. Norma Dumont (5-1, 1-1 UFC, +155)
Males’s bantamweight: Ricardo Ramos (14-3, 5-2 UFC, +105) vs. Invoice Algeo (14-5, 1-1 UFC, -125)
Middleweight: Jack Hermansson (21-6, 8-4 UFC, -155) vs. Edmen Shahbazyan (11-1, 4-1 UFC, +130)
Heavyweight: Ben Rothwell (38-13, 9-6 UFC, -340) vs. Chris Barnett (21-6, 0-0 UFC, +270)

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