Bonus Winners, Highlights And Scorecards

Noche UFC was every thing it was bought to be from a spectacle standpoint.

The attendance was a whopping 16,024. The occasion produced a $22 million gate, and it was the highest-grossing UFC occasion ever and it raked in essentially the most of any present on the Sphere.

Whereas there weren’t many finishes on Saturday evening, we did see two new champions topped and two epic fights.

In the principle occasion, Merab Dvalishvili dethroned Sean O’Malley to change into the brand new UFC bantamweight champion. Dvalishvili made it look simple en path to a unanimous resolution win.

O’Malley had no reply for Dvalishvili’s wrestling.

Dvalishvili had six takedowns and secured greater than 10 minutes of management time to achieve all three judges’ favor within the struggle. O’Malley could not discover a house for his heavier punches and he was rag-dolled a lot of the struggle.

Valentina Shevchenko regained her title within the co-main occasion along with her dominant outing. Shevchenko took Grasso down eight occasions with 16:04 management time.

Grasso tried to struggle Shevchenko off with submission makes an attempt, however Shevchenko escaped each try whereas sustaining a dominant prime place.

The followers and a few within the MMA group did not love the motion–or lack thereof–however Shevchenko has nonetheless regained her spot atop the 125-pound title within the girls’s division.

Here’s a have a look at the entire outcomes from Noche UFC.

Noche UFC 306 Predominant Card Outcomes

• Merab Dvalishvili def. Sean O’Malley through unanimous resolution (48-47×2, 49-46)
• Valentina Shevchenko def. Alexa Grasso through unanimous resolution (50-45×3)
• Diego Lopes defeats Brian Ortega through unanimous resolution (30-26, 30-27, 30-27)
• Esteban Ribovics defeats Daniel Zellhuber through break up resolution (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
• Ronaldo Rodriguez defeats Ode Osbourne through unanimous resolution (29-28, 29-27, 29-27)

UFC 306 Preliminary Card Outcomes

• Norma Dumont defeats Irene Aldana through unanimous resolution (30-27 x 3)
• Ignacio Bahamondes defeats Manuel Torres through TKO at 4:02 of Spherical 1
• Ketlen Souza defeats Yazmin Jauregui through submission at 3:02 of Spherical 1 (Rear-naked choke)
• Joshua Van defeats Edgar Chairez through unanimous resolution (29-28 x3)

UFC 306 Early Preliminary Card Outcomes

• Raul Rosas Jr. defeats Aoriqileng through unanimous resolution (29-28 x 3)

Noche UFC Performances of the Evening

Ignacio Bahamondes scored a first-round end over Manuel Torres. Bahamondes’s straight proper hand dropped Torres, establishing floor and pound.

The end was one in every of two on the evening, incomes Bahamondes a $50,000 efficiency bonus.

Ketlen Souza’s first-round submission win over Yazmin Jauregui got here within the first spherical, and it earned the opposite efficiency bonus.

A vicious left hook dropped Jauregui and Souza shortly locked within the rear-naked choke. Jauregui wouldn’t faucet and as a substitute went out chilly.

Zellhuber vs. Ribovics – Struggle of the Evening

It was a disgrace there needed to be a loser within the Zellhuber-Ribovics struggle. The 2 fighters battled in a back-and-forth affair that featured 277 vital strikes.

Ribovics prevailed by break up resolution. Each fighters acquired $50,000 for his or her half within the Struggle of the Evening.

Cinematically, Noche UFC delivered. The massive display, lighting and each side of Mexican tradition within the area got here off spectacularly. The hope is for the UFC to drag off different grand occasions for particular events sooner or later.