Recap: Jordan Leavitt taps Matt Sayles with a slick inverted triangle Matt Sayles via submission (reverse triangle choke) – Round 2, 2:05 He locks in a reverse triangle choke and forces the tap! Unreal finish. Sayles keeps the forward pressure, but he gets caught in a grappling situation and Leavitt instantly starts attacks with submissions on the mat. Leavitt is forced to shoot for a takedown but is denied. Round 2 – Sayles finds a home for his punches to the head and body early in the round.
Sayles is in a compromised spot, but he twists and rolls for well over a minute until he breaks free and gets back to his feet before the end of the round. Leavitt climbs up Sayles’ body and locks in a D’Arce choke. Sayles goes for a standing guillotine but he can’t get it, and as a result he’s dragged to the mat. Sayles grabs ahold of the neck, but is not in position for a submission and Leavitt turns it around and inches against the fence. There’s no much connecting through 90 seconds of then Sayles lands a nice right hand that forces Leavitt to shoot. Leavitt is heavy with the kicks early on, and when Sayles tries to throw one back, he tries for an unsuccessful takedown attempt. Sayles is feeling him out and Leavitt clips him with grazing from kick. Round 1 – Leavitt opens with a kick that’s caught but he pulls it away. You can also get behind-the-scenes coverage and other event notes from on-site reporters Mike Bohn ( and Matt Erickson ( on Twitter. To discuss the show, be sure to check out our UFC Fight Night 199 discussion thread. In the co-feature, Belal Muhammad (19-3 MMA, 10-3 UFC) meets two-time welterweight title challenger Stephen Thompson (16-5-1 MMA, 11-5-1 UFC).įollow along with our round-by-round updates and official results beginning at approximately 4 p.m. In the main event, two-time heavyweight title challenger Derrick Lewis (25-8 MMA, 16-6 UFC) takes on Chris Daukaus (12-3 MMA, 4-0 UFC). UFC Fight Night 199 takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
He also had a victory changed to a no-contest due to a doping violation.LAS VEGAS – MMA Junkie is on scene and reporting live from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 199 event, and you can join us for live play-by-play and official results beginning at 4 p.m. Silva’s skid included two middleweight-title losses, and two other defeats were to current champions Michael Bisping and Daniel Cormier. Silva shrugged off Brunson’s punches in the third and landed effective jabs with a kick to the gut that answered a head kick by Brunson, who said he wouldn’t be intimidated by the Brazilian considered by some as the greatest mixed martial arts fighter in UFC history, but showed tentativeness after prior over-aggressive efforts. Similar moments happened in the second when Silva landed a spinning back-fist and right kick to set up a punch, prompting him to bounce high on his feet while in an Ali-like boxing imitation. Silva took some Brunson punches in a tentative first, but landed scoring kicks, including a spinning kick that inspired him to press the action against the UFC’s eighth-ranked middleweight. The young guys are too strong and fast, but I give my heart.” To come here and fight and win is the best. Sometimes, I leave my family for three months.
“Sometimes, I have a pain in my leg, in my back. “I work hard a long time in my life,” Silva told the crowd afterward. Judges gave Silva (34-8) scores of 30-27, 29-28, 29-28, and while some disputed those numbers, sentiment ruled. In the co-main event, Anderson Silva’s legend helped the 41-year-old, former middleweight champion to halt a five-fight winless skid against younger, overly cautious foe Derek Brunson by unanimous decision. “I love to brawl, love to fight, clinching is not my game.”ĭe Randamie’s first likely challenger, Cris “Cyborg” Santos, was in attendance, hopeful that her positive test for a diuretic in December will be excused with a retroactive Therapeutic Use Exemption instead of leading to a suspension.īut De Randamie cast even more doubt on when that fight will occur by announcing she suffered torn hand ligaments and that she’ll require surgery with an unknown timetable for recovery.
“You cannot knock me out like that, come on,” De Randamie said after embracing her coaches and strapping on the new belt. While Holm landed some blows, De Randamie said her evasiveness, toughness and willingness to bring the fight decided the outcome. “It was close, but she didn’t want to fight me,” De Randamie said of the clinching. That only irked the fans and scored no points with the judges. That caused Holm to attempt the takedowns, but she couldn’t do it - late in the first, halfway through the second and toward the close of the fourth.Īfter Holm’s coach, Mike Winkeljohn, berated referee Anderson for not acting on the late punches, Holm tried to press De Randamie to the cage.