The Final Preventing Championship returns to us tonight, March 30, 2024, for UFC Atlantic Metropolis, taking place stay from Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey.
Headlining the occasion is a title eliminator bout within the flyweight division between no. 2 ranked Erin Blanchfield (12-1) and no. 3 ranked Manon Fiorot (11-1).
Co-headlining the occasion is a welterweight encounter between no. 11 ranked Vicente Luque (22-9-1) and Joaquin Buckley (17-6).
Our characteristic battle of the night got here at 185 lbs between former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman (16-7) and Brazilian finisher Bruno Silva (23-11).
Weidman, following a 13-0 run to start his profession, had gone 2-7 over his final 9 since 2015.
Silva then again, following a 17-1 run from 2012 to 2021, had since gone 1-4 over his final 5 coming in.
Proceed studying to see how our middleweight characteristic battle went down:
Official Outcome: Chris Weidman def. Bruno Silva by way of technical determination (unanimous)
Weidman landed lots of good snap kicks to the physique early, and partially landed a head kick within the opening minute of the bout. He let go on some punches earlier than tying up with Silva, taking his again for a short while. Weidman managed Silva alongside the fence all through the rest of the primary.
Silva caught a kick thrown by Weidman and countered with punch within the second, dropping Weidman momentarily. Silva charged in with combos on the ft, however Weidman did job of evading the strikes coming his approach and at occasions countered with a few of his personal. Nonetheless, because the spherical went on Silva started to tag him up rather a lot.
Weidman’s chin held up although and he began to take the spherical over because it got here to an in depth, touchdown a heavy proper hand amongst different punches and kicks till the bell sounded.
Weidman landed an eye fixed poke within the second, and he’d land a second eye poke early within the third and last spherical, the place we have been all fearful it will be over proper then and there. After taking a while Silva was capable of proceed, the place he was seemingly dropped with a verify left hook by Weidman as he was coming in.
Nonetheless, Weidman landed one other poke to they eye simply earlier than touchdown the hook, which is admittedly what dropped Silva, and Weidman adopted up with some floor strikes for the third spherical stoppage.
CHRIS WEIDMAN KNOCKS OUT BRUNO SILVA IN THE THIRD!! #UFCAtlanticCitypic.twitter.com/1baDjOHOnW
— Championship Rounds (@ChampRDS) March 31, 2024
It was initially scored a TKO victory for Weidman, although after the post-fight interview was over the fee had extra time to view the end, which led them to go to the scorecards. Weidman was up 20-18 going into the third. It’s unclear on whether or not the judges scored the 2 minutes and 18 seconds of the third for Weidman or Silva.
Chris Weidman picks up his first win in practically 4 years tonight at UFC Atlantic Metropolis.
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