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Amanda Nunes won a unanimous five-round decision over Julianna Peña in the main event of UFC 277 on Saturday night in Dallas.

Ankalaev (18-1), ranked No 4, took down Smith (36-17), No 5, in the first round and then pummeled him along the base of the fence early in the second round when referee Jacob Montalvo stopped the fight. Nunes dropped Peña three times in the second round, twice on right hooks and then with a left to the forehead. Lewis finally went down but jumped right back up as referee Dan Miragliotta stopped it, as Lewis and the crowd both expressed their displeasure with the ruling. Alexandre Pantoja quickly finished off Alex Perez on a tap out only 1:31 into their scheduled three-round men’s flyweight matchup. Moreno was backed by a crowd that chanted “Mo-re-no!” and “Me-xi-co!” at times during the match. But because of a hand injury sustained by Figueiredo.

Julianna Peña is tough as nails. She took a beating for five rounds against Amanda Nunes last night. A brutal, bloody beating. Yet through the knockdowns ...

Nunes looked mortal for the first time in a long time last winter. Her first opportunity at the bantamweight belt was derailed by a loss to Cat Zingano in 2014. Nunes dropped Peña to the mat twice. Peña was almost as impressive in taking the pounding as Nunes was dishing it out. She would later suffer a knee injury in camp, but pushed through to make sure the second date would take place. Yet through the knockdowns and the elbows, Peña never took her foot off the gas pedal and was able to get Nunes in trouble (at times) on the ground later in the fight.

With her first UFC fight, and win, under her belt, strawweight Piera Rodriguez is no longer nervous, just excited for her October showdown with Sam Hughes.

“If they have talent and they are committed and they want to fight and they want to put the hard work [into] it, why not? It’s going to be a different fight, and it’s going to be a very exciting fight for sure.” “Let’s say it’s the same schedule every day of my life, training, training, training,” said Rodriguez, who defeated Kay Hansen at UFC 273 in April to announce her arrival in the UFC. “But now things are a little bit easier in my life, because I moved here to the U.S., now everything is a little bit more set up.

The UFC 277 bantamweight title fight was a rematch of the meeting that Julianna Peña won last December.

I think as dominant as Amanda was — and she was dominant tonight — I didn’t think it was close in any way, shape or form. “I thought it was completely dominant,” White said. She needs to take some time off, relax, spend some time with her daughter and then we’ll go from there.” Using the stance, Nunes (22-5 MMA, 15-2 UFC) dropped Peña (11-5, 7-3) several times in the early going and then took down Peña with her wrestling moves. “I know I was gonna catch her with that tonight. That, along with her wrestling technique in later rounds, was the key, she said.

Egyptian martial artist Hamdy Abdelwahab defeated Don'Tale Mayes on his UFC debut after becoming Egypt's first fighter in the organization.

Abdelwahab, known as”THE HAMMER”, has now become the first-ever Egyptian to play and win at a UFC event, and hopefully won’t be the last time for him to make the news. The decision came after Abdelwahab showed promise in his early career, winning all five of his Heavyweight Division matches by knockout, with four of these wins coming in the first round. As a result, the 29-year-old made his UFC debut on the preliminary card of UFC 277 after receiving only 12-day notice.

The program, a comprehensive plan that includes outfitting requirements, media obligations and other items under the fighter code of conduct, replaces the ...

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Former UFC champ Julianna Peña needs plastic surgery after her title-fight loss at UFC 277 to Amanda Nunez.

I think as dominant as Amanda was - and she was dominant tonight - I didn't think it was close in any way, shape or form. "There was five knockdowns in the first two rounds. "I thought it was completely dominant," White said.

Alexandre Pantoja said after UFC 277 that he doesn't think Deiveson Figueiredo is fit to fight Brandon Moreno in 2022.

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“Here was this 19-year-old kid that showed up to the gym in basketball shorts looking to use the 30 days to stay in shape,” Pomeroy recalled. “He had run five ...

“I had all these doubts and all these if/ands and then I just said ‘f*** all that, I’m just going to go after this and see what’s going to happen. “I always knew this fight was coming,” Hill said. It’s that he’s always stayed true to himself and to the right people. “I’m going to make this happen. “I was like, ‘Oh s***, m************ really be on this level’,” Hill said. I wanted to be in the NBA or the NFL; that was always the dream. I want action, I want intensity, and I want it non-stop. “I want the people to know who I am, I want people to be interested and wonder how good I am. I think that’s what it’s going to be.” That was the higher power talking to me, letting me know that this is what I’m supposed to be doing.” “Here was this 19-year-old kid that showed up to the gym in basketball shorts looking to use the 30 days to stay in shape,” Pomeroy recalled. “The fact that we’ve reached this point that we’re headlining a card that was meant for us and everything that comes with that just means that we’re on the right track,” Hill said.

What Amanda Nunes' rematch win means, a botched faceoff, and Derrick Lewis' future are among our post-UFC 277 talking points.

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Julianna Peña had a 'big chunk' of her forehead knocked out in a title-fight loss to Amanda Nunes at UFC 277 on Saturday.

“Julianna's tough as nails and her will to win is second-to-none. She wanted to win. She needs to take some time off, relax, spend some time with her daughter and then we'll go from there."