The Final Combating Championship returns to us tonight, February 17, 2024, for UFC 298, taking place dwell from the Honda Middle in Anaheim, California.
Headlining the occasion is a featherweight championship bout between Alexander Volkanovski (26-3) and no. 3 ranked Ilia Topuria (14-0).
Co-headlining the occasion is a 185 lb encounter between no. 3 ranked former UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker (24-7) and no. 6 ranked former title challenger Paulo Costa (14-2).
Headlining the preliminary card tonight was a ladies’s strawweight bout between no. 3 ranked former title challenger Amanda Lemos (14-3-1) and no. 7 ranked BJJ world champion Mackenzie Dern (13-5).
Lemos had gone 7-2 with 5 finishes since her UFC debut again in 2017, up till she went into her title shot with present champion Weili Zhang again in August of 2023 at UFC 292, a combat she misplaced by way of unanimous resolution.
Dern however, following a 1-1 span in 5 spherical fights towards no. 1 ranked Yan Xiaonan and no. 12 ranked Angela Hill, the place she secured 5 whole 10-8 rounds, misplaced her final combat to former strawweight champion Jessica Andrade.
Proceed studying to see how this 115 lb affair went down:
Official Consequence: Amanda Lemos def. Mackenzie Dern by way of unanimous resolution (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Lemos lands a tough calf kick as soon as the bout begins, touchdown a second shortly following. She spins Dern round with one other calf kick about 90 seconds in, severely compromising her lead leg early. Dern completely instances a double leg takedown about two minutes into the opening spherical and stays on high till the bell sounds.
Dern rushes right into a nasty proper hand that drops her early in spherical two, Lemos following up with a vicious assault that might have, and maybe ought to have stopped the combat. Dern took an absurd quantity of harm within the second, although she did safe a stupendous sweep with about 30 seconds left on the clock and ended the spherical on high.
Dern knocks Lemos down within the opening ten seconds of the third and ultimate spherical with an overhand proper. She’d find yourself on her again in an change, looking for an armbar that after a scramble noticed her obtain high place. Dern remained on high threatening submissions for the overwhelming majority of spherical three.
After clearly profitable rounds one and three, although simply as clearly dropping the second 10-8, this combat in all probability ought to have been a draw. There’s no justification for giving Lemos a 10-9 in spherical two, it was a savage beating she dished out, however there’s additionally no justification for giving her rounds one or three.
That being mentioned, the combat in all probability ought to have been over in spherical two, and as such, congratulations to Amanda Lemos on her victory tonight in UFC 298’s preliminary essential occasion.
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