The Final Combating Championship returned to us tonight, February 10, 2024, for UFC Vegas 86, happening dwell from the UFC Apex in Enterprise, Nevada.
Headlining the occasion was a middleweight matchup between no. 11 ranked Jack Hermansson (24-8) and Joe Pyfer (12-3).
Following a 6-1 run from 2017 to 2019, Hermansson got here into tonight’s predominant occasion having gone 3-4 over his newest seven appearances, these wins coming over Kelvin Gastelum (heel hook), Edmen Shahbazyan (UD), and Chris Curtis.
Pyfer however had gone an ideal 3-0 into his promotional tenure so far, having defeated the likes of Alen Amedovski (TKO), Gerald Meerschaert (TKO), and Abdul Razak Alhassan (arm-triangle choke).
Proceed studying to see how our middleweight predominant occasion of the night went down:
Official Outcome: Jack Hermansson def. Joe Pyfer by way of unanimous determination (48-47, 48-47, 48-47)
Pyfer lands a tough left hook proper out of the gate, adopted by one other and a nasty calf kick within the first 20 seconds of the bout. He continues his stress, touchdown his jab, left hook, and calf kicks all through the opening spherical. Pyfer finds his timing to land an excellent proper hand towards the top of the spherical as nicely.
Hermansson has a significantly better spherical two, checking lots of the calf kicks thrown his means and in addition blocking a lot of the punches thrown his means. He additionally managed the middle of the octagon by way of a lot of the second.
Hermansson actually begins to select Pyfer aside within the third, touchdown his jab at will and chewing up the lead leg of Pyfer with kicks. He additionally lands two good knees to the physique adopted by proper fingers. Hermansson additionally lands a splitting jab within the third that instantly backs Pyfer up, touchdown a tough proper hand quickly thereafter.
Pyfer lands an excellent left hook that backs Hermansson up as spherical three involves an in depth, attempting to comply with up with extra heavy pictures to finish the combat.
Pyfer does nicely within the first half of spherical 4, the primary fourth spherical he’s ever seen, although because the spherical goes on Hermansson begins to show the tide once more. Pyfer lands some good punches early within the spherical and presses Hermansson into the fence, although Hermansson escapes every time and sticks him with that jab of his adopted by extra calf kicks.
Although he put in an excellent effort, Pyfer was taken down halfway by way of the fifth and ultimate spherical, ending the combat exhausted and on his again. From somebody that hasn’t seen a spherical three since his second combat ever, he confirmed up powerful tonight however was finally out-struck, out-paced, and out-classed by the extra skilled, extra well-rounded fighter.
Jack Hermansson isn’t any stranger to upsetting the chances; he did the identical to Jacare Souza (UD), Kelvin Gastelum (heel hook), and Chris Curtis (UD) in his most up-to-date victory. He simply did it once more tonight with this win over Joe Pyfer (UD) tonight in UFC Vegas 86’s predominant occasion.
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