Cory Sandhagen dominates Deiveson Figueiredo in | MMA News
A bantamweight bout between No. 4 ranked Cory Sandhagen and former flyweight champion and No. 5 ranked bantamweight Deiveson Figueiredo headlined Saturday’s UFC Fight Night occasion in Des Moines, Iowa.
Both fighters entered Saturday’s combat coming off a loss. Sandhagen misplaced to Umar Nurmagomedov via unanimous resolution final August. The loss snapped a three-fight successful streak.
Figueiredo was defeated by former bantamweight titleholder Petr Yan in his final outing. He moved up to the 135-pound weight class after dropping the flyweight title in January 2023. He reeled off three consecutive wins before the loss to Yan.
Sandhagen opened the first spherical with leg kicks. Figueiredo responded with a laborious leg kick before trying for a takedown. Figueiredo secured a takedown but Sandhagen stood. Figueiredo tried to take his back but slipped off permitting Sandhagen to gain high place. Figueiredo remoted a leg. Sandhangen landed punches and bought his leg free. Sandhagen delivered laborious hammer fists. Figueiredo briefly appeared for a knee bar but let it go. Sandhagen linked with punches standing over Figueiredo. MMAWeekly scored the spherical 10-9 for Sandhagen.
They exchanged leg kicks to begin the second body. Figueiredo stood in entrance of Sandhagen and absorbed leg kicks. He landed a counter proper. hand. Sandhagen moved ahead but was taken down. Sandhagen dropped back for a leg and used it to reverse the place. Figueiredo kicked Sandhagen off him and bought to his toes. Sandhangen modified ranges to secured a takedown. He stood over Figueiredo and delivered punches. He dropped down to a knee and linked with more punches and elbows. Figueiredo remoted a leg and used it to briefly gain high place. They scrambled. Figueiredo appeared to have damage his knee and rolled to his back. That’s it. Sandhagen wins via TKO.
The official time of the stoppage was 4:08 of the second spherical.
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