Lightweight contender in the world, the challenger, donald cowboy cerrone and now introducing the champion fighting out of the red corner, mixed martial arts professional record 24 wins, 7 losses, 58 tall weighing in at 154. 5 pounds. Fighting out of Rio De Janeiro, brazil presenting the reigning defending undisputed ufc lightweight champion of the world, rafael dos anjos all right gentlemen we have gone over the rules. We have a clean fight. Rafael dos anjos, donald owboy cerrone. Lightweight title is on the line. Here we go cerrone in the white, the southpaw, dos anjos, in the black trunks. We talked about needing to be faststarting tonight, cerrone. Rememberer in the first matchup dos anjos hit him with a hard right hook and changed the complex of the fight. Ad dos anjos connected with the straight left and thats a punch he used repeatedly against anthony pettit. And the leg kick cerrone will keep him away from the power side of rafael dos anjos. And critical he use that. Dos anjos. And hard kick by dos anjos. And necessary trouble. He is still in it, he has to wait it out. Oh, my goodss the body shot, thats very bad. And that kick is there every single time that dos anjos everybody. And donald is waiting for it to dissipate thas all he can do. And cowboy in all kinds of trououe. And rafael dos anjos remains the lightweight champion of the world. Just like that. Wow. Thats impressive. Caught him early. The left kick has been vicious his entire career. Landed it on Anthony Pettis and used it very much. And thats the leg kick needed taking him away from the power kick. Ke a look at it o o the move of the night, sponsored my metropcs where you get nationwide coverage for 30 period. It is the leftt power kick to theeody landed hard and the straight left, the right hand and then uncorks with a barrage of strikes. And donald trying to survive. And its interestg,dom, and i would want your opinion on this. When do you stop a fight when a guy is blocking shots and doing his best to turtle up. Is that enough or does he have to move and get to a better position . You saw the fight stopped that is kind of what he was trying to do. Trying to block. When you get kicked in a body like that it is like pushing a button and your bodod shuts down and you have one choice, to be tough and wait it out. Thats all donald could do, he was waiting it out. You have to wait for the gut feeling to go away. He has to sit there but i dont know what the right is, this is to stop it for any reason and i dont think that cerrone would either. It seemed like he was blocking it. D he looked to herb b stop fifit which is always kind of a weird move. We dont know if he hurt his ribs on that, could have broke his ribs and been done. But the left kick we have seen dell dos anjos land it over. And the knee to the body, that hurt him. And after that here is where the kick came. Looking at the knee one more time. A nice knee. Nasty knee. To the liver and the body kick right afterwards. And rafael dos anjos in the octagon with he is had with his family. And h h remains the ufc back to orlando on fox. Hey buddy. Lookin good you ow what we gotta do, right . Lets go. No. Im not. Youre a good driver. That, thats not. Get in the car no. I dont think i can. Should do this. Just get in the car no red 97 set red 97 did you say 97 . Yes. You know, that reminds me of geicos 97 . Helped by geicos fast and friendly claims service. Huh. Oh yeah, baby. Geicos as fast and friendly as it gets. Woo geico. Expect great savings and a whole lot more. It has often been said you are not a true champion until you defend your title. That is what rafael dos anjos just did. Here is bruce buffer. Ladies and gentlelen, referee herb dean called a stop to this contest at 1 06 in the very first round to claim the winner by tko, as still the undisputed world, rafael dos anjos im here with the wiwier, rafael dos anjos. First of all, rafael, congratulations. I know you had a long time off recovering from your injury, and a very big highprofile fight like this on fox with a spectacular ending. How happy are you with the results . Im so happy, i just proved that i am here to stay. And all of the accusationon that people were throwing me, i am here with my belt, you know. And its just the beginning of my career now. Lets take a look at some of the action. A lot of pressure from you, as always. You startete off with hard, straight left hands and seemed to hurt him with this one knee to the body, and then a big powe left kick to the body. And then you unloaded a bararge of shots. Able to survive all these shots that you landed on him when you had him pressed up against the cage . Donald cerrone is a great opponent. He wins eight fights straight. It is not easy to do this in the lightweight division, but i have the best team. Man, i am surrounded around great people, man. And im so happy, man. Tremendous performance in winningghis title, and an even more impressive performance in defending. Congratulations, sir. And if you want to come to the lightweight division this is my division. I will go to island and faceou there, whatever, i am heqe to stay. The chaion here, rafael dos anjos him to defend his title. I dont think you would have thought that would be the way it finished. Not that quick, except we saw him land the kicks in the first fight versus cerrone and it was beautiful. He handed landed it over and over. And dos anjos is a beautiful champion. He went out and did what he needed to win. He believed in himself. You can tell by his physique he trained his butt off. And it is not easy to beat cerrone, especially in a minute. And he worked hard and deserves everything that he gets. And no coincidence that bot of the brazilian champions in the ufc are with the same team. And we will see you in boston, your title shot. And joe rogan, good job. Around the world, around the clock. At applebees, when you give a gift card. You get a mystery bonus card up to 25 of your own. Which is a nice surprise since most gifts dont give the giftgiver a gift just for gift giving. Well, what a night it has been here in orlando, florida as the ufc closes out its 2015 campaign in style. You can b b sure they are celebrating in Rio De Janeiro d across brazil. And welcome back. You just dont beat Donald Cerrone in a minute. And rafael dos anjos still the lightweight champ. It was brilliant by rafael dos anjos. He notion that cowboy cerrone and he has been hurt multiple times in his career being hit too the bobo. At started the whole thing off is a body kick by rafael dos anjos. And the kick to the bodand begins the onslaught and that puts him out. There is no champion, i believe, that has been as consistent as this man. When you look back, knocked him out in the first round and dominated pettis and now cowboy cerrone, incredible. When we go into a fight the first punch a lot of times it is a reality. I believe the body kick hurt Donald Cerrone. T if you watath about 15 seconds into that fight, dos anjos landed a straight left change. And he realized at that moment i may be in here with a completely different man than i was in here with 2 1 2 years ago. And from that point, rafael dos the knee to the body, the kicic to the body. What finished was the three punches in a row. You cant take the constant bunches backtoback when you are hurt. And the lightweight championship and in two weeks the ufc delivers a late Christmas Present in the form of Robbie Lawler versus carlos condnd. Winning the belt, an amazing step but i am not done. I am not ducking and running from anybody. I am driven to ge that title and can finish anybody inhe division, despite being violent. All right, that just about does it for us. Dont forget a complete recap of tonights action we hope you night show right now on fs1 on fox. It is your late local news. And so long from orlando, florida. Well see you on fs1 for the postfight show. Thanks foratching, good night your fox news at nine democratic drama. Drdra. Im matt hammill. The candidates meet for their latest debate just as the clinton and Sanders Campaigns point fingersover theft and favoritism. How that plays out. And out of this world. Were you one of the first to see the latest fans and fox 28 news at nine trump returns. Wwt a terrible paper, what a terrible. You know, its disgustingwhy hes lashing out at an iowa newspaper during a rally in downtown cedar rapids. Rapids. And more debate drama. The message from democrats after one candidate comes under fire accused by his own party. Party. And, star wars steals the show. The other blockbuster film disney is up against to shatter a box office record. Record. President ial candidate in the Republican Party is back in the corridor this time with his family. Family. Donald trump held a rally at Veterans Memorial auditorium in downtown cedar rapids. Trumps visit comes after controversial comments that he wants to ban muslims from entering the country. He and jeb bush are trading jabs after bush2 called trump a jerk and trtrp declared bush dumb as a rock. The republican front runner also took aim at the newspaper whos poll is one of the few that shows trump not in the lead. And the only one im not leading in is the stupid des moines register. What a terrible paper, what a terrible. You know, its disgusting. Hey look its a dishonest paper. Paper. Trump also told supporters that russian president putin is right to say that trump is brilliant and that the that both countries could stop wasting resources fighting with eacother. Happening right now, now,democrats are in New Hampshire for their latest debatebut this time could see much more drama on stage. A month ago just before the debate in des moines terrorits attacked paris. This time Bernie E Sanders campaign is accused of breaking into confidential information collected by Hillary Clintons campaign. But what the dnc did, arbitrtrity, without discussing it with us, is shut off our access to our own information cripling our campaign. That is an egregious act. Does secretary inton deserve an apology tonight . Yes, i appologize. Appologize. This is the third democratic debate and the only cne planned in New Hampshire. Here in the corridor it looked a lot warmer from inside than it felt out side today. The sun helped but still chilly. Meteorologist with up tonight with the following the terrorist attacks in San Bernadino president ial candidates and some people across the country have spoken out against all prprised a crack down on immigrants if elected. Today members of the linn county Interreligious Council turned out to show they do not agree. Fox 28 news repepter steffi lee is here with their message. Steffi. When donald trump said hed place a ban on muslims coming into the country that didnt sit well with many people in cedar rapids. So before he even showed up on saturday more than one hundred people with the linn county Inter Religious Council stood across from his event showing they dont value his beliefs. Beliefs. Across the sea of red white and blue donald trump souvenirs we dont agree wita lot of whats being said by the trump campaign. Was a sea of Cedar RapidiansHolding Signs high cedar rapids has had muslims since the late 1800sjoined together by one message. Message. We want to stand with them. No matter the religion love of neighbor and love says just what these supporters of the linn county Interreligious Council dont see in trump. Trump. It seems like every president ial election for the past few decades has used religion in a way to manipulate and im asking that we use our better selves. Selves. If it werent for these comments that were made, we really wouldnt have had the chance to get together with our friends and supporters. Imam hassan selim said theres no bolder way to show pride for his new ameran citizenship i have a big responsibility to j jn the other millilis of american citizens who are speaking against him. Because words like this for a country with an immigrant base stick hardrd hardrd59 that means a lot to Cedar Rapidians. It just runs unter to everything we beeve in. And only remind Cedar Rapidians love trumps hatat hate. I am an american im a muslim and im proud of being both. Wants more education on muslims, theyre welcome to the cedar rapids islamic ceceer. Steffi lee, foxox28 news. A 19yearold boy is charged after linn county deputies say he lead them on a chase last night wi his mother in the car while he was drunk. Unk. Deputies tried to stop Jeremy Mirkes on 40th street north east. They say he took off ran a red light near 38th street and first avenue and crashed intowo cars. He and his mother went to the hospital for minor injuries. Hes facing several charges including drunk driving. President obama and the rest of the first family are in hawaii tonight. They landed early this morning for the holidays. But on the way last night the president met with families of the mass shooting in san bernardino. The president says even after such a horrible tragedy s important to stay positive. We have to remind ourselves exists out there. If you met some of these folks, despite the pain and the heartache that theyre feeling, they could not have been more inspiring inspiring. The president and his family will spend about two weeks in hawaii. Us defense secretary ash carter will spend the holidays in the middle east. Hell meet with defense leaders and thank troops for their service. Today near bahrainin carter spent time in the persian gulf on a french aircraft carrier. He says the relationship with allies fighting terrorism strong. we are completely aligned with france on the mission of defeating isil, the need to do so in syria and iraq iraqthe trip comes amid growing concerns that isis is expanding in afghanistan near the pakistani border. If your wishing for a White Christmas conser buffalo new york. The city saw a dusting over record for the latest first snow set in 1899. In an average year buffalo would alreadadhave 22 inches on the ground. Here in the corridor some of you spent the day getting ready in case it does snow. The Linn County Conservation Department held a snow shoe building class at the wickiup hill learning center. You see a lot of these for sale but those who made them say its even better. Most people dont create their owowobjects, they go out and buy them somewhere and i think its kind of unique to be able to actually build something yourself. With your own hands, and then be able to go out and put it to use. Use. The new snow shoes still need to be varnished but from jeffs forecast it appears they have plenty of time. Some last minute shopping also going on today in newbo. Newbo. Thats where theyre celebrating the art market weekend. Its a chance gifts. Santa also showed up to listen to those items on your wish st. You probably dont need the reminder but only five shopping days left. I thik the newbo market was an amazing idea. Im 16 where else would i get exposure. And its a place where everybody in the community can come. Come. The art market continues at newbo tomorrow from ten to four. The kirkwood glass club will also hold a three d art sale. Shopping for gifts for their family thanks to thth generosity of Skogman Realty agents. Today they met with kids from the boys and girls club for a shopping outing. This is the second year for skogman to hosos the event. Its a lot of fun for us because not all of us have children, so its a fun morning to go out and spend fufilling their christmas wishes to give because its a season of giving to give to their family members. After picking out some great gifts the skogman agents even treated everybody to lunch and helped to wrap the gigis. A big dedication today in iowa city. City. Members of the iowa valley habitat for humanity Women Build Program handed over the keys to a new house. Ahmar hammad and muna abdalla and their four children are beyond excited. The family came to the us in 2009. They first lived in philadelelia but a famimi friend told them iowa city would be a safer. The new habitat house allows them to move out of a apartment. It is very hard to express the real feeling that you have, specially on the date of celebration. Everything becomes real now. Amar works for the Iowa City School district. Their children activities including soccer. Still ahead on your fox28 news at nine shopping frenzy. Frenzy. The huge final week end before christmas d the helping hands ready to put a bow on top of anything you buy. Buy. And the force awakened. The numbers for the first weekend of star ws and how you have to get out there and do it yourself. Bernie sanders is a wellknown friend of family farms. Bernies opinion cannot be purchased. Its time for our r xt president to get in there, roll up his sleeves, take off the gloves, and take on wall street, take on big business, take on big money, and get the working class back to where they should be. Hes a rock. Sanders im Bernie Sanders and i approve this message. Off christmas week monday on fox 28 morning live. Believe it or not, there is a drawback for some during the most year. Were learning some start noticing hearing loss during the holidays. Thats monday at 7 o now less t tn a week away and the clock is ticking for those of us who arent done. Done. That meant a mad dash to lindale with bumpertobumper affic on collins road in cedar rapids. A dot camera showed just about every parking space filled at coral ridge in coralville this afternoon. Nearly 90 percent of americans say they still have some gifts to buy. Some we talked with say they are making progress. Barnes and noble was hectic and t. J. Maxx was also. And im amazed we can get down collins road at all. All. Kohls is now joining some other stores open around the ock until reports of some good deals especially on cold weather items. And if youre like me and your wrapped presents look like the dog chewed on the corners theres still hope. Volunteers from the arc of east central iowa are helping out with the tedious task. Theyre set up at lindale mall t twrap for a cause. The proceeds support the arc. Theyll be wrapping up a storm until christmas eve. Monday marks the winter solstice. Thats the astronomical first day of winter. Also the shortest day and longest night of the year. They celebrated early at the robert a. Lee Recreation Center in iowa city. The wintetesolsticece festival of lights means arts and crafts and some hot cider to take the chill off. The winter solstice is a wonderful way to bring different people of all creeds together, for a common even that we all share, which is the change of the seasons, the lengthing and shorting of the days. Of light is a good reminder that we should embrace winter a a snow and stay active during grey gloomy months. Maybe just a little bit of snow for a White Christmas would brighten things up. Still ahead on the fox 28 news at nine in the line of fire. Fire. What a High School Football player did to save girls. And on alele. The unn precedented move china is now making to curb a huge problem with smog. The city of knoxville, tennessee is mo shot to death thursday night. As wendy gilette reports the teen is being called a hero for savingngthe lives of others. Others. The city of knoxville after a promising 15 year old was killed thursday night. Zaevion dobson was sitting with friends on a porch when a group of men opened fire. He used his body to block three girls. Girls. He is a hero. Because if it werent for zaevion, if he ran off the porch, me or her probably would have been shot. Shot. Students held a candlelight vigil for zaevion. Those who knew him say they arenttsurprisedede saved others. They describe the Football Player and mentor as a young leader who always put others before himself. Himself. Hard worker. Guy that just loved life, loved the game. Loved his peers and a kid of great character. Police say the shooting was tied to gang violence. Earlier, gang members shot at the home of 23 year old brandon perry, injuring his mother. He and a group of men went looking for revenge. Police say they randomly opened fire on the at was Wendy Gillette reporting. Perry was later shot and killed. Police have one man in custody but say theyre still loong for three others. A fuel truck exploded in flames thihimorning in hurst, texas. The truck crashed killing the driver and igniting the explosion. The blast sent burning fuel running down the freeway and into the median. No o rd on the cauau of the crash. Two people are dead following a plane crash in florida. Investigators say the victims were cousins flying an experimental plane. Helicopters were brbrght in for the search and finally spotted the wreckage in a remote forest. This is a very heavily wooded area, it took us a while to even reach the crash. Eveve once the helicopter located it, it took us a while to get in there to it. So, it wouldve been impossible to find it at night. Thats all it is to it. It. The ntsb is now trying to find out what caused the plane to crash. China the government issued a red alert warning for pollution. This is the condndime in as many weeks. The government is now closing schools and construction sites for safety and restricting traffic to minimize exhaust. China is concerned about more asthma and broncitis due to the smog. Pope francis has signed off on the miracle eded to make Mother Teresa a saint. Saint. The nun who carefor the or will now receive the highest honor in the catholic church. It comes two decades after her death. The vatican says pope francis approved a decree on thursday his 79th birthday. Supporters say Mother Teresa was a powerful figure who is very deserving. She is always a good example to the world, especially the world that is filled with egoism. She has left for us an another, knowing that we are one in christ. Christ. Saint hood for Mother Teresa could be declared as early as next september. That would be the anniversary of her death and during thepopes holy year of mercy. Coming up on the fox 28 news at nine getting creative. Creative. Star wars is a huge hit. Well show you how no ones surprise star wars the force awakens is heading for a record breaking weend. Weekend. Disney says the movie made a hundred million dolllls in north america and 250 million around Million Dollars in north america that will beat the previous record by jurassic world. But theaters arent the only ones cashing in. As vladimir doo tee yay found out retailers have many products with the s sr wars name. Name. Star wars means big business for everyone in its galaxy and beyond. Earnings are pected to stretch far beyond the box office. Office. The merchandising surrounding this film is unprecedented. I came across campbells soup that was branded with a star wars character. I came across s a pottery barn bed that was selling for four thousand dollars that looked like the millennium falcon. Sure. Millions of star wars themed toys will end up under Christmas Trees this year. But a host of other companies are looking to take advantage of the star wars blitz, including shoe designers and household brands like crest. Crest. Richard barry, the global chief merchandising the store has had a 40year relationship with the scifi franchise. Star wars has been one of the most important and bestselling franchises in our stores and its not just wellknown chains getting in on the action. Ample hills creaeary in Brooklyn New York is churning out star wars ice cream. This franchise everything that is associated with it does gangbusters. In the first week of selling star wars we had sold as many pints online as we had sold online in the year previous. The family owned business decided on two flavors the light sideth lightest most billowy most ethereal ice cream we can do and thats marshmallow. A and the dark side espresso fudge brownies. Has george lucas sampled it . It . Not yet. That was vladimir doo teeyay. Star wars is in more than fourthousand theaters the widest december release ever. dont put safety first in trouble. Police arrested him in upstate new york along with protesters angry about a new power plant. Police used bolt cutters to remove a metataharness cromwell l put around his neck. The protesters say the plant could harm the environment. Cromwell is famous for la confidential and American Horror story. Bill cosbys defense team is fighting an order that could force his wife testify. Testify. An attorney for seven women who accuse cosby of Sexual Assault wants his wife camille to show up at a deposition hearing. Cosbys Attorney Says she doesnt have any firsthand knowledge about the claims. Camille cosby has stood by her husband as he denies the allegations. Bill cosby recently filed suit against the women for defamation. Coming up on the fox 28 news at nine, trump returns. Is an iowa news president ial candidate in the Republican Party is back in the e corridor this time with h s family. Family. Donald trump held a rally at Veterans Memorial auditorium in downtown cedar rapids. Trumps visit comes after controversial comments that he wants to ba muslims from enenring the country. He and jeb bush are trading jabs after bush called trump a jerk and trump fired back saying that bush is dumb as a ck. The republican front runner also took aim at the des moines register, whos where trump is not leading. Democrats are in New Hampshire for their latest debatebut this time could see much more drama on stage. A month ago just before the debate in des moines terrorits attacked paris. This time bernie Sanders Campaign is accused of breaking into confidential information collected by Hillary Clintons campaign. This is the third democratic debate and the only one planned in New Hampshire. When donald trump vowed to ban muslsls coming to the us that didnt sit well with religious leaders in cedar rapids. Today before trump arrived for a rally dotn town members of the interreligigis council gathered in solidarity. They held signs saying love trumps hate and stop the hate. The members say what trump is doing just isnt right. I am so proud that cedar rapids is standing up for muslims and other minorities the same. And i think that would help change the tone of this campaign campaignthose gathered say the large turnout proves that trumps ideas dont align with cedar rapids values. In iowa city its an irish christmas this weekend. Weekend. The Champagne Academy of irish dance celebrated at old brick. A great time of irish folk music and plenty of dancing. Students from the Champagne Academy of irish dance also performed. Organizers say its a great way to keep the irish arts alive in iowa. I beleive its important because it is tradition. And it is somemeing that is very special to me, and i belevie very strongly that we have to pass them down to keep them ive this is the fifth year for the irish Christmas Kay lee in iowa city. You need moves like that if you stood outside for long today. Today. Meteorologist jeff kennedy is here to coming up in ssports sportsthe iowa bench came up clutch for the hawks today but would it be enough to down drake . And in the nightcap. Nightcap. Of the big ur classic could iowa state make it ten and oh . All that throw out all praised as one of americas best mayors who governed as a pragmatist. Bernie sanders passed more amendments in a Republican Congress than any other member. Cracacd the gridlock th john mccain to strengthen veterans healthcare. Bernie sanders. A cofsistent, principled, and effective leader. Building a future to believe in