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The Apex Center in Las Vegas, Nevada was home to a great night of fights at UFC Vegas 28: Rozenstruik vs. Sakai. The card saw four (T)KOs, one no-contest, and eight decisions, including one split-decision.
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The prelims opened with Claudio Puelles pulling out the unanimous decision when he defeated Jordan Leavitt in a fun scrap. That was followed by Sean Woodson taking a hard-fought split-decision win over Youssef Zalal. Manon Fiorot defeated Tabatha Ricci via second-round TKO. Ricci was overpowered by the much bigger Fiorot for much of the fight. Mason Jones vs. Alan Patrick ended in a no-contest due to an eye poke in the second round, a miserable finale to what was turning out to be a great fight. Kamuela Kirk defeated Makwan Amirkhani by unanimous decision in a fight that was so closely contested, it could have gone to Amirkhani and it wouldn’t have raised a stink, but one judge actually saw it as a shutout for Kirk, which is bonkers. I had it 29-28 for Mr. Finland. Muslim Salikhov took a lopsided unanimous decision over Francisco Trinaldo in a fight that unfortunately demonstrated that Father Time waits for no man. Ilir Latifi took a close split-decision over Tanner Boser in another fight that saw the scorecards all over the place. The UFC’s only living centaur logged his first win in three years. Huzzah!