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The medical suspensions for Saturday’s UFC 258 card are in, and several fighters are facing lengthy suspensions including Kamaru Usman and Alexa Grasso.
Usman returned to the cage in the UFC 258 main event, defending the UFC welterweight title with a third-round TKO over Gilbert Burns. Grasso was in action in the card’s co-main event, where she defeated Maycee Barber by unanimous decision.
While both Usman and Grasso picked up big wins at UFC 258, neither left the cage unscathed, and could be out of action until August, depending on their doctors’ rulings.
See the full medical suspensions for the card below (via mixedmartialarts.com):
There goes Maycee Barber s dream of making UFC history. Alexa Grasso, meanwhile, has designs on making history herself.
Grasso was the sharper fighter in both the striking exchanges and the grappling, whether on the canvas or in standing clinches against the cage, and she earned a unanimous-decision victory in the co-main event of UFC 258 on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
It was the second straight defeat for Barber, a 22-year-old Californian who had proclaimed early in her career that her goal was to become the youngest UFC champion ever, a distinction currently owned by Jon Jones. Barber s effort to get there was put on hold by a year spent rehabilitating a knee surgery suffered in her January 2020 loss to Roxanne Modafferi. And now she has a second loss.
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)
Champ Kamaru Usman (170 lbs.) vs. #1 Gilbert Burns (170 lbs.) – for welterweight title
#10 Maycee Barber (126 lbs.) vs. #15 Alexa Grasso (125.5 lbs.)
#9 Kelvin Gastelum (186 lbs.) vs. #15 Ian Heinisch (185.5 lbs.)
Brian Kelleher (145.5 lbs.) vs. Ricky Simon (145.5 lbs.)
Julian Marquez (185 lbs.) vs. Maki Pitolo (185 lbs.)
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, ESPN+, 8 p.m. ET)
Anthony Hernandez (186 lbs.) vs. Rodolfo Vieira (186 lbs.)
Dhiego Lima (171 lbs.) vs. #13 Belal Muhammad (169.5 lbs.)
Mallory Martin (115.5 lbs.) vs. Polyana Viana (116 lbs.)
Andre Ewell (138.5 lbs.) vs. Chris Gutierrez (140 lbs.)
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, 7 p.m. ET)
Gabe Green (169.5 lbs.) vs. Phil Rowe (171 lbs.)
Miranda Maverick (125.5 lbs.) vs. Gillian Robertson (125.5 lbs.)