HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from Bellator 257 and UFC Fight NIght: Whittaker vs. Gastelum HYDEN BLOG: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from Bellator 257 and UFC Fight NIght: Whittaker vs. Gastelum
By: Frank Hyden, MMATorch Senior Columnist
Bellator 257 and UFC Fight NIght: Whittaker vs. Gastelum were this weekend and featured some good fight and a lot of decisions. Let’s get to the rundown.
Bellator 257
GOOD- Veta Arteaga vs. Desiree Yanez
The first round was really close, as they both landed a lot of shots. I leaned Yanez but Arteaga looked good in there as well. Yanez did get a late takedown, though. Round two saw Arteaga drop Yanez early with a big punch, then got a takedown a little later. Unfortunately, she also hit Yanez with an illegal knee to a downed opponent and had a point deducted from her. The third round saw Yanez get a takedown but Arteaga started tagging her with punches. This was a really close fight, a tough one to score. I thought it wou
UFC Vegas 24 results: Matches to make for Whittaker vs Gastelum main card winners
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Whittaker had some choice words for the UFC middleweight champion.
Robert Whittaker took a highly-anticipated UFC Fight Night main event matchup against Kelvin Gastelum and made it his very own showcase.
Whittaker thoroughly dominated Gastelum in an all-around effort to score a unanimous decision shutout Saturday night. All three judges scored it 50-45 in favor of Whittaker at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. DAZN News had it 50-45 for Whittaker as well.
Fresh off the dominating victory, Whittaker flashed an ear-to-ear grin when the talk of a possible rematch with middleweight champion Israel Adesanya was broached. I think it s about time we crossed paths once again, said Whittaker, who suffered a second-round KO loss to Adesanya in November 2019, having bounced back to win three straight fights since. I m going to work hard. I think I have some tricks he hasn t seen yet and I ll give him a good run.
UFC Vegas 24 results: Arlovski outstrikes Sherman in decision, Malkoun upsets Alhassan
On the UFC Vegas 24 main card, Andrei Arlovski took a unanimous nod over Chase Sherman, and Jacob Malkoun took a grinding decision over Abdul Razak Alhassan.
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The UFC Vegas 24 main card is in progress and we got nothing but decisions before heading into the main event. The makeshift co-main event of the evening saw former heavyweight champion, Andrei Arlovski, take a tightly contested decision over Chase Sherman. It was the calf kick that was the most damaging tool that Arlovski brought to the table. It reduced the output of Sherman, and opened up his patented boxing game. The 42-year-old veteran has won three of his last four fights, and that’s bananas!
MAIN CARD (ESPN, ESPN+, 10 p.m. ET)
#1 Robert Whittaker (185.5 lbs.) vs. #8 Kelvin Gastelum (185 lbs.)
Drakkar Klose (156 lbs.) vs. Jeremy Stephens (156 lbs.)
Andrei Arlovski (250.5 lbs.) vs. Chase Sherman (251 lbs.)
Abdul Razak Alhassan (185.5 lbs.) vs. Jacob Malkoun (185.5 lbs.)
Tracy Cortez (126.5 lbs.) vs. Justine Kish (125.5 lbs.)
Alexander Munoz (155.5 lbs.) vs. Luis Pena (155 lbs.)
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, ESPN+, 7 p.m. ET)
Juan Espino (257 lbs.) vs. Alexandr Romanov (264 lbs.)
Lupita Godinez (116 lbs.) vs. Jessica Penne (116 lbs.)
Bartosz Fabinski (184.5 lbs.) vs. Gerald Meerschaert (185.5 lbs.)
Austin Hubbard (156 lbs.) vs. Dakota Bush (155.5 lbs.)
Anthony Birchak (135.5 lbs.) vs. Tony Gravely (135.5 lbs.)
Hello everyone and welcome to 411mania’s LIVE coverage of UFC on ESPN 22. I’m Robert Winfree and I’ll be your host, relaying all of the action to you just as I see it. Tonight the UFC brings a fairly obviously filler card, but the main event is a very
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