Winner: Nassourdine Imavov
Who He Should Face Next: Wait and see \u2026<\/p>\n
Imavov now sits in the driver\u2019s seat (right?<\/a>) for a 185-pound title shot against Middleweight kingpin, Khamzat Chimaev, with his dominant win over Borralho. That said, he will now have to wait and see<\/a> if Reinier de Ridder or Anthony Hernandez<\/a> can win in a bit more impressive fashion when they throw down next month. If either of those two men can win with an impressive highlight-reel finish, they could very well leapfrog the Frenchman. Indeed, it\u2019s still seemingly an open competition at this stage, so let\u2019s just wait and see.<\/p>\n Winner: Benoit Saint-Denis After derailing Ruffy\u2019s hype train with his second straight win, Saint-Denis is now eyeing his first three-fight win streak since 2023. \u201cGod of War\u201d would make a good foe for Gamrot next. During a recent interview<\/a>, Saint-Denis revealed that he was eying a showdown against Gamrot for Paris, and now that he has the win for some leverage, he should be calling for it again. Gamrot was last seen defeating \u013dudovit Klein this past May.<\/p>\n Winner: Modestas Bukauskas Bukauskas has quietly put together a nice run for himself, winning four in a row \u2014 three finishes \u2014 including his blistering buzzer-beating knockout win over Paul Craig last night (see it again here<\/a>). Now, \u201cThe Baltic Gladiator\u201d is looking to make a case for a Top 15<\/a> spot, and if he can get a win over Menifield \u2014 who is seeded No. 13<\/a> \u2014 it could do the trick. Menifield is an even 2-2 over his last four fights inside the Octagon.<\/p>\n Winner: Mason Jones Jones secured his sixth straight win \u2014 second under UFC\u2019s banner \u2014 by eliminating Bolaji Oki via second round technical knockout<\/a>. For his third challenge inside the Octagon, perhaps a fight against Duncan makes sense. \u201cThe Problem\u201d has won three straight and was last seen defeating Mateusz Rebecki earlier this month. It would be an epic car crash.<\/p>\n Winner: Axel Sola Sola improved to 7-0 with a stoppage win over Rhys McKee in his UFC debut. It will be a slow approach for Sola if I had my way, so I wouldn\u2019t mind paring him opposite someone like Fugitt next. Fuggitt has been unable to pick up much steam during his five fights with the promotion, amassing a 2-3 record, which includes his most recent loss at the hands of Islam Dulatov via knockout this past summer (see it here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winner: Nassourdine ImavovWho He Should Face Next: Wait and see \u2026 Imavov now sits in the driver\u2019s seat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,6656],"class_list":{"0":"post-127062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news","15":"tag-ufc-results"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Who He Should Face Next: Mateusz Gamrot<\/p>\n
Who He Should Face Next: Alonzo Menifield<\/p>\n
Who He Should Face Next: Chris Duncan<\/p>\n
Who He Should Face Next: Adam Fugitt<\/p>\n