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<\/a><\/p>\nLAS VEGAS, NEVADA – FEBRUARY 07: (R-L) Mario Bautista takes down Vinicius Oliveira of Brazil in a bantamweight fight during the UFC Fight Night event at Meta APEX on February 07, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Chris Unger\/Zuffa LLC)<\/p>\n
I\u2019m having a tough time making heads or tails of Mario Bautista vs. Vinicius Oliveira.<\/p>\n
Undoubtedly, it\u2019s a great performance and win from Bautista, who pretty much dominated the fight and won a main event without taking any hard punches to the face. There\u2019s no question he brought a smart game plan and excellent transitional work to the cage with him, getting Oliveira to play his game and then quickly showing himself the finer man in that aspect.<\/p>\n
All the questions surround \u201cLokdog.\u201d The Brazilian made the bizarre decision of shooting just seconds into the fight against the man known to be the better grappler? Then continued to proactively wrestle? Weirder yet, Oliveira is known for his deep gas tank. He\u2019s made a UFC career out of outlasting opposition, taking their best punches and\/or takedowns early and then drowning them later.<\/p>\n
Being an absurdly gifted athlete is Oliveira\u2019s whole thing.<\/p>\n
In this fight, conversely, Oliveira was exhausted just a minute into round two \u2026 and he didn\u2019t really do that much in the first! I cannot help but think that his absurd weight cut severely drained him and robbed us of a more competitive fight. If that\u2019s the case, it\u2019s high time for \u201cLokdog\u201d to either figure out how to cut in a healthier fashion or make the move up to 145 pounds.<\/p>\n
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – FEBRUARY 07: (R-L) Kyoji Horiguchi of Japan lands a knee to Amir Albazi of Iraq in a flyweight fight during the UFC Fight Night event at Meta APEX on February 07, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Chris Unger\/Zuffa LLC)<\/p>\n Horiguchi Styles On Albazi<\/p>\n For the second time in three months, 35-year-old Kyoji Horiguchi absolutely styled on a top-ranked Flyweight contender.<\/p>\n Seriously, Horiguchi beat the brakes off Albazi and made it look pretty easy. Despite a clear size advantage and decorated wrestling pedigree, Albazi couldn\u2019t floor Horiguchi a single time. He was forced to chase after the Karateka, and it did not at all go well for him. Horiguchi\u2019s timing and movement patterns are so unlike everybody else that the Japanese striker was routinely able to line up hard shots that Albazi didn\u2019t see coming and was forced to just absorb.<\/p>\n The damage built up quickly, and by the end of the fight, Albazi was covered in blood and had been rocked badly on multiple occasions. The finish didn\u2019t materialize, but this was one-way traffic from pretty much the first bell.<\/p>\n In particular, Horiguchi\u2019s lead hand looked great here. His jab repeatedly interrupted Albazi\u2019s would-be pressure and stood him up tall, leaving him more vulnerable to follow-up right hand swings. As Albazi changed his guard to adjust for the jab, Horiguchi started sitting down behind wide counter left hooks that clipped the temple and did major damage.<\/p>\n The Flyweight division is hot right now with multiple options for champion Joshua Van\u2019s first title defense. Given Horiguchi\u2019s age and overall accomplishments as a world-class champion, I\u2019m in favor of booking \u201cThe Karate Kid\u201d for a title shot quickly while he\u2019s still performing at such a high level \u2014 there\u2019s no chance Van vs. Horiguchi wouldn\u2019t be absolute fireworks.<\/p>\n LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – FEBRUARY 07: (L-R) Jailton Almeida of Brazil and Rizvan Kuniev of Russia signal to the center of the Octagon in a heavyweight fight during the UFC Fight Night event at Meta APEX on February 07, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Chris Unger\/Zuffa LLC)<\/p>\n Jailton Almeida vs. Rizvan Kuniev was a horribly frustrating fight but not entirely for the reason one might expect.<\/p>\n Based on his pair of fights with Curtis Blaydes and Almeida, Kuniev was genetically engineered in a Russia lab to shut down the takedown attempts of elite Heavyweight wrestlers. Sadly, he was not engineered to do anything else. In this fight, Kuniev routinely shut down Almeida\u2019s previously unstoppable double leg with absolute ease and then proceeded to do NOTHING! He spent so much time in the clinch with his forehead driven up into Almeida\u2019s chin in perfect position to rip the liver, dig knees, break with elbows or right hands and a vast majority of the time he just \u2026 stayed there.<\/p>\n Almeida wasn\u2019t much better. In the second round, for example, he landed a big calf kick that nearly knocked Kuniev to the floor and then proceeded to never throw that kick again. His right hand and front kick looked good when he threw them, which was incredibly rare. Worse yet, he would randomly just back himself into the fence and concede long periods of clinch time.<\/p>\n Kuniev picked up the nod, which is a big win if you look at the rankings and completely meaningless if you actually watched the fight. After those 15 minutes, who f\u2014king cares about the judges\u2019 scorecards? This was truly awful Heavyweight fighting just one week after the Tuivasa vs. Teixeira embarrassment at UFC 325. This division has never been worse, and there is no rebuild happening.<\/p>\n LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – FEBRUARY 07: (R-L) Dustin Jacoby interacts with referee Dan Miragliotta as he defeats Julius Walker in a light heavyweight fight during the UFC Fight Night event at Meta APEX on February 07, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Chris Unger\/Zuffa LLC)<\/p>\n Tan Dan\u2019s 500th UFC Fight<\/p>\n Veteran referee Dan Miragliotta celebrated his 500th appearance as a UFC ref last night in appropriate fashion: with a hilariously bad stoppage!<\/p>\n Dustin Jacoby vs. Julius Walker was a decent veteran vs. prospect scrap. Jacoby was clearly the better kickboxer by a significant margin and was sticking Walker with good straight punches, but Walker showed in the first round why he was a live dog with some powerful slam takedowns. It was a good display of chain wrestling and physicality from the young talent, attributes we don\u2019t often see at 205 pounds.<\/p>\n Still, Jacoby was a step too far for the up-and-comer. Jacoby connected on a big right hand early in the second and then unleashed hell, putting Walker down hard with another right. Miragliotta moved in to stop the fight, pulled away at the last second, and Walker was hit another couple dozen times for his indecision. Even when Walker was turning away from the punches \u2014 a clear sign referees are supposed to look for that indicates the fight is over \u2014 Miragliotta still allowed the 7-2 professional to eat more punches.<\/p>\n Another good performance from Jacoby, who has won four straight, and exactly what we\u2019ve come to expect from everyone\u2019s favorite hallucinating referee<\/a>.<\/p>\n LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – FEBRUARY 07: (L-R) Jakub Wiklacz of Poland submits Muin Gafurov of Tajikistan in a bantamweight fight during the UFC Fight Night event at Meta APEX on February 07, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Chris Unger\/Zuffa LLC)<\/p>\n Nikolay Veretennikov defeats Niko Price via first-round knockout (highlights)<\/a>: I am sad to say Price appears to be completely washed. Veretennikov entered this fight with an underwhelming 1-3 UFC record and then looked like a world beater against \u201cThe Hybrid.\u201d He chewed up Price\u2019s midsection with some violent clinch knees then went upstairs with a barrage of right hands and right elbows to secure a dramatic standing knockout win. Given that this is Price\u2019s third straight defeat and fifth loss in his last six, it\u2019s hard to really be that impressed by Veretennikov.Jakub Wiklacz defeats Muin Gafurov via third-round guillotine choke (highlights)<\/a>: We have an early candidate for Submission of the Year, and it came at the conclusion of a pretty great scrap! Gafurov started strong, pressuring forward with combinations to box up Wiklacz, who has a definite bit of Reinier de Ridder to his stand-up game (derogatory). He\u2019s very slick on the canvas, however, and Wiklacz used a guillotine choke to reverse his way into top position in round two. He spent most of that frame in top position, threatening submissions and landing some chipping ground shots. With the scorecards tied up, Gafurov stuck to his boxing and really ripped up the body for most of five minutes. In the closing seconds, he shot for a double leg along the fence and wound up in another guillotine! Wiklacz fully committed to the squeeze and forced the tap with less than one second remaining, earning the unlikely comeback at the last second. Strange style or not, Wiklacz is now 2-0 in the UFC with a pair of wins over pretty damn good Bantamweights.For complete UFC Vegas 113 results and play-by-play, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night (Sat., Feb. 7, 2026), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returned home to the Meta APEX in Las…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,6656],"class_list":["post-466307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466307","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=466307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n