Biggest Winner: Nassourdine Imavov<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t a knockout or submission victory, but Imavov did enough to secure a clear-cut unanimous decision win over Borralho, handing the Brazilian bomber his first loss in nearly a decade, while also collecting his fifth straight win. In victory, Imavov further made a case<\/a> for a shot at Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s 185-pound title, putting the pressure on Anthony Hernandez vs. Reinier de Ridder<\/a> next month to put on an even better performance coupled with a win. Indeed, Imavov currently sits at the No. 2 spot<\/a>, so either Hernandez or de Ridder will have to show out to cut the 185-pound line<\/a>.<\/p>\n Runner (s) Up: Benoit Saint Denis, Ante Delija<\/p>\n After dropping two straight in 2024, Saint-Denis has turned it around, winning two in a row in 2025, both via submission<\/a>. His latest win came over top prospect, Ruffy, taking him out via face crank in the second round<\/a>, handing \u201cOne Shot\u201d his first loss in six years. Saint-Denis is working toward a Top 10<\/a> ranking, but he will likely need one more win to get it. In the meantime, he can enjoy the extra $50K<\/a> he earned for making Ruffy tap. As for Delija, he couldn\u2019t have dreamed up a better UFC debut, knocking out Marcin Tybura in the first round to make a splash right from the jump. It was such a monumental win for the former Professional Fighters League (PFL) champion, who was moved to tears after the defeat, just like his friend and training partner<\/a>, UFC Heavyweight champion, Tom Aspinall. With the win, Delija \u2014 who was supposed to make his UFC debut five years ago \u2014 put the division on notice right away, and we can expect the big man to be on the main card for his sophomore effort.<\/p>\n Biggest Loser: Paul Craig<\/p>\n Coming into the event, Craig was on our list<\/a> for the fighter who needed a win the most after going without one in his last four fights, three losses and one \u201cNo Contest.\u201d Unfortunately for \u201cBearjew,\u201d things got way worse because he suffered a brutal, buzzer-beating knockout loss at the hands of Modestas Bukauskas in the first round (see it again here<\/a>). The loss put him at 1-6-1 in his last seven fights, forcing the long-time veteran to retire after the fight. A win would have likely convinced him to hang around a bit longer, though we never know if a retirement speech was planned either way. For Craig, his nine-year UFC career comes to an end on a low note with an overall record of 9-7-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Biggest Winner: Nassourdine Imavov It wasn\u2019t a knockout or submission victory, but Imavov did enough to secure a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,37644,702,7788],"class_list":["post-126838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}