{"id":142171,"date":"2025-09-14T00:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142171\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T00:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:14:04","slug":"ufc-fight-night-259-results-kelvin-gastelum-follows-5-pound-weight-miss-with-gutsy-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142171\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Fight Night 259 results: Kelvin Gastelum follows 5-pound weight miss with gutsy win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelvin Gastelum followed a 5-pound weight miss at <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/noche-ufc-san-antonio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Fight Night 259;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Fight Night 259<\/a> with a victory over Dustin Stoltzfus in an entertaining affair.<\/p>\n<p>Gastelum (19-10 MMA, 14-10 UFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/kelvin-gastelum-blows-past-middleweight-164344403.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:weighed in at 191 pounds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weighed in at 191 pounds<\/a> for Saturday&#8217;s middleweight bout with Stoltzfus (16-8 MMA, 3-7 UFC) at Noche UFC from Front Bank Arena in San Antonio, Texas, then managed to showcase some superior striking power for a unanimous decision win by scores of 30-27, 29-28, 29-28.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It was mostly a striking affair over 15 minutes. Gastelum opened up a cut on his opponent early and scored a pair of knockdowns. Stoltzfus hung tough and had some moments of his own but not enough to steal the result from &#8220;The Ultimate Fighter&#8221; winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s bittersweet,&#8221; Gastelum said in his post-fight interview with Daniel Cormier. &#8220;I took this fight on four weeks&#8217; notice. I wasn&#8217;t able to make the weight on four weeks&#8217; time. I want to apologize to Dustin and his team. &#8230; I&#8217;m just thankful I had the courage to get in here and get the job done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Up-to-the-minute Noche UFC results:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kelvin Gastelum def. Dustin Stoltzfus via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/09\/13\/noche-ufc-results-kelvin-gastelum-wins-5-pound-weight-miss-dustin-stoltzfus\/86142915007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Noche UFC results: Kelvin Gastelum earns gutsy win after weight miss;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Noche UFC results: Kelvin Gastelum earns gutsy win after weight miss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelvin Gastelum followed a 5-pound weight miss at UFC Fight Night 259 with a victory over Dustin Stoltzfus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,4226,75780,641,74861,638,46319,82,76301,76302,36996,7788],"class_list":["post-142171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-cormier","tag-dustin-stoltzfus","tag-fighting","tag-kelvin-gastelum","tag-mma","tag-noche-ufc","tag-sports","tag-stoltzfus","tag-striking-power","tag-ufc-fight-night","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142171","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=142171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}