Featherweight Diego Lopes caught Jean Silva with a spinning back elbow, followed by strikes to TKO Silva in Round 2 to cap off the main event of Noche UFC in San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n
Lopes (27-7 MMA) halted Silva’s 13-fight winning streak, nearly finishing the Brazilian in Round 1 after several unanswered mount strikes led to Silva (16-3 MMA) surviving the opening round.<\/p>\n
After bouncing back from his April title fight loss to UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski (27-4 MMA), Lopes refused to call for a rematch with Volkanovski or another fellow contender.<\/p>\n
“I’m ready for the next opponent,” he said.<\/p>\n
A bantamweight co-main event saw David Martinez earn a unanimous decision over Rob Font, utilizing volume striking and nearly securing a late third-round TKO before taking the cards 29-28, 29-28, 29-28. The victory for Martinez (13-1 MMA) was his ninth in a row, which snapped a two-fight winning streak for Font (22-9 MMA).<\/p>\n
Lightweight Rafa Garcia earned a third-round TKO over long-time UFC veteran Jared Gordon, utilizing a right hand before following up with a flurry of ground-and-pound to secure his second KO\/TKO win of his career. Garcia (18-4 MMA) has won four of his last five fights since December 2022, while Gordon (21-8 MMA) hasn’t won back-to-back fights in four years.<\/p>\n
In a middleweight-turned-catchweight bout, former Ultimate Fighter winner and recently inducted UFC Hall of Fame “Fight Wing” member Kelvin Gastelum outlasted Dustin Stoltzfus by unanimous decision, taking the cards 30-27, 29-28, 29-28. <\/p>\n
Gastelum (21-10 MMA) missed the contracted weight limit of 185 pounds by five pounds on Friday, resulting in a 35 percent forfeiture of his purse, according to the promotion. Gastelum, who has won two of his last three, apologized for missing weight following the fight. Meanwhile, Stoltzfus (16-8 MMA) fell to 3-7 in the promotion and has lost four of his previous six fights.<\/p>\n
Lightweight Alexander Hernandez made good on a short turnaround, knocking out Carlos Diego Ferreira (19-7 MMA) in the second round in a back-and-forth affair. It was Hernandez’s second fight in nearly a month after defeating Chase Hooper (16-4-1 MMA) at UFC 319 last month in Chicago. Hernandez (18-8 MMA) has won four in a row.<\/p>\n
A six-fight main card kicked off with bantamweight Santiago Luna winning his UFC debut with a first-round knockout against Quang Le. Luna (7-0 MMA) has continued his finishing streak dating to April 2023, whereas Le (9-3 MMA) has won just once since last August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Featherweight Diego Lopes caught Jean Silva with a spinning back elbow, followed by strikes to TKO Silva in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-142553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142553","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=142553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}