{"id":194787,"date":"2025-10-07T08:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/194787\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T08:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:05:12","slug":"puna-soriano-embarrassed-by-boring-ufc-320-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/194787\/","title":{"rendered":"Puna Soriano \u2018embarrassed\u2019 by boring UFC 320 victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight up-and-comer, Puna Soriano, continued his resurgence at 170 pounds this past weekend (Sat., Oct. 4, 2025) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/391680\/ufc-320-results-live-streaming-updates-ankalaev-vs-pereira-2-ppv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 320<\/a>, earning a dominant unanimous decision win over Nikolay Veretennikov inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-events-ppv\/391678\/ufc-320s-best-betting-props-parlays-and-picks-ankalaev-vs-pereira-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On paper<\/a>, Soriano vs. Veretennikov looked like a guaranteed banger \u2014 both fighters are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/1\/11\/24341508\/watch-video-highlights-ufc-vegas-101-results-espn-soriano-knockout-medic-31-second\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">known knockout artists <\/a>\u2014 but instead, fans were treated to a one-sided wrestling match. Indeed, Soriano controlled all three rounds on the ground, smothering Veretennikov en route to a clear-cut victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And he was bummed about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cPhysically, I\u2019m good,\u201d Soriano told reporters after the fight. \u201cBut, emotionally, I\u2019m sad. Just disappointed. Actually seeing Edmen win is the only thing that\u2019s made me happy \u2014 that was really cool. I\u2019m embarrassed. I\u2019m embarrassed for all the people who had to watch me fight like that. That\u2019s not how I fight. I normally go out there and bang and put on cool performances. Maybe the pressure got to me or something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Soriano admitted his strategy was to \u201cexploit\u201d Veretennikov\u2019s weak ground game, but the success almost worked too well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe were definitely exploiting the ground game so, gameplan-wise, it was 100 percent success \u2014 but it didn\u2019t feel good,\u201d Soriano said. \u201cI felt like it was a slippery trap. I got comfortable down there, and I could just feel the tide shifting in my favor when we were down there. He couldn\u2019t get up, and I just felt comfortable and safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While it wasn\u2019t an exciting win, at the end of the day, a win is a win. And Soriano (12-4) has put together <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/1\/11\/24341508\/watch-video-highlights-ufc-vegas-101-results-espn-soriano-knockout-medic-31-second\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three wins in a row<\/a> in his new weight class of Welterweight, reigniting his UFC career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight up-and-comer, Puna Soriano, continued his resurgence at 170 pounds this past weekend (Sat.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,42367,33601,638,82,92726,702,7788,3194],"class_list":["post-194787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-full-results","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-320-ankalaev-vs-pereira-2-start-time","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-results","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194787","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=194787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}