Former UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira bounced back in a big way with a second-round rear-naked-choke submission win (2:48) over Mateusz Gamrot on Saturday night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the main event of UFC Fight Night.<\/p>\n
Oliveira (36-11 MMA) was emotional during his post-fight interview, improving his hometown record to 7-0 after having accomplished a plethora of achievements, including the most submissions (17) and most bonuses (20) in UFC history.<\/p>\n
Oliveira, who lost to current lightweight champion Ilia Topuria via knockout on June 28, wants big fights moving forward, requesting UFC “BMF” champion Max Holloway (27-8) as a possible future opponent.<\/p>\n
“Let’s make that happen,” Oliveira said through an interpreter while eying UFC CBO Hunter Campbell.<\/p>\n
Gamrot (25-4) is 1-2 in his last three UFC appearances, accepting the fight on short notice after Rafael Fiziev (13-4) withdrew due to injury.<\/p>\n
The co-main event saw former UFC flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo find his footing at bantamweight with a split decision win over Montel Jackson (29-28, 28-29, 29-28). Figueiredo (25-5-1) halted the six-fight winning streak of Jackson (15-3), which included back-to-back KO wins against Rani Yahya (28-12-1) and Da’Mon Blackshear (17-8-1).<\/p>\n
Following the fight, Figueiredo eyed big goals. These include becoming a two-division champion before retiring from MMA, as the 37-year-old has been in the UFC since 2017.<\/p>\n
“I want to fight (reigning UFC bantamweight champion) Merab (Dvalishvili), but know I have to work very hard to get there,” Figueiredo said.<\/p>\n
Welterweight Joel Alvarez extended his winning streak to four with a dominant unanimous-decision win — 30-26, 30-26, 30-26 – over longtime UFC veteran Vicente Luque. Alvarez (23-3) nearly finished Luque (23-12-1) before Luque was saved by the bell. Alvarez improved to 8-2 in the promotion since 2019, while Luque has suffered back-to-back losses and hasn’t strung together a pair of wins in more than four years.<\/p>\n
In heavyweight action, Mario Pinto avoided needing a third round by securing a second-round TKO over the durable Jhonata Diniz with strikes from the mount position. Pinto (11-0) has eight wins by stoppage, including seven by KO\/TKO. Dintz (9-2) has lost two of his previous three fights.<\/p>\n
The UFC’s return to Brazil saw the main card start with featherweight Kaan Ofli making short work of Ricardo Ramos with a first-round TKO. Ofli (12-4-1) had been seeking his first promotional win after a stint on “The Ultimate Fighter.” Meanwhile, Ramos (17-8) has dropped four of his last five fights and is 8-7 since joining the UFC in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira bounced back in a big way with a second-round rear-naked-choke submission win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-206542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206542","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=206542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}