UFC February Recap

UFC FIGHT NIGHT: Assuncao vs Moraes 2

• Rare submission from Markus Perez, anaconda choke.

• Johnny Walker brutally KOed Justin Ledet and show that he could be material for top contender in LHW division.

• Charles Oliveira defeated David Teymur with another submission and he now setting bar high in UFC record of most submissions if he continue like this.

• Demian Maia finally come back after 3 losses in a row after defeating Lyman Good via rear-naked choke.

• Jose Aldo defeated Renato Moicano via TKO and now have 2 wins in a row. Interesting, he stopped two mans that was on win streak ( Stephens 3W in a row, Moicano 2W in a row ) and keep them away from chance for title.

• Marlon Moraes defeated Raphael Assuncao ( 4 win streak coming into this fight ) and extended his streak to 4 ( including 3 consecutive finishes ). His next should be for title against current champion T.J. Dillashaw.

UFC 234: Adesanya vs Silva

• Kai-Kara France and Jimmy Crute prove that they can be candidates for bigger fights and probable to become top contenders in their divisions.

• Ricky Simon and Montana De La Rosa got wins.

• Lando Vannata defeated Marcos Rosa Mariano via kmiura.

• Main event was between Israel Adesanya and Anderson Silva. This was interesting fight, Silva looked like the old one, with his movement and feints.

• Originally, main event was supposed to be MW title fight between Robert Whittaker and Kelvin Gastelum. On day of the fight, Whittaker had problems with hernia and fight was cancelled.

UFC ON ESPN: Ngannou vs Velasquez

• Renan Barao suffer another loss. He is not same fighter after losses from T.J. Dillashaw and he looking not interested in fight.

• Nik Lentz, Andrea Lee and Manny Bermudez got their wins.

• Aljamain Sterling defeated Jimmie Rivera and he must be on shortlist of title contenders.

• Andre Fili defeated Myles Jury. Kron Gracie got win in his UFC debut. Cynthia Calvillo defeated Cortney Casey.

• Paul Felder after win over James Vick really need to get some of top contenders of LW division so he can move up and try to reach chance for title shot.

• Vicente Luque and Bryan Barberena give us FOTN as they trade punches for three rounds. Overall, very interesting fight, just like fans love and that's most important. Luque got win just few seconds before end of fight.

• Francis Ngannou KOed Cain Velasquez and he is back on track for title shot. Francis looked like the old one ( before fight with Miocic ) while Cain absence of 2 years is clearly have consequences on his condition.

UFC FIGHT NIGHT: Blachowicz vs Santos

• Damir Hadzovic got TKO win over Polo Reyes while Gillian Robertson got win over Veronica Macado via rear-naked choke.

• Magomed Ankalaev defeated very easy Kildson Abreu. Ankalaev originally was scheduled against Darko Stosic but month before event Stosic was forced to pull out of the fight because of injury.

• Petr Yan added another win on his resume and show that he can be one of top contenders in BW division.

• Liz Carmouche defeated Lucie Pudilova. Carmouche nice controlled the fight.

• Michal Oleksiejczuk defeat Gian Villante with very nice body punch.

• Stefan Struve def. Marcos Rogerio de Lima. Struve was in knockdown at start of round and Lima had dominant round with top position whole round. In second round Struve gets takedown and set-up good arm-triangle choke that force Lima to tap. In his post-fight interview Struve said that this is his maybe last fight because he have health problems and he don't want to risk.

• Thiago Santos defeated Jan Blachowicz ( 4 win streak coming into this fight ). Very good finish for Santos who now have 3 wins in a row in since his move from MW to LHW. after fight he claimed that he want title shot.