Ortega took revenge on Yair Rodríguez

The Mexican-American submitted ‘Pantera’ in the third round, who had defeated him in their previous fight in July 2022.

The UFC Mexico gave Brian Ortega the opportunity for revenge.

The fighter of Mexican blood submitted the Mexican Yair Rodríguez in the third round with a triangle to avenge the defeat he suffered in 2022 by technical knockout after suffering a shoulder injury that forced him to abandon the fight.

Brian Ortega ends a two-game losing streak, improves his record to 16-3 and handed Yair Rodríguez the first submission loss of his career.

For Yair Rodríguez it is the first time that he has gone on a streak of two consecutive defeats in his career and he stagnated at 19-5, and he is also moving away from the possibility of a fight for the featherweight championship against Ilia Topuria in the near future. future. , something that Brian Ortega could aspire to.

In the previous fight, the rising Daniel Zellhuber joined the Mexican winners of the evening by defeating the Argentine Francisco Prado by unanimous decision after dominating him in all three rounds.

Also on the main card Yazmin Jauregui defeated Sam Hughes by wide unanimous decision with identical scorecards 30-27.

For his part, Manuel Torres had a great presentation in front of his audience and submitted the Scotsman Chris Duncan.

On the preliminary card, the experienced Raonis Barcelos defeated the Mexican Cristian Quiñonez by submission in the third round.

The Mexican Jesús Aguilar controversially defeated the Brazilian Mateus Mendonca by unanimous decision; Additionally, Édgar Cháirez earned his victory over Daniel Lacerda with a Triangle Choke at 2:17 of the first round. Last September, Édgar Cháirez defeated Lacerda by submission, but the fight ended in a No Contest after it was determined that referee Chris Tognoni had prematurely stopped the fight without the Brazilian submitting.

The Peruvian Claudio Puelles did not have a good presentation when he lost by split decision against the Frenchman Farés Ziam in a lightweight fight, leaving his record at 12-4, with his second consecutive defeat.

Ronaldo Rodríguez had a dream debut “in the octagon after submitting the Ukrainian Denys Bondar with a rear-naked choke at 4:55 of the second round.

Felipe dos Santos gave the first bitter pill to the Mexican fans after winning by split decision with two cards against the local Víctor Altamirano 29-28 for a 30-27 in favor of ‘El Magnífico’, causing a shower of boos in the Arena Ciudad from Mexico.

In the first fight of the afternoon, Muhammadjon Naimov defeated Venezuelan Erik Silva by technical knockout 44 seconds into the first round.