Cory Sandhagen causes injury stops on DeVerson Figueireedo on UFC on ESPN 67

Cory Sandhagen buried an all-time major doctor and kept his hopes for a shot on the undisputed bantam weight crown of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

“Sandman” seemed to be good on the best way to a one -sided victory against Deisiveson Figueiredo when the Brazilian in the second round of his UFC on ESPN 67 main event on Saturday in the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moina was forced.
Figueireedo (24-5-1, 13-5-1 UFC) was asked from the game 4:08 in round 2.

Sandhagen (18-5, 11-4ufc) had taken care of the business to the destination. After being removed in the first round, he was bursting into the top position and had Figueiredo paid for repeated heel hook tests with heavy soil and pound. A similar scene had started in round 2. There, both men fishing for leg castles. The torque turned out to be too much for Figueireedo's left knees, which led to an interruption.

In the meantime, the former two-division-one championship defender Reinier de Ridder brought the four-time NCAA all-American Wrestler Bo Nickal with a knee chest in the second round of her co-headliner in the middleweight.
De Ridder (20-2, 3-0 UFC) pulled the curtain 1:53 in round 2 when he stretched out his current winning streak to four fights.

Nickal (7-1, 4-1 UFC) had no answer to the brute force with which he was hit. In the first round, de Ridder led him into a poorly advised guillotine choke, swept into the top position and used the suffocating control to send a message. The Dutch turned the heat in round 2 in the clinch and then went to the middle section with knees and blows. The blue chip brochure retired to the open space, in which de Ridder stepped into a wild knee to the liver. Nickal collapsed at the foot of the cage. No follow-up recordings were required.

De Ridder achieved 18 of his 20 career victories through Knockout, Technical Knockout or submission.

Further down on the main ticket, Daniel Rodriguez put the semi -finalist Santiago Ponzinibio in the second season of “The Ultimate Fighter Brazil” with punches in the third round of her world weight. Ponzinibbio (30-9, 12-8 UFC) checked out in round 3 for 72 seconds and lost the fourth time in five appearances.

Rodriguez (19-5, 9-4 UFC) was the heavier batsman and made the best of it. In the first round he wiggled Ponzinibbio with a left handlink, kept a steady pace in the middle stanza and delivered the kill shot in the third.
There he set a three-punch.

It was Rodriguez 'first finish in almost four years.

Elsewhere, the graduate of the competitive series by Dana White, Montel Jackson, a persistent stitch, clean one-twos and an outstanding Get-up game for a unanimous decision about the previously unbeaten Daniel Marcos in her three-round bantam weight attraction. Jackson (15-2, 9-2 UFC) swept the scorecards with matching 30-27 markings of all three judges.

Marcos (17-1, 4-1 UFC) was limited to some completed takedowns and sporadic kicks on the inner leg. Jackson practically controlled all of her stand-up exchanges and also wrote the most memorable moment of the 15-minute encounter in the third round, in which he doubled over the top on the right hands and ducked the former 300 Sparta title defender along the fence. The Eric Schafer -Protégé later dropped a standing Brabo choke in the decreasing seconds, and while his efforts appeared empty, he gave Marcos something through which he could remember him.

Jackson told six consecutive victories.

The ex-Battle Fight League Champion Serhiy Sidey generally brought its weapons into a unanimous decision about the Cameron-Smowerman of the Metro Fight Club in its three-member bantam weight feature. The scores were 30-27, 29-28 and 29-28 all for Sidey (12-2, 2-1 UFC), which won nine excursions for the eighth time.

Smootherman (12-5, 1-1 UFC) pushed into a mystery that he could not solve. Sidey speared him with bumps from the scope, mixed in kicks on legs and body, effectively countered when the situation later turned to Takedowns into Takedowns. In the third round he threatened with a Brabo choke, and although he did not network the finish, it was short to make the thoughts of a comeback from Hagel Mary too short out of his game, but the opponent exceeded.

The setback snapped Smootherman's winning streak with four fights.

Finally, the former two-division cage spoiled Warriors championship defenders Mason Jones Jones's return of the home city favorite, Jeremy Stephens, and made a unanimous decision by Alliance MMA with three rounds in her lightweight. All three Cageside judges immediately achieved: 30-27 for Jones (16-2, 2-2 UFC).

In his first UFC appearance since 2021, Stephens (29-22, 15-19 UFC) damaged his moments-the left eye of the Welsman with a clean two-twoo in the first round and sent his mouthpiece in the second page with a right hook-but it fought for a criminal offense. Jones used effective kicks at all levels, opened a cut on the head of the Iowa native with an rotating elbow and performed repeated takedowns, often switching between full assembly and back. He has completely neutralized Stephens in the last five minutes and kept earth when the crowd showered him with Boos.

The 30 -year -old Jones won five fights in a row.

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