Recap: UFC: 253
Recap: UFC: 253
Grade for Event: B
Picks Record for Event: 9-2
Adesanya vs Costa: 185lb Title: Any doubters are now silenced after Izzy defended his Middleweight title successfully last night. It really wasn't that competitive throughout the entire fight. The only things that landed for Costa was couple of leg kicks and some body kicks. I don't think he landed more than one or two punches on Izzy's head. Costa also looked confused and didn't want to let his hand go because he knew he would get countered and that is what happened. Izzy landed a headkick that split open Costa's head and he slowly started picking him apart from there. He dropped him with a left hook and finished it on the ground in the second round. For me, Izzy goes to second best Middleweight in UFC history behind Anderson Silva and with a couple more performances like that, he could very quickly become the best. He now has the third longest active win streak in the UFC with 20 wins.
Reyes vs Blachowicz: 205lb Title: I have to put my hand up and say I was very wrong about Jan. I didn't think he had much of a chance in this fight. Reyes looked very good against Jon Jones and while Jan has been on a hot streak, I thought Dom would get the win. Jan had a great game plan. Reyes kept trying to get him to move and flinch on his feints but Jan didn't bite on anything and Dom didn't know what to do after that. Jan broke Doms nose with a strike later in the second round and it was the beginning of the end. From there Jan dropped him with a left hand and finished him on the ground at the end of the second round. I'm very happy for Jan. There was a point in his UFC career where he lost 4 of his last 5 fights and looked to be on the verge of getting cut from the UFC. From there, he has now won 8 of his last 9 fights and becomes the second Polish champ in UFC history.
Best of the Rest: In what might have been the round of the year, Royval gets a great win over Kara-France. In the opening minute of the fight, Kara-France drops Royval with a pretty right hand on the chin. While trying to recover from that punch, Royval drops Kara-France with a nasty spinning elbow. He would go on to control the rest of the fight and got the win early in the second round via guillotine choke. Matthews outclassed Sanchez in a decision win. I really hope Sanchez retires sometime in the near future. Klein knocked out Young with a crazy head kick and uppercut combo early in the first round. He is absolutely one to watch at 145lbs. Finally, Juan Espino looked good in his UFC debut. He finished Hughes with a rare scarf hold choke in the first round. At 39 years old, I think the UFC needs to fast track him at heavyweight and get him someone near the top 15 rankings for his next fight.
Fighter Tweet of the Night:
So tired of these media scumbags who have never built anything in their lives or done ANYTHING but shoot their big mouths off about people who actually are doing shit. If you don’t like the fact that I’m in the behind the scenes of my company. Don’t watch fuckface.
— danawhite (@danawhite) September 27, 2020
Tweet of the Night:
And still pic.twitter.com/t4dbusbP2z
— the jew jitsu (@brentsehxti) September 27, 2020
Video of the Night:
We go live to the City Kickboxing dressing room and it's absolute madness in there right now 😂
— UFC on BT Sport (@btsportufc) September 27, 2020
Israel Adesanya leads the celebrations 👏 #UFC253 pic.twitter.com/dw6s0T7VEW
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