Unbeaten in his final sixth Octagon outings after tonight’s headliner, surging middleweight contender, Anthony Hernandez as soon as extra confirmed off his dominance from the highest together with his grappling, outworking Brazilian striker, Michel Pereira en path to a bloody TKO win of their UFC Vegas 99 predominant occasion.
Hernandez, who entered tonight’s premiere predominant occasion battle in opposition to Pereira boasting the quantity 13 rating, managed to outlive by way of a primary spherical in opposition to the dynamic striker, earlier than ramping up the tempo from the second spherical onwards together with his well-known wrestling and grappling prowess.
Fully taking the fuel away from Pereira all through the halfway part of their pairing, Anthony Hernandez, who landed prior wins over Roman Kopylov, Edmen Shahbazyan, Marc-Andre Bariault, Josh Fremd, and a surprising submission of Rodolfo Vieira, lodged his newest spectacular win over Pereira tonight.
Taking the artistic kicker and striker within the early phases of the fifth and remaining spherical, a well-placed elbow from prime place throughout a grappling scamble opened a large minimize on Pereira’s proper eyebrow, earlier than a slew of follow-up pictures pressured referee, Herb Dean to step in and award the Contender Sequence product, Hernandez his newest high-profile win.
