A bout between heavyweight contenders served because the UFC 299 preliminary struggle card featured bout on Saturday.
Fifth-ranked Curtis Blaydes and seventh-ranked Jailton Almeida clashed at Kaseya Heart in Miami, Florida. Blaydes hoped to rebound from a loss to Sergei Pavlovich in his final outing. Almeida entered the match driving a 15-fight profitable streak. He final felt defeat in 2018.
Almeida seemed to get the struggle to the bottom early within the opening spherical. He put Blaydes on his again however Blaydes labored his means again to his toes. Almeida slammed him again to the canvas. Blaydes tried a number of occasions to face however Almeida continued to place him again down.
Almeida didn’t inflict injury however secured 9 takedowns within the first body. MMAWeekly scored the spherical a transparent 10-9 for Almeida.
Almedia landed a proper hand in the beginning of the second spherical. He shortly modified ranges and labored to safe a single-leg takedown. Blaydes sprawled and delivered hammer fists to the aspect of Almeida’s head. Almeida was harm and fell over to the aspect and the referee stepped in and stopped the struggle.
Blaydes ended Almeida’s 15-fight profitable streak and received again within the win column. He is received 4 of his final struggle fights.
