What a great card…. As [MENTION=8962]ride29er[/MENTION]; said, one of the best I’ve seen in a while….
First up on the main card: Zingano vs Nunes: after a lot of talk from Nunes in the lead up to the fight saying she was going to knock Cat Zingano out she came out early and was all over Zingano in the early part of the first round but after surviving an early onslaught from Nunes, Zingano looked good. Nunes gassed pretty quickly and when Zingano was on the bottom she was attacking with armbar attempts and in the post fight although she said Nunes had her in trouble in the first she didn’t look to bad given the punishment she took in the first. Nunes on the other hand was a mess.
Yoel Romero was very lucky in the second fight to come away with the win under what can only be described as controversial circumstances. Kennedy had Romero virtually out on his feet at the end of the 2nd and he was saved by the bell. Romero’s corner deliberately delayed the start of the 3rd round which after finally coming out Romero overwhelmed Kennedy with strikes and the fight was stopped.
It looks like Kennedy plans to appeal the outcome of this fight:
Rep says Tim Kennedy plans to protest outcome of Yoel Romero bout at UFC 178 | MMAjunkie after Romero admitted post fight that he couldn’t get up – will have to see how that pans out.
Conor McGregor made it look easy over Dustin Porier in just 1 min and 46 sec after talking all week in the press saying he was going to do just that. Really impressed with this performance – he was throwing all sorts of kicks to which Porier had no answer and walked away with a performance of the night bonus for his troubles.
In the co main event Donald Cerrone looked good after coming out slow (as always) in the first and absorbing a pretty decent flurry and some dirty boxing in the clinch from Alvarez, really kept chopping away at the lead leg of Alvarez throughout the fight which in the 3rd caused Alvarez to go down, Cerrone followed him to the mat and got a little bit of ground and pound on him and it was a pretty easy unanimous decision win in the end.
In the main event it was pretty clear that Mighty Mouse was a league ahead of Carioso. Didn’t take long until Carioso was taken down, DJ secured a kimura and forced Carioso to tap.
Another highlight on the card was the return of Dominic Cruz who stopped Takeya Mizugaki in just 1:01 with a relentless barrage of strikes and as a result will face TJ Dillishaw in his next bout for the Bantamweight title:
UFC 178 winner Dominick Cruz to get title shot against champ T.J. Dillashaw | MMAjunkie