UFC Macau Delivers 4 First-Round Main-Card Finishes as Song Yadong Faces Deiveson Figueiredo
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Updated · MMA Fighting · May 30
UFC Macau Delivers 4 First-Round Main-Card Finishes as Song Yadong Faces Deiveson Figueiredo
10 articles · Updated · MMA Fighting · May 30
4 main-card bouts ended inside the first round at UFC Macau, led by Sergei Pavlovich’s 39-second knockout of Tallison Teixeira and Alonzo Menifield’s 4:15 TKO of Zhang Mingyang.
The Galaxy Arena card also saw Kai Asakura stop Cameron Smotherman in 1:50, while Jake Matthews beat Carlston Harris by unanimous decision and Alex Perez’s bout with Sumudaerji ended in a no-contest after an accidental groin strike.
On the prelims, Jaqueline Amorim and Rei Tsuruya won by first-round submission, Rodrigo Vera and Luis Felipe Dias scored stoppages, and Angela Hill took a 30-27 sweep over Xiong Jing Nan.
The event was built around a bantamweight contenders’ clash between No. 7 Song Yadong and No. 9 Deiveson Figueiredo, with Song seeking to rebound from a loss to Sean O’Malley and Figueiredo entering on a 1-3 skid.
Did hometown hero Song Yadong revive his title hopes, or did former champion Deiveson Figueiredo stage a crucial comeback in Macau?
After a shocking upset for a local star, can the UFC's billion-dollar Asian expansion survive without consistent homegrown champions?
Is the UFC's Macau partnership a sports triumph or a calculated play in the high-stakes game of US-China 'soft power' diplomacy?