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Takeya Mizugaki by TKO (punches) first round Sabah Homasi by TKO (punches) second round Hyun Gyu Lim by TKO (punches) first round Rick Story by TKO (strikes) second round* Performance of the Night Glover Teixeira by KO (punch) first round* Performance of the Night Nate Diaz by majority decision (48-47x2, 47-47)* Fight of the Night

The bonus winners are marked with an asterisk (*). There were 12 fights on the card and 9 of them ended with a stoppage–with six coming in the first round. Something tells me it'll go down at the first UFC card in New York later this year. After yet another finish and victory for Rumble, the rematch has to happen.

They've met once and Cormier earned the stoppage victory to capture the crown. Wow! Rumble might have killed him #UFC202 #ufc Īfter the finish, Rumble called out light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier who was in the crowd.

It happened only 13 seconds into the fight: The co-main event wasn't the fight of the night, but if the UFC still gave out a bonus for KO of the night, there's no question Anthony "Rumble" Johnson's first-round destruction of Glover Teixeira would be the pick.Īs it stands, Rumble took home one of the Performance of the Night bonuses for this nasty uppercut finish on the tough Brazilian. “I’ve been busting my to get to the title.”Ĭormier watched the bout from next to the octagon and stood up to raise his arms, as if approving the bout.Both talked about a third fight and it seems that's probably a given at this point. 2 Glover Teixeira under the chin with a punch, finishing him with a tomahawk slam on the mat and bringing a stop 13 seconds into the fight. 4 contender.Įarlier, light-heavyweight Anthony Johnson (22-5) stamped himself as the top contender to champion Daniel Cormier by ripping No. McGregor said he’d be fine to stage a trilogy, but wants it at the 155-pound lightweight limit, where Diaz is the division’s No. But McGregor didn’t cave to the boiling blood that preceded the bout and found his way to the finish, where the judges awarded him sweet redemption. McGregor made it a habit to look at the clock in the second half of the fight, intent to try to stay out of trouble as long as possible while seeking openings for his punches.ĭiaz grew so antsy at one point that he gave McGregor the middle finger. “I whittled away, and then I caught my second wind,” McGregor said. But McGregor didn’t fall to Diaz’s hard combinations, and even a late knee.ĭiaz was bleeding under the left eye in the fourth, which McGregor uncannily predicted before the bout, and he turned the momentum by landing a slew of punches to Diaz’s head in the second half of the round, punctuated by Diaz missing a kick and slipping at the end. McGregor masterfully backed from Diaz’s punches when he wanted and then surprisingly rushed forward to catch the unsuspecting Californian with other strikes.īut Diaz reverted to his first-fight success in the third, landing hard punches and laughing at McGregor as if he was ready to duplicate the earlier shocker. In the second, McGregor floored Diaz twice more early on with hard punches from a left-handed stance. His own power punch dropped Diaz in the first round, and Diaz was cut near the right eye after the first five minutes. While he paid the price for that decision - unable to take Diaz’s best punches and tired by the extra weight - a fully fit, stronger McGregor proved his durability.