Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2024-02-24, good mma bout: Yair Rodriguez vs Brian Ortega 2 gets three stars (UFC Performance of the Night).
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2023-07-08, good pace and a nice finish: the mma bout Alexander Volkanovski vs Yair Rodriguez gets three stars (take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2023).
Rodriguez vs Volkanovski is scheduled to take place Saturday, July 8th, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (Nevada, USA), in a 5-round featherweight (145 lbs, 66 kg) bout; it is the main event of Ufc 290 and it is valid for the UFC featherweight championship (Volkanovski’s fifth defense). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2023-02-12, good mma bout: Josh Emmett vs Yair Rodriguez gets three stars (UFC Performance of the Night).
Rodriguez vs Emmett is scheduled to take place Sunday, February 12th, at the RAC Arena in Perth (Australia), in a 5-round featherweight (145 lbs, 66 kg) bout; it is valid for the interim UFC featherweight championship and it is on the undercard of Islam Makhachev vs Alexander Volkanovski – UFC 284. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2022-07-16, we hope to see a rematch…the mma bout Brian Ortega vs Yair Rodriguez gets two stars (take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2022).
Rodriguez vs Ortega is scheduled to take place Saturday, July 16th, 2022 at the UBS Arena in New York (United States), in a 5-round featherweight (145 lbs, 66 kg) bout; it is the main event of UFC on ABC 3 (also known as UFC Fight Night Long Island or UFC Long Island). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2021-11-13, great performance by both fighters: the mma fight Max Holloway vs Yair Rodriguez gets three stars (UFC Fight of the Night – take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2021).
Rodriguez vs Holloway is the main event of UFC Vegas 42 (also known as UFC Fight Night 197 or UFC on ESPN+ 55). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-10-18, nice exchanges between Jeremy Stephens and Yair Rodriguez 2: it gets three stars.Jeremy Stephens entered this fight with a pro record of 28-16-0 (75% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.9 featherweight in the world. He lost two consecutive bouts between 2018 and 2019, against Jose Aldo (Jose Aldo vs Jeremy Stephens) and Zabit Magomedsharipov (Jeremy Stephens vs Zabit Magomedsharipov), then he faced Yair Rodriguez in September but their first fight ended in a no-contest (accidental eye poke, Yair Rodriguez vs Jeremy Stephens).
His opponent, the black belt in tae-kwon-do and Tuf Latin America tournament winner Yair Rodriguez, has an official mma record of 12-2-0 (58% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.28 in the same weight class. Before the bout against Stephens, ‘Pantera’ Rodriguez lost to Frankie Edgar in 2017 (Frankie Edgar vs Yair Rodriguez) but he came back to win against Chan Sung Jung in 2018 (4-stars fight, Chan Sung Jung vs Yair Rodriguez). Stephens vs Rodriguez 2 is on the undercard of Dominick Reyes vs Chris Weidman – UFC on ESPN 6. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-09-21, we hope to see a rematch between Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens: it gets two stars.The black belt in tae-kwon-do and Tuf Latin America tournament winner Yair Rodriguez entered this fight with a professional mma record of 11-2-0 (55% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.27 featherweight in the world. ‘Pantera’ Rodriguez lost to Frankie Edgar in 2017 (Frankie Edgar vs Yair Rodriguez) but he came back to win against Chan Sung Jung in 2018 (4-stars fight, Chan Sung Jung vs Yair Rodriguez).
His opponent, Jeremy Stephens, has an official record of 28-16-0 (75% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.9 in the same weight class but he comes off two consecutive losses, against Jose Aldo (Jose Aldo vs Jeremy Stephens) and Zabit Magomedsharipov (Jeremy Stephens vs Zabit Magomedsharipov): before this bout, in 2018, he had beat Josh Emmett (Josh Emmett vs Jeremy Stephens). Rodriguez vs Stephens is the main event of UFC Fight Night 159 (UFC on ESPN+ 17). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2018-11-10, good fight with a spectacular finish: Chan Sung Jung vs Yair Rodriguez is one of the best mma fights of 2018 and it gets four stars (UFC Fight of the Night, UFC Performance of the Night).The black belt in hapkido, judo and tae-kwon-do Chan Sung Jung entered this fight with a professional mma record of 14-4-0 (86% finishing rate) while his opponent, the black belt in tae-kwon-do Yair Rodriguez, has an official record of 10-2-0 (50% finishing rate). Both fighters are not ranked as they haven’t fought for more than one year: ‘The Korean Zombie’ was defeated by Jose Aldo in 2013 (Aldo vs Jung) but then he beat Dennis Bermudez in February 2017 (Dennis Bermudez vs Chan Sung Jung) while ‘Pantera’ Rodriguez fought twice last year defeating BJ Penn in January (Rodriguez vs Penn) and losing to Frankie Edgar in May (Frankie Edgar vs Yair Rodriguez).Jung vs Rodriguez is the main event of UFC Fight Night 139. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2017-05-13, good fight between Frankie Edgar and Yair Rodriguez: it gets three stars.The black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and former Ufc Lw champion Frankie Edgar entered this fight with a professional record of 21-5-1 (48% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.3 featherweight in the world. He fought twice last year losing to current #1 Fw Jose Aldo (=Edgar vs Aldo 2) and beating Jeremy Stephens (=Edgar vs Stephens).
His opponent, the black belt in tae-kwon-do and Tuf Latin America Fw winner Yair Rodriguez, has a mma record of 10-1-0 (50% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.26 in the same weight class. ‘Pantera’ Rodriguez suffered his only loss when he faced Luis Roberto Herrera in 2012, since then he has won eight consecutive bouts beating Alex Caceres (=Rodriguez vs Caceres) and BJ Penn in his last two (=Rodriguez vs Penn). Frankie Edgar vs Yair Rodriguez is on the undercard of Stipe Miocic vs Junior dos Santos 2 – UFC 211. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2017-01-15, good fight between BJ Penn and Yair Rodriguez: it gets three stars (UFC Performance of the Night).The black belt in tae-kwon-do and Tuf Latin America winner Yair Rodriguez entered this fight with a professional mma record of 9-1-0 (44% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.35 featherweight in the world. He suffered his only loss when he faced Luis Roberto Herrera in 2012, since then he has won seven consecutive bouts beating Andre Fili (4-stars fight, Fili vs Rodriguez) and Alex Caceres in 2016 (=Rodriguez vs Caceres).
His opponent, the black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, former Ufc Lw and Ww championBJ Penn, has an official record of 16-10-2 (81% finishing rate) but he is not ranked as he hasn’t fought since July 6, 2014 when he was defeated by Frankie Edgar (=Edgar vs Penn 3); before this bout he has lost also with Rory MacDonald in 2012 (=Penn vs MacDonald) and Nick Diaz in 2011 (=Diaz vs Penn). Yair ‘Pantera’ Rodriguez vs BJ Penn is the main event of UFC Fight Night 103. Watch the video and rate this fight!
