Review: 2014-09-27, back and forth fight with an exciting finish: Tim Kennedy vs Yoel Romero gets three stars (UFC Fight of the Night). The black belt in ju-jitsu Tim Kennedy entered this fight with a professional mma record of 18-4-0 (78% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.7 middleweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Chris Weidman); he suffered his last defeat in 2012 when he faced Luke Rockhold in a fight valid for the Strikeforce Mw title (=Rockhold vs Kennedy), since then he has fought and won four consecutive times beating Michael Bisping in his last bout (=Bisping vs Kennedy).
His opponent, the 2000 Olympic Mw silver medalist in freestyle wrestilng Yoel Romero Palacio, has a record of 8-1-0 (87% ko/tko victory rate – he has never won via submission) and he entered as the No.14 in the same weight class, he suffered his only defeat in 2011 when he fought against Rafael ‘Feijao’ Cavalcante, since then he has won four consecutive fights, the last one against Brad Tavares (=Tavares vs Romero). Kennedy vs Romero is on the undercard of Demetrious Johnson vs Chris Cariaso – UFC 178. Watch the video and rate this fight!