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Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2018-05-19, fight not so exciting between
Demian Maia and Kamaru Usman: it gets two stars.
The black belt in Bjj and 2007 ADCC champion Demian Maia entered this fight with a professional mma record of 25-8-0 (60% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.7 welterweight in the world but he comes off two consecutive losses, against current #1 Ufc Ww champion Tyron Woodley (Woodley vs Maia) and with Colby Covington (Demian Maia vs Colby Covington); before losing to Woodley he had beat Carlos Condit (Maia vs Condit).
His opponent, the Tuf tournament winner Kamaru Usman, has an official record of 12-1-0 (58% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.12 in the same weight class. He suffered his only loss when he faced Jose Caceres at his second professional mma fight in 2013, since then he has collected eleven consecutive victories beating Sean Strickland (Usman vs Strickland), Sergio Moraes (Usman vs Moraes) and Emil Weber Meek in his last three (Kamaru Usman vs Emil Weber Meek). Maia vs Usman is the main event of UFC Fight Night 129. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2018-05-19, pretty good finish between
Alexa Grasso and Tatiana Suarez: it gets three stars.
Alexa Grasso entered this fight with a mma record of 10-1-0 (40% ko/tko victory rate – she has never won via submission) and she is ranked as the No.16 women’s strawweight in the world. She fought twice last year losing to Felice Herrig (Alexa Grasso vs Felice Herrig) and defeating Randa Markos.
Her opponent, the undefeated Tuf 23 winner Tatiana Suarez, has a perfect record of 5-0-0 (60% finishing rate) and she entered as the No.11 in the same weight class. Between 2016 and 2017 she fought just twice winning over Amanda Cooper and Viviane Pereira. Suarez vs Grasso is on the undercard of Demian Maia vs Kamaru Usman – UFC Fight Night 129. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2018-05-19, some good exchanges between
Dominick Reyes and Jared Cannonier but it is not enough to get three stars: it gets two.
The undefeated Dominick Reyes entered this fight with a perfect mma record of 8-0-0 (87% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.38 light heavyweight in the world. He fought four times last year winning over Marcus Govan, Jordan Powell, Joachim Christensen and Jeremy Kimball.
His opponent, Jared Cannonier, has a record of 10-3-0 (80% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.53 in the same weight class but he lost two out of his last three bouts, against Glover Teixeira (Glover Teixeira vs Jared Cannonier) and Jan Blachowicz; between these two fights he beat
Nick Roehrick. Reyes vs Cannonier is on the undercard of Demian Maia vs Kamaru Usman – UFC Fight Night 129. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2018-05-19, pretty good fight between
Brandon Moreno and Alexandre Pantoja: it gets three stars.
Brandon Moreno entered this fight with a pro record of 14-4-0 (79% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.7 flyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Demetrious Johnson). He fought twice in 2017 beating Dustin Ortiz (Moreno vs Ortiz) and losing to Sergio Pettis (Sergio Pettis vs Brandon Moreno).
His opponent, Alexandre Pantoja, has an official mma record of 18-3-0 (72% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.18 in the same weight class but he comes off the loss against Dustin Ortiz (Dustin Ortiz vs Alexandre Pantoja); before this bout, in 2017, he had beat Eric Shelton and Neil Seery (Pantoja vs Seery). Moreno vs Pantoja is on the undercard of Demian Maia vs Kamaru Usman – UFC Fight Night 129; they also face each other on July 8th, 2023 (Brandon Moreno vs Alexandre Pantoja 2). Watch the video and rate this fight!
