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6-ranked contender Michael Chiesa by unanimous decision. In the UFC Fight Night 198 co-main event, Philadelphia's Sean Brady picked up the biggest win of his career thus far, defeating No. Yet Chimaev is not the only unbeaten fighter making noise in the division. Time will tell if Tate gets back on the horse after her decision loss to Vieira, or if she decides the whole comeback plan was a miscalculation.Įverybody is talking about Khamzat Chimaev, the undefeated contender storming through the UFC welterweight rankings. Like Tate, he was then defeated in his next fight, getting blown out of the water by Petr Yan.įaber hasn't fought since that loss to Yan. Like Tate, he burst back on the scene with a stoppage win over a solid name in Ricky Simon. The whole situation was eerily similar to Urijah Faber's 2019 comeback. Even when the first fight goes as planned, the second rarely does. Whatever the case, her loss to Vieira is a reminder that late-career comebacks rarely work out.
7-ranked bantamweight contender Ketlen Vieira in the card's headliner, and while she was competitive throughout the fight, Vieira was able to capture an unanimous decision win by landing the more meaningful strikes of the contest.įrom here, it's tough to say what the future holds for Tate. Unfortunately for those fans, things took a turn in the second fight of Tate's comeback, which occurred in the UFC Fight Night 198 main event. When Tate stopped Marion Reneau in her first fight back, it looked like the former party might be correct. Some felt she could still hang with the sport's top female bantamweights, others felt she was making a mistake. When former UFC bantamweight champ Miesha Tate announced plans to return to the Octagon after a lengthy retirement earlier this year, reactions were mixed. Brady, on the other hand, sought to legitimize himself as a legitimate threat to the champ Kamaru Usman with his first win over a top-10 foe.īrady ultimately did what he needed to do, out-grappling his experienced foe to a unanimous decision win.Įlsewhere on the card, we witnessed impressive wins from Taila Santos, Rani Yahya and a number of other notables, for a night that, while not exactly a blockbuster, made for a decent afternoon of viewing. And as always, the B/R combat sports team has you covered with the biggest winners and losers from the event. Chiesa entered the cage looking to rebound from a submission loss to Vicente Luque, which ended a three-fight streak. UFC Fight Night 198 was co-headlined by an alluring welterweight scrap between No. In the end it was Vieira who succeeded on her mission, defeating Tate by unanimous decision after five rounds. 8 bantamweight contender, looked to make it 2-0 after ending a long-term retirement with a win over Marion Reneau earlier this year, while Vieira, the division's seventh-ranked contender, looked to reassert herself as a top contender after a decision loss to Yana Kunitskaya in February. The card was topped by a bantamweight fight between the division's former champion Miesha Tate, and Brazil's Ketlen Vieira, who has been hovering on the cusp of a title shot for what feels like centuries.
The under-the-radar UFC Fight Night 198 card went down Saturday in Las Vegas.