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Charles Oliveira made quick work of Justin Gaethje Saturday at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona, winning by submission at 3:22 of the first round. The former lightweight champion, who was stripped of his belt after missing championship weight Friday by a half pound, becomes the division’s No. 1 contender and will compete for the vacant title in his next fight. In the co-main event, Carla Esparza did just enough versus Rose Namajunas to win via split decision and regain the strawweight… Source link

Charles Oliveira entered the Octagon on Saturday as the lightweight champion. He left it without a belt, but also with the recognition that he is clearly the best 155-pounder on the planet. In a wild, spectacular fight, Oliveira submitted Justin Gaethje with a rear naked choke at 3:22 of the first round in the main event of UFC 274 at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Because Oliveira missed weight at Friday’s weigh-in by a half-pound, he was stripped of the title when the bell rang…. Source link

Charles Oliveira has struggled throughout his career to make weight, so it was not stunning on Friday when he missed weight by a half-pound for his planned lightweight title defense with Justin Gaethje in the main event of UFC 274 at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He earned the ignominious distinction of becoming the first reigning UFC champion to lose his belt at the scale. The fight will go on, as Gaethje hit 155. If Gaethje wins, he’s champion. If Oliveira wins, the belt will… Source link

Five minutes into the biggest fight of Charles Oliveira’s life, his biggest victory was just making it to the end of the first round. With the vacant UFC lightweight belt on the line, Oliveira and Michael Chandler had exchanged shots on top of shots in the UFC 262 main event, but Chandler was clearly the one who came closest to victory in the first frame. At one moment, it looked like the American was a strike away from taking the belt. And then Oliveira opened the second round by doing… Source link

Five minutes into the biggest fight of Charles Oliveira’s life, his biggest victory was just making it to the end of the first round. With the vacant UFC lightweight belt on the line, Oliveira and Michael Chandler had exchanged shots on top of shots in the UFC 262 main event, but Chandler was clearly the one who came closest to victory in the first frame. At one moment, it looked like the American was a strike away from taking the belt. And then Oliveira opened the second round by doing… Source link

LAS VEGAS — Charles Oliveira took Tony Ferguson down early in each round of their lightweight fight and then held him there, dominating the former interim champion and winning by scores of 30-26 on all three judges’ cards Saturday in the co-main event of UFC 256 at Apex. It was Oliveira’s eighth consecutive win and by far the most significant of his career. It was Ferguson’s second consecutive defeat, after he was stopped in the fifth round of a lightweight title fight by Justin… Source link