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At UFC Fight Night 159, the fight promotion headed down to Mexico for one of the more awaited Fight Nights of the year for the country. Taking place in Mexico City, it saw the fight headlined by two top Featherweights as Yair Rodriguez made his Octagon return against Jeremy Stephens.
There were quite a few really interesting fights on the card, including the fights between Alexa Grasso and Carla Esparza in the co-main event, and the undefeated Askar Askarov and returning Brandon Moreno, also on the main card.
In this article, we are going to be talking about the UFC Mexico results for the entire card. The UFC live results were extremely interesting as the latest event in the UFC schedule saw the crowd at the Mexico City Arena on their feet.
Without any further ado, let's get into all the results from UFC Mexico.
UFC Mexico Preliminary Card Results:
Bantamweight Fight: José Alberto Quiñónez vs Carlos Huachin – Results: José Alberto Quiñónez defeated Carlos Huachin via Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Featherweight Fight: Polo Reyes vs Kyle Nelson – Results: Kyle Nelson defeated Anthony Polo Reyes via TKO (punches, round 1, 1 minute and 36 seconds)
Women's Strawweight Fight: Ariane Carnelossi vs Angela Hill – Results: Angela Hill defeated Ariane Carnelossi via TKO (doctor stoppage, round 3, 1 minute and 56 seconds)
Flyweight Fight: Sergio Pettis vs Tyson Nam – Results: Sergio Pettis defeated Tyson Nam via Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Light Heavyweight Fight: Vinicius Moreira vs Paul Craig – Results: Paul Craig defeated Vinicius Moreira via Submission (rear-naked choke, round 1, 3 minute and 19 seconds)
Women's Bantamweight Fight: Sijara Eubanks vs Bethe Correia – Results: Bethe Correia defeated Sijara Eubanks via Unanimous Decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Lightweight Fight: Claudio Puelles vs Marcos Rosa Mariano – Results: Claudio Puelles defeated Marcos Rosa Mariano via Unanimous Decision (30-25, 30-25, 30-25)
With the Preliminary Card out of the way, let's head into what happened in the main card of UFC Fight Night 159.
Martin Bravo vs Steven Peterson
The first MMA fight of the night on the main card was one of the only fights on the card that ended with a stoppage instead of a decision.
Bravo and Peterson had several good exchanges, with Bravo taking the first round by storm, getting the better of Steven Peterson. However, the UFC Mexico fight night would not see this domination last. Peterson came out firing in the second round and before too long, both went at each other with spinning shots. While Peterson was able to avoid the spinning elbow, Bravo was caught with the spinning back fist which ended the fight extremely suddenly.
UFC Mexico Results: Steven Peterson defeated Martin Bravo via KO (spinning back fist, round 2, 1 minute and 31 seconds)
Irene Aldana vs Vanessa Melo
If there was one fight on this card which was entirely one-sided, then it has to be the one between Irene Aldana and Vanessa Melo. From the get-go, it appeared that Melo was entirely outclassed by Aldana, who displayed no weakness and poured on the punishment.
Melo kept stepping forward and opening herself up to shot after shot.
The first two rounds were easy wins for Aldana, but the entire fight shifted even more in her favor in the third round as Melo tried to go for broke.
Unfortunately for her, all she did was open herself up to even more offense from Aldana, who took advantage and pushed the punishment on Melo as the fight came to an end.
UFC Mexico Results: Irene Aldana defeated Vanessa Melo via Unanimous Decision (30-26, 30-26, 30-26)
Askar Askarov vs Brandon Moreno
Going into UFC Mexico, there was one fight that had attracted a lot of attention despite not even being in the main event of the card.
There were two very big unknown factors heading into the night.
Firstly, it was the return of Brandon Moreno. After having lost two fights at the end of his career with UFC, it appeared that Moreno and UFC were done. Moreno left and went on to fight and win at LFA. Fortunately for him, he was called back to the card for this fight.
Secondly, heading into the fight, Askar Askarov was THE prospect in UFC. Making his debut with a 10-fight undefeated streak, this was the fight that everyone had been waiting for. Unfortunately for him, it was not to be. He was not quite able to continue his streak.
The fight saw both men get in some offense. It appeared that Askarov came away as the better man in the first round on the ground, but the second round was all about Moreno. When the fight ended there was no way to call who had won the fight, and that was the decision that the judges reached.
UFC Mexico Results: Askar Askarov vs Brandon Moreno ended in Split Draw (28-28, 29-28, 30-27)
Carla Esparza vs Alexa Grasso
The co-main event fight saw Carla Esparza and Alexa Grasso take each other on. It was a fight about wrestling taking on striking.
For the entirety of the first two rounds, Carla Esparza somehow managed to keep the upper hand. She landed shot after vicious shot, although she did find herself in trouble on more than one occasion. At the end of the 1st round, Esparza was able to escape an attempt where Alexa Grasso almost took her back, swung around and landed a 1-2 of her own, and finally a hard right to end the first round of the fight.
The second round saw Esparza having to deal with submission attempts from her opponent, and they spent most of the round on the ground. However, despite multiple attempts, Esparza was able to keep up her guard and it allowed her to get in shots when and where it counted.
The two went at each other fiercely at the end of the second round, with Esparza trying to escape an armbar.
Finally, in the third round, Grasso found her game and was able to dominate Esparza. Grasso managed to finish strong landing strong blows after Esparza was able to escape an armbar despite strong torque as well as a Triangle.
In the end, Esparza won, much to the vocal displeasure of the UFC Mexico crowd, who let their unhappiness be known.
UFC Mexico Results: Carla Esparza defeated Alexa Grasso via Majority Decision (28-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Jeremy Stephens vs Yair Rodriguez
The main event saw an unfortunate start as Rodriguez caught Stephens with a poke to the eye. The referee stopped the fight while they got a few minutes to regain their composure.
The eye appeared to be damaged, with the doctor coming in to take a look to see if Stephens would be able to continue or not. He could not open his eye, so Herb Dean said that he would give him some time to see if he could open it, or he would cancel the fight altogether.
Unfortunately, it was the worst possible outcome in the main event of the fight.
Herb Dean had to call the fight. Despite Stephens being a warrior of the biggest kind, there was nothing for it in the end. Herb Dean called the fight at the end of five minutes when he found out that Jeremy Stephens could not open his eye to continue the fight.
Everyone was disappointed with the crowd deafening the arena with boos at the unfortunate end to an entertaining card, with bottles flying in.
UFC Mexico Results: No Contest
If there's any fight that begs for a rematch down the line, it is definitely this one.
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