The UFC returned to Mexico this past weekend, to be headlined by a much-anticipated match-up between Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens at Lightweight.\u00a0 It’s fair to say that ultimately it wasn\u2019t the fighting that mate the headlines.\u00a0 15 seconds into the first round an accidental eye poke from Rodriguez to Stephens resulted in a doctor stoppage.\u00a0 In the melee that followed the no-contest being called, Stephens was targeting by the crowd as he headed off for medical treatment, the on-air broadcast team had drinks and coins hurled at them and UFC officials were also caught up in the unfortunate scenes.\u00a0 There appears to be real bad blood between these two fighters now \u2013 and with the fight now being scheduled for the Boston card in October it will be interesting to see what happens next.<\/p>\n
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The co-main event featured an interesting battle between former straw-weight champion Carla Esparza and the rapidly rising Alexa Grasso. \u00a0In a close-run fight, it was Esparza who came out victorious with a majority decision win.\u00a0 Esparza has made no secret of her wish to challenge for the title once again and this victory brings her one step closer to that goal.<\/p>\n
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Brandon Moreno Vs Askar Askarov\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Flyweight<\/p>\n
Split draw (28-28, 28-29, 30-27)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Irene Aldana Vs Vanessa Melo \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bantamweight<\/p>\n Aldana def. Melo by unanimous decision (30-26 x3)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Martin Bravo Vs Steven Peterson \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Featherweight<\/p>\n Peterson def. Bravo by KO (spinning back fist) at 1:31 of Round 2<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jose Quinonez Vs Carlos Huachin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bantamweight<\/p>\n Quinonez def. Huachin by unanimous decision (30-27 x3)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Marco Polo Reyes Vs Kyle Nelson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Featherweight<\/p>\n Nelson def. Reyes by TKO (elbow and punches) at 1:36 of Round 1<\/strong><\/p>\n Ariane Carnelossi Vs Angela Hill\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Strawweight<\/p>\n Hill def. Carnelossi by TKO (cut) at 1:56 of Round 3<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sergio Pettis Vs Alex Perez\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Flyweight<\/p>\n Pettis def. Nam by unanimous decision (30-27 x3)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Vinicius Moreira Vs Paul Craig\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Light Heavyweight<\/p>\n Craig def. Moreira by submission (rear naked choke) at 3:19 of Round 1<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sijara Eubanks Vs Bethe Correia\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bantamweight<\/p>\n Correia def. Eubanks by unanimous decision (29-28 x3)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Claudio Puelles Vs Marco Mariano\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lightweight<\/p>\n Puelles def. Mariano by unanimous decision (30-25 x3)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The UFC returned to Mexico this past weekend, to be headlined by a much-anticipated match-up between Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens at Lightweight.\u00a0 It’s fair to say that ultimately it wasn\u2019t the fighting that mate the headlines.\u00a0 15 seconds into the first round an accidental eye poke from Rodriguez to Stephens resulted in a doctor…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ufc","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}