This past weekend the UFC returned to Raleigh, with a card that would put some order to the heavyweight division.\u00a0 Highly touted and top ranked contender Curtis Blaydes faced off against former champion and fan favourite Junior dos Santos. \u00a0Blaydes dominated with strikes throughout the first and comprehensively took the victory by way of TKO in the second round.\u00a0 There are a couple of potential fights for Blaydes moving forward \u2013 with Francis Ngannou facing Jairzinho Rozenstruick, and Stipe Miocic facing Daniel Cormier over the forthcoming months<\/p>\n
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Also on the card in the welterweight division Michael Chiesa was up against Rafael dos Anjos.\u00a0 Chiesa seems to have found his true weight division, following his move from 155 pounds, as a solid decision victory over the experienced dos Anjos gave him his 3rd<\/sup> straight victory<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rest of Fight Card \u2013 Results<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jordan Espinosa\u00a0vs.\u00a0Alex Perez<\/strong> \u2014 Perez def. Espinosa by technical submission (arm triangle choke) at 2:33 of Round 1<\/strong><\/p>\n Hannah Cifers\u00a0vs.\u00a0Angela Hill<\/strong> \u2014 Hill def. Cifers by TKO (elbows & punches) at 4:26 of Round 2 <\/strong><\/p>\n Jamahal Hill\u00a0vs.\u00a0Darko Stosic<\/strong> \u2014 Hill def. Stosic by unanimous decision (29-27 x3)<\/strong><\/p>\n Bevon Lewis\u00a0vs. Dequan Townsend<\/strong> \u2014 Lewis def. Townsend by unanimous decision (30-27 x3)<\/strong><\/p>\n Arnold Allen vs. Nik Lentz<\/strong> \u2014 Allen def. Lentz by unanimous decision (29-28 x2, 30-27)<\/strong><\/p>\n Justine Kish\u00a0vs.\u00a0Lucie Pudilova<\/strong> \u2014 Kish def. Pudilova by unanimous decision (30-27 x3)<\/strong><\/p>\n Montel Jackson\u00a0vs.\u00a0Felipe Colares<\/strong> \u2014 Jackson def. Colares by unanimous decision (30-26 x2, 30-25)<\/strong><\/p>\n Lina Lansberg\u00a0vs.\u00a0Sara McMann<\/strong> \u2014 McMann def. Lansberg by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-26, 30-25)<\/strong><\/p>\n Tony Gravely\u00a0vs.\u00a0Brett Johns<\/strong> \u2014 Johns def. Gravely by submission (rear naked choke) at 2:53 of Round 3<\/strong><\/p>\n Herbert Burns\u00a0vs. Nate Landwehr<\/strong> \u2014 Burns def. Landwehr by KO (knee) at 2:43 of Round 1<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This past weekend the UFC returned to Raleigh, with a card that would put some order to the heavyweight division.\u00a0 Highly touted and top ranked contender Curtis Blaydes faced off against former champion and fan favourite Junior dos Santos. \u00a0Blaydes dominated with strikes throughout the first and comprehensively took the victory by way of TKO…<\/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":[1616,527,63],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ufc","tag-blaydes","tag-dos-santos","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","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=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/boxingandufc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}