GDT: UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Ribas 2

[MMC]

Date: January 11, 2025
Venue: UFC Apex
City: Las Vegas, Nevada
Time: 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
Viewing: ESPN+

MAIN CARD (ESPN+)

Women's Strawweight bout: Mackenzie Dern vs. Amanda Ribas
Welterweight bout: Santiago Ponzinibbio vs. Carlston Harris
Middleweight bout: Cesar Almeida vs. Abdul Razak Alhassan
Middleweight bout: Chris Curtis vs. Roman Kopylov
Featherweight bout: Christian Rodriguez vs. Austin Bashi
Welterweight bout: Punahele Soriano vs. Uros Medic

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+)

Flyweight bout: Jose Johnson vs. Felipe Bunes
Middleweight bout: Marco Tulio vs. Ihor Potieria
Lightweight bout: Thiago Moises vs. Trey Ogden
Welterweight bout: Preston Parsons vs. Jacobe Smith
Women's Flyweight bout: Ernesta Kareckaite vs. Nicolle Caliara
Light Heavyweight bout: Magomed Gadzhiyasulov vs. Bruno Lopes
Women's Strawweight bout: Fatima Kline vs. Viktoriia Dudakova
Lightweight bout: Nurullo Aliev vs. Joe Solecki​

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[MMC]

APEX in 2025 is diabolical

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I did not realize Bashi is on this card I watched this kid a few times before contender series he was pretty good.

 

[bov]

APEX in 2025 is diabolical

If there was ever a card deserving of the apex, it's this one. What a joke to start off the year with this. I'll hold out some hope that it's a sleeper but yeeeesh.

 

[Sheppy]

Yeahhhhh, this is a tough card to get behind.

 

[MMC]

 

[I Hart Conor Garland]

 

[MMC]

I’m the president of the Gadzhiyasulov hate club

 

[CDJ]

I’m the president of the Gadzhiyasulov hate club

Faded the hell out of him, easy money


Solecki fight sucked but still hit like crack, so glad the fights are back

 

[MMC]

Faded the hell out of him, easy money


Solecki fight sucked but still hit like crack, so glad the fights are back

KHK = autofade

 

[MMC]

Yeesh didn’t expect Puna to run through Medic like that

 

[Taytro]

I want to think Curtis is ahead here but the only strikes that seem to have done any damage have come from Kopylov. Getting stunned at the end of the round is an easy way to have that round stolen.

 

[Taytro]

... I don't think that was a KO or TKO, looked like a knockdown to me, but Kopylov probably won round 1 and 3 anyway.

 

[MMC]

Curtis is upset but I personally don’t have an issue with that stoppage

 

[MMC]

Beautiful KO by Almeida

 

[MMC]

Ponz saved by the bell

 

[Taytro]

Ponz saved by the bell

Did we see how the back of his head got damaged?

 

[Taytro]

Good finish by Ponz, I think that was a better stoppage than the Curtis stoppage, so not sure what the commentary was talking about. A flash knockdown vs several knockdowns and damaging shots.

 

[Taytro]

Love Ribas but what a low IQ fight from her... Every round she played into Derns strength and eventually paid for it.

 

[MMC]

Pretty fun card. Impressive debuts for Tulio and Smith. Not so much for Lopes and Bashi