What a wild main event.
Diego Lopes and Jean Silva looked exciting on paper and these two surely didn’t disappoint. Lopes came out fast in the first round and he mainly dominated it. Silva ate a couple of strikes and he was even slammed by Lopes! The featherweight continued to assault him on the ground with nasty elbows and hammer shots.
The bout almost came to an end, but Silva was able to get away from the finishing blow. Silva was not a pretty sight at the end of the first round, but that didn’t stop him from coming out of the second round with a couple body punches and body/head combination.
Lopes countered with an uppercut, but Silva responded with a right hand that almost got him the knockout victory. Silva was kicking some major ass throughout the second round, but all it took was a spinning elbow from Lopes to knock him out cold. Lopes bounced back nicely from his UFC Featherweight title loss at UFC 314. Unfortunately for Silva, he suffered his first loss in seven years.
The co-main event was also a thrilling fight. David Martinez used his striking to get the better of Rob Font, though the UFC veteran’s experience allowed him to stay in the fight and counter with some sweet reversals. Font also got a couple of licks in, with him coming very close to a knockout in the second round. However, Font was gassed in the third round, and though Martinez was no spring chicken himself, his strikes connected more and he almost scored a knockout when the bell for third round sounded. Martinez earned the biggest victory of his career via unanimous decision.
Check out the full results for UFC NOCHE 3
145 lbs.: Diego Lopes vs. Jean Silva — Lopes def. Silva by TKO (spinning back elbow and ground strikes), round 2 (4:48)
135 lbs.: Rob Font vs. David Martinez — Martinez def. Font by unanimous decision
155 lbs.: Rafa Garcia vs. Jared Gordon — Garcia def. Gordon by TKO (ground strikes), round 3 (2:27)
185 lbs.: Kelvin Gastelum vs. Dustin Stoltzfus — Gastelum def. Stolzfus by unanimous decision
155 lbs.: Alexander Hernandez vs. Diego Ferreira — Hernandez def. Ferreira by TKO (punches), round 2 (3:46)
135 lbs.: Santiago Luna vs. Quang Le — Luna def. Le by KO (punches), round 1 (2:48)
185 lbs.: Jose Medina vs. Dusko Todorovic — Todorovic def. Medina by submission (rear naked choke), round 1 (4:21)
155 lbs.: Claudio Puelles vs. Joaquim Silva — Silva def. Puelles by split decision
115 lbs.: Tatiana Suarez vs. Amanda Lemos — Suarez def. Lemos by unanimous decision
125 lbs.: Jesus Aguilar vs. Luis Gurule — Aguilar def. Gurule via unanimous decision
185 lbs.: Zach Reese vs. Sedriques Dumas — Reese vs. Dumas ends in a no contest (accidental low blow), round 1 (0:51)
125 lbs.: Alessandro Costa vs. Alden Coria — Coria def. Costa by TKO (punches), round 3 (0:47)
135 lbs.: Montserrat Rendon vs. Alice Pereira — Rendon def. Pereira by split decision
170 lbs.: Rodrigo Sezinando vs. Daniil Donchenko — Donchenko def. Sezinando by TKO (punches), round 1 (4:27)