Wolverine beats Vina and guarantees a place in the TUF semifinals

Hugo Wolverine He is the third featherweight to secure a place in the TUF Brazil semifinals. The fighter from Bahia, who is part of the Vitor belfort, defeated Marcos Vina, from the team Wanderlei Silva, in the unanimous decision of the judges, in the sixth episode of the series shown this Sunday (29). The result increased the advantage of Belfort's team, which placed 5-0 over Wand's team.

Hugo Wolverine (dir.) defeated Marcos Vina (left)

The program
Unlike the other episodes, where the fights alternated between the featherweight and middleweight divisions, the coaches Wanderlei Silva e Vitor belfort they decided that the next two fights would be the remaining ones between the featherweights.

With the right to choose, since his team had won the last fight, Vitor belfort selected Hugo Wolverine to represent your team against Marcos Vina, from the team Wanderlei Silva. With this, the other duel valid for the featherweight quarterfinals would be between Ron Jason and Anistávio Gasparzinho, who had already declared their desire not to face each other, as they lived together and represent the same team (Team Nogueira).

The fight
With two specialists in the stand-up fight, the third fight between the featherweights of TUF Brasil was developed throughout the entire period of striking. With a quick boxing game, Wolverine worked on the sequence of straight strikes and prevented dangerous knees from Vina.

The athlete on the team Wanderlei Silva He still tried, unsuccessfully, to take the fight to the ground twice, but his actions were well defended by Hugo.

In the second round, Wolverine continued working with straight strikes, which most of the time ended up in his opponent's guard, but showed initiative in the fight. In turn, Vina he threw two flying knees, which stopped in his opponent's guard.

In the final moments, the fighters, already quite tired, opened their game and tried strikes that could define the fight, but they all failed. At the end of the second round, the two side judges gave the victory to Hugo Wolverine

With the result, Hugo joins Rodrigo Damm e Geoffrey Pepey, who had already secured a place in the TUF semifinals among featherweights.

Now Ron Jason, by the team of Wanderlei Silva, and Gasparzinho, for the team Vitor belfort, will do the fight that will define the last semifinalist in the division.