Nuguette celebrates his victory in Brisbane. Photo: Josh Hedges/UFC
UFC Fight Night Brisbane started off very well for fighters from Brazil. The X-Gym athlete Alan Nuguette and the former participant of the second edition of The Ultimate Fighter Brazil they won and guaranteed perfect success for the Brazilian representatives in the initial portion of the card.
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First Brazilian to enter the octagon in the province of Queensland, Alan Nuguette he had no difficulty overcoming Demien Brown. Despite the difficulty of facing an opponent who entered the fight at the last minute, Nuguette used his superiority in the ground game to guarantee the victory.
In a very busy first round, Allan Nuguette began applying a lot of pressure on his opponent and immediately taking him down. On the ground, the Brazilian punished his rival with several elbows and twice tried to submit him with a guillotine choke. At the end of the partial, however, the Australian managed to reverse the scenario and finished the round on top, in the ground and pound.
In the second round, Brown showed signs of fatigue, mainly because he was called up in a hurry for the match – as a replacement for Chad Laprisse. Nuguette took advantage of his physical superiority and spent practically the five minutes on top, attacking with blows and trying some submissions. At the end of the round, however, the Australian scared the Brazilian, catching him with a kimura, but Alan was saved by the bell.
In the third and decisive part, the Brazilian remained faithful to his strategy and continued to take down the Australian whenever he wanted. Although Brown remained active even from below, Nuguette controlled the actions until the end and secured the victory without any fear, being declared the winner in a unanimous decision by the judges.
Viscardi gets scared, but beats home athlete
Viscardi (right) beat Walsh (left)
In the third fight of the night, Viscardi Andrade got scared with a knockdown suffered against Australian Richard Walsh, but recovered well and ended up winning.
In the first round, Viscardi managed to dominate the Australian and guarantee the partial, but, at the beginning of the second round, he went to knockdown after a hard hit from Walsh. The Brazilian, however, managed to get up and took down his rival in the final stretch of the round, almost submitting him with an inverted triangle choke.
In the third and final round, despite little action, the Brazilian had an advantage in the final half of the round, enough to guarantee him victory in a unanimous decision by the judges, with a triple 29×28. Viscardi now has 19 wins and six losses as professional in MMA, and achieved two consecutive victories in the octagon.
Check out the UFC FN Brisbane results below:
MAIN CARD
Mark Hunt x Frank mir
Hector Lombard x Neil Magny
Jake matthews x Johnny Case
Daniel Kelly x Antonio Shoe Guy
James Te Huna x Steve Bosse
Bec Rawlings x Seo Hee Ham
PRELIMINARY CARD
Brendan O'Reilly x Alan Jouban
Dan Hooker x Mark Eddiva
Rin Nakai x Leslie Smith
Viscardi Andrade defeated Richard Walsh by unanimous decision (29×28, 29×28 and 29×28)
Ross Pearson defeated Chad Laprise in a split decision (30×27, 28×30 and 29×28)
Alan Nuguette defeated Damien Brown via unanimous decision (30×27, 30×27 and 30×26)
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