Vicente Luque was close to victory, but Belal Muhammad overcame his Brazilian wrestling rival and won another one in the UFC; check out!
In the early hours of Saturday, 16th, to Sunday, 17th, the Vicente Luque faced Belal Muhammad at the UFC and it didn’t do well. Despite the Brazilian having hit some blows, he suffered from his rival’s wrestling and left the fight with a unanimous defeat granted by the judges of the confrontation. Therefore, he wasted the chance to get very close to a fight for the UFC welterweight belt.
Vicente Luque was the one who tried the most in the first moments of the fight and always tried to keep the fight in the fight standing up. However, the Brazilian ended up suffering when the fight went to the ground and didn’t do well with the intensity of Belal Muhammad on the ground. The rival looked for a tighter fight and on the ground and his strategy worked perfectly well.
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To try to take down his opponent and repeat the feat of UFC 205, when Vicente Luque faced Belal Muhammad and knocked him out in just two minutes, he risked many kicks to the calf to tire his rival. However, the tactic did not work so well and the Brazilian did not escape a painful defeat in the early hours of Saturday and Sunday.
Thus, Vicente Luque could not hold back against Muhammad and the rival ended up achieving a good superiority in the confrontation. He waited for the right moments to put his wrestling into practice and put on a great fight on the ground. With that dominance, after the fight was over, the judges gave the following unanimous score to Belal: 49-46, 49-46 and 49-47.
Remembering that, before the fight, Vicente Luque was fifth in the UFC welterweight ranking, while Belal Muhammad was in sixth place. The tendency is for the Brazilian’s rival to surpass not only the opponent from last Saturday, 16th, but also Gilbert Durinho, who was fourth and recently lost to Khamzat Chimaev, who is currently third. Kamaru Usman is the leader and the great holder of the title in Ultimate.
Respect prevails 👏
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