Gillian Robertson continued her quest for a strawweight title alternative, defeating Amanda Lemos in a three-round battle at UFC Vegas 114.
After struggling to punch her approach inside, Robertson was lastly in a position to shut the space and rating the primary takedown of the combat simply previous the midway level of the opening spherical. Nonetheless, it was Lemos who would discover success on the bottom, lighting up Robertson with a collection of nasty elbows earlier than almost locking in a kimura.
Robertson in the end scrambled her approach out of the maintain and racked up a bit extra management time, however there’s no denying that the primary 5 minutes belonged to Lemos.
Robertson didn’t take almost as lengthy to get Lemos down within the second, securing a takedown within the opening minute of the stanza.
‘The Savage’ would safe greater than 4 minutes of management time within the spherical whereas fishing for a slew of submissions. Lemos labored her approach up within the last few seconds of the spherical and tried a late flurry, however it wasn’t sufficient to swing the scorecards in her favor.
That despatched us to a 3rd spherical, with the combat seemingly tied up at 1-1.
It was extra of the identical in spherical three, although there was a second when Lemos appeared to have Robertson caught in an arm bar.
Unable to power the faucet out, Robertson regained management and rode out the ultimate two minutes, securing a hard-fought determination victory over the one-time title challenger.
Official Consequence: Gillian Robertson def. Amanda Lemos through unanimous determination (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).
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