Bryce Mitchell earned the tenth victory of his Octagon profession at UFC Vegas 118, defeating the beforehand unbeaten Santiago Luna.
Each fighters got here out swinging early, but it surely was lower than a minute into the opening spherical when Mitchell secured a takedown close to the fence and instantly landed in aspect management. Mitchell’s offense on the mat was few and much between, however ‘Thug Nasty’ racked up almost 4 minutes of management time within the spherical, sealing it for him on the scorecards.
It was extra of the identical from Mitchell within the second, as he instantly closed the gap and seemed to safe an early takedown. Nevertheless, it was Luna who would find yourself on high earlier than backing away and forcing Mitchell again to his ft.
That call allowed Mitchell to safe a takedown of his personal and experience out the spherical in aspect management.
Luna had his greatest second of the combat in spherical three, gaining high management and almost cinching in an anaconda choke, although he was unable to lock within the maintain. Mitchell would go on to reverse place, transferring into full mount and fishing for an arm triangle choke.
With lower than 10 seconds left within the combat, Mitchell pressured the faucet out, handing Luna the primary lack of his combined martial arts profession.
Official Outcome: Bryce Mitchell def. Santiago Luna by way of submission (arm triangle) at 4:52 of Spherical 3.
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