Diego Lopes’ win at Noche UFC was a very spectacular feat.
Regardless of going into the combat as a slight favourite, it was unsure how the previous one-time UFC title challenger would deal with the ferocious in-your-face fashion that Jean Silva brings to each single combat.
Lopes ended up delivering probably the most dominant rounds of the yr within the night’s predominant occasion, mounting Silva and raining down a slew of punches and hellacious elbows earlier than sending ‘Lord’ to his nook a bloody mess. And whereas Lopes might have confronted some adversity within the second stanza, it didn’t cease him from delivering one of the most brutal knockouts of 2025 by way of a wonderfully timed spinning again elbow.
Trying again on the highlight-reel end, Lopes may solely sum up his combating fashion a method.
He fights like a Mexican.
“My combat fashion? That is from my coach — you need to prepare me, you must combat like a Mexican,” Lopes mentioned throughout his post-fight interview in San Antonio. “I feel this evening, the individuals watched this — combat like a Mexican. I’m so blissful for the youngsters from Mexico tonight. 5 and 0 — that is huge for Mexico.”
Is it time for Alexander Volkanovski vs. Diego Lopes 2?
After arising brief towards featherweight king Alexander Volkanovski in April, Lopes is again within the win column and, extra importantly, one large step nearer towards one other crack on the division’s high prize.
Whether or not or not he’s the following man up for Volk stays to be seen, however chances are high, he’ll have to take a seat again and wait to see how issues play out between ‘The Nice’ and present top-ranked featherweight contender Movsar Evloev.
