
UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Figueiredo Live Winners and Losers
If you like KOs and tap-outs with your coffee and cereal, this is your Saturday.
The UFC took its production apparatus to another hemisphere for a 13-bout Fight Night card that went live at 4 a.m. ET from Galaxy Arena in Macau, China, and feature a pair of desperate bantamweight contenders in its main event.
Two-time flyweight champ Deiveson Figueiredo hasn't found the same level of success since moving to 135, losing three of his last four fights heading into a scheduled five-round duel with Chinese fan favorite Song Yadong.
Figueredo is ranked seventh in the weight class, two spots behind Yadong, who was 5-0-1 through his first six octagonal appearances but has since lost four of his last 10 overall and two of his last three since the start of 2024.
Both men last competed on the UFC 324 show in January in Las Vegas, where Figueiredo lost a decision to No. 2 contender Umar Nurmagomedov and Yadong was beaten on the scorecards by former champ Sean O'Malley.
B/R's combat team is in position to take in the action and deliver a definitive, real-time list of the show's winners and losers. Take a look at what we come up with and drop a thought of your own in the app comments.
Winner: Not Acting Her Age
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She's on the far side of 40. And she was certainly not the crowd favorite.
But if either disadvantage bothered Angela Hill, she kept it to herself.
The 41-year-old American shook off a recent competitive skid with a vintage striking performance on the way to a shutout decision over UFC newcomer Jingnan Xiong.
"This is the best she's looked in a while," analyst Laura Sanko said. "There's a viciousness to her."
Indeed, Hill stretched existing octagonal records for the most fights (now 29) and the most wins (now 13) in the strawweight division and joined Max Holloway and Sean Strickland as the only UFC fighters to land more than 100 significant strikes in nine fights.
"I felt like last year I was a little off. So, I dug deep into myself and figured out how I wanted to fight. This was the perfect matchup for me to figure that out," said Hill, who'd lost two in a row and three of her last four. "I feel good. I train with people younger than me. I'm in the room with women with people who can beat me up but I'm able to do my thing."
Winner: Denying Dissension
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Rodrigo Vera could have taken the bait. Be he chose the high road.
Vera was recently denied a spot on The Ultimate Fighter by coaches Michael Bisping and Daniel Cormier, so, when Bisping approached for a post-fight chat after the Peruvian had erased local Chinese favorite Zhu Kangjie by TKO in 110 seconds, he had an opportunity.
Instead, Vera chose to shake hands and not dwell on the disappointment, instead reveling in a successful octagonal debut that prolonged a now-13-fight win streak that stretches back to 2019.
"I really appreciate this moment," he said. "I've been fighting for a long, long time to be here."
Vera made the most of the moment with a precise left hook that beat Kangjie's to the button by an instant and set up a subsequent flurry that left Kangjie semi-conscious and prompted a Lukasz Bosacki intervention at 1:50 of the first.
"Don't blink," he said. "I'm a well-prepared fighter. I have strong hands, man. It's part of the game. You have to figure your tools to get the win."
Winner: Quick to the Hunt
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Even in an early prelim fight, Jaqueline Amorim was a known commodity.
A 30-year-old jiu-jitsu ace from Brazil, Amorim had finished all four UFC opponents whom she'd beaten, including three by submission and two inside of a first round.
So, when she got to the ground early and immediately started chasing a quick ending, it was no surprise to anyone in the building, or to Loma Lookboonmee.
"I was prepared for three rounds. We were ready for a war here," Amorim said. "But a quick submission is always welcome."
Amorim began the hunt with a pursuit of Lookboonmee's leg, then quickly shifted to the upper portion of her body and prompted a tap at 4:04 with a gruesome armbar that had the Thai veteran's elbow wrenched in a hard-to-watch direction.
"I want a top-15 opponent," Amorim said. "I think I proved to the UFC that I'm up to the challenge."
Full Card Results
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Main Card
Song Yadong v Deiveson Figueiredo
Zhang Mingyang v Alonzo Menifield
Sergei Pavlovich v Tallison Teixeira
Kai Asakura v Cameron Smotherman
Jake Matthews v Carlston Harris
Alex Perez v Sumudaerji
Preliminary Card
Yi Sak Lee v Luis Felipe Dias
Ding Meng v Jose Henrique
Aoriqileng v Cody Haddon
Rei Tsuruya v Luis Gurule
Angela Hill def. Jingnan Xiong by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Rodrigo Vera def. Zhu Kangjie by TKO (punches), 1:50, Round 1
Jaqueline Amorim def. Loma Lookboonmee by submission (armbar), 4:04, Round 1

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