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Women’s strawweights light the UFC Vegas 121 fuse inside the UFC Apex, where Demopoulos awaits Jauregui at 115 pounds.
Blake Grice administers the law and order. No glove touch to start. Sharp one-two from Demopoulos sets off an exchange between the two women, then mixes in a few leg kicks. Jauregui answers with an inside leg kick.
She flurries with both hands and pins Demopoulos to the fence with punches. Vicious hooks set the Ohioan on unsteady legs. Demopoulos retreats to the canvas, launches a hapless bid for an armbar and gets met with a series of hammerfists that prompt Grice to stop itBantamweights now step into the UFC Vegas 121 spotlight, as Castaneda locks horns with Alateng at 135 pounds. Kerry Hatley polices the proceedings.
They get underway with the customary glove touch. Castaneda opens with leg kicks. Alateng paws with his lead hand from the opposing orthodox stance. Slow start to this one.
Overhand right from Alateng. Castaneda answers with a low kick, a front kick to the body and a left hand over the top. Alateng struggling to find the target early. He answers a low kick from Castaneda with a left hook.
More leg kicks from Castaneda, who comfortably switches stances. He targets the legs with kicks and the head with hooks from both sides. Alateng closes the distance behind punches and tries to ignite a brawl. Castaneda refuses to oblige and circles away.
Straight left to the body from Castaneda, who follows it with a knee and evades the return fire. He lands an inside leg kick, then two punches upstairs. Alateng misses the mark with a spinning elbow in the closing seconds. Tudor Leonte scores the round: 10-9 CastanedaAlateng takes the center and lands an overhand right.
Castaneda retreats and counters, closing out a combination with another inside leg kick. They trade low kicks. Alateng flirts with a single-leg, then thinks better of it. Castaneda darts in with punches, then exits.
Sharp low kicks from Alateng, who counters a body kick with an overhand right and swarms. Castaneda circles out of danger and into open space, then tags his counterpart with a straight left. One-two from Alateng. Halfway home in the middle stanza.
They continue to trade, mostly in the center of the cage. Alateng shoots on the hips and presses Castaneda into the fence. They separate. More stance switches from Castaneda, who sneaks in a straight right and dips under the attempted counter.
Eye poke from Alateng results in a pause to the action.
“It was just a thumb,” Hatley says. They resume their dance with less than a minute to go. Leg kick from Castaneda, who ducks the counter and sneaks in a right hook. Alateng whiffs on a Superman punch and a spinning backfist as the round concludes.
Tudor Leonte scores the round: 10-9 CastanedaA closely contested first two rounds now give way to the third. Castaneda circles on the outside. Alateng steps into a knee to the body. Castaneda answers with a low kick and two short right hooks.
Inside leg kick from Alateng. He shoots on the hips, drives Castaneda to the fence and briefly secures a takedown. Castaneda alternates between standing a kneeling, with his opponent glued to his waist. Alateng fires knees to the thighs and glutes.
He continues to work for a takedown. Castaneda tries and fails to roll free. Two minutes left on the clock. More knees to the thighs from Alateng.
Castaneda threatens with a guillotine, gets back to his feet and shoots on the hips. Alateng scrambles and secures another takedown. Stalemate ensues. Castaneda again bites down on a guillotine and neutralizes his opponent’s advances.
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