Once one of UFC's most favorite boxers, but the peak days of Dominick Cruz were over. The old age and persistent injuries for many years made him no longer appreciated against Marlon Vera, although Cruz was holding a 100% winning achievement in the classifications before playing.
Young and diverse attacking ability helped Vera to gain absolute advantage before Cruz in the first minutes of the match. On the Cruz side, he still showed the blow, but that did not give him many opportunities to counterattack when Vera played too or in energetic conditions.
Entering the fourth half, at the time of pressing Cruz, Vera launched a high kick hit the head of the martial artist 37 Tu. The kick caused Cruz to be lowered immediately. The end of the match not only helped Vera win and continue to advance on the UFC rankings, but also helped him win the best match award on the event on the event and $ 50,000 award.
In the remaining matches, Vietnamese -Vietnamese boxers Tyson Nam won against rival Ode 'Osbourne despite being underestimated. Before the first half of the match closed, Nam launched a punch of no opponent. Josh Quinlan and Gabriel Benitez also won against Jason Witt and Charlie Ontiveros respectively.
After UFC on ESPN: Vera vs Cruz closed, the general martial arts fans (MMA) will be aimed at the big event next week is UFC 278. The focus of the event is the Welterweight weight championship, where the Kamaru Usman champion rematches the old opponent Leon Edwards. At the previous meeting in 2015, Usman won Edwards by calculating points.