Daniel Marcos bounced again from his first loss in model at UFC Vegas 111.
Within the second battle of Saturday’s UFC APEX card, the Peruvian bantamweight out-grappled veteran Miles Johns (15-5, 1 NC) and choked him out in Spherical 2.
Watch the submission end beneath.
After a aggressive first spherical, the second was determined by Marcos and Johns’ ground-fighting abilities, with Marcos ultimately taking Johns’ again and securing a rear-naked choke. Johns fought off the urge to faucet, however ultimately handed out within the maintain, with the referee formally stopping the battle 4:23 into the body.
Marcos (17-1, 1 NC) returns to the win column after struggling his first professional loss to Montel Jackson this previous Might. In his post-fight speech, Marcos talked about how the setback affected him.
“I simply needed to say one thing that most individuals don’t know, however final time after the final battle I fell into deep darkness,” Marcos stated through a Spanish translator. “Hear, it was my first loss, I simply didn’t really feel like myself. Lots of people turned their backs on me. However these folks that love me, they stayed with me, and I instructed that to myself, ‘I can’t let this outline me.’ That’s not going to outline my complete life. I’m going to show these items round and simply preserve getting higher and I’ll inform each single one in every of you that’s in darkness in the intervening time, don’t let darkness flip off your gentle inside you.”
Johns has now dropped three straight fights, persevering with the primary dropping streak of his profession.
