In a grappling match between top-10 UFC middleweights, Caio Borralho received the perfect of Brendan Allen.
Allen competed six days after shedding a unanimous choice to Anthony Hernandez within the co-main occasion of UFC Seattle, and confronted Borralho within the co-main particular attraction of Friday’s Karate Fight 53 card in Seattle. Each fighters had loads of enjoyable within the pit, however ultimately, Borralho gained each rounds on the judges’ scorecards to earn a unanimous choice victory.
Borralho received over with the followers earlier than the match started, throwing out pairs of Preventing Nerds glasses to the followers in attendance. The Brazilian utilized a collar tie early, earlier than Allen shot for a single and received trapped in a guillotine by Borallho. Allen was in a position to escape and a standing stalemate started. Allen shot a single a achieve, however Borralho was simply in a position to evade. After a scramble, Borralho received to full mount for a second, then transitioned to a kimura try. Allen defended to finish the primary spherical.
Because the second spherical started, Borralho put Allen on his again and received again to full mount. Allen did a pleasant job getting the surging middleweight contender off of him, however Borralho was in a position to get one other dominant place on prime with full mount and a again take. Allen, once more, escaped and received on prime with a takedown within the nook of the pit. Borralho reversed place, and each opponents smiled at one another earlier than Borralho jumped on the again once more to shut out the match.
In his most up-to-date octagon look, Borralho defeated Jared Cannonier in the primary occasion of UFC Vegas 96 this previous August to enhance his UFC document to 7-0, and lengthen his total win streak to 16 fights.
