Patricio Pitbull earned his first win contained in the Octagon at UFC 318, outworking featherweight mainstay Dan Ige.
After spending half a spherical lighting up Ige’s lead leg with kicks, Pitbull shot in for a takedown, getting ’50K’ all the way down to the mat close to the fence. Ige provided up some stable takedown protection, utilizing the cage to climb again to his toes earlier than making an attempt to land an elbow on the break.
As we get into the second spherical, the stay crowd in New Orleans is beginning to develop annoyed with the dearth of motion, significantly on the aspect of Pitbull, who has been hesitant to throw something substantial. Ige delivered some stable boxing within the first half of the stanza, however the former Bellator star lastly began to seek out some success, connecting with a straight proper hand that dropped Ige to his knee.
Pitbull picked up the tempo, in search of the killshot, however Ige survived the onslaught. That prompted Pitbull to take Ige down, driving out the rest of the spherical in prime management.
Seconds into the third, Pitbull bought caught with a head kick whereas transferring in. Pitbull ate it and tried to take Ige all the way down to the mat as soon as once more. ’50K’ staved off the takedown and tried to battle his approach again into the bout, however each time he began to throw arms, Pitbull would change ranges.
Ige practically linked with one other excessive kick, however this time, Pitbull caught it and used it as a possibility to place his man on the mat for the ultimate time. After quarter-hour of back-and-forth motion, we head to the scorecards for a call.
Official Consequence: Patricio Pitbull def. Dan Ige by way of unanimous determination (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).
