Serhiy Sidey blended up his putting and grappling to attain a stable three-round victory over Cameron Smotherman at UFC Des Moines on Saturday evening.
Sidey got here out gentle on his ft whereas Smotherman stored his planted on the mat, seeking to tee up some energy photographs. After a comparatively gradual begin to the opening spherical, Sidey closed the gap and backed Smotherman in opposition to the fence, a lot to the chagrin of the stay crowd. Nevertheless, it didn’t take lengthy for Smotherman to separate and return to the middle of the Octaton.
Sidey appeared to get the higher of the exchanges, however neither fighter landed something of word all through the rest of the spherical.
After standing for the whole thing of the primary 5 minutes, Sidey shot in for a fast takedown within the second. He briefly received Smotherman right down to the mat, however ‘The Child-Confronted Killer’ wall-walked his method again up with relative ease.
With simply over 90 seconds to go within the second stanza, Sidey shot in for an additional takedown and muscled Smotherman to the mat. Smotherman labored his method again up, however Sidey maintained management and returned Smotherman to the mat two extra occasions earlier than the center spherical got here to an in depth.
Discovering success on the mat, it’s no shock that Sidey shot in for a takedown early within the third. As Smotherman tried to scramble, he left his neck open for Sidey to cinch in a d’arce choke. Sidey locked it in, however Smotherman defended nicely, forcing Sidey to relinquish the maintain.
Smotherman received again to his ft and appeared to placed on the strain, figuring out that he was probably down on the scorecards.
Sadly, Smotherman wasn’t capable of finding the knockout shot, taking us to the scorecards the place Sidey would stroll away with a decisive victory.
Official Consequence: Serhiy Sidey def. Cameron Smotherman by way of unanimous determination (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
