China’s Song Yadong forced Brazil’s Deiveson Figueiredo to tap out, giving Song the victory in the bantamweight main event on Saturday at UFC Fight Night in Macau.
Song (23-9-1) locked Figueiredo, 38, in a guillotine choke to force the submission at 4:42 of the second round, handing two-time flyweight champion Figueiredo (25-7-1) his second straight loss and fourth in his last five fights.
It was the first fight on home soil since 2018 for Song, 28, who was coming off a loss by unanimous decision against Sean O’Malley at UFC 324 in January in Las Vegas.
Alonzo Menifield defeated China’s Zhang Mingyang by KO/TKO at 4:15 of the first round in a light heavyweight bout.
Heavyweight Sergei Pavlovich of Russia punched out Brazil’s Tallison Teixeira just 39 seconds into their fight.
Japanese bantamweight Kai Asakura also scored a first-round KO/TKO against Cameron Smotherman.
Other winners included Jake Matthews (welterweight) and Cody Haddon (bantamweight) of Australia; Luis Felipe Dias (middleweight) and Jose Henrique (welterweight) of Brazil; Japan’s Rei Tsuruya (bantamweight); Peru’s Rodrigo Vera (featherweight). Angela Hill and Brazil’s Jaqueline Amorim won their women’s strawweight fights.
–Field Level Media
