Brad Tavares grew to become one of many winningest fighters in UFC middleweight historical past with a dominant exhibiting towards Gerald Meerschaert at UFC Vegas 105 on Saturday evening.
An enormous straight proper hand from Tavares prompted Meerschaert to clinch up towards the fence, but it surely didn’t take lengthy for Tavares to separate and get again to the middle of the Octagon. With lower than a minute to go within the first, Tavares landed a pair extra proper arms.
It wasn’t sufficient to sit down Meerschaert down on the mat, but it surely undoubtedly earned him a 10-9 on the scorecards.
Meerschaert regarded to get his grabbing going within the second stanza, however Tavares’ work within the clinch and important pace benefit saved the struggle on the toes and Tavares simply out of vary of his opponent’s assaults.
Determined to get the struggle on the bottom early, Meerschaert shot in and secured a physique lock towards the fence. Regardless of his greatest effort, Meerschaert couldn’t muscle Tavares to the mat, going 0 for 8 on takedown makes an attempt.
With simply over a minute to go, referee Mike Beltran separated the fighters because of an absence of exercise. Meerschaert as soon as once more punched his means inside and put Tavares’ again towards the fence, however he was unable to perform something of notice. Tavares separated himself with 10 seconds to go within the struggle and was content material to journey out the rest of the spherical, taking us to the scorecards for what needs to be a really apparent unanimous resolution.
Official End result: Brad Tavares def. Gerald Meerschaert by way of unanimous resolution (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
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