UFC Vegas 121 Main Event
Raul Rosas Jr. defeats Raoni Barcelos by fifth-round knockout at UFC Vegas 121
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Raul Rosas Jr. defeated Raoni Barcelos by a fifth-round knockout in a brutal, back-and-forth UFC Vegas 121 main event, earning his first UFC headliner win. Barcelos appeared to lose consciousness during an awkward fall near the cage after Rosas took him down; the finish involved no clearly visible strike, and medical personnel carried Barcelos from the Octagon on a stretcher. Barcelos had controlled much of the middle rounds and was ahead on all three judges’ scorecards entering the fifth, while Rosas showed improved striking and kept pushing through a bloody, exhausting fight. The co-main event went to Ailín Pérez by unanimous decision over Norma Dumont, a result one report described as controversial; Luis Hernandez also scored a first-round submission in under a minute.
Key Points
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In the fourth round, Barcelos took Rosas’s back and threatened a choke; judge Chris Lee scored the round 10-8 for Barcelos.
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Barcelos landed 55 significant strikes in the second round, while Rosas landed nearly 30, according to one report.
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Barcelos was taken to University Medical Center’s Trauma Center, about 17 minutes from the Meta Apex, after being stretchered from the cage.
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Before their co-main event, Dumont and Pérez had a heated weigh-in confrontation in which Dumont threw condoms and money toward Pérez.
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Luis Hernandez, who had earned his UFC contract on Dana White’s Contender Series earlier that month, submitted Sedriques Dumas with a standing guillotine in under a minute.
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