Caio Borralho downs Jared Cannonier at Fight Night

Field Level Media|published: Sun 25th August, 02:22 2024

May 4, 2024; Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BRAZIL; Paul Craig (red gloves) fights Caio Borralho (blue gloves) during UFC 301 at Rio Arena. Mandatory Credit: Jason Silva-USA TODAY Sports

Caio Borralho beat Jared Cannonier by unanimous decision on Saturday night in their main event middleweight bout at UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas.

Borralho (17-1-0) took the cards 49-45, 49-45, 48-46 for his seventh consecutive win in UFC action. He has won his past 14 fights overall after a no-contest on June 15, 2018.

Cannonier (17-8-0) has dropped three of his past five fights.

There were two title fights on Saturday, with middleweight Ryan Loder (8-1-0) knocking out Robert Valentin (11-4-0) and featherweight Mairon Santos (15-1-0) doing the same to Kaan Ofli (11-3-1).

Welterweight Michael Morales (17-0-0) and women's flyweight Wang Cong (6-0-0) also downed their opponents via KO.

Other winners Saturday included women's strawweight Tabatha Ricci (11-2-0), middleweights Gerald Meerschaert (37-17-0) and Zachary Reese (8-1-0), lightweights Francis Marshall (8-2-0) and Viacheslav Borshchev (8-4-1) and women's bantamweight Jacqueline Cavalcanti (7-1-0).

--Field Level Media