UFC Fight Night: Mendes vs. Lamas full fight video highlights

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The main event of the UFC’s first daytime show in 2015 on North American soil saw Chad Mendes once again blast his way past an opponent not named Jose Aldo.

Check out Dallas Winston’s play-by-play for the fight:

R1: They trade simultaneous left low kicks immediately. Both fighters look to establish range with quick jabs. Lamas catches Mendes with a nicely timed uppercut. Lamas fires off subtle outside low kicks betwixt combos with his hands. Lamas keeps Mendes at bay with a low and a high kick but Mendes plasters him with a huge right hand, and Lamas teeters and goes down. Mendes flurries viciously while, miraculously, Lamas recovers in the turtle position and staggers away from Mendes. Mendes, pouncing frantically with punches, clips Lamas with a short knee to the chin and then blasts a right hand through his guard. Lamas stumbles back and goes down again. Mendes stays on the trigger with a torrent of leather and finally gets the stoppage.

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Karim Zidan is a investigative reporter and feature writer focusing on the intersection of sports and politics. He has written for BloodyElbow since 2014 and has served as an associate editor since 2016. He also writes for The New York Times and The Guardian. Karim has been invited to speak about his work at numerous universities, including Princeton, and was a panelist at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival and the Oslo Freedom Forum. He also participated in the United Nations counter-terrorism conference in 2021. His reporting on Ramzan Kadyrov’s involvement in MMA, much of which was done for Bloody Elbow, has led to numerous award nominations, and was the basis of an award-winning HBO Real Sports documentary.