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Nigeria’s UFC boxer, Israel Adesanya has retained his belt as the Middleweight Champion, after defeating Cuban boxer, Yoel Romero in unanimous decision.
The fight exhausted the duration of the bout (Round 5) with some adrenalin moments far in between.
On what seemed like a crazy night in Las Vegas, Adesanya retained his UFC middleweight strap, and maintained his undefeated record, with an underwhelming, and controversial, unanimous points decision win over Cuban Yoel Romero.
Despite fighting for 25 minutes, neither man came anywhere close to what would usually be considered in a UFC championship fight, let alone what had been hyped as a video game come to life.
Adesanya, after retaining his belt, said: “I did what I had to do, I capitalised on his weakness and you can see him (Romero) limping his leg.”
Romero, on the other hand, queried Adesanya’s style, saying he didn’t come out to fight. “The crowd paid to say a real fight, but he was just running around, he didn’t fight. It would have been different if he came all out.”
There were boos after Adesanya was declared the winner.
