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UFC Vegas 27: Font vs. Garbrandt results and post-fight analysis Share this story Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC It’ll be a shock if Cody Garbrandt doesn’t have nightmares about the jab of Rob Font for months. For 25 minutes, in the main event of UFC Vegas 27, Garbrandt couldn’t escape from Font’s pressure, the latter leading his attack with his jab for almost every exchange. It isn’t like Font didn’t land his fair share of power shots either. Garbrandt’s notoriously suspect chin...

UFC Vegas 27 post-fight bonuses: Esparza KO’s Xiaonan for POTN honors Check out which fighters won performance bonuses from UFC Vegas 27: Font vs. Garbrandt Share this story Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC The Apex Center in Las Vegas, Nevada was home to a great night of fights at UFC Vegas 27: Font vs. Garbrandt. The card saw two (T)KOs, two submissions, and eight decisions, including one split-decision. The prelims kicked off with Damir Ismagulov taking a unanimous decision over Rafael Alves in a ver...

UFC Vegas 27 results: Esparza mauls Yan in crucifix, Hermansson outgrapples Shahbazyan On the UFC Vegas 27 main card, Carla Esparza absolutely dominated Xiaonan Yan, and Jack Hermansson took a decision over Edmen Shahbazyan. Share this story The UFC Vegas 27 main card is almost over, and it saw quite a few back and forth decisions before the co-main event ended with a second-round TKO. The UFC’s former strawweight title holder, Carla Esparza, completely dominated the #3 ranked, Xiaonan Yan, ...

The Octagon returned to Nevada for tonight’s UFC Vegas 27 event, a twelve-bout fight card headlined by Rob Font vs. Cody Garbrandt. The highly anticipated men’s bantamweight main event resulted in a dominant performance for Rob Font. The 33-year-old was able to batter ‘No Love’ for the better portion of twenty-five minutes on route to a unanimous decision victory. In the co-main event of UFC Vegas 27, women’s strawweight contenders Carla Esparza and Yan Xiaonan squared off in hopes of...

The UFC Vegas 27 post-fight press conference will be live once the action concludes.

MMA Fighting May 22, 2021, 8:00am EDT If you buy something from an SB Nation link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Share this story We could have two new No. 1 contenders after this Saturday and yet it doesn’t feel that way, does it? Perhaps it’s because we’re hitting the end of a seven-week stretch of UFC events, but the UFC Vegas 27 main event between top bantamweight contender Rob Font and former UFC champion Cody Garbrandt hasn’t...

0 of 4 John Locher/Associated Press Former bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt makes a long-awaited return to the Octagon Saturday to fight Rob Font in the main event of UFC Vegas 27 from the UFCs APEX Facility.  Garbrandt has been sidelined for nearly a year. In that time, No Love has dealt with a torn bicep as well as complications from COVID-19. While he was slated to fight Deiveson Figueiredo for the flyweight title during that time, he will remain at 135 pounds for now.  Hell be welcom...

MMA Best Bets: UFC Vegas 27 Written by  This article is part of our MMA Best Bets series. After being in front of a full capacity crowd in Houston, Texas last week, the UFC returns to the Apex for a bantamweight bout between Rob Font and Cody Garbrandt on May 22. In this series of articles, Ill share my favorite play, an underdog pick, a prop and a two-fighter parlay I like. All lines are taken from William Hill online sportsbook and are accurate as of the post date of this article. Xiaonan Y...

UFC Vegas 27 takes place this weekend behind closed doors at the APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the main event, we have an exciting match-up between two of the biggest punchers in the bantamweight division as Rob Font takes on the former champ, Cody Garbrandt. The UFC Vegas 27 undercard is stacked with lots of fun fights that are sure to deliver plenty of standout moments. Join LowKickMMA as we preview, predict, and hopefully win some money on the UFC Vegas 27 main event and a selection of its u...

Where will UFC Fight Night on May 22 take place? UFC Fight Night will take place at the APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, and will also be known as UFC Vegas 27. The octagon at the APEX has a diameter of 25-feet, making it five feet smaller than the standard UFC cage. Who is fighting at UFC Fight Night on May 22? In addition to the main event between Font and Garbrandt, a fight between Top-10 middleweights Jack Hermansson and Edmen Shahbazyan was added to the card after being postponed from U...