BELO HORIZONTE, Brasil — Rich Franklin's prizewinning life haw be behindhand him, but the stager integrated military creator ease has a talent for the dramatic.
The past middleweight endorse survived a second-round collective and rallied to shell Brazilian fable Wanderlei Silva in belligerent region at Saturday's UFC 147 event.
The 190-pound catchweight fisticuffs headlined UFC 147's pay-per-view roster and took locate at a sold-out Estadio Jornalista Felipe Drumond in the Brazilian municipality of Belo Horizonte.
Franklin, who took the fisticuffs on quaternary weeks' attending for scraped Vitor Belfort, suppressed a rattling pro-Silva gathering with a five-round unanimous-decision closing (49-46 on every scorecards). historiographer also outpointed "The Axe Murderer" threesome eld past at UFC 99.
The 37-year-old historiographer and 35-year-old Silva entered UFC 147 a compounded 5-9 in their preceding 14 fights. It's scarce the success that warrants headlining spots, but the follower favorites hit been proven draws. So with few another options available, officials reserved the repetition and hoped to cipher on Silva's honour in his bag country.
Franklin, though, evidenced quicker to the lick throughout the fight, and despite a 16-month layoff cod to shoulder-surgery recovery, his conditioning and permanence were superb. Both helped him endure Silva's second-round collective and ensuant ground-and-pound attack that had "Ace" in activity fashion until he was ransomed by the bell.
The series, in fact, confessedly sapped Silva (34-12-1 MMA, 4-7 UFC) of energy, and historiographer (29-6 MMA, 14-5 UFC) capitalized in the after rounds to ordered up the selection win.
"I candidly don't advert it," historiographer said of the second-round correct offer that floored him. "When that category of clog happens, you advert bits and pieces. ... I was operative on auto-pilot for a while."
Franklin, who had been toiling in the light-heavyweight sectionalization after losing his middleweight track to dominating masticate playwright Silva, said he's thinking a convey to his past coefficient collection for digit test denomination separate before retirement.
-- Ferreira, Bezerra get 'TUF: Brazil'
In the night's another featured bouts, digit competition winners were comate as conception of the closing of "The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil."
The prototypal planetary edition of the UFC's long-running actuality program drew bounteous ratings in Brazil, so it was run the competition conclusions were reserved for the UFC's Brazilian event.
In the middleweight-tournament final, Cezar "Mutante" Ferreira (5-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) lidded Sergio "Serginho" Moraes (6-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) via unvaried decision. In the featherweight final, Rony "Jason" Mariano Bezerra (10-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) did the aforementioned to Godofredo "Pepey" de Oliveira (8-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC).
Both winners obtain long-term UFC contracts and will feature prominently on forthcoming cards.
-- Full UFC 147 results:
Rich historiographer def. Wanderlei Silva via unvaried selection (49-46, 49-46, 49-46)
Cezar "Mutante" Ferreira def. Sergio "Serginho" Moraes via unvaried selection (29-28, 30-27, 30-27) - to get "TUF: Brazil" middleweight tourney
Rony "Jason" Mariano Bezerra def. Godofredo "Pepey" de Oliveira via unvaried selection (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) - to get "TUF: Brazil" featherweight tourney
Fabricio Werdum def. Mike Russow via knockout (punches) - Round 1, 2:28
Hacran navigator def. Yuri Alcantara via unvaried selection (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)
Rodrigo Damm def. Anistavio "Gasparzinho" Medeiros via humbleness (rear-naked choke) - Round 1, 2:12
Francisco "Massaranduba" Drinaldo def. Delson "Pe de Chumbo" Heleno via knockout (punches) - Round 1, 4:21
Hugo "Wolverine" Viana def. Evangelist "Macapa" Teixeira via separate selection (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Thiago "Bodao" Perpetuo def. Leonarda "Macarrao" Mafra via knockout (punches) - Round 3, 0:41
Marcos "Vina" Vinicius def. designer "Galeto" Campos via knockout (strikes) - Round 3, 1:04
Felipe Arantes and poet Vieira fisticuffs to a separate entertainer (29-28, 28-29, 28-28)
Contributing: Evangelist Morgan
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