Israel suffers a bitter defeat and fails to score a rare feat in “UFC”

The UFC middleweight belt holder, Nigerian Israel Adesania, failed to become the champion of two different belts, after he suffered a defeat in a match on the light-heavyweight category on Saturday.

Israel’s loss came, at the hands of Poland’s Jan Blahovic, in the main fight of the “UFC 259” MMA event, which was held in Las Vegas.

Blahovic defeated Israel by the unanimous vote of the judges (49-46, 49-45, 49-45), to keep the Polish light heavyweight belt, and inflict the first loss on Israel, who achieved 20 wins before this fight.

Blahovic increased his record to 28 wins, compared to 8 defeats.

Source: .sport-express.ru

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