UFC 255 is in the books, and it saw the two flyweight champions retain their respective belts. Deiveson Figueiredo kept his title after an impressive guillotine choke on Alex Perez, while Valentina Shevchenko defended her belt with a unanimous decision over Jennifer Maia.
Here’s a quick twitter thread with a brief recap and analysis of the event, that’s fitting for people’s social media era attention spans:
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Check out fighters’ twitter reactions along with more of our event coverage below:
- Pros react to Figueiredo’s guillotine win over Perez at UFC 255
- Pros react to Valentina Shevchenko’s win over Maia at UFC 255
- UFC 255: Figueiredo vs. Perez post-fight results and analysis
- UFC 255 post-fight bonuses: Joaquin Buckley scores another big KO