Romero vs Weidman

Who won Romero vs Weidman?

Yoel Romero beat Chris Weidman by knockout in the 3rd round during the main card of UFC 205, on Saturday 12th November 2016 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 3 rounds in the Middleweight division, which meant the weight limit was 185 pounds (13.2 stone or 83.9 KG).

Romero vs Weidman stats

Yoel Romero stepped into the octagon with a record of 11 wins, 1 loss and 0 draws, 9 of those wins coming by the way of knock out.

Chris Weidman made his way to the cage with a record of 13 wins, 1 loss and 0 draws, 6 of those wins coming by knock out and 3 by submission.

Chris Weidman marked his 20th fight for them, having made his own debut for the promotion in 2011.

Yoel Romero's UFC record stood at 9-4-0, while Chris Weidman's came in at 12-8-0.

The stats suggested Romero had a massive power advantage over Weidman, boasting a 82% knock out percentage over Weidman's 46%.

If the fight went to the ground, their records suggested Weidman had a large advantage over Romero, boasting a 23% submission rate over Romero's 0%.

Yoel Romero was the older man by 7 years, at 48 years old.

Weidman had a height advantage of 2 inches over Romero. That also extended to a 4-inch reach advantage.

Romero's experience as a professional fighter was relatively equal to Weidman's, having had 2 fewer fights, and made his debut in 2009, 10 months later than Weidman, whose first professional fight was in 2009. He had fought 14 more professional rounds, 68 to Weidman's 54.

Romero vs Weidman form

Yoel Romero had stopped 1 of his last 5 opponents.

In his last fight leading up to this contest, he had lost to Phil Davis at Bellator 266 on 18th September 2021 by split decision in their 3 round contest at SAP Center, San Jose, United States.

Previous to that, he had been beaten by Israel Adesanya at UFC 248 on 7th March 2020 by unanimous decision in their UFC Middleweight championship fight at T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas.

Going into that contest, he had been defeated by Paulo Costa at UFC 241 on 17th August 2019 by unanimous decision in their 3 round contest at Honda Center, Anaheim.

Before that, he had lost to Robert Whittaker at UFC 225 on 9th June 2018 by split decision in their 5 round contest at United Center, Chicago.

He had won against Luke Rockhold at UFC 221 on 10th February 2018 by knockout in the 3rd round at Perth Arena, Perth, Australia.

Activity check

Romero's last 5 fights had come over a period of 7 years, 4 months and 24 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 1 year, 5 months and 24 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 19 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 3.8 rounds on average.

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