UFC 307 is in the books. The promotion saw two title fights go down from Salt Lake City on Saturday night with vastly different action. Alex Pereira retained his light heavyweight title with a brutal beating of Khalil Rountree Jr. that left his opponent a bloody and broken mess in the aftermath. Meanwhile, Julianna Pena regained the women’s bantamweight title with a split decision win over Raquel Pennington.
Pereira started a bit slow out of the gate as Rountree forced the champ to respect his power early. But “Poatan” was just waiting for his opportunity to strike as he said after the fight, allowing Rountree to gas himself out early and leaving himself open to power shots late. And that’s exactly what happened as Pereira really opened things up in Round 3 and by Round 4, Rountree was almost unrecognizable as his eye was badly cut and nearly swollen shut. It’s Pereira fifth straight win and fourth by knockout.
Pena, meanwhile, had to survive a late blitz from Pennington. After some back and forth action early, including a rear naked…
