LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – MARCH 01: (R-L) Chepe Mariscal punches Ricardo Ramos of Brazil in a featherweight struggle throughout the UFC Battle Night time occasion at UFC APEX on March 01, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Picture by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)
Featherweights Ricardo Ramos and Chepe Mariscal confronted off in a promising preliminary card scrap at UFC Vegas 103 on Saturday.
Ramos put a cease to his two-fight skid with a win over Josh Culibao final August. In the meantime, Mariscal was seeking to preserve the momentum going after profitable his first 4 fights underneath the UFC banner.
Spherical one began with each fighters opening with kicks; each missed. On his second strive, Mariscal grazed Ramos’ chin with a head kick. He then blitzed and pushed Ramos to the fence, who answered with flying swap kick. Chepe used his favorite judo throw off the clinch to get Ramos down, however the Brazilian rapidly received again up. Chepe set a excessive tempo to start out, as he landed a heavy leg kick and massive proper hand. Shortly after, they went to the bottom and Ramos used a calf slicer to get again up. As soon as on the ft, Mariscal landed a uncommon open palm strike. Some extra heavy hooks from Chepe have been answered by Ramos with a patented spinning elbow that shocked Marscal.
Chepe recovered rapidly and went proper again on offence. He even practically took Ramos’ again, however ‘Caracinha’ reversed it. They landed in a 50-50 place on the bottom with each attacking heel hooks. They finally let their leg assaults go and the spherical ended. An entertaining first spherical that went to Mariscal resulting from exercise.
Within the second spherical, the pair threw strikes on the similar time, however Chepe caught Ramos with a brief proper elbow. They clinched for some time, however nothing of consequence was landed on both facet. Chepe was constantly discovering a house for his left fingers from the southpaw stance when shifting ahead. Ramos, feeling the necessity to land one thing of his personal, moved ahead and landed one other spinning elbow that Mariscal by some means ate cleanly. The elbow didn’t deter ‘Machine Gun’ as he saved pressuring Ramos.
A funny-looking sequence adopted as three consecutive facet kicks to the leg have been landed by Mariscal and not using a counter from the Brazilian. Mariscal, wanting to complete the spherical robust, poured it on within the remaining minute. He prolonged his mixtures and didn’t give Ramos any time to breathe. Mariscal went into the third up two rounds.
Maybe feeling the necessity to swap issues up, Ramos tried a takedown to start out spherical three. The try was simply stuffed by Mariscal. Ramos, respiratory heavier than Chepe, was solely in a position to throw one strike at a time. The Brazilian fighter tried to intercept Chepe with a entrance kick, however Mariscal as a substitute turned it right into a short-lived takedown. Ramos was touchdown when he was throwing, however Chepe was merely extra energetic. In determined want of a Hail Mary strike, Ramos some extra spinning elbows. However Chepe was sensible to these, now, and comfortably rode his result in the tip of the spherical.
Official End result: Chepe Mariscal def. Ricardo Ramos by unanimous resolution (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
