Gianni Vazquez

Vazquez briefly had Johns in trouble with a knockdown, but Johns answered with a left hand and finished the fight with strikes in the first round.

Key moments

• Dropped Johns early and tried to press the advantage.
• Was floored by Johns's left hand during the reversal.
• Lost by TKO at 3:09 of round one.

Vazquez closed the show for Combate Global, stopping Komronbek Ortikov in the second round of a 130-pound catchweight main event billed as "Mexico vs. USA Part II." The win returned him to Mexico's win column after his UFC release and doubled as a rescheduled headline slot — his original April date against Alvin Welch had been scratched 48 hours out on a medical withdrawal.

Key moments

• The bout was a 130-pound catchweight main event, with Vazquez representing Mexico against Uzbekistan's Ortikov.
• Vazquez finished Ortikov by TKO (punches) at 1:34 of round two.
• It was his first fight since being cut by the UFC after the Basharat decision loss, and it set up his short-notice recall to face Miles Johns.

Vazquez took the fight on two days' notice as a replacement for Said Nurmagomedov and missed the bantamweight limit by five pounds, surrendering 25 percent of his purse to Basharat. He dropped a lopsided opening round, rallied hard in round two — rocking Basharat and hunting a heel hook and a leglock — but Basharat's control down the stretch was enough for a clean sweep on the cards.

Key moments

• All three judges scored the fight 29-28 for Basharat, an opening-round 10-8 that Vazquez never fully closed.
• In round two Vazquez hurt Basharat badly with an overhand right and worked a heel hook and a leglock before Basharat escaped.
• Vazquez was cut from the UFC roster after the loss and returned roughly six months later on the Aug. 8 card against Miles Johns.

Vazquez's flyweight title fight at Fury FC 76 became a non-title bout after Chairez missed weight by 2.5 pounds. In round four, Chairez locked in a triangle choke that rendered Vazquez unconscious, but referee Frank Collazo never stopped the fight; Chairez then transitioned to an armbar, and only after Vazquez regained consciousness mid-submission and tapped did the bout officially end. The delayed stoppage left Vazquez with a potential arm fracture and ligament damage and drew national criticism of the officiating.

Key moments

• The bout was originally billed as a flyweight title fight, but became a non-title bout after Chairez missed weight by 2.5 pounds.
• In round four, Chairez locked in a triangle choke that rendered Vazquez unconscious; referee Frank Collazo did not stop the fight, and the squeeze continued for an extended period because Vazquez was already out and not tapping.
• Chairez transitioned to an armbar and kept torquing it; Vazquez regained consciousness mid-submission and tapped at 2:04 of round four, but the delay left him with a potential arm fracture and ligament damage.
• The stoppage drew national criticism — UFC president Dana White called it unacceptable, and Vazquez later said, "I might be dead right now if he didn't switch it."

Vazquez took a clean sweep on the scorecards over longtime veteran Adam Antolin in the Fury FC 66 main event, extending his win streak to three fights. Antolin — a Ultimate Fighter Season 24 and Contender Series alum with Strikeforce, Bellator and Pancrase experience — hadn't fought since November 2019.

Key moments

• The main event pitted 40-year-old veteran Adam Antolin — an alumnus of The Ultimate Fighter Season 24 and Dana White's Contender Series, with Strikeforce, Bellator and Pancrase experience — against the rising Vazquez.
• Antolin hadn't fought since November 2019; Vazquez, by contrast, was coming off a February win at Fury FC 58 and had won two straight fights.
• All three judges sided with Vazquez, scoring the bout 30-26, 30-26 and 30-27 for a clean unanimous decision.

Vazquez edged David Martinez by split decision on a Combate Global card at Univision Studios in Miami, headlined by Edgar Chairez's TKO win over Mefi Monterroso for the promotion's North American flyweight title and broadcast live on Univision. The judges split on the Vazquez-Martinez bout, with one card going the other way.

Key moments

• The card was headlined by Edgar Chairez's TKO win over Mefi Monterroso for Combate Global's North American flyweight title, broadcast live on Univision from Miami's Univision Studios.
• Judges scored the Vazquez-Martinez bout 29-28, 28-29 and 29-28 — one judge sided with Martinez, but the other two gave it to Vazquez.
• Martinez's Combate Global record lists eight wins and just one loss — this fight — and he went on to become the promotion's bantamweight champion, making the split-decision win one of Vazquez's most notable regional results.