UFC Fight Night 242 results: Grotesque Rong Zhu eye injury gives Chris Padilla TKO win

[Music] [Music] UFC Apex one of the more intriguing bouts at UFC Vegas 97 set road to UFC lightweight winner ronzo against Chris Padilla on Saturday night U 25 to5 one road to UFC off an impressive RNC victory in February just a few months later he arrived in Las Vegas to fight Padilla at the Apex Padilla 14-6 came into the fight off his own submission victory over James laop last April the two prospects look to prove themselves on Saturday night round one ronu came out with a heavy kick attack going for Cavs and then up high mixing it up real well and keeping p guessing the kicks were followed by hands Padilla began to try and force strikes and get his back off the fence ramzu was on his game early countering Padilla's attacks rather easily ramzu did a lot of analysis as Padilla decided to be first in the exchanges the pressure he put on Padilla forced a lot of attacks Padilla took control as he began to go after the legs and landed some heavy shots up top definitely a close round for the judges round two Pilla came came out firing looking to be the one to put the pressure on but ronu was not backing down at all both men threw heavy shots accepting that they'd have to accept damage to land it ronu was not happy eating leg kicks to the lead leg and Pia noticed it his Corner let him know about a big red mark on the calf a massive right elbow damaged ru's left eye ronu thought it was an eye poke and Padia rushed him with a flurry of strikes ramzu had to clinch and put him on the fence before the ref called time out and asked for the doctor the doctor said that was too much damage and called the fight Padilla scores the TKO victory in the post-fight interview Padia credited the elbow to watching super Le defeat Jonathan Hagerty at o 168 on Friday night [Music]

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