Sean Woodson and Fernando Padilla, UFC Tampa ceremonial weigh-ins on the Amalie Enviornment, Dec. 13, 2024 Credit score: Jay Anderson/Cageside Press
One in every of three fights on Saturday’s UFC Tampa card on the Amalie Enviornment in Tampa, Florida discovered Sean Woodson paired up with Fernando Padilla.
Woodson was having a robust 2024, having picked up victories towards Charles Jourdain and Alex “Bruce Leeroy” Caceres. Padilla was coming off a submission win towards Luis Pajuelo which had improved his UFC file to 2-1.
The struggle began rapidly with Sean touchdown a excessive kick that partially landed. Padilla instantly adopted up with aggression swinging looping punches backing Sean up towards the cage. Woodson was blocking loads of the strikes with excessive guard. Padilla misplaced his footing together with his aggression and Woodson jumped on him. Padilla and Woodson exchanged positions on the bottom however not a lot harm was landed.
When the struggle returned to the toes, Padilla stored up the relentless stress on Woodson. Strolling him down, continuous stress then output. Sean managed to negate among the ahead stress and surprised his opponent with a strong jab-cross within the heart of the octagon. Essentially the most damaging pictures of the struggle to that time. On the mid-way level of the spherical, Woodson was holding his mouth open barely on account of the fixed onslaught of strikes and defensive footwork. With about 90 seconds to go within the spherical, Woodson sat his opponent down with a leg kick triggering a pop from the gang. Fernando recovered rapidly and went again to strolling ahead earlier than being dropped once more seconds later. As soon as the struggle again on the toes, Padilla stored on his gameplan. Cornering Woodson, throwing punches, conserving in his face and conserving him fatigued. Within the remaining seconds of the spherical Woodson received area from the fence and landed a looping higher cut-cross combo that badly harm Padilla. Woodson dropped his retreating opponent with a comply with up two items. Sean swarmed and bounced his foe off the canvas with comply with up pictures earlier than the ref stepped in to cease the struggle.
After the end result, Woodson took to the mic in his post-fight interview. “He overwhelms guys” the St. Louis native remarked, talking on his foe, “I wasn’t going to let him go through me.” Sean capped his huge win off with an enormous assertion saying, “Rank me and run me my 50. That dude is a lethal finisher, and I finished him.” The victory capped off a large 2024 for Sean as he went 3-0 in in the course of the calendar yr.
Official Outcomes: Sean Woodson def. Fernando Padilla by way of TKO, 4:58, Spherical 1
