Taking a trip out the Derby City of Kentucky, the Ultimate Fighting Championship delivered on a rip-roaring main card, which saw four spectacular finishes to kick off the summer with a bang. Let’s take a look at who the main card winners should fight next. These are the Next Fights to Make for the Winners of UFC Louisville After scoring a unanimous decision win over Jamie Pickett on Dana White’s Contender Series back in 2019, Hawaii’s Punahele Soriano burst into the UFC’s Middleweight division with two back-to-back first-round knockout victories against Oskar Piechota and Duško Todorović.
However, following a loss to future 185-lbs juggernaut Brendan Allen, “Puna” has largely struggled to remain in the win column, going just 1-3 in his last four fights. This skid compelled Soriano to ultimately make the cut for the first time to the welterweight division, where he faced Miguel Baeza in the main card opener last Saturday in Louisville. Though the pressure was higher for Soriano than it had ever been before, the Hawaiian more than exceeded expectations when he thoroughly dominated Baeza over the course of three rounds.
For nearly the entire contest, Soriano kept Baeza on the canvas and scored well over one hundred ground strikes, earning a well-deserved win and setting a new company record for the most grounded blows in the process. Similar to Soriano, Tim Means also finds himself in the middle of some harsh luck as of late, having lost four of his past five fig.
