Yoel romero

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Yoel Romero Palacio born April 30, is a Cuban professional mixed martial artist and former freestyle wrestler. As a freestyle wrestler , Romero competed at 85 kilograms, and he was the '99 World Champion five-time medalist at the World Championships , the '00 Olympic Silver medalist , a three-time World Cup winner six-time medalist , the '03 Pan American Games Gold medalist bronze medalist in '99 and a five-time Pan American Champion. Romero started training in wrestling in the s, [10] eventually representing Cuba at senior level in the FILA Wrestling World Championships , which is held in non-Olympic years, from to After landing a three-point throw against Adam Saitiev to take a 3—2 lead, Romero was penalized a point for passivity with 20 seconds remaining. In overtime, after a scramble that saw Romero end on top, it was judged Saitiev had scored in the interim.

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Yoel Romero said his release from the UFC was "completely unexpected," explaining that he was training with the hope he would be one or two wins from another title shot. Instead, Romero will now work toward getting a shot at a Bellator title, and he said there's a "huge possibility" his debut for his new promotion will be against another ex-UFC star, Anthony "Rumble" Johnson. We were looking to fight with the top three in either division. We explained that it didn't make sense for [me] to fight with these young men. We had an idea we were chasing the world title. The way we were training, we knew we had one or two fights and then go for the belt. Our thought was fighting any of these guys in the back of the roster was taking steps backwards, not forwards. Romero was once considered one of the top middleweights in the world, but the year-old Cuban fighter has lost four of his past five bouts.

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Romero, 43, spoke to ESPN on Wednesday and broke down how he heard about his release, explaining that it came out of nowhere as he was preparing to step back into the octagon sometime in early We were already thinking about fighting in January or February. We were looking to fight with the top-3 in either division, , My managers explained this to the top of the UFC. The world title. The way that we were training and making it happen, we knew that we had one or two fights and then we would go for the belt.

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Olympics at Sports-Reference. Wikimedia Commons. Strikeforce - Barnett vs. Justin Abdou. Contents move to sidebar hide. Bellator - Romero vs. San Jose, California , United States. Medal record. Vitali Gizoev. Yoel Romero.

Click below to get the results for all the fights from United Center in Chicago on Saturday, June 9, Robert Whittaker survived to capture the split decision victory, , , , but Romero seemingly came closest to finishing the fight. He scored two knockdowns in the fight — one in the third round and one in the fifth.

Fight of the Night. TKO Punches Round 3. Gari Modosyan. Light heavyweight —, —present Middleweight — Last Quality Perf. Soslan Gattsiev. Miocic 2 Saturday, August 17th The win earned Romero his second Fight of the Night bonus award. Quality Perf. Miami, Florida , U. Amir Reza Khadem. September 27, Octagon Time: Lee June 24, World Champions in freestyle middleweight 86 kg.