A potential barnburner of a bantamweight matchup appears to be in
the making.
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Adrian
Yanez scored a brutal first-round technical knockout win over
Vinicius
Salvador at UFC
Fight Night 241 on Saturday. Yanez subsequently called out
fellow prospect Daniel
Santos for a bout at The Sphere in Las Vegas at Noche UFC.
Yanez also expressed interest in a potential matchup with Victor
Henry during Saturday’s post-fight media scrum.
“I had a couple of guys call me out,” Yanez said. “I know John
Castaneda has a really tough fight in front of him, I think
against Daniel
Marcos. Daniel Santos, on the other hand, doesn’t have a fight
booked. Me and him in The Sphere, I wouldn’t mind that at all. I
think that would be fun. And also too man, f—-ing Victor Henry
looked really good in his last fight. I think that is one for the
fans as well, too.”
Santos didn’t waste time in accepting Yanez’s callout via social
media.
“I want this fight [Sean Shelby]” Santos wrote on his Instagram stories. “I accept [Adrian Yanez]. Let’s do
it [Dana White], [Diego Lima].”
Yanez’s win over Salvador saw him bounce back from consecutive
stoppage losses against Rob Font and
Jonathan
Martinez — the only two defeats of his UFC career. Meanwhile,
Santos came up on the short side of a unanimous decision against
Julio
Arce in his UFC debut in April 2022. The Brazilian has since
bounced back with a TKO win over John
Castaneda followed by a unanimous decision win over Johnny
Munoz Jr.