Deivison Ribeiro (25-9) and Farkhad Sharipov (14-6) needed all 25 minutes of their featherweight championship fight to determine who would leave with the belt, and in the end it was Ribeiro who walked away with the gold by unanimous decision in the “XFC 27: Frozen Fury” main event. The headlining bout, which aired on AXS TV from inside the L.C. Walker Arena in Muskegon, Mich., was not the most thrilling matchup of the evening, but both men fought tactically and stuck to their game plans from beginning to end. As one would expect from a 145-pound fight, the match started fast and progressively slowed down as the action wore on.
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