Jose Aldo had moments when it looked like he might become a two-division UFC champion. But in the end, Petr Yan may have brought about a changing of the guard in the lighter weight classes. Yan (15-1 MMA, 7-0 UFC) became the UFC’s new bantamweight champion with a fifth-round TKO of former featherweight champ Aldo (28-6 MMA, 10-5 UFC). The stoppage came at the xxx mark of the final frame. Yan pounded out Aldo to win the belt vacated by Henry Cejudo earlier this year and denied Aldo a chance to win a UFC title in a second weight class. The fight was relatively close for the first three rounds before the 27-year-old Yan turned it on and poured it on in the fourth and fifth
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UFC 251 results: Petr Yan pounds out Jose Aldo to win bantamweight belt – MMA Junkie