VIDEO | Watch the highlights of UFC 215 in awesome slow motion

By Tom Taylor - September 13, 2017

Last weekend, the UFC touched down in the Canadian combat sports hotspot of Edmonton, Alberta with UFC 215, a card that was badly rocked by fight cancellations, but ultimately fun all the same.

Jeremy Stephens kicks Gilbert Melendez at UFC 215

In the main event, we watched reigning UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes defend her title with a close and extremely controversial split decision defeat of Kyrgyzstani challenger Valentina Shevchenko.

The co-main event of the evening, meanwhile, saw former UFC lightweight king Rafael dos Anjos move to 2-0 in the perilous UFC welterweight division, tapping out long-time contender Neil Magny with an arm triangle choke in round one.

Other highlights of the main card, finally, included an action-packed featherweight war between long-time contender Jeremy Stephens and former Strikeforce lightweight champ Gilbert Melendez, a big win courtesy of Henry Cejudo, who knocked out a fellow flyweight title challenger in Wilson Reis, and a dominant decision from Ilir Latifi over Tyson Pedro.

Valentina Shevchenko Amanda Nunes

The undercard, finally, featured plenty of excitement of its own, as fighters like Ketlen Vieira, Rick Glenn, Arjan Bhullar and Kajan Johnson picked up big wins.

Now that UFC 215 is in the rear-view mirror, the promotion has released some awesome slow-motion footage from the event. Check that footage out in the video at the top of this post!

UFC 215 was originally expected to headlined by a flyweight title fight between champ Demetrious Johnson and challenger Ray Borg. Regrettably, Borg was forced out of this contest at the very last minute with an illness. This flyweight title fight is likely to be rescheduled for UFC 216 on October 7.

UFC 215 also lost a heavyweight tilt between former champ Junior dos Santos and surging contender Francis Ngannou, which was nixed when dos Santos was notified of a potential USADA violation.

What was your favorite fight on the UFC 215 bill?

This article first appeared on BJPenn.com on 9/13/2017.


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