A promising welterweight fight came partway through Saturday’s UFC Vegas 86 preliminary card, as Max Griffin was paired up with Jeremiah Wells.
Griffin, with wins over Carlos Condit, Tim Means, and Song Kenan, has become known for exciting fights, while Wells held a 75% finish rate to start the night.
Wells’s plan seemed to be exploding, landing, and then shooting the takedown but Griffin’s defense held up well. Griffin meanwhile wanted to stick and move happily countering Wells’ attacks.
Both men were very wary of each other’s power with Wells opting to use a very explosive and lunging attack. His first attack was a spinning heel kick to the legs that missed, but it was a preview of quite a few spinning attacks he threw during the fight.
Griffin used a lot of counters throwing a straight right anytime Wells exploded towards him and having plenty of success with it. Each man hurt the other in the second round, but a finish never materialized as the fight went all three rounds ending in a split-decision victory for Max Griffin who is now 19-10 in his career. Wells drops to 12-3 and is now on a two-fight losing skid.
Official Result: Max Griffin def. Jeremiah Wells via Split-Decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
