{"id":93269,"date":"2026-05-17T03:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/ufc-fight-night-arnold-allen-gets-back-on-track-with-decision-over-melquizael-costa\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T03:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:22:51","slug":"ufc-fight-night-arnold-allen-gets-back-on-track-with-decision-over-melquizael-costa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/ufc-fight-night-arnold-allen-gets-back-on-track-with-decision-over-melquizael-costa\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Fight Night: Arnold Allen gets back on track with decision over Melquizael Costa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold Allen got right Saturday night at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>After dropping three of his last four fights, the featherweight defeated Melquizael Costa via unanimous decision (50-45, 50-45, 49-46), consistently getting the better of the exchanges and constantly landing straight left hands.<\/p>\n<p>Costa entered the bout on a six-fight winning streak with four of those victories coming inside the distance against such familiar names as Andre Fili and Dan Ige.<\/p>\n<p>But it was Allen\u2019s experience and well-rounded game that was too much for the Brazilian.<\/p>\n<p>While Allen had been lacking in the win column of late, he was facing some of the best fighters in the division, dropping decisions to Max Holloway, Movsar Evloev and Jean Silva.<\/p>\n<p>It was that level of competition that may have been the difference for the Brit, who didn\u2019t have a specific callout after the fight and said he was focused on starting a family with his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Check out complete UFC Fight night results below:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"jump-link-main-card\"><strong>Main card<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Featherweight: Arnold Allen def. Melquizael Costa via unanimous decision (50-45, 50-45, 49-46)<\/p>\n<p>Featherweight: Dooho Choi def. Daniel Santos via TKO (punches) at 4:29 of R2<\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight: Juan Diaz def. Malcolm Wellmaker via submission (rear naked choke) at 4:08 of R2<\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight: Bernardo Sopaj def. Timmy Cuamba via submission (rear naked choke) at 2:25 of R2<\/p>\n<p>Welterweight: Khaos Williams def. Nikolay Veretennikov via TKO (punches) at 3:31 of R1<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"jump-link-preliminary-card\"><strong>Preliminary card<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Light heavyweight: Ivan Erslan def. Tuco Tokkos via unanimous decision (29-28 all) <\/p>\n<p>Lightweight: Tommy Gantt def. Artur Minev via TKO (punches) at 2:51 of R2<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s bantamweight: Ketlen Vieira def. Jacqueline Cavalcanti via unanimous decision (29-28 all) <\/p>\n<p>Middleweight: Cody Brundage def. Andre Petroski via TKO (punches) at :44 of R2<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s strawweight: Alice Ardelean def. Polyana Viana via submission (calf slicer) at 4:36 of R2<\/p>\n<p>Flyweight: Luis Gurule def. Daniel Barez via unanimous decision (30-27 all))<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s strawweight: Nicolle Caliari def. Shauna Bannon via submission (arm triangle) at 3:08 of R3<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/article\/ufc-fight-night-arnold-allen-gets-back-on-track-with-decision-over-melquizael-costa-032054859.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold Allen got right Saturday night at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas. After dropping three of his last four fights, the featherweight defeated Melquizael Costa via unanimous decision (50-45, 50-45, 49-46), consistently getting the better of the exchanges and constantly landing straight left hands. Costa entered the bout on a six-fight winning streak with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[106,19115,541,3593,3722,165,796,27263,166,89,399],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}