With one other action-packed month of MMA within the books, MMA Junkie appears to be like at the perfect fights from September 2024: Listed below are the 5 nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Combat of the Month award for September.

On the backside of the put up, tell us if we obtained it proper by voting in your alternative.

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Nominees

Nominee: Natalia Silva def. Jessica Andrade at UFC Combat Night time 242

In what was her most high-profile check so far, Natalia Silva (17-5-1 MMA, 5-0 UFC) defeated former UFC champ Jessica Andrade (26-12 MMA, 17-10 UFC) in a high-paced ladies’s flyweight bout.

For almost all of the 15-minute length, the bout between Silva and Andrade was action-packed. Andrade was predominantly the one shifting ahead, however Silva discovered success on the backpedal. Her counters and spinning kicks have been efficient. In Spherical 2, she surprised Andrade with a giant punch to the left facet of her head. Andrade additionally had her moments, however they have been fewer and farther between as Silva claimed the unanimous choice.

Nominee: Alexia Thainara def. Rose Conceição at Dana White’s Contender Collection 73

Alexia Thainara (11-1) made her assertion for a UFC contract when she placed on a blinding hanging show over Rose Conceição (7-1) for a lopsided unanimous choice.

Thainara put the tempo on Conceição from starting to finish within the strawweight bout. Conceição made it entertaining by sticking within the pocket and buying and selling large pictures, however her blows right here far much less efficient, and due to this fact she shouldn’t halt the power of Thainara.

Nominee: Daniel Barez def. Victor Altamirano at UFC Combat Night time 243

Daniel Barez (17-6 MMA, 1-1 UFC) went at Victor Altamirano (12-5 MMA, 2-4 UFC) from opening bell of their flyweight bout and, apart from a more difficult spherical, discovered a transparent path to victory.

The ability of Barez rocked Altamirano a number of instances and dropped him as soon as within the remaining seconds after pointing to the bottom in a Max Holloway-esque style. The struggle went the space, however Barez left with a unanimous choice.

Nominee: Lewis McGrillen def. Dean Garnett at 2024 PFL Europe 3

Lewis McGrillen (10-1) and Alexander Luster (9-1) embraced the definition of slugfest in one of many wildest bantamweight bouts in PFL historical past.

In accordance with PFL statistics, McGrillen and Luster mixed for 14 knockdowns landed in lower than 12 minutes of motion. The ultimate one is what mattered most, as a result of McGrillen shut the lights off Luster in a violent style lower than two minutes into the ultimate spherical.

The winner

The winner: Esteban Ribovics def. Daniel Zellhuber at UFC 306

The Noche UFC Combat of the Night time scrap between Esteban Ribovics and Daniel Zellhuber was surely the most effective fights of 2024 to this point.

The 2 surging light-weight prospects went to battle for quarter-hour in an exhilarating method. They have been each damage a number of instances within the struggle and needed to dig to a deep, darkish place to make it to the ultimate bell, however Ribovics (14-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) and Zellhuber (15-2 MMA, 3-2 UFC) did simply that.

Ribovics obtained the cut up choice win over Zellhuber, however each males delivered and made probably the most of their spot on the pay-per-view essential card to carry up their worth within the eyes of followers of the MMA world.