Yadong Song submits Figueiredo with guillotine to headline UFC Macau

Yadong Song submitted Deiveson Figueiredo with a guillotine choke at 4:42 of the second round to win the UFC Fight Night main event in Macau, China on Saturday, becoming the only Chinese fighter on the card to earn a victory.

The first round was largely uneventful. Song (23-9-1, 1 NC; 12-4-1 UFC) landed two leg kicks and a right hand before Figueiredo (25-7-1, 14-7-1 UFC) responded with a hard right hook — his best strike of the frame. Song threw a head kick, lost his footing, and Figueiredo spent the remainder of the round working from top position in guard.

The second round proved decisive. Song landed three right hooks and tripped Figueiredo after catching a kick. Figueiredo regained his feet but failed on a takedown attempt and absorbed a head kick in the process. When Figueiredo finally managed to get Song to the mat late in the round, he walked straight into a guillotine choke and tapped out within seconds as the crowd erupted.

The result puts Song firmly back in the bantamweight title picture following his controversial split-decision loss to Sean O’Malley in January. For Figueiredo, the defeat is his fourth in his last five outings.

Menifield stops Zhang in the co-main

In the light heavyweight co-main event, Alonzo Menifield (18-6-1, 11-6-1 UFC) stopped Mingyang Zhang (19-8, 3-2 UFC) at 4:15 of the first round. Menifield used leg kicks to set up looping hooks throughout a back-and-forth exchange that saw Zhang briefly hurt Menifield with an elbow to the temple. Menifield recovered quickly, dropped Zhang with a hook-uppercut combination, and finished him with a right-left combo that left Zhang turtled on the canvas. Referee Marc Goddard waved off the contest. The win is a significant rebound for Menifield, who suffered a quick knockout loss in November 2024; he has now won three of his past four.

Pavlovich demolishes Teixeira in 39 seconds

The card’s lone heavyweight contest lasted just 39 seconds as Sergei Pavlovich (21-3, 9-3 UFC) annihilated Tallison Teixeira (9-2, 2-2 UFC) with a rapid-fire finishing sequence to close out an eventful night in Macau.