UFC 174 results, photos: Yves Jabouin outstrikes Mike Easton for upset

VANCOUVER – Yves Jabouin (20-9 MMA, 5-3 UFC) outworked, outstruck, and outwrestled Mike Easton (13-5 MMA, 3-4 UFC) for the better part of three rounds on Saturday night, racking up a comfortable lead on the scorecards and surviving a late submission scare to earn a unanimous decision victory (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) before a crowd of his countrymen.

The bantamweight bout was part of today’s UFC 174 event at Rogers Arena in Vancouver. It aired on FX following additional prelims on UFC Fight Pass and ahead of a main card on pay-per-view.

The big surprise in this fight seemed to be Jabouin’s wrestling – or perhaps just Easton’s lack of it. While many expected Jabouin to have the edge as long as the fight stayed standing, few expected it to be Jabouin who would win the takedown battle. And yet there he was, repeatedly putting Easton on his back and keeping him there with relative ease. When the fight did remain standing, he easily outpointed Easton with a diverse striking attack that kept the American guessing.

The most significant offense from Easton came in the final round, when he used a kimura from bottom to sweep Jabouin and seize the top position with the clock winding down. Despite several good looks at possible submissions, however, Easton failed to lock anything up, and so Jabouin managed to cruise to the finish line, where the judges rewarded him for his work.

Jabouin bounces back into the win column for the first time since suffering a TKO loss to Eddie Wineland in January. Easton has now lost four straight in the UFC.

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(John Morgan and Mike Bohn contributed to this report on-site in Vancouver.)