{"id":25730,"date":"2026-08-30T04:54:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=25730"},"modified":"2026-08-30T04:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:54:41","slug":"denise-gomes-stuns-yan-xiaonan-to-earn-career-best-victory-at-ufc-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=25730","title":{"rendered":"Denise Gomes Stuns Yan Xiaonan to Earn Career-Best Victory at UFC Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brazil&#8217;s Denise Gomes extended her UFC win streak to five earlier tonight at UFC Shanghai by putting China&#8217;s Yan Xiaonan to sleep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the co-main event got underway, Gomes looked composed and calm, while Yan Xiaonan tried to dictate the pace and chop Gomes&#8217; lead leg by landing nonstop leg kicks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, in the second half of the first round, &#8220;Dee&#8221; began to take control of the bout. She stunned her opponent with a heavy right hand, and later in the round, while trading in the center of the octagon, she hurt the former UFC title challenger with an elbow that dropped the 37-year-old. Gomes then finished Xiaonan with an uppercut followed by a right-and-left hook combination to score the biggest win of her UFC career. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Official result: Denise Gomes defeated Yan Xiaonan in Round 1 (4:49) via TKO<\/strong> at UFC Shanghai.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UFC Shanghai: Denise Gomes vs. Yan Xiaonan &#8211; Highlights<\/h2>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WOAH DENISE GOMES <br \/>The power elbow and follow up strikes put a stamp on an epic KO at #UFCShanghai! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C1gKPZmsuY\">pic.twitter.com\/C1gKPZmsuY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) August 29, 2026<\/p>\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">CODAZO BRUTAL <br \/>Impactante  Qu\u00e9 forma de noquear  <br \/>As\u00ed noque\u00f3 la brasile\u00f1a Denise Gomes #UFCShanghai | Ver en vivo por @PPlusDeportes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7qZ1N0XCvW\">pic.twitter.com\/7qZ1N0XCvW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC Espa\u00f1ol (@UFCEspanol) August 29, 2026<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">#UFCShanghai Official Result: Denise Gomes defeats<br \/>Yan Xiaonan via TKO at 4:49 of Round 1.<br \/>Complete Main Card Results  https:\/\/t.co\/G8E8FUHUKb<br \/>Complete Scorecards  https:\/\/t.co\/bY9edFrCP9 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M2LiCNmOlT\">pic.twitter.com\/M2LiCNmOlT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC News (@UFCNews) August 29, 2026<br \/>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowkickmma.com\/denise-gomes-stuns-yan-xiaonan-to-earn-career-best-victory-at-ufc-shanghai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil&#8217;s Denise Gomes extended her UFC win streak to five earlier tonight at UFC Shanghai by putting China&#8217;s Yan Xiaonan to sleep. As the co-main event got underway, Gomes looked composed and calm, while Yan Xiaonan tried to dictate the pace and chop Gomes&#8217; lead leg by landing nonstop leg kicks. However, in the second<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[8635,10498,1132,9203,10055,1157,42,82,11962,38],"class_list":["post-25730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-careerbest","tag-denise","tag-earn","tag-gomes","tag-shanghai","tag-stuns","tag-ufc","tag-victory","tag-xiaonan","tag-yan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}