[Music] [Music] the second fight in a UFC Vegas 96 on Saturday found Bantam weights Jacqueline kavalan and josanne Nunes throwing down the pair had a tough act to follow after newcomer Wong Kong had landed a blistering Co on Victoria Leonardo just one fight earlier Nunes was coming off the first loss of her UFC tenure while former LFA champ caval KY had picked up the victory last time out in her promotional debut against Zara farer it was Nuna putting on the pressure early in the fight looking to bully her way in on the taller longer cavalcanti barely a minute in and the ref had warned cavalcanti for having her fingers extended but no poke had actually transpired from the outside cavalcanti worked her one to two circling and making it difficult for nunas to find her range her length served cavalcanti well at least until nunas finally backed her up to the fence Under Fire that wouldn't last however with cavalcanti circling out nunas would eat a right hand on her next charge forward cavalcanti would later land a kick to the body at the same time cavaly was wearing wearing a lump on her forehead showing that nunas had found her share of success when she did make it inside nunas continued to look for a way inside as the second round got underway cavalcanti was able to circle out of Harm's Way more often than not nunas looked to cut off her opponent at Angles and that allowed her to back cavalcanti up with a punch nunas chopped to the inside of cavalcanti's lead leg and looked to land her left hand at least one of those caught cavalcanti who almost certainly felt the heat behind it the back half of the round found cavalcanti again finding success with her length reach along jab connecting a couple of times caval cany stayed mobile never standing still long enough for nunas to get off more than one or two punches with just over a minute still on the clock in round two however nunas landed a poke with caval Canty immediately clutching her eye replays showed it may have actually been a punch but Nuna was issu due to warning regardless round three found Nunes going to the body early at the urging of her Corner Nunes was fighting with a little more urgency now having struggled with the distance throughout the better part of the fight caval cany fired an uppercut about 2 minutes in that partially connected moments later cavalcanti dropped to her backside off balance but she scrambled back up before Nunes could take advantage this one went the distance with a bit of a surprise from one judge awarding all three rounds to nunas overriding that the remaining two scored the fight 29-28 for Jacqueline cavaly [Music]