Charles Oliveira began UFC 274 battle week in Phoenix as the UFC lightweight boss and crushed Justin Gaethje in Saturday night’s headliner, yet didn’t leave Footprint Center as champion.

Oliveira (32-8) missed the 155-pound weight limit by four-tenths of a pound on Friday, making him the first champion in UFC history to be stripped because of a weight miss.

Gaethje (23-4) would have come out on top for the championship with a triumph, yet Oliveira arose successful in a short and wild battle by means of back bare stifle accommodation at the 3:22 sign of the initial round.

The two warriors landed knockdowns in an excited speed; Oliveira scored the one that counted, notwithstanding, and circled back to the mat by expanding his UFC record with his sixteenth accommodation win.

He’ll be introduced as No 1 competitor and battle an adversary to be named later to fill the title opportunity.

“This is a message to the whole division – I am an issue to the whole division. That is my title,” Oliveira said.

The night’s co-highlight session saw a new strawweight champion delegated after a strange matchup. Carla Esparza turned into a double cross hero by procuring a split choice over Colorado’s Rose Namajunas in a matchup that was short in real life, as Namajunas gave off an impression of being totally separated.

With little to work with, the adjudicators scored the session 48-47 Namajunas, 49-46 Esparza and 48-47 Esparza.

Esparza (20-6) is a grappler and Namajunas (12-5) burned through the vast majority of the session orbiting away to the outside to stay away from possible takedowns.

Esparza was wary as she shut the distance, and keeping in mind that little occurred in the initial three rounds, Esparza handled a couple of takedowns in the fourth, the second one with power.