Cody Garbrandt VS Adrian Yañez

Adrian Yañez stopped Cody Garbrandt by TKO (punches) at 2:47 of the first round in a bantamweight prelim at UFC 329 on July 11, 2026. Garbrandt came out aggressively and had Yañez threatened in the early exchanges, but a sharp counter from Yañez clipped the former bantamweight champion and put him on the canvas. Yañez immediately poured on ground-and-pound, and the referee waved it off before Garbrandt could recover. The finish came down to a single clean shot — Yañez's boxing accuracy proving decisive against a fighter with his own one-punch knockout power.

Former bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt, riding a decision win over Xiao Long to rebuild his relevance, meets power-puncher Adrian Yanez, who is still searching for consistency after a majority draw with Ricky Simon left him feeling robbed in March. Both men carry legitimate knockout power and elite hand speed, making this a stylistically pure striking battle with title-contention implications hanging over whoever wins.