Video: Phantom Cam Highlights: UFC 166

Video: Phantom Cam Highlights: UFC 166



FOX Sports’ “Phantom Cam” is back with super slow-motion highlights from Saturday’s UFC 166 pay-per-view in Houston.

The camera, which captures footage at around 5,000 frames per second, picked up footage at Houston’s Toyota Center that could be classified as outright ridiculous, including the main-event heavyweight title fight between champion Cain Velasquez and former champ Junior dos Santos. Velasquez again dominated JDS, this time stopping him in the fifth round by TKO.

The co-main event featured Daniel Cormier fighting for the final time at heavyweight before dropping down to light heavyweight to make a run at the 205-pound title. Cormier, Velasquez’s teammate at American Kickboxing Academy, beat Roy Nelson by unanimous decision.

But the evening’s highlight is a fight that already has been called the best of all time – and certainly the most action-packed of 2013. Gilbert Melendez beat Diego Sanchez by unanimous decision in a bloody slugfest – which you now can relive in super slo-mo glory.

Check out the video above for a unique look at Saturday’s card, which aired on pay-per-view and FOX Sports 1.

For complete coverage of UFC 166, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.