Episode 2 of “The Ultimate Fighter 28: Heavy Hitters” opens with a Team Gastelum training session, which has no shortage of energy after Maurice Greene opened the season with a huge knockout victory for his team.

Team Gastelum will attempt to continue its momentum when Pannie Kianzad meets Team Whittaker’s Katharina Lehner in the first women’s featherweight quarterfinal matchup.

During the Team Gastelum training session, heavyweight Justin Frazier is showing signs of exhaustion after putting in some hard work. Head coach Kelvin Gastelum says he has serious concerns over the fighter’s fitness, and its one of his goals to ensure he’s prepared for whenever his time to compete comes around.

At the next Team Whittaker training session, Lehner begins to prepare for her fight. She says a matchup with Team Gastelum’s Kianzad is one she’s wanted for a while. Both competed in the European circuit and under the Invicta FC banner at the same time, but Lehner says the pairing simply never came to fruition. Head coach Robert Whittaker believes movement and combinations will be the key to Lehner’s victory.

Prior to another training session, Kianzad breaks a tooth while attempting to adjust her head gear and mouth guard. She expresses anxiety about visiting in the dentist, but it has to be done in order to fix the damage. It’s a miserable visit for Kianzad, and he opts to leave the dentist’s office before any procedure can be done to fix her broken tooth.

The following day, however, Kianzad has a change of heart and returns to the dentist. The broken tooth is removed and a removal cap is inserted in its place. Kianzad is happy to get it over with and return to her fight preparation.

The fighters hit the scale at the official weigh-in. Kianzad and Lehner come in under the 146-pound limit. With that, the first women’s featherweight quarterfinal of the season is official.

Fight day arrives. Kianzad and Lehner head back to the TUF Gym for their bout. They finalize preparation with their teams in the locker rooms before heading to the octagon to kick off the second fight of the season.

TEAM GASTELUM’S PANNIE KIANZAD (9-3) VS. TEAM WHITTAKER’S KATHARINA LEHNER (7-1)

Round 1 – Kianzad opens by pumping the jab in the face of her opponent. Lehner is fighting out of a low stance and trying to fire in heavier shots off the counter. They clinch and trade knees from the inside before breaking. Kianzad is trying to be the longer fighter by throwing leg kicks and long punches, but Lehner takes the distance away by forcing the clinch. Kianzad reverses the position and has control against the cage. Kianzad is peppering Lehner with knees to the body and elbows before breaking free again. Kianzad lands a pair of solid left hooks. They trade from inside the pocket before Kianzad decides she wants to clinch and push Lehner’s back against the fence. It’s a battle from the inside until they break. Kianzad’s combinations are allowing her to pull ahead and Lehner is being challenged by the pace of her opponent. After some more exchanges, Kianzad surprises Lehner with a timely takedown attempt in the final 30 seconds, most likely securing the round in her favor.

Round 2 – Kianzad shoots for a takedown immediately to begin the round and is able to put Lehner on her back. She is working from half guard and stifling Lehner’s attempts to scramble up to her feet. Lehner eventually scoots to the fence, though, and is able to use the cage to stand up. She’s still trapped in Kianzad’s clinch, though, and eating short strikes. Lehner is trying to stay busy from a defensive position, but is having a difficult time freeing herself from Kianzad’s clinch attack. Lehner goes for a clinch trip and both fighters go to the ground. Lehner almost has Kianzad’s back, but she winds up on bottom after a scramble. Kianzad is in half guard again, but this time she is far busier with her offense. Lehner gives up her back as she tries to stand up, but Kianzad can’t finish her rear-naked choke attempt. Lehner rolls over into mount, then gives up the back again before reversing the position. Unfortunately there’s not enough time left on the clock for her to do anything meaningful, and the fight is over.

Pannie Kianzad def. Katharina Lehner via unanimous decision

Coach Gastelum says Kianzad executed the game plan that was set up, and he was pleased with the performance of his fighter.

“Pannie was really emotional and I kind of caught myself being a little emotional as well,” Gastelum says. “The plan was just for Pannie to be Pannie. She is really good everywhere, she has really good footwork so we kind of just wanted her to have a Mike Tyson style game plan. Where she goes in, she is the aggressor, she is moving her head and we had her come in, move her head and use her combinations like she knows she can. She actually got a couple take downs which I didn’t expect her to do but I am glad she did and she winning the fight by unanimous decision and fought a perfect fight.”

Kianzad, who pushed Team Gastelum to 2-0 in the competition with her win, has a positive attitude about her performance.

“I knew I was going to fight a much stronger and heavier opponent, so I just keep my distance, keep on my feet and whenever I feel like taking her down I would,” Kianzad says. “After I use my faints and my kicks I would do so. It worked out well. I am really happy with my performance. It is exactly what I was planning on doing before I came in. I love my team. I feel like it is really weird how close the whole team is after a week. It feels like we have been training together for years and years. They don’t want to change how you fight, they just want to polish it and make you do what you are good at and that makes me really happy.”

Once the aftermath of Kianzad vs. Lehner wraps up, the fighters return for the next fight announcement. With control of fight selection after the loss, coach Whittaker selects his No. 1 pick, Anderson Da Silva, to fight Team Gastelum’s No. 7 pick, Justin Frazier, in the second heavyweight quarterfinal.

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