Watch Yair Rodriguez become champ with Josh Emmett stoppage | UFC Fight Video

Yair Rodriguez became a UFC champion when he defeated Josh Emmett at UFC 284. But holding the interim featherweight title isn’t the same as being declared the undisputed UFC featherweight champion of the world.

Rodriguez gets the opportunity to earn that designation when he puts his interim title on the line opposite UFC featherweight champion Alexander Rodriguez at UFC 290 on Saturday in Las Vegas. But first, what Rodriguez’s impressive finish of Emmett to earn the belt.