The Octagon returned to Las Vegas for tonight’s UFC 303 occasion, a thirteen-bout struggle card headlined by Alex Pereira vs. Jiri Prochazka 2.
The extremely anticipated gentle heavyweight title struggle rematch resulted in one more knockout victory for the superb sensation Alex Pereira. ‘Poatan’ scored a giant knockdown within the closing second of the opening spherical and Jiri Prochazka clearly by no means recovered. Within the opening seconds of spherical two, the Brazilian landed a giant head kick which despatched the previous RIZIN champ crashing to the canvas. From there, Pereira adopted up with some heavy floor and pound which compelled the referee to step in and cease the competition (see that right here).
UFC 303 was co-headlined by a brief discover 165lbs contest between Diego Lopes and Dan Ige. The competition proved to be an exciting backwards and forwards affair. Diego Lopes was in a position to come forward on the scorecards in rounds one and two, however Dan Ige stormed again to simply take residence the third and closing spherical. Sadly for the Hawaiian, his late surge proved to be too little too late, and the Mexican walked away with the unanimous determination win.
Following the conclusion of tonight’s occasion, UFC officers introduced on the post-fight press convention that six fighters could be taking residence efficiency bonuses.
Battle of the night time: Featherweight fighters Cub Swanson and Andre Fili every pocketed $50k for his or her thrilling struggle on tonight’s UFC 303 preliminary card. Fili in the end gained the competition by break up determination.
Efficiency of the night time: Payton Talbott earned an additional $50k for his 19-second knockout victory over Yanis Ghemmouri (see that right here).
Efficiency of the night time: Alex Pereira pocketed an additional $50k for his second-round TKO victory over Jiri Prochazka in tonight’s headliner.
Efficiency of the night time: Macy Chiasson earned an additional $50k for her second-round TKO victory over Mayra Bueno Silva.
Efficiency of the night time: Joe Pyfer pocketed an additional $50k for his first-round knockout victory over Marc-Andre Barriault in tonight’s featured prelim (see that right here).
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