Dana White couldn’t consider his eyes as an infinite underdog scored a brutal knockout on final night time’s episode of the Contender Collection, simply 73 seconds into the opening spherical.
The continuing eighth season of Dana White’s Contender Series continues to ship new stars who MMA followers ought to definitely preserve an eye fixed out for, and it’s protected to say that the UFC President was blown away by one viral end specifically.
Dana White celebrates 73-second Contender Collection KO from Yuneisy Duben
Venezuelan flyweight Yuneisy Duben wasn’t ‘supposed’ to win her combat on final night time’s episode of DWCS, no less than in keeping with the bookies, as she closed as a close to +1000 underdog.
But nobody advised that to the 28-year-old finisher as she delivered a brutal knockout of Canadian Shannon Clark simply 73 seconds into the opening spherical with a picture-perfect overhand proper.
Not solely was it a flush one-punch knockout, however the energy and timing of the strike had Clark unconscious as quickly because it landed, inflicting her to fall backward to the bottom in a fashion eerily much like Josh Emmett’s iconic overhand KO of Michael Johnson, and even Jesus Aguilar KO of Shannon Ross from final yr.
Unsurprisingly, the knockout prompted Dana White and your entire Apex crowd to leap to their ft, with the UFC President fast to supply his congratulations to the now 5-0 flyweight as he confirmed she was now formally a UFC athlete.
“Let’s not even f***** wait, let’s simply get straight to it… There are two kinds of individuals on this world, there are those who are available in and go ‘Oh my God, I’m a 13/1 underdog, after which there’s those who go ‘How dare you make me a 13/1 underdog’ – and we noticed a few I dare you’s tonight.
“I like that stuff, that’s what this present is constructed on – I don’t know if she will grapple, I don’t know if she will kick, I don’t know if she will defend a takedown however let me inform you, [this was] one of the crucial spectacular knockouts that I’ve ever seen.”
But as unbelievable because the first-round knockout was, what’s extra unbelievable is Duben’s story with Dana White later revealing that she had nearly missed the prospect to combat on the Contender Collection because of being ‘flat broke’.
“I like tales like that, I’ll develop on this – Mick was telling me that he has a string of textual content messages the place she nearly didn’t make it, she wasn’t going to return… She doesn’t have a greenback to her identify, she’s flat broke and has nothing. She got here right here and took this chance tonight and that’s what this present is all about.
“You possibly can’t gauge coronary heart and willpower; a lady who comes from Venezuela with nothing, nearly didn’t make it and is a 13/1 underdog and wins with one of the crucial vicious knockouts and the largest upsets in Contender Collection historical past.”
Talking to Laura Sanko after the contract was awarded, Duben herself would react to each the excellent end and the congratulations from White.
“I advised myself that that is my night time, this night time belongs to me and I’m going to shine, and that is what I did. I all the time had the dream [that] I’m going to be within the UFC… I’m able to go, prepared and wholesome – [I’d like to] combat as quickly as doable and Dana is not going to be disillusioned, it’s all the time going to be a present.”
Duben is now 5-0 as knowledgeable blended martial artist; all 5 of which have ended by way of KO/TKO.
Who else received a UFC contract on this week’s episode of DWCS?
A whopping 5 UFC contracts have been handed out on final night time’s episode of Dana White’s Contender Collection, all of which went to the season 8 episode 4 victors.
- Seok Hyun Ko def. Igor Cavalcanti by way of unanimous determination: 30-27, 29-28, 29-28
- Djorden Santos def. Will Currie by way of unanimous determination: 30-27, 30-27, 30-27
- Austin Bashi def. Dorian Ramos by way of submission: Second-round rear-naked choke
- Yuneisy Duben def. Shannon Clark by way of knockout: First-round end
- Quillan Salkilld def. Gauge Younger by way of. unanimous determination: (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
Apparently, Duben wasn’t the one important underdog who was in a position to upset the applecart en path to incomes a long-awaited UFC contract with Seok Hyun Ko and Djorden Santos additionally claiming long-shot victories.
Dana White’s Contender Collection returns for Week 5 on Tuesday, September 10.
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