December 1, 2024 8:00 pm ET
With one other action-packed month of MMA within the books, MMA Junkie appears at one of the best knockouts from November 2024: Listed below are the 5 nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Knockout of the Month award for November.
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Nominees
Nominee: Oban Elliott def. Bassil Hafez at UFC 309
Ò(Editors Be aware: Graphic Content material, Blood)Ó Nov 16, 2024; New York, NY, USA; Bassil Hafez (purple gloves) fights Oban Elliott (blue gloves) within the welterweight bout throughout UFC 309 at Madison Sq. Backyard. Necessary Credit score: Brad Penner-Imagn Photographs
Oban Elliott scored his first finish in the UFC by knocking out Bassil Hafez at UFC 309 with an enormous proper hand within the remaining spherical.
It was a combat Elliott was answerable for for the primary two rounds. Then, out of nowhere, he cracked Hafez with a shot that dropped him, and the follow-up punches prompted the referee to hurry in.
Nominee: Jon Jones def. Stipe Miocic at UFC 309
UFC Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones (L) kicks challenger Stipe Miocic (R) throughout their UFC 309 heavyweight title bout at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York, on November 16, 2024. (Photograph by Kena Betancur / AFP)
Jon Jones recorded his first heavyweight title protection by sending former champion Stipe Miocic into retirement with a nasty body kick.
It was a dominant efficiency for Jones. He smashed Miocic on the bottom with heavy floor and pound within the opening body. Jones continued to type on Miocic, unleashing a spinning again kick to the physique on the finish of Spherical 2. It will be that very same strike that will finish the combat within the subsequent spherical, as Jones related laborious to Miocic’s midsection for the end.
Nominee: Muslim Salikhov def. Music Kenan at UFC Battle Night time 248
Muslim Salikhov def. Music Kenan, UFC Battle Night time 248 (through UFC)
Jon Jones didn’t have the one spinning assault in November that turned heads. Muslim Salikhov unleashed a beautiful wheel kick to knock out Music Kenan at UFC Battle Night time 248 in Macau.
It’s Salikhov’s signature transfer, and he landed maybe his greatest one but. The 40-year-old took out Kenan within the first spherical with the approach, dwelling as much as his nickname as “The King of Kung Fu.”
Nominee: Costello van Steenis def. Joao Dantas at 2024 PFL Championship
Costello van Steenis added to his spotlight reel with a strong head kick to Joao Dantas to open the 2024 PFL Championship prelims in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Van Steenis, a Bellator veteran preventing beneath the PFL banner for the primary time, picked up his fourth profession knockout to cap off a 2-0 12 months within the cage.
The winner
The winner: Ming Shi def. Xiaocan Feng at UFC Battle Night time 248
Ming Shi, UFC Battle Night time 248
Ming Shi scored an all-time knockout within the strawweight division on Saturday at UFC Fight Night 248 to win the “Highway to UFC” event.
Within the third spherical of her matchup with Xiaocan Feng (10-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) at Galaxy Area in Macau, Shi (17-5 MMA, 1-0 UFC) lined up a phenomenal proper head kick that related sq. to the jaw and led to the spotlight end.
Feng was down for a number of minutes after the knockout, and was taken out of the octagon on a stretcher. Though comfortable about her victory, Shi mentioned her concern went across the security of Feng.
“I really feel actually comfortable and I fear about my opponent,” Shi mentioned in her post-fight interview with Michael Bisping. “I hope she is OK. She is younger. … I feel I’m going to be a harmful opponent sooner or later. Good luck to my subsequent opponent.”
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