The Octagon returned to Abu Dhabi for at the moment’s UFC 308 occasion and 5 fighters ended up strolling house with efficiency bonuses.
The pay-per-view fight card was headlined by a featherweight title battle that includes Max Holloway difficult Ilia Topuria. The competition proved to be an exciting forwards and backwards affair for so long as it lasted. Ilia Topuria appeared to battle to seek out his vary within the opening rounds because of the Hawaiian’s top benefit and motion. Nonetheless, he finally discovered a house for his massive proper hand and ended up dropping Max Holloway within the early moments of spherical 3. Though Max bought again to his ft and began firing again punches, Topuria stored his foot on the fuel and finally connects with a large left hook that despatched ‘Blessed’ crashing to the canvas (see that here). Some observe up photographs have been all of the referee wanted to see to name a cease to the competition.
UFC 308 was co-headlined by a extremely anticipated middleweight matchup between former division title holder Robert Whittaker taking over the undefeated Khamzat Chimaev. The bout resulted in a dominant exhibiting from Khamzat Chimaev. The undefeated contender was capable of take Robert Whittaker to the bottom within the early seconds of the battle and proceeded to smother and overwhelm the previous champion on the canvas. Finally, ‘Borz’ locked in a choke which apparently dislocated the jaw of ‘The Reaper’. Whittaker rapidly tapped out and now Chimaev is correct within the title image at 185lbs.
Following the conclusion of tonight’s occasion, UFC officers introduced on the post-fight press convention that 5 fighters can be taking house an additional $50k.
Battle of the evening: Light-weight fighters Myktybek Orolbai and Mateusz Rębecki every pocketed $50k for his or her thrilling warfare on at the moment’s UFC 308 preliminary card. Rebecki finally received the competition by cut up choice.
Efficiency of the evening: Khamzat Chimaev earned an additional $50k for his first-round submission victory over former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker in at the moment’s c0-main occasion (see that here).
Efficiency of the evening: Ilia Topuria pocketed an additional $50k for his third-round knockout victory over Max Holloway in at the moment’s occasion headliner. ‘El Matador’ turned the primary man to KO the Hawaiian inside the Octagon.
Efficiency of the evening: Shara Magomedov earned an additional $50k for his second-round knockout victory over Armen Petrosyan (see that here).
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