One other PPV is within the books and this was a doozy. UFC 320 gave followers some unimaginable moments to savor over the subsequent few weeks as Alex Pereira smashed Magomed Ankalaev to regain his mild heavyweight title and Merab Dvalishvili beat down Cory Sandhagen to retain his title and lengthen his outstanding win streak.
Pereira’s win put the title again round his waist after a shocking defeat by the hands of Ankalaev six months earlier. Pereira mentioned that he was properly under 100% for that battle and would show it on Saturday. He did simply that in dropping Ankalaev early and forcing the TKO stoppage simply 80 seconds in.
Dvalishvili, in the meantime, blitzed via Sandhagen after a shaky opening spherical. The native of Georgia set a UFC document together with his 20 takedowns within the battle and 117 whole in his profession. He suffocated Sandhagen together with his relentless stress and wrestling to earn the unanimous choice win and decide up his thirteenth straight win.
Elsewhere on the cardboard, one other mild heavyweight made an announcement as Jiri Prochazka scored a shocking knockout of Khalil Rountree Jr. within the third spherical of a battle he was dropping. As has develop into the case with each Prochazka battle, he is by no means out of it till the referee says so and he proved as soon as once more that he has fight-changing energy regardless of the scenario.
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UFC 320 battle card, outcomes
- Alex Pereira def. Magomed Ankalaev (c) by way of first-round TKO (punches)
- Merab Dvalishvili (c) def. Cory Sandhagen by way of unanimous choice (49-45, 49-45, 49-46)
- Jiri Prochazka def. Khalil Rountree Jr. by way of third-round TKO (punches)
- Youssef Zalal def. Josh Emmett by way of first-round submission (armbar)
- Joe Pyfer def. Abus Magomedov by way of second-round submission (rear-naked choke)
- Ateba Gautier def. Tre’ston Vines by way of first-round TKO
- Daniel Santos def. Yoo Joo-Sang by way of second-round TKO
- Jakub Wiklacz def. Patchy Combine by way of cut up choice (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
- Edmen Shahbazyan def. Andre Muniz +225 by way of first-round TKO (punches and elbows)
- Punahele Soriano def. Nikolay Veretennikov by way of unanimous choice (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
- Macy Chiasson def. Yana Santos by way of unanimous choice (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- Farid Basharat def. Chris Gutierrez by way of unanimous choice (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- Ramiz Brahimaj def. Austin Vanderford by way of second-round submission (guillotine choke)
- Veronica Hardy def. Brogan Walker by way of unanimous choice (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
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