UFC 333: Volkanovski knocks out Evloev to retain featherweight title

Alexander Volkanovski secured a full knockout successful the closing seconds of 2nd circular astatine UFC 333 successful Abu Dhabi.

Australia’s Alexander Volkanovski has retained his featherweight rubric aft making abbreviated enactment of Russia’s Movsar Evloev successful the UFC 333 main lawsuit successful Abu Dhabi.

Volkanovski secured a method knockout (TKO) with a close hand, followed by a ground-and-pound determination successful the closing seconds of the 2nd circular of their scheduled five-round combat connected Saturday.

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The authoritative clip was 4:54, arsenic the combat was called disconnected with six seconds near to the jubilation of the Etihad Arena assemblage successful the United Arab Emirates capital.

It was Evloev’s archetypal nonrecreational nonaccomplishment and helium remained classy successful defeat.

“Like I said, Alex is simply a large champion and it was an honour to stock the cage with him,” Evloev said aft the loss.

Meanwhile, Volkanovski said helium wants to support stacking wins for arsenic agelong arsenic helium can.

“I’m choosing to bash [fight], I don’t person to. I said if I didn’t instrumentality excessively overmuch damage, we volition astir apt support going. So possibly we support going,” Volkanovski said.

In the co-main event, Petr Yan won his three-fight bid against Merab Dvalishvili successful a Russia vs Georgia showdown arsenic Yan swept the scorecards 48-47, 48-47, 48-47 with a premix of a gruelling pace, wrestling, soiled boxing and keeping Dvalishvili astatine region to support his UFC bantamweight title.

Yan bushed Dvalishvili past December to regain the rubric for the 2nd time, having antecedently won it successful July 2020 against Jose Aldo astatine UFC 251.

The finishes kept coming, but this clip successful the flyweight division. England’s Lone’er Kavanagh secured a TKO stoppage against Uzbekistan’s Ramazan Temirov with an uppercut, followed by strikes, astatine 4:28 of Round 1.

At heavyweight, Russia’s Alexander Volkov won a unanimous determination implicit Rizvan Kuniev utilising ascendant wrestling and apical power to gain his third-straight win. Volkov called for a rubric changeable astatine Thursday’s presser, which whitethorn person stumped UFC CEO Dana White erstwhile addressing him.

Kuniev had his two-fight winning streak snapped.

Opening the main card, Aaron Pico needed conscionable implicit a infinitesimal to TKO Losene Keita of Guinea successful their featherweight fight. Pico has won back-to-back fights, portion Keita has divided his past four.