Fight fans at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas had plenty to cheer about, including a pair of unconventional highlight-reel knockouts, on Saturday night during a finish-filled UFC Fight Night preliminary card.
Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate returned to the win column with a third-round submission of Julia Avila in the featured preliminary bout. It had been more than two years since Tate’s last win. The 37-year-old is now 2-2 since returning from a four-year retirement.
Tate’s win was the fifth consecutive stoppage win of Saturday’s prelims after Veronica Hardy opened the night with a split decision win over Jamey-Lyn Horth.
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Welterweight Jared Gooden and light-heavyweight Rodolfo Bellato earned comeback wins over Wellington Turman and Ihor Potieria, respectively, after both being rocked by their opponents. Gooden won with a submission and Turman via strikes.
The show-stealers of the early portion of the card, however, were back-to-back slam knockouts.
First up it was lightweight Drakkar Klose, who was defending an armbar from Joe Solecki when he slammed Solecki’s temple into the canvas.
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In the very next fight, middleweight Cody Brundage countered a Zachary Reese triangle choke attempt by slamming his opponent to the ground and ending the fight seconds later.
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Slam knockouts are rather rare in the UFC, so to have two occur one after the other like that is not something fight fans will soon forget.
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