The otherworldly power of Alex Pereira claimed another victim, this time under the brightest of all spotlights.
headliner on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Pereira tagged his latest challenger’s figurative toe 3:14 into Round 1.
Hill answered leg kicks from the Brazilian with a few of his own but provided the champion with no real cause for concern. Pereira stalked forward behind stabbing jabs to the body, bided his time and marked his territory with a cold stoicism. He calmly brushed aside refereeafter absorbing an accidental kick to the groin, decked Hill with a left hook mere seconds later and then pounced with punches and hammerfists to cap a near-flawless performance.
Gaethje ran into trouble right away. Holloway appeared to break his nose with a spinning back to the face late in the first round, making it virtually impossible for the former World Series of Fighting champion to breathe properly. Nevertheless, Gaethje pressed onward. He hammered away at Holloway’s lead leg with kicks to the thigh and calf but had no answer for the Hawaiian’s speed and output.
A four-time NCAA All-American wrestler and three-time national champion at Penn State University, Nickal set the tone in the first round, where he wheeled behind the Factory X rep, bullied him to the canvas and eventually climbed to full mount. Brundage withstood his advances and forced the blue-chip prospect into a second stanza for the first time in his career but only prolonged the inevitable.
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