Sean Strickland set a pace an all-time great could not match and authored one of the biggest upsets in Ultimate Fighting Championship history.
with an Ezekiel choke in the second round of their heavyweight co-main event. Tuivasa bowed out 4:37 into Round 2, as he suffered his third straight defeat.Volkov tore into the Aussie with a punishing jab, brutal body kicks and powerful right hands on the counter.
Tuivasa enjoyed little in the way of measurable success, outside of repeated kicks to the lower leg that left the 6-foot-7 Russian with a compromised base. Volkov caught a kick late in the middle stanza, tripped his counterpart to the floor and climbed to full mount. He threatened with an arm-triangle choke, forced Tuivasa to surrender his back and then settled back into mount. From there, he framed the Ezekiel choke, applied a smothering squeeze and elicited the tapout.
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