Jiri Prochazka stopped Dominick Reyes with a spinning back elbow at 4:29 of the second round to win a light heavyweight bout that served as the main event of the UFC Fight Night card in Las Vegas Saturday night, May 1 (Sunday, May 2, Manila time).
According to ESPN, the result was just the third knockout via spinning back elbow in UFC history.
Prochazka, a 28-year-old Czech fighter with a 28-3-1 record, pocketed an extra $50,000 for turning in one of the Performances of the Night. He and Reyes got another $50,000 each for figuring in the Fight of the Night.
“I just flow,” Prochazka said following the fight. “After some counterpunches from Dominick, I can have no chance to think for some plans. I just was in the flow. [I thought], ‘After that, maybe spinning elbow. OK, let’s try it.’ “
Reyes, a 31-year-old Southern California native, saw his record drop to 12-3 with his third consecutive defeat.
Earlier on the card, the Republic of Georgia’s Giga Chikadze (13-2) knocked out the United States’ Cub Swanson (27-12) at 1:03 of the first round in a featherweight fight.
Moldova’s Ion Cutelba (15-6-1) and the United States’ Dustin Jacoby (14-5-1) fought to a draw in light heavyweight action.
The United States’ Sean Strickland (23-3) earned a unanimous-decision win over Poland’s Krzysztof Jotko (22-5) in a middleweight bout, and the Republic of Georgia’s Merab Dvalishvili (13-4) also won a unanimous decision against the United States’ Cody Stamann (19-4-1) in a bantamweight fight.
– Rappler.com
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