There’s a new light-weight champion, and his identify is Makhachev, who dropped and submitted former champion Oliveira to win the vacant 155-pound title.
Clearly the group favourite, Makhachev was first to stroll into the atmosphere, crammed to the brink with electrical energy. The boos rained down for Oliveira, who even appeared to have an altercation with somebody within the crowd on the way in which to the cage.
After Bruce Buffer’s introductions, Makhachev was first to attach. An enormous left hand put Oliveira on his again foot. They reset and clinched. Oliveira pulled guard and shot for a triangle. Makhachev snuck out they usually rose again to the ft.
As soon as on the ft once more, Makhachev hip-tossed Oliveira to the canvas proper in entrance of his nook, a lot to the delight of coaches Khabib Nurmagomedov and Javier Mendez. The spherical ended with Makhachev on prime of Oliveira, who was bloodied.
Within the second spherical, Makhachev dropped Oliveira with a punch, hopped into mount, and squeezed. An arm-triangle choke resulted in a fast faucet and a brand new champion.
