LFA 144 led to unimaginable walk-off vogue.
With the promotion’s vacant bantamweight title up for grabs, Dana White’s Contender Sequence veteran Muin Gafurov took on Diego Silva within the characteristic bout of the occasion which came about at Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Gafurov (18-4) wasted little time implementing his aggressive grappling within the opening rounds. Within the few moments the struggle was spent on the ft, Gafurov saved Silva (15-8) on his again foot with arduous strikes as effectively.
Within the second body, Silva locked in an armbar as Gafurov managed from the highest, and the submission try was a stable one. Nonetheless, the Tajikistan fighter remained calm and finally labored his arm free. Gafurov would go on to manage Silva on the mat for the rest of the spherical.
Early within the third spherical, Gafurov related with a beautifully-timed spinning again kick to the liver that instantly shut down Silva, inflicting him to crash to the canvas as he writhed in ache.
Try video of the spotlight knockout under (by way of Twitter):
Bottles are popping in Tajikistan! #AndNew
Muin Gafurov!!! #LFA144 pic.twitter.com/fg2CvJ39lz
— UFC FIGHT PASS (@UFCFightPass) October 15, 2022
Following a break up resolution loss in his look on DWCS final September, Gafurov rebounded with a second-round end of Herbeth Sousa at LFA 134 in June. Friday’s end result marked the second-straight spotlight reel end for the UFC hopeful.
Outcomes from the principle card of LFA 144 embrace:
- Muin Gafurov def. Diego Silva by way of knockout (spinning again kick) – Spherical 3, 0:23
- Jordan Heiderman def. Daiqwon Buckley by way of submission (Americana) – Spherical 1, 3:17
- Yuma Horiuchi def. Juan Puerta by way of submission (rear-naked choke) – Spherical 1, 1:23
- Renato Valente def. Jared Revel by way of knockout (punch) – Spherical 1, 1:07
- Christian Natividad def. Israel Galvan by way of unanimous resolution (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
- Jacobi Jones def. Christian Turner by way of submission (rear-naked choke) – Spherical 2, 2:25
