Las Vegas-Ilia Topuria made her promise to finish Charles Oliveira in the first two or three rounds, dropping the future UFC Hall-Famer with an explosive combo 2:27 in the fight on Saturday evening for the light vacant wreath crown.
Topuria’s victory made him the first undefeated champion with two division in the history of the UFC and the 10th in the general classification. The 28 -year -old, who is fighting under Georgian and Spanish nationalities, ranks third on the list of books for books of the UFC.
The Pay-Per-View event of the UFC 317 ended with a confrontation between Topuria (17-0) and Star Paddy Pimbett of England, teasing which will almost certainly become the first defense of the Light Title of Topuria, 28 years old, in UFC.
Oliveira, 35, a heavy outsider from Brazil, fell to 35-11-0.
The Co-Princhipal event saw the Champion of Mouches Mouches Alexandre Pantoja made a dominant effort against the Challenger Kai-Kara France, beating the New Zealand with a vicious strangulation at the back at 1:55 of the third round. The victory was the fourth defense of the consecutive title of Pantoja (30-5-0). He also exceeded Demetrious Johnson while the victories of all time (14) and finished (eight) leader in the light history of the UFC.
Joshua Van, the slight classified weight and the best, Brandon Royval, the high-level competitor, has embarked on a captivating stand-up fight which has a legitimate chance of passing like the fight of the year. The performance marked Van’s second victory in three weeks after defeating Bruno Gustavo Da Silva at UFC 316 on June 7. Van, originally from Houston of Burmese origin, overthrew Royval in the last seconds of the fight before the final bell is probed in the most noisy crowd of the evening.
Van won by unanimous decision, 29-28 on the dashboards of the three judges.
None of the fighters even tried withdrawal during the three -round combat. Of the 468 Royval strikes launched, all except one had as a significant strike attempt. Van also launched 306 significant strikes, but was much more economical with its shots which landed 209 out of 311 in total compared to the 216 of Royval out of 458.
Because Dana White has appointed Royval against Van as a fighting fight against fly weight title, Van remained by the octagon for Pantoja’s victory and entered the game with the king of the division before their title potential in the not so distant future.
Payton Talbott opened the main card with an impressive declaration victory on Felipe Lima’s favorite decision by unanimous.
The general belief leading to this fight was that the defense and the capacity of the struggle of Talbott were exposed in its loss against Raoni Barcelos at the UFC 311 in January. However, his performance defending disassembly and maneuvering his path of problem on the field was a complete rebirth compared to six months ago.
Talbott stopped 12 of the 15 attempts to withdraw from Lima, and the native of Reno, nev., Was also incredibly effective and efficient with his ground struck when Lima managed to bring it to the web.
In the second fight on the main card, Beneil Dariush responded to a Knockdown in the first round with a dominant performance during the next two rounds to beat his compatriot Renato Moicano, 36, by unanimous decision.
Dariush succeeded in his five withdrawal attempts, in addition to exceeding Mecano 77-39 in total strikes and 56-31 in significant strikes. The victory marked the first of Dariush since he beat Mateusz Gamrot at the UFC 280 in October 2022. Dariush Lot was fighting in June and December 2023 and did not fight last year.
– Will Despart, level media on the ground
