{"id":174121,"date":"2025-09-28T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174121\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:56:09","slug":"brando-pericic-brutalizes-elisha-ellison-for-first-round-knockout-at-ufc-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174121\/","title":{"rendered":"Brando Pericic brutalizes Elisha Ellison for first-round knockout at UFC Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Brando Pericic just made one heck of a UFC debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Saturday, Pericic took on Elisha Ellison in a prelim heavyweight bout at UFC Perth. It was a matchup that was originally slated to take place on Contender Series but the powers that be decided to move it to the UFC Perth card instead, and Pericic made the most of the opportunity, brutalizing Ellison en route to a first-round stoppage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pericic hurt Ellison with a right hand early in the bout. Ellison did his best to survive but Pericic kept pouring the punishment on, eventually getting on top and putting Ellison out cold with vicious ground shots, giving the Australian crowd something to cheer for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ellison was down for several minutes after the stoppage but was ultimately helped to the back by his team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A City Kickboxing product, this was Pericic\u2019s third consecutive first-round stoppage, and he moves to 5-1 in his MMA career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brando Pericic just made one heck of a UFC debut. On Saturday, Pericic took on Elisha Ellison in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-174121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}