{"id":526091,"date":"2026-03-08T05:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T05:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526091\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T05:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T05:11:08","slug":"video-drew-dober-puts-away-michael-johnson-at-ufc-326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526091\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Drew Dober Puts Away Michael Johnson At UFC 326"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/drew-dober\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Dober<\/a> added to his lightweight track record in the UFC at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/ufc-326-2\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 326<\/a>, putting away <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/michael-johnson\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Johnson<\/a> with a solid left hand.<\/p>\n<p>Dober tried to get things going early with his leg kicks, though Johnson landed a strong right hand to the side of his head and clipped him again late in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Dober, however, needed just one left hand a couple of minutes into the second round to put Johnson stiff on the mat.<\/p>\n<p>Drew Dober KOs Michael Johnson At UFC 326<\/p>\n<p>The fight faced a lot of attention prior to the contest. Dober went from a +120 underdog to a -220 favorite in an extreme swing over the course of approximately 24 hours. FanDuel and DraftKings both locked the fight from bets in the hours leading up to UFC 326.<\/p>\n<p>Dober has now scored back-to-back finishes after previously going on a stretch where he lost four of five. Dober is now 29-15 (1 NC) in his MMA career.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson entered this fight on a three-fight win streak and with four wins in his previous five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drew Dober added to his lightweight track record in the UFC at UFC 326, putting away Michael Johnson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,132355,786,1176,785,85,193818],"class_list":["post-526091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-drew-dober","tag-fighting","tag-michael-johnson","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-326"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526091","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=526091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}