{"id":552533,"date":"2026-03-20T09:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/552533\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:47:20","slug":"ufc-london-full-fight-lerone-murphy-kos-aaron-pico-with-perfect-elbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/552533\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC London full fight: Lerone Murphy KOs Aaron Pico with perfect elbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lerone Murphy gave the MMA world one of the best knockouts of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Welcoming newcomer Aaron Pico at UFC 319 in August, Murphy <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-319-results-lerone-murphy-040820466.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:hit a spinning back elbow;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;hit a spinning back elbow&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit a spinning back elbow<\/a> clean to Pico&#8217;s head, sending him crashing down to the canvas. It was a nasty finish that got Murphy a $50,000 for Performance of the Night. It was also his first finish since stopping Makwan Amirkhani in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>You can check out Murphy&#8217;s highlight-reel KO in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy (17-0-1 MMA, 9-0-1 UFC) returns to the cage this Saturday at <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-london-march-21-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Fight Night 270;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;UFC Fight Night 270&quot;}\" class=\"link \">UFC Fight Night 270<\/a> \u2013 which takes place at The\u00a0O2 in London (<a href=\"https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/6yoorr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paramount+;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Paramount+&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Paramount+<\/a>). He takes on fellow unbeaten contender Movsar Evloev (19-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) in a five-round main event.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/03\/19\/ufc-london-full-fight-lerone-murphy-kos-aaron-pico-perfect-elbow\/89233426007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC London full fight: Lerone Murphy KOs Aaron Pico with perfect elbow;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;UFC London full fight&quot;}\" class=\"link \">UFC London full fight: Lerone Murphy KOs Aaron Pico with perfect elbow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lerone Murphy gave the MMA world one of the best knockouts of 2025. Welcoming newcomer Aaron Pico at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[4972,64,63,786,39840,273319,785,85,787],"class_list":["post-552533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-aaron-pico","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-lerone-murphy","tag-makwan-amirkhani","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552533","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=552533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}