With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best knockouts from April 2026: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Knockout of the Month award for April.<\/p>\n
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Nominee: Alice Pereira def. Hailey Cowan at UFC Fight Night 272<\/p>\n
After a disappointing UFC debut, 20-year-old Alice Pereira regenerated her lost buzz with a massive step-knee knockout of Hailey Cowan.<\/p>\n
The massive left knee<\/a> from Pereira (6-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) stiffened Cowan (7-5 MMA, 0-3 UFC) like a board \u2013 a level of power and violence not often seen in the women’s bantamweight division. No follow-up shots were necessary, but they still rained down on Cowan’s unconscious body.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Nominee: Dean Garnett def. Ciaran Clarke at PFL Belfast<\/p>\n Dean Garnett faced heavy forward pressure from Ciaran Clarke from the onset of their bantamweight bout, but that played right into his game.<\/p>\n Garnett’s (15-4-1) counter left hook landed a few times, but it was a spinning back elbow<\/a> out of nowhere that landed flush on Clarke’s (10-1) jaw, sending him crashing to the mat for the knockout.<\/p>\n Nominee: Jay Jay Wilson def. Darragh Kelly at PFL Belfast<\/p>\n Jay Jay Wilson viciously took out replacement opponent Darragh Kelly with one of the best PFL knockouts of the year so far.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Kelly chopped away with hard leg kicks early. Kelly doubled up the left jab, but boom. Wilson knocked Kelly out with a left hook<\/a> after a body kick. A few unnecessary follow-up shots later, the celebration was on after the vicious first-round knockout.<\/p>\n Nominee: Marcio Barbosa def. Dennis Buzukja at UFC Fight Night 273<\/p>\n Mario Barbosa logged one of the most spectacular debuts of 2026 so far when he put Dennis Buzukja to sleep in just 80 seconds.<\/p>\n Brazil’s Barbosa (18-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) winded up in an early exchange with Buzukja (12-6 MMA, 1-4 UFC) and put a clean left hook to the chin<\/a> that immediately led to the end of the featherweight fight, marking a grand entrance into the octagon.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The winner: Carlos Ulberg def. Jiri Prochazka at UFC 327<\/p>\n Carlos Ulberg appeared to be all but finished and then he flipped the script and won light heavyweight gold.<\/p>\n Moments after he suffered a torn ACL that has since required surgery<\/a>, Ulberg (14-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC) knocked out Jiri Prochazka (32-6-1 MMA, 6-3 UFC) to win the vacant title<\/a> at 3:45 of Round 1 in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best knockouts from April…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[309805,64,63,309803,309804,786,209992,115267,785,3169,85,44865],"class_list":["post-639696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alice-pereira","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ciaran-clarke","tag-darragh-kelly","tag-fighting","tag-hailey-cowan","tag-jay-jay-wilson","tag-mma","tag-mma-junkie","tag-sports","tag-ufc-fight-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639696","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=639696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}