{"id":646212,"date":"2026-05-03T04:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646212\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:05:10","slug":"highlights-larissa-pacheco-scores-brutal-ko-at-kc-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646212\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights: Larissa Pacheco scores brutal KO at KC 61"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former two-time Professional Fighters League (PFL) champion Larissa Pacheco made a statement in her Karate Combat debut, stopping 22-year-old Julia Stasiuk in violent fashion on Saturday night (May 2, 2026) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/439510\/karate-combat-61-fight-card-start-time-date-and-location-pitbull-vs-rind\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karate Combat 61<\/a> in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pacheco wasted no time imposing her will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">She marched Stasiuk down from the opening bell, snapping off straight rights while the Polish prospect circled and threw spinning attacks in return. Late in the round, Pacheco cracked Stasiuk with a heavy overhand right that visibly rattled her \u2014 momentarily turning away as if she was done \u2014 but the referee let the action continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Seconds later, Pacheco made sure there was no doubt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">She unleashed a crushing tomahawk elbow that floored Stasiuk before swarming with ground-and-pound to secure the first-round stoppage. It was a brutal finish \u2014 and one that arguably could\u2019ve been waved off earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the finish below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The performance marked Pacheco\u2019s first fight in 18 months, dating back to her loss to Cris Cyborg, and her first appearance at Bantamweight since 2015. After years competing at Featherweight and Lightweight, even making 135 pounds again was something she didn\u2019t think was possible \u2014 yet she passed the test emphatically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pacheco previously competed in the UFC from 2014 to 2015, going 0-2 before reinventing herself in the PFL, where she went 12-3 and captured titles in two divisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Time will tell if the UFC comes calling again (they should).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former two-time Professional Fighters League (PFL) champion Larissa Pacheco made a statement in her Karate Combat debut, stopping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,25627,85,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-646212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-regional-mma-news-results","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646212","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=646212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}