{"id":719871,"date":"2026-06-06T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719871\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T22:47:08","slug":"ufc-vegas-118-video-ketlen-souza-head-kick-leads-to-speedy-knockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719871\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 118 video: Ketlen Souza head kick leads to speedy knockout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ketlen Souza kicked off UFC Vegas 118 with a bang. Literally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cEsquentadinha\u201d needed less than two minutes to close out Saturday\u2019s Meta Apex opener as she blistered Ariane Carnelossi with a head kick and finished her with a follow-up punch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Watch the fast finish below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Souza had no problem dealing with Carnelossi\u2019s early aggression, simply biding her time as she waited for the perfect opportunity to strike. A Souza combination stunned Carnelossi and she stumbled right into the head kick that put her on her backside. It didn\u2019t take long for referee Chris Tognoni to step in and stop the match 1:34 into Round 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">That\u2019s two straight wins now for Souza (17-6), who recently stopped a two-fight skid with a decision nod over Bruna Brasil. She improves to 4-2 in the UFC\u2019s strawweight division with her first knockout in the promotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Carnelossi (15-5) will be searching for answers as she loses for the third time in four appearances and has just one win since October 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ketlen Souza kicked off UFC Vegas 118 with a bang. Literally. \u201cEsquentadinha\u201d needed less than two minutes to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-719871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719871","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=719871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}