{"id":749722,"date":"2026-06-20T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749722\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:31:09","slug":"video-levan-chokheli-obliterates-opponent-in-23-seconds-at-ufc-vegas-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749722\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Levan Chokheli obliterates opponent in 23 seconds at UFC Vegas 119"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Levan Chokheli could not have started his UFC career off better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On Saturday, the Georgian fighter made his promotional debut in a prelim bout at UFC Vegas 119. The Bellator veteran was a sizable betting favorite over Leon Shahbazyan in their welterweight fight, and Chokheli looked every bit of that, demolishing Shahbazyan in less time than it takes to order a cup of coffee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Chokheli came out aggressively and hurt Shahbazyan right away with a calf kick that got \u201cS.O.G.\u201d backing up. Once Shahbzayan got to the fence, Chokheli bombed on him with an eight-punch combination, finishing with a body shot that dropped his overwhelmed foe and forced referee Kerry Hatley to intervene just 23 seconds into the fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The win moves Chokheli to 15-3 in his professional career, which includes a 4-3 run through Bellator. Shahbazyan, meanwhile, drops to 12-5 in his MMA career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Check out Chokheli\u2019s sick highlight below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Levan Chokheli could not have started his UFC career off better. On Saturday, the Georgian fighter made his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749723,"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-749722","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\/749722","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=749722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}