{"id":749803,"date":"2026-06-21T00:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749803\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T00:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:27:12","slug":"ufc-vegas-119-highlights-chokheli-obliterates-shahbazyan-with-23-second-debut-tko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749803\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 119 Highlights! Chokheli Obliterates Shahbazyan With 23-Second Debut TKO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Levan Chokheli looked like a straight killer earlier tonight (Sat., June 20, 2026) at UFC Vegas 119 LIVE on Paramount+ from inside UFC Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, stopping fellow UFC newcomer<br \/>Leon Shahbazyan with a nasty first-round TKO (leg kick and punches).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This welterweight matchup was one of the most intriguing fights on the card. While Chokheli came into his UFC debut with a track record for punishing knockouts he was going to have to deal with the dangerous submission skills of Shahbazyan. If the last name, Shahbazyan, rings a bell that\u2019s because Leon is the older brother of UFC middleweight veteran, Edmen Shahbazyan, who we all know can outright scrap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Unfortunately for Shahbazyan, his name played zero role in Saturday\u2019s contest against Chokehli. In fact, Shahbazyan didn\u2019t even get a chance to showcase his mixed martial arts skills. That\u2019s because Chokheli unleashed a vicious leg kick to start the first round followed by punishing offense along the cage. The Georgian fighter needed just 23 seconds in total to finish Shahbazyan and put a cap on his impressive Octagon debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Check out the video highlights below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For more UFC Vegas 119 results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/e\/450428\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Levan Chokheli looked like a straight killer earlier tonight (Sat., June 20, 2026) at UFC Vegas 119 LIVE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,46234,6656],"class_list":["post-749803","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-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-videos","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749803","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=749803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749803\/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=749803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}