{"id":820391,"date":"2026-07-24T07:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820391\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:36:14","slug":"asaf-chopurov-kos-reece-mclaren-in-63-seconds-at-uae-warriors-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820391\/","title":{"rendered":"Asaf Chopurov KOs Reece McLaren in 63 seconds at UAE Warriors 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/bantamweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bantamweight<\/a> prospect Asaf Chopurov stopped former ONE Championship title challenger Reece McLaren in 63 seconds Thursday night at UAE Warriors 72 in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren pressed forward early with combinations and leg kicks, but Chopurov held his ground and timed a counter. As McLaren blitzed in again, the UAE Warriors champion landed a flush overhand right that dropped him unconscious. In a bizarre twist, Chopurov caught McLaren&#8217;s kick as he went out and fell to the canvas.<\/p>\n<p>UFC call-up makes sense for unbeaten Chopurov<\/p>\n<p>After the finish, Chopurov called for a bout with former UFC fighter Muhammad Mokaev, per MMA Mania. But the 24-year-old Chopurov now sits at 11-0 with ten finishes \u2014 five by knockout, five by submission \u2014 and has defended his UAE Warriors title three times. He has never faced an opponent with a losing record, a rare achievement on the regional circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The loss snapped a three-fight win streak for McLaren, who went 17-0 inside ONE Championship before the promotion released him last September. McLaren entered as one of Chopurov&#8217;s toughest tests to date and lasted barely a minute.<\/p>\n<p>Chopurov fights next at a date to be announced, with the Mokaev matchup reportedly under consideration by the promotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-credit\">Photo: Sportleader TV \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%83_%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2_%D0%9B%D0%AE%D0%94%D0%98_%D0%A1%D0%9F%D0%9E%D0%A0%D0%A2%D0%90_1-20.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\" rel=\"license nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sources-heading\">Original reporting:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bantamweight prospect Asaf Chopurov stopped former ONE Championship title challenger Reece McLaren in 63 seconds Thursday night at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-820391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820391","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=820391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}