{"id":838252,"date":"2026-08-01T18:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838252\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T18:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:03:08","slug":"ufc-belgrade-highlights-oliveira-steamrolls-elliott-with-debut-ko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838252\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Belgrade Highlights! Oliveira Steamrolls Elliott With Debut KO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Michael Oliveira left little to the imagination earlier today (Sat., Aug. 1, 2026) at UFC Belgrade LIVE on Paramount+ from inside Belgrade Arena in Belgrade, Serbia, as the Brazilian newcomer laid waste to welterweight Oban Elliott with a vicious first-round knockout (punches).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Despite making his first Octagon appearance on Saturday, Oliveira was the betting favorite and there was a reason why. The hulking welterweight came into this weekend with an undefeated pro record of 9-0, including eight knockout stoppages (six of which occurred in the first round). Elliott has found some success over the course of his UFC tenure, but this was supposed to be Oliveira\u2019s coming out party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Unfortunately for Elliott, Oliveira showed no signs of UFC jitters as his hands got busy early on. This forced Elliott to quickly change levels just 90 seconds into the fight, but his takedown attempt was thwarted by Oliveira. A few moments later Oliveira uncorked a brutal right hand that sent Elliott to the canvas. Oliveira followed up with heavy punches \u2014 with one or two landing to the back of the head \u2014 and eventually forced the referee\u2019s hand. Elliott was pretty banged up.<\/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 complete UFC Belgrade results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/e\/460490\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Oliveira left little to the imagination earlier today (Sat., Aug. 1, 2026) at UFC Belgrade LIVE on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838253,"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-838252","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\/838252","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=838252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}