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Ulberg, right, fights Reyes in the first round of their Light Heavyweight bout in Perth [Paul Kane\/Getty Images]<\/p>\nCarlos Ulberg dropped Dominick Reyes in the opening round for his ninth straight win at UFC Fight Night in Australia.<\/p>\n
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New Zealand\u2019s Carlos Ulberg made short work of UFC light heavyweight title challenger Dominick Reyes on Saturday night with an effortless first-round stoppage at 4:27 at UFC Fight Night in Perth, Australia.<\/p>\n
Ulberg (13-1 MMA) kept his messaging simple following his ninth consecutive UFC win, confirming his attendance for next Saturday\u2019s UFC 320 title fight rematch in Las Vegas between Russian Magomed Ankalaev (21-1, 1 NC) and ex-light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira (12-3) of Brazil.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m coming (for the belt),\u201d Ulberg said following the fight.<\/p>\n
Ulberg dominated the main event bout from the outset, relentlessly coming forward and stifling Reyes\u2019 punches.<\/p>\n
Following a straight left punch that appeared to stun Reyes, Ulberg then seized his opportunity with less than a minute remaining in the opening round, unleashing a huge right hook that knocked the American to the ground, ending the fight.<\/p>\n
Reyes\u2019 (15-4 MMA) loss on Sunday snapped his three-fight winning streak and it was his first KO\/TKO loss since November 2022 to Ryan Spann.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy goal with [Dominick] Reyes was to box him, and he felt the power early, and I saw in his eyes that he didn\u2019t want to feel that again, so the next opportunity I went with the two and dropped him,\u201d Ulberg said.<\/p>\n
Ulberg, right, fights Reyes in the first round of their Light Heavyweight bout in Perth [Paul Kane\/Getty Images]<\/p>\n
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The co-headliner event at light heavyweight saw the home country\u2019s Jimmy Crute (14-4-2) win back-to-back fights, this time beating Croatia\u2019s Ivan Erslan (14-6) by rear-naked-choke at 3:19 of the first round.<\/p>\n
Erslan is still without a UFC win through three appearances, last coming away with a victory in February 2024. Meanwhile, Crute\u2019s submission was his sixth of his career.<\/p>\n
Featherweight Jack Jenkins of Australia used his volume striking and forward movement to overcome the always durable Ramon Taveras of the United States by unanimous decision: 30-27, 30-27, 29-28.<\/p>\n
Jenkins (14-4) has won five of his last seven, while Taveras (10-4) has lost three of his last five and has gone just over 20 months without a win.<\/p>\n
For the second straight fight, UFC welterweight veteran Neil Magny of the United States kept the submission trend rolling with a d\u2019arce choke against Australian fan favorite Jake Matthews at 3:08 of the third round.<\/p>\n
Magny (31-14) survived an early onslaught from Matthews (22-8) before rallying to secure his 24th UFC win and improve his winning streak to two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Ulberg dropped Dominick Reyes in the opening round for his ninth straight win at UFC Fight Night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[6109,2840,49,48,641,1296,638,44,457,82],"class_list":["post-174960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-asia-pacific","tag-australia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}