{"id":440819,"date":"2026-08-23T00:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440819\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T00:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:10:18","slug":"ufc-sacramento-video-shamil-gaziev-makes-kennedy-nzechukwu-pay-for-hands-down-defense-with-1-punch-knockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440819\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Sacramento video: Shamil Gaziev makes Kennedy Nzechukwu pay for hands-down defense with 1-punch knockout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Shamil Gaziev probably feels like he got a freebie at UFC Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The heavyweight slugger took full advantage of opponent Kennedy Nzechukwu employing a mystifying, hands-down defense, splattering Nzechukwu with a straight right to score a knockout in just 80 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Watch the power punch below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">From the start, Nzechukwu, a former light heavyweight, appeared to be looking to rely on his speed and agility to avoid the heavy hands of Gaziev. Unfortunately for Nzechukwu, it wasn\u2019t long before Gaziev cut off the cage, and then barely missed with a big right hand. A second immediately followed, catching Nzechukwu on the chin and sending him crashing down to the mat in comical fashion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">That\u2019s three knockout victories in the UFC now for Gaziev (15-3), who improved to 4-3 in the promotion, while Nzechukwu (14-7-1) falls to 2-2-1 in the UFC\u2019s heavyweight division. Of Nzechukwu\u2019s six UFC losses, four have come by way of knockout or submission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shamil Gaziev probably feels like he got a freebie at UFC Sacramento. The heavyweight slugger took full advantage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1979,121,123,122,18873,152122,50925],"class_list":["post-440819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-latest-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}