{"id":175432,"date":"2026-02-22T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175432\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:22:17","slug":"ufc-houston-highlights-uros-medic-sleeps-geoff-neal-with-insane-ko-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175432\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Houston Highlights! Uros Medic Sleeps Geoff Neal With Insane KO Punch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Uros \u201cThe Doctor\u201d Medic wrote a prescription Geoff Neal couldn\u2019t handle last night (Sat., Feb. 21, 2026) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/412214\/ufc-houston-fight-card-start-time-date-location-strickland-vs-hernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Houston;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Houston<\/a> LIVE on <a href=\"https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/c\/482924\/175360\/3065?subId1=SBNation&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paramountplus.com%2Frecommended%2Fnews%2F1010954%2Fufc-paramount-plus-streaming-deal&amp;subId2=[sb0220awD][423181][][r][][][][][][][mmamania.com]\" data-i13n=\"elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paramount+;elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Paramount+<\/a> from inside Toyota Center in Houston, Tex., turning in a massive one-punch knockout early in the first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Despite coming off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\/383051\/video-highlights-ufc-319-results-espn-ppv-chicago-prates-knockout-neal-elbow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:brutal knockout loss;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">brutal knockout loss<\/a> to Carlos Prates his last time out, Neal was still a sizeable betting favorite over Medic heading into UFC\u2019s return to \u201cH-Town.\u201d Neal has certainly fought the better competition throughout his UFC tenure, but Medic carried a 100% finish rate and was coming off back-to-back knockout wins. So even though the oddsmakers saw Neal as the go-to pick this co-main event clash was going to be closer than most expected.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Not only did Medic prove his worth, but he only needed 79 seconds to launch a perfectly-timed left hook that connected flush and instantly rendered Neal unconscious. Neal toppled to the canvas like a falling redwood and Medic walked off with one of the best knockouts 2026 will produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Check out the finish below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For complete UFC Houston results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/e\/422357\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:HERE;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uros \u201cThe Doctor\u201d Medic wrote a prescription Geoff Neal couldn\u2019t handle last night (Sat., Feb. 21, 2026) at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[66028,56,58,57,70772,27,48535,69884],"class_list":["post-175432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-geoff-neal","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-medic","tag-texas","tag-toyota-center","tag-ufc-fight-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}