Ulberg dominates Reyes with first-round KO at UFC Fight Night in Perth

Carlos Ulberg dropped Dominick Reyes successful the opening circular for his ninth consecutive triumph astatine UFC Fight Night successful Australia.

New Zealand’s Carlos Ulberg made abbreviated enactment of UFC airy heavyweight rubric challenger Dominick Reyes connected Saturday nighttime with an effortless first-round stoppage astatine 4:27 astatine UFC Fight Night successful Perth, Australia.

Ulberg (13-1 MMA) kept his messaging elemental pursuing his ninth consecutive UFC win, confirming his attendance for adjacent Saturday’s UFC 320 rubric combat rematch successful Las Vegas betwixt Russian Magomed Ankalaev (21-1, 1 NC) and ex-light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira (12-3) of Brazil.

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“I’m coming (for the belt),” Ulberg said pursuing the fight.

Ulberg dominated the main lawsuit bout from the outset, relentlessly coming guardant and stifling Reyes’ punches.

Following a consecutive near punch that appeared to stun Reyes, Ulberg past seized his accidental with little than a infinitesimal remaining successful the opening round, unleashing a immense close hook that knocked the American to the ground, ending the fight.

Reyes’ (15-4 MMA) nonaccomplishment connected Sunday snapped his three-fight winning streak and it was his archetypal KO/TKO nonaccomplishment since November 2022 to Ryan Spann.

“My extremity with [Dominick] Reyes was to container him, and helium felt the powerfulness early, and I saw successful his eyes that helium didn’t privation to consciousness that again, truthful the adjacent accidental I went with the 2 and dropped him,” Ulberg said.

Ulberg, right, fights Reyes successful the archetypal circular of their Light Heavyweight bout successful Perth [Paul Kane/Getty Images]

The co-headliner lawsuit astatine airy heavyweight saw the location country’s Jimmy Crute (14-4-2) triumph back-to-back fights, this clip beating Croatia’s Ivan Erslan (14-6) by rear-naked-choke astatine 3:19 of the archetypal round.

Erslan is inactive without a UFC triumph done 3 appearances, past coming distant with a triumph successful February 2024. Meanwhile, Crute’s submission was his sixth of his career.

Featherweight Jack Jenkins of Australia utilized his measurement striking and guardant question to flooded the ever durable Ramon Taveras of the United States by unanimous decision: 30-27, 30-27, 29-28.

Jenkins (14-4) has won 5 of his past seven, portion Taveras (10-4) has mislaid 3 of his past 5 and has gone conscionable implicit 20 months without a win.

For the 2nd consecutive fight, UFC welterweight seasoned Neil Magny of the United States kept the submission inclination rolling with a d’arce choke against Australian instrumentality favourite Jake Matthews astatine 3:08 of the 3rd round.

Magny (31-14) survived an aboriginal onslaught from Matthews (22-8) earlier rallying to unafraid his 24th UFC triumph and amended his winning streak to two.