Credit: Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports
Sean Strickland defeated Abus Magomedov by technical knockout in Round 2 of their middleweight fight in the main event at UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas on Saturday.
Strickland pummeled Magomedov with punches, ending the fight at 4:20 of the second.
Strickland improved to 27-5. Magomedov fell to 25-5-1.
Strickland won despite taking a poke to his eye to start the fight.
“There was a coward in me, there was a coward in me that almost said, ‘Why don’t we just stop this?'” Strickland said. “But I heard you guys yelling in the back and I was like, ‘I gotta do this s***.’ We’re gonna make this happen.”
Strickland landed 81 strikes, all of them significant and all but one to the head of Magomedov.
–Field Level Media