Alexandre Pantoja defends flyweight title, submits Kai Asakura in UFC 310 main event

The Final Combating Championship returned to us tonight, December 7, 2024, for UFC 310, happening dwell from the T-Cellular Enviornment in Paradise, Nevada.

Headlining the occasion was a 125 lb title bout between UFC flyweight champion Alexandre Pantoja (29-5) and former two-time Rizin bantamweight champion Kai Asakura (21-5).

Pantoja got here into his third title protection tonight following his declare of the title over former two-time champion Brandon Moreno (SD) and defenses in opposition to no. 1 ranked former LFA flyweight champion Brandon Royval (UD) and no. 8 ranked former EMMA flyweight champion Steve Erceg (UD).

Asakura alternatively made his promotional debut tonight following the declare of his second Rizin title in opposition to former Bellator bantamweight champion Juan Archuleta (KO).

Proceed studying to see how our flyweight championship primary occasion of the night went down:

Official Outcome: Alexandre Pantoja def. Kai Asakura by way of technical submission (rear bare choke) at 2:05 of spherical two

Pantoja ate a nasty flying knee within the opening seconds of the bout, quickly after touchdown a heavy left hook that aided him in taking Asakura down. Asakura rapidly obtained again to his toes and landed one other knee to the physique, Pantoja touchdown good boxing mixtures, a few of which had been adopted by physique kicks.

Pantoja shot in on a double leg earlier than tripping Asakura momentarily, almost taking his again alongside the fence. Finally Pantoja did take Asakura’s again, the place he quickly after locked up the rear bare choke for his first end in a world title struggle.

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Although Kai Asakura was unranked going into this contest, this being his UFC debut, he was a world champion coming in with wins over many different world champions (Manel Kape, Kyoji Horiguchi, Juan Archuleta), and Alexandre Pantoja made this look straightforward.

Alexandre Pantoja now holds three profitable title defenses because the UFC flyweight champion, second to solely Demetrious Johnson.

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